February 15, 2011
January 31, 2011
Connie Samaras at UCR/California Museum of Photography
Connie Samaras: After the American Century
Saturday, February 5, 2011
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
UCR/California Museum of Photography
3824 Main Street
Riverside, California
www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/samaras
www.artsblock.ucr.edu
The exhibition is on view February 5–April 2, 2011
This exhibition coincides with UC Riverside’s annual Eaton Science Fiction Conference (February 11-13, 2011) at which Samaras will be giving a paper about recent projects and their relationship to differing tropes of future imaginaries.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
UCR/California Museum of Photography
3824 Main Street
Riverside, California
www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/samaras
www.artsblock.ucr.edu
The exhibition is on view February 5–April 2, 2011
Shot at the start of the worldwide economic downturn in December 2008 and March 2009, After the American Century is a series of photographs and videos examining the self-branding of Dubai, United Arab Emirates as a far future, global capitalist haven nestled in the imaginary of an unchanging past, the Arabian desert. Shown for the first time in Southern California, the photographs selected for this exhibit depict the urban landscape in such a way that it is difficult to tell whether the city is moving towards a state of becoming or obsolescence. Magic Planet, a video installation newly created for the CMP show, formally draws from the textured quality of establishing shots in science fiction films and focuses on the laborers imported to build Dubai and the varying landscapes they inhabit.
After the American Century was funded by grants from UC Institute for Research on the Arts, UC Council on Research, Computing & Libraries, and the Montalvo Arts Center for the exhibition series Agency: The Work of Artists, Julie Lazar, curator.
February 5 is the opening celebration for three exhibitions at UCR ARTSblock.
From 6:00pm to 9:00pm artists and curators will be present during opening receptions for exhibitions taking place at the California Museum of Photography, Sweeney Art Gallery, and Culver Center. Curatorial introductions and artist talks begin at 6:30pm at UCR/CMP. Maya Goded will discuss Las Olvidadas - The Forgotten Women; Connie Samaras will speak about After the American Century. At 7:30pm at the Sweeney Art Gallery artist Margarita Cabrera and Artistic Director and Curator Tyler Stallings discuss Pulso y Martillo - Pulse and Hammer. Cabrera’s performance, “Pulse and Hammer” will be presented in the Culver Atrium throughout the evening.
Photo by Connie Samaras, “Workers, Sheikh Zayed Road,” 2009
From 6:00pm to 9:00pm artists and curators will be present during opening receptions for exhibitions taking place at the California Museum of Photography, Sweeney Art Gallery, and Culver Center. Curatorial introductions and artist talks begin at 6:30pm at UCR/CMP. Maya Goded will discuss Las Olvidadas - The Forgotten Women; Connie Samaras will speak about After the American Century. At 7:30pm at the Sweeney Art Gallery artist Margarita Cabrera and Artistic Director and Curator Tyler Stallings discuss Pulso y Martillo - Pulse and Hammer. Cabrera’s performance, “Pulse and Hammer” will be presented in the Culver Atrium throughout the evening.
Photo by Connie Samaras, “Workers, Sheikh Zayed Road,” 2009
August 17, 2010
July 14, 2010
April 9, 2010
Pascual Sisto at Five Thirty Three
ABSOLUTELY NOT: Recent Works by Pascual Sisto.
APRIL 10, 2010 - MAY 1, 2010
Opening April 10th from 7-10pm
533 South Los Angeles Street
Second Floor
Los Angeles, California 90013
213 627 1541
www.fivethirtythree.org
Five Thirty Three in collaboration with de Soto Gallery presents
Absolutely Not: Recent Works by Pascual Sisto.
Pascual Sisto's new works explore themes of emancipation and the absolute, or better yet, absolute emancipation. The artist reconsiders historical events and significant philosophical documents that greatly influenced contemporary society and specifically his own personal artistic practice. These include the ephemeral writings on the walls of Paris that preceded the events of May 1968 to centuries-old monuments and significant philosophical works in either book or film. Sisto emancipates these seminal works by revisiting and modifying the original sources with a range from subtle to sometimes destructive variations. Through looking back, the works play with the anticipation of what is to come.
The exhibition includes neon, video, photography, text, and a confetti blast performance at 8pm.
January 10, 2010
Jeffrey Wells: Seeing While Seeing at SMMoA
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Project Room: Jeffrey Wells - Seeing While Seeing
January 16 - April 17, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 7 to 9 p.m.
Jeffrey Wells' work stems from wanting to explore and exploit the optical phenomenon that happens to us while doing something as simple as staring at a white wall. His video projections are participatory performances that use light, time and optics to create an element of surprise. For Seeing While Seeing, Wells will create a series of new, site-specific, projected works that mimic a variety of visual phenomena from after-effects and aura to color and shape-shifts - the room will literally come alive with his animated projections. Each work makes you questions whether what you see is real or just an animated effect.
Wells received his M.F.A. from UCLA in 2006, and lives and works in Joshua Tree, California.
December 11, 2009
Homesick - Group Show curated by Joaquin Trujillo
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CAOpens December 12, 2009, 4 - 7pm
October 22, 2009
July 16, 2009
Connie Samaras at Montalvo Arts Center
AGENCY: THE WORK OF ARTISTS
Enjoy Your Time, a new installation by Connie Samaras. Excerpts from After the American Century (2009), Vast Active Living Intelligence System (2005), Angelic States-Event Sequence (1998-2003)
As an artist, photographer, activist and professor, Connie Samaras addresses a broad range of subjects in her work, including constructions of technology and history.
As part of AGENCY, selections from Samaras' recent photographic series and videos will be on display:
Angelic States—Event Sequence: examines the techno-landscaping of U.S. urban spaces in L.A., New York and Las Vegas
V.A.L.I.S. (Vast Active Living Intelligence System): a National Science Foundation sponsored series of pictures that depict liminal spaces between life support architecture and the extreme environment of the South Pole, Antarctica.
After the American Century: a partial commission by Montalvo, combines photography and a video installation shot in Dubai, U.A.E. investigates speculative landscapes, future imaginaries, and global capitalism.
http://montalvoarts.org/exhibitions/connie_samaras/
May 29, 2009
Pascual Sisto at the Istanbul Modern
Significant and Insignificant Events.
Exhibition at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
May 26th - Aug 16th
Curated by Paolo Colombo.
This exhibition explores the meaning of events deeply steeped in military pageantry, that can appear to the viewer as bearers of lofty significance and value, and a number of apparently random and puzzling events, which are in fact loaded with hidden meaning. Through the juxtaposition of the works of three artists, Amar Kanwar, Shahzia Sikander and Pascual Sisto, this program suggests that events that are rooted in tradition and in courtly spectacles follow similar modes and rituals of anodyne events (as one can gather from the procession of joggers and cyclists in Pascual Sisto’s Beneath the Paving Stones the Beach and the retinue of army bands in Shahzia Sikander’s Bending the Barrel.)
The title of this exhibition is culled from a sentence that overlays an image of a Pakistani army band in Shazia Skander’s latest video, Bending the Barrel.
May 7, 2009
Fernando Sanchez on Flavorpill
The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it gets; favoring grainy images, unframed photographs, cardboard pedestals, and limited post-production fanciness, Sanchez opts to focus more on the contents' premises and a naughty sense of humor. A perennial subject of his work is the ruthless deconstruction and rampant substitution of identities — for example, students assume the personas of gangsta rappers to examine the nature of power. In the web-based series LA Art Sucks, meanwhile, Sanchez disguised himself as a disgruntled amateur critic and posted his rantings. – Shana Nys Dambrothttp://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/4/4/fernando-sanchez
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