ART PLATFORM - LOS ANGELES
October 1 - October 3, 2011
October 1, 2011
Opening Preview Friday, September 30th
The Art Platform - Los Angeles art fair will demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world.
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JAMES JEAN
Hong Kong International Art Fair
May 26, 2011
May 26 - May 29, 2011
JAMES JEAN will be exhibiting with Martha Otero Gallery, Booth 3G09
at the 2011 Hong Kong International Art Fair
"ART HK 11, Asia’s preeminent Art Fair and one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the international art calendar returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where 260 galleries from 38 countries will come together to offer the largest display of contemporary art ever seen in Hong Kong.
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JACOB HASHIMOTO: ARMADA
Studio La Città
May 14, 2011
Opening Saturday 14th May 2011
The exhibition will display a site specific installation composed by more than 700 small, white sailing boats that will float suspended in an entire room of the gallery. Moreover, artworks of large and medium size, mainly black and white.
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ADAM JANES
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
March 13, 2011
FROM THE RECENT PAST: NEW ACQUISITIONS
March 13 - July 3, 2011
This exhibition highlights 50 artworks in a range of media—video, drawing, photography, sculpture, and painting—recently added through gifts and purchases to the museum's permanent collection. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz, the installation features three of MOCA's 2010 acquisitions—pieces by Barry Frydlender, Barnaby Furnas, and Adam Janes—as well as a number of works acquired between 2003 and 2010.
JEFF SONHOUSE
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
March 10, 2011
BUILDING THE CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION: FIVE YEARS OF ACQUISITIONS
March 10 - August 14, 2011
In its first five years, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University has focused on modern and contemporary art with particular emphasis on global, emerging artists of color. "Building the Contemporary Collection," in celebration of the museum's fifth anniversary, presents the most important contemporary works acquired since its founding in 2005. The exhibition features work by 42 artists, including Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Noah Davis, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Odili Donald Odita, Dan Perjovschi, Dario Robleto, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Jeff Sonhouse, Eve Sussman, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Bob Thompson, Kara Walker, Jeff Whetstone, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. The exhibition reflects the museum's interest in the art and culture of the African diaspora, and includes works in a variety of media–painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video and installation. It is curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art.
MIGUEL CALDERON
San Francisco State University
February 17, 2011
Mexico
Politca y Poetica
February 17 - March 14, 2011
E.V. DAY: SEDUCERS
Carolina Nitsch
January 14, 2011
January 14 - March 5, 2011
Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present Seducers, a solo exhibition of new photographic prints by E.V. Day opening January 14th at Carolina Nitsch Project Room, 534 W. 22nd St, New York. A full color catalog, published by Carolina Nitsch will accompany the exhibition.
The Seducers series originates from E.V.’s three month exploration during the summer of 2010 as artist in residence at Claude Monet’s estate in Giverny. There she would follow the gardeners on their daily pruning rounds, collecting blooms they’d clipped at the flowers’ visual peak. The most arresting of these specimens were then pressed in a microwave, scanned digitally, and printed on photo paper at 18 times their original size. The electric, vibrant colors of the flowers in the images are accurate but each image is manipulated by taking exactly half the image, and mirroring it, thereby forcing a perfect symmetry upon the natural geometry of each flower.
E.V. Day writes, “In each of the Seducers, whether a peony, a water lily, or a clematis, I wanted to give the viewer the perspective of an insect hovering in front of it. And in making it symmetrically perfect—akin to Hermann Rorschach’s ink-blotter tests—I wanted to enhance the almost kaleidoscopic sense of motion I found at the flower’s center. Stand before these images and watch what appears: faces and masks; mammals and insects; religious iconography: altars, angels, Shivas, chalices, mandalas; patterns and forms that suggest baroque and art nouveau. The elegance of the flowers when flattened and scaled up becomes awesome, fleshy and even monstrous. I think of each of the Seducers as a portal into the startling intelligence found in a mindless organism.”
The Seducers series are editioned in three different formats: Three large 72 inch square prints have been produced in an edition of five; two portfolios containing a suite of 6, each 32 inches square, in an edition of 8; and a deluxe catalog with all 50 images from the Seducers series in an edition of 100, 35 of which come with a unique 12 inch square print. All works are crystal archive prints and are published by Carolina Nitsch.
SHINIQUE SMITH
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
November 18, 2010
Shinique Smith
November 18, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Shinique Smith confronts the iconic works, conventions, and legacies of art history with lyrical reconsiderations. Marrying influences of graffiti, collage, and fashion with performance, painting, and sculpture, her cross-disciplinary work bristles with lived energy. Across large-scale canvases, monuments cobbled from used textiles, and site-specific installations, she vividly translates the materials and aesthetics of urban life into agents of institutional reform. In the process, her fluid use of black line, psychedelic color palette, and sheer artistic alchemy have elevated her work into exhibitions and collections across the country. In this exhibition, a selection of past works will provide the context for a series of new paintings, sculptures and site-specific installations inspired by the colors, textiles and cultures of the southeast.
JACOB HASHIMOTO
Nevada Museum of Art
November 16, 2010
November 16, 2010 - December 31, 2011
Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall
In celebration of the Museum’s 80th Anniversary in 2011, contemporary artist Jacob Hashimoto was commissioned to create a large-scale, site-specific artwork to hang in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall and Atrium. Hashimoto’s sculptures—fabricated from thousands of small “kites”—are made from bamboo-stiffened rice papers not unlike those used for centuries to make traditional Japanese kites. The three-dimensional cascading form—which could be interpreted as a peaceful, floating cloud or a spiraling vortex—is suspended by nylon mono-filament and responds specifically to the Museum’s unique architecture and changing light.
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BRAD KAHLHAMER
Sisley Art Project
September 21, 2010
18 customized motorcycle jackets by 17 pop artists of the contemporary art scene
A project curated by Glenn O’Brien to be launched at a gala exhibition during Milan Fashion Week, before being exhibited at and sold to benefit The Andy Warhol Museum.
Auction at Christie’s in New York on November 8
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SHINIQUE SMITH: MENAGERIE
Museum of Contemporary Art
September 16, 2010
MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series will feature Shinique Smith’s first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition. Smith will use MOCA’s flexible gallery space to explore new ways of working and installing her work, weaving a line both physically and figuratively throughout the space. Since bursting onto the scene in 2002, this New York-based artist has produced works that combine complex social and cultural references with a broad array of art historical sources, including abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimal sculpture and Japanese calligraphy. Her sculpture and installations are composed of collections and accumulations of found objects and second-hand clothing, which she ties together to form minimal cubes or wraps into bulbous bundles. Urban life is suggested both in her sculptures of castoffs as well as the graffiti-like gestures of her exuberant paintings.
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JACOB HASHIMOTO
University of Houston Downtown "Cloud Deck" 2010
August 25, 2010
A new permanent art display accents the four-story atrium in UHD’s Shea Street Building, home of the College of Business. The artist, Jacob Hashimoto, spent nearly a week on campus early fall semester installing the fluid, “kite” structure that frames the Houston skyline for those inside the building. The work is designed to capture the imagination and calm the spirit.
JACOB HASHIMOTO
MACRO Rome Contemporary Art Museum
June 1, 2010
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma
Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness
MACRO inaugurates the entrance to its new wing with a site specific installation by Jacob Hashimoto.“Silence Still Governs Our Consciousness” creates a floating realm which anticipates the journey from MACRO’s present to its future.
Hashimoto conceived this “cloud of 7000 kites” specifically for MACRO’s new exhibition gallery. The work fills the room like a “diaphanous canopy” evoking in its spectators the sensation of being “surrounded by a mist filled forest of kites and strings - a quiet, meditative, sculptural environment.” The piece synthesizes nature and technology to yield a fluid and organic landscape. This encourages meditation and evokes new readings of the gallery: as a void, as space, or as time.
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