Leo Villareal's travelling survey show opened February 3rd at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia.
The exhibition is on view from February 3 - June 3, 2012 and should not missed if you live nearby or are passing through.
Organized by the San Jose Museum of Art and opening there in the summer of 2010, the show has travelled to Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, and now, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Another venue has recently been added which will bring the exhibition to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, September 8 - December 30, 2012.
Video of the installation:
Leo Villareal Installation // Telfair Museums from Telfair Museums on Vimeo.
Photo:
Hive, 2007, installed at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Collection Melva Bucksbaum, photo: James Ewing Photography
Collabcubed's feature story on Michael Scott's opening at Gering & López Gallery
Em and I stopped by the opening of Michael Scott’s Black and White Line Paintings show last week. Upon entering the gallery, we were greeted by the collection of large enamel-on-aluminum paintings whose lines initially created visual effects such as moiré patterns and the illusion of multiple plains, until our eyes quickly adjusted and could take in these mesmerizing works. Surprisingly, they have a hypnotic and peaceful quality. Some have a sharp precision to them, while others are distressed and bleed. In the back office of the gallery there is even one that looks like the lines were done freehand and offer yet another take on the black and white line theme.
Michael Scott, a New York based artist originally from Pennsylvania, has worked in many mediums over the past twenty-five years, periodically returning to his line paintings. Other works include his multicolor line paintings and his smaller encaustic-on-wood works, one of which was purchased by Sofia Coppola, clearly a fan, who nominated Scott as her contribution to the 100-People-Places-and-Things-You-Need-To-Know in V Magazine’s Spring Preview issue.
Happy New Year To All -
Gering & Lopez Gallery welcomes the beginning of 2012 with an exciting program of exhibitions by gallery artists. January opens with Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011. The exhibition features work on a subject that Scott has revisited for several years, exploring nuances and variations on an important theme for this artist.
March will open with new work and a large scale installation by Todd James, whose recent inclusion in the Art In The Streets exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA drew record crowds.
May will bring the first one-person exhibition by Ryan McGinness at Gering & Lopez: it will be accompanied by a related exhibition of paintings at the Charles Bank Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Julie Bills, our illustrious Associate Director of the past three years, has harmoniously left Gering & Lopez to pursue other opportunities. We are confident that her future will be rich with activities in the art world and we look forward to her accomplishments. The rest of the gallery staff remains the same, with the addition of Laura Bloom as Gallery Director.
Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011 opens on January 12th with a reception for the artist from 6-8 pm. We look forward to seeing everyone who has followed and supported the gallery's program for another successful year ahead.
William Anastasi
Robert Barry
Dove Bradshaw
Sol LeWitt
Richard Long
VEREIN B12 Zurich: 5 Billboards: William Anastasi + Dove Bradshaw
December 5 - 21, 2011
Verein B12 Zurich
Hammerstrasse 43
8008 Zurich
044 421 5050
Ryan McGinness' mural being installed on Hershel Street in La Jolla California.
53 Women, 2011
digital print on vinyl, triptych
216 x 432 in. (548.6 x 1097.3 cm.) each
216 x 1296 in. (548.6 x 3291.8 cm.) total
Digitally printed on three separate panels using solvent Nazdar inks on 16 oz opaque Verseidag frontlit vinyl with lustre clear coat. Printed by CNP Signs and Graphics, San Diego, CA
This mural was commissioned by Murals of La Jolla and is supported by the La Jolla Community Foundation.
Courtesy Ryan McGinness Studios, Inc.
Photo by Lisa Bowman
XAVIER VEILHAN: (IN)balance
Part of INTERSECTIONS
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Nov 3, 2012–Feb. 10, 2013
The Phillips Collection will present the first major U.S. museum exhibition of works by Xavier Veilhan from November 3, 2012 through February 10, 2013. The exhibition title (IN)balance refers to maintaining a balance of forces, material and social, and a balance of new technologies and historical styles that Veilhan deliberately employs in his artistic practice. The exhibition is the most elaborate Intersections project at the Phillips to date, bringing together approximately 15 pieces from the mid 2000 to the present, including some new works, created specifically for the Phillips. Occupying both outdoor and indoor spaces, the exhibition features Bear, a monumental sculpture in red resin installed at the street corner outside the building, and Le Balancier, a large-scale, mechanized seesaw-shaped sculpture; free-standing figures including two self-portraits; as well as a number of paintings from Drippings, Cocardes, and Ghost Landscapes series, displayed inside. In addition, a large Mobile installation— comprised of horizontal bars suspended from the ceiling at different heights and intersecting in the space— will be featured in the space that connects the museum’s Goh Annex and Sant Building, hence engaging the concept of the Intersections series in the most visible way.
Intersections is a series of contemporary art projects that explores—as the title suggests—the intriguing intersections between the old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions. Whether engaging with the permanent collection or diverse spaces in the museum, the projects suggest new relationships with their own surprises. Many of the projects also riff on the nontraditional nature of the museum's galleries, sometimes activating spaces that are not typical exhibition areas with art produced specifically for those locations.
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: JK's Walk is on view at Galeria Javier López-Mario Sequeira , Madrid, through February 3, 2012.
Congratulations to Li Hui for his inclusion in Barbara Pollack's ARTnews article "China: The Next Generation."
Björk has brought together a team of interactive artists to create the first album application. Enter the three dimensional technological galaxy of Biophilia to experience the album through striking visuals with a strong musicology component. John F. Simon, Jr. has created the app for the first track. Available now in the App Store for iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Listen, learn, and create.
Field, a light piece by Leo Villareal, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York on the second floor.
Congratulations to David Tremlett on his new wall drawing commissioned by Tate Britain!
Fantastic article on Peter Halley in the August 24th issue of The New York Observer.
Ken Johnson's review of Leo Villareal's exhibition in The New York Times.
There should be benches. You just want to sit and gaze in blissful stupefaction at “Volume,” which features a single kinetic light sculpture by Leo Villareal.
Whether it amounts to more than a high-tech lava lamp is debatable, but it certainly offers more complex effects. The sculpture, “Cylinder,” consists of 160 12-foot lengths of shiny, stainless steel, each with 140 light-emitting diodes along one edge, hanging in five concentric circles to create a volume nine feet in diameter.
Controlled by a computer program, the thousands of lights go on and off, generating all kinds of patterns. At different times you get impressions of falling snow, fireworks, swarming fireflies, a Las Vegas light fountain and stars in the night sky moving according to some divine choreography. Rings rise and fall; clustered forms swirl; dark rectangles framed by light expand over and over; circles grow into great moonlike spheres. Different patterns happen simultaneously, and the computer shuffles the subprograms so that no one sequence ever repeats. It is hard to tear away. You keep watching to see what will happen next. (A video on the gallery Web site gives an idea of what it is like.)
If you were meditating on a mountaintop and found yourself suddenly enveloped by such a luminous display, you would suppose you were having a mystical experience. Here in the gallery, a more suspicious critic could see in it the balefully hypnotic effects of machine-driven spectacle. Either way, it is a thing of fascinating beauty.
William Anastasi will be included in Dance/Draw, an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in the fall of 2011, curated by Helen Molesworth. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, NY and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY. Included will be several examples of Unsighted Drawings from 1988 to the present.
