November 16, 2007 through January 5, 2008
Opening reception November 16, 7-9pm
press release
Artist talk with Adrià Julià and Jan Tumlir
November 16th, 6-7pm at LA><ART

November 16, 2007 through January 5, 2008


LA><ART’s programs are made possible with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, American Center Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Campari, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Cultura, Eileen Harris Norton, Ruth and Jacob Bloom, Jenny Chase and Andrew Bernstein, Richard Massey, Daniel Avchen, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ForYourArt.com, Uber.com, Goethe-Institut, and LA><ART founding members and patrons.

Complex Course
curated by Aram Moshayedi
November 16, 2007 through January 5, 2008

PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITION TO SUPPORT LA><ART EXHIBITION ADRIÀ JULIÀ: A MEANS
OF PASSING THE TIME
NOVEMBER 16, 2007 – JANUARY 5, 2008

2007
Photo lightjet print
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 10
$500

In November 2007, LA><ART presents a new site-specific film installation by Los Angeles based artist Adrià Julià. Entitled A Means of Passing the Time, Julià’s film aesthetically documents the “representation of home” and the static depiction, signs and values that help situate oneself geographically and psychosocially. As the film is translated into a site-specific multi-channel installation, the artist will direct a series of performances on a newly crafted stage, executed in the space for Gower and his troupe of actors. A body of photographic images documenting the collaborative work of Julià and Gower as well as the film’s location—Chico, California, will further emphasize the exhibition.

Chico—a Northern California non-site—represents a kind of home for former USO performer Mark Gower. In this minute suburban area, Julià will animate anecdotes and memories of Gower including a walk, a riot, a local hair salon, the sounds of neighbors yelling, fallen trees, and intimate conversations. In doing so, A Means of Passing the Time will explore the fixity of representation, space and time through the intersections of photography, film and performance. Julià will also consider concepts of displacement and alienation experienced by soldiers deployed internationally.

Adrià Julià was born in Barcelona and has lived in Los Angeles since 2001. He has been selected by curator Lauri Firstenberg to be included in the Lyon Biennale (2007). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include LA><ART (Los Angeles) and the Generali Foundation (Vienna, Austria). In 2000, he was selected to participate in the exhibition Muestra de Arte Joven, INJUVE and in 2002 received the Alatadis Prize. Julià has also exhibited at Anne de Villepoix Gallery (Paris) as well as Soledad Lorenzo Gallery (Madrid). Recent solo exhibitions include Truc Trang Walls, The Room Gallery. University of California, Irvine (Irvine), La Villa Basque, Vernon, California, Artists Space (Nova York), OCMA - Orange County Museum of Art – (Newport Beach, California), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), and Espai Zero1 (Olot), Continental Agur, Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid) and Anatomies for a Common House, Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona). He has also participated in group exhibits such as Nothing Stands Still, New Langton Arts (San Francisco), Artist’s Archives, The Backroom (Los Angeles and San Francisco), Mirador ‘06. O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartkunst (Linz, Austria), Surrounding Matta-Clark, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporanea (Lisboa), The Gardenlab, Pasadena Art Center College of Design Wind Tunnel (Pasadena), Screenspirit, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen (Bremen, Germany), We’ve Moved, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), Monocanal, MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia - (Madrid), Centre d’Arts Sta. Mònica (Barcelona) and CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea - (Santiago de Compostela), Rituale 2003, Akademie der Kunste (Berlin) or Total Überzogen, Edith-Ruß-Haus (Oldenburg, Germany).

Untitled
2007
Dye based ink on paper and India ink on paper
13 x 19 inches
Unique edition of 10
$500

Michael Rashkow’s series of editions for LA><ART represents maps of ink that deny articulation of a particular subject. Prior to becoming an artist, Rashkow studied cognitive science, psychology, and computer science. His interest in photography and sculpture focuses on experiments in the disruption of a concretized subject and the examination of the perception of the art object. The artist samples images and objects that are familiar, yet transformed to question interpretation and meaning.

His edition for LA><ART represents the output of a broken printer. After discovering that the printer had a limited range of visual capabilities, Rashkow began experimenting with its logic system. He developed ways to use the inks native to the printer vis-a-vis an ongoing collaboration with the dysfunctional machine. Interested in the abstract gestural and constructivist chance compositions generated from this exercise, he continues to push his engagement with this banal device.

Michael Rashkow graduated from UCLA with an MFA in 2004 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has exhibited at Wallspace, New York, Ritter/Zamet, London, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, White Box, New York, Riva, New York, HIgh Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree. Forthcoming exhibitions include LA><ART, Los Angeles and Festival, Beijing.

TEN UNIQUE DRAWINGS BY YUNHEE MIN TO AID IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE ARTIST’S SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION AT LA><ART

Spacemaking Poster: Shallow Landing
2007
Watercolor on paper
17 x 13 inches
Unique edition of 10
$1000

LA><ART is pleased to present ten unique watercolor editions by Los Angeles based artist Yunhee Min. In January 2008, Min will produce a site-specific architectural installation along with a concurrent public sculpture in Culver City. Through her studies of color and form, Min creates large-scale field paintings and installations that generate a dialogue with the architectural space in which the works inhabit. Her site-specific installations create subtle shifts in environments and challenge the place of art in both spatial and temporal terms. For the artist’s exhibition at LA><ART, Min will continue to engage these issues and concerns by producing an installation comprised of an array of color-bars that will penetrate the space of the gallery.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yunhee Min currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 1991 and her MFA from the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1993. Notable solo exhibitions include Yunhee Min: Above and Beyond (x,y,z) at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2006), Cerca Series: Yunhee Min at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2005) and Corrugate at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2003).

2007
Silkscreen on goat skin leather
17 x 24 inches
Edition of 5
$1500

LA><ART is pleased to present a new sculptural edition entitled Icon Studies by New York based artist Michelle Lopez, in conjunction with her solo exhibition entitled Death Star. Michelle Lopez creates mixed media, hybrid objects that examine the intersection of consumer culture and human desire. For Icon Studies, Lopez has silkscreened the profile of a Japanese animé wig directly onto untreated goatskin leather. In Icon Studies, Lopez poetically articulates the tensions that occur at the intersection of the natural and the synthetic, furthering her investigation of feminism, branding, material decay, and sculpture’s formal properties.

Lopez currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA. She received her MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 1994. Lopez’s solo exhibitions include Piece at the Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA (2005), Adventures in the Skin Trade at Deitch Projects in New York (2001), and The Untitled Thumb and Drape Project at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA (1999). Michelle Lopez is a faculty member in the Department of Sculpture at School of Visual Arts, New York.

2006
Photo lightjet print
Edition of 25
$250

Los Angeles based artist Joel Tauber has adopted a lonely and forlorn sycamore tree stuck in the middle of the parking lot of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Califonia. The artist has produced a public intervention, gallery installation and film based on this tree – a powerful symbol that speaks to the urban disconnection from natural environment. In the artist’s words, “The frontier has given way to the concrete jungle.” This limited edition photograph is a document of this multifaceted project.

Tauber received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2002. He currently teaches video art the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he lives and works. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Galerie Adamski in Aachen, Germany. He was included in the 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and in the exhibition The Gravity in Art at the De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam. In recent months, Tauber’s practice has been covered by National Public Radio, NBC local news, Swedish Television, the Pasadena Star News, and the Los Angeles Times.