Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications

mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010

Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library

A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.

Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

Ooga Booga is a concept shop vital to the creative life-blood of Los Angeles. It gathers an eclectic range of products. Spearheaded by Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga fosters a vibrant community of independent producers. For Swiss Institute, Yao installs a lounge in which one may read over 300 titles — from self to professionally published. The room contains contributions by:

Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), is a time-based installation that takes the form of a one-act live theatrical play that repeats nine times over a period of three hours. This documentation is a sampling of all nine runs. Filmed during Performa 09 at X initiative on November 11th & 12th 2009. By Emily Mast.

Shrouded Monument, 2008, C-print, 48.5 x 40.5 inches

Shannon Ebner, Signal Hill
7 January — 13 February 2010
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Amir Zaki. The artist has been working as a photographer for more than fifteen years, showing work from New York to Los Angles to Seattle. This is his fourth solo exhibit at James Harris Gallery. For this exhibition, Zaki shows a series of color-saturated lifeguard towers that have been digitally manipulated to render them more iconic than real.

Not Equal, 2009, Plywood, wood glue and enamel paint, 13.1 x 17.75 inches

Shannon Ebner
Invisible Language Workshop
30 October — 19 December 2009
Opening Reception: Friday 30 October, 6-8pm
Wallspace

Two good show openings in LA tonight - Arthur Ou and Alice Könitz (information below this post), and Asher Penn (with a performance by Kayla Guthrie).

Exhibition poster design by Sandy Yang

Resort, A Station for Display
Arthur Ou and Alice Könitz
November 21, 2009 — January 16, 2010
Reception: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 7-9pm

LAXART
2640 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90034

Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa
Hand embroidered by Afghani craftswomen and men 1971–1992
On display till January 23, 2010 at Barbara Gladstone, NY

The Studio Museum in Harlem will open the fall/winter season with a major exhibition entitled 30 Seconds off an Inch. This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. 30 Seconds takes the singular practices and conceptual methods of black artists active on the West Coast in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a starting point–work that inspired a bodily engagement in conceptual practice.

Presenting approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists, the exhibition will provide an overview of a generation of artists who use a variety of media, including photography, video, large-scale sculpture, figurative painting and site-specific installations. 30 Seconds aims to show how this group of artists engages with the body and race in clever, subtle and astute ways.

EVERYTHING, NOTHING, SOMETHING, ALWAYS (WALLA!)
a project by Emily Mast for Performa 09

Phil Chang, Untitled (C496)

Renwick Gallery is pleased to announce the group show Beyond Process. The exhibition features Lucas Ajemian, Patterson Beckwith, Phil Chang, Samara Golden, Alexander Hoda, George Kontos, Jason Kraus, Megan Marrin, and Lisa Williamson.

Susan Silton, Twister 1, 2003

I Feel Different

20 October 2009 — 24 January 2010

Opening reception: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 8pm
with performances by resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna

Lewis Baltz
The Park City Portfolio
26 September 2009 — 2 January 2010
Opening Reception: 26 September, 6-9pm

Thirty years ago, in 1979, as he completed his photographs of a ski resort being built in Park City, Utah, Lewis Baltz was in the middle of the middle of his most productive period. Four years earlier he had finished a series on The New Industrial Parks of Southern California, and four years later he would complete his study of San Quentin Point, a dump site where a notorious prison once stood. He thought of the three projects, he said, as a “trilogy”. Where Ansel Adams, Baltz’s most famous predecessor in the photography of Western vistas, had seen the American landscape as pure Romance, Baltz now saw it as a Tragedy, since that is the art form for which the term trilogy is customarily reserved. The photographs of jimcrack “luxury” housing under construction at the foot of ski trails in Park City show us where the tragic flaw lay in the American character.

One of the highlights of my short trip to London was this retrospective of Simon Foxton’s styling work, complete with a display of his scrapbooks. The Paul Hetherington-designed catalog is also a treat.

MISS READ
International publishers and artist/authors show their Artist Books
September 4 to 6, 2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69 D-10117 Berlin

Opening: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3–7pm
Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6, 2009, noon–7pm

2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles | argobooks, Berlin | BAS/Bent, Istanbul | basso magazin, Berlin | Book Works, London | Christoph Keller Editions bei JRP|Ringier, Zurich | Dexter Sinister, New York | documentation céline duval, Houlgate | Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich | GAGARIN, Antwerp | Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, Chicago |information as material, York | MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent | Michalis Pichler, Berlin | onestar press/Three Star Books, Paris | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana |Passenger Books, Berlin/Montreal | Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen | Printed Matter, Inc., New York | Roma Publications, Amsterdam | Salon Verlag, Cologne |Schlebrügge.Editor/Fama & Fortune Bulletin, Vienna | Spector Books, Leipzig | Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York | Torpedo Press, Oslo | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | ZINE’S MATE, Tokyo

Besides having too many different definitions from one design circle to the next, typography is a discipline in which too many designers purport expertise. Schmid is one figure I consider a true master: his control and use of type goes beyond simply being able to choose and arrange letterforms.

Emily Mast and Evan Mast, 25 July –

“My brother Evan and i collaborated on an ephemeral piece for Exhibition in New York this past Monday. We filled the space with smoke and light in the middle of the night.”

Documentation: Danielle Levitt

Second Floor is a private exhibition space started by curator Sarvia Jasso and artist Kathryn Garcia. In part fueled by the economic crisis, Second-Floor was developed as a way to challenge the “white cube” mentality of the market driven NY art-world by providing artists a platform outside of the normal exhibiting structure.

Antonio Puleo, One For Me, One For You

Cherry and Martin presents Antonio Adriano Puleo’s exhibition I Am a Bird Now, featuring ecstatic murals, paintings and sculpture that possess a bold fusion of natural history and modern abstraction. This will be the first solo exhibition at the gallery’s new location at 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd.

Antonio Adriano Puleo’s pictorial exploration is a twenty-first century hybrid of art history, including the painterly experimentations of modern abstraction as well as the illustrations of the 19th century American naturalist John James Audubon and Medieval illumination. The third in a series of solo shows by Puleo, I Am a Bird Now, follows up on two previous exhibitions, To This World I Must Give In (2005) and Birds and Beasts (2007). Whereas Puleo’s previous exhibitions furthered a pictorial investigation of the tensions between opposing forces (Birds and Beasts) and the individual’s place amongst these tensions (To This World I Must Give In), Puleo’s new body of work explores the manipulation of these tensions through symmetry, pattern and the hermeticism of alchemy. Inherent in Puleo’s work is the translucent dimension of ecstasy, the idea that revelation can be had through the polarities of perfect geometrical proportions, radiant color and a visceral connection to the material world.

Central to the exhibition and the artist’s concerns are two wall installations, Follow The Light (2009) and They Know Why They’re There (2009). Painting becomes architecture as vibrant bands of color seamlessly emerge from strategically placed, intimate canvases. These small paintings, whose compositions magnify exponentially onto the gallery walls, chart the implicit energy of expansion and contraction.