Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CAOpens December 12, 2009, 4 - 7pm
December 11, 2009
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
Connie Samaras @ Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Antarctica: Joyce Cambell, Anne Noble, Connie Samaras
8 May - 20 June, 2009
Antarctica brings together work by Joyce Campbell, Anne Noble, and Connie Samaras on the subject of Antarctica, the most extreme continent on the planet. Artist residencies enabled each of them to photograph and experience firsthand the severe and almost inhuman conditions. Each artist's work approaches the subject with differing yet overlapping frameworks, creating a transcultural dialogue that seeks to de-exoticise a landscape that has been romanticised, idealised, and made epic.
http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/art-collection-and-galleries/gus-fisher-gallery/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=114837
Jeffrey Wells in LA Times
Review: Jeffrey Wells at De Soto Gallery 10:45 AM, March 6, 2009
Jeffrey Wells is a bit of a trickster, interested in the porous boundary between perception and deception. He has a sense of humor reminiscent of Bruce Nauman and a curiosity about visual processing akin to the Light and Space artists of the 1970s.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/review-jeffrey.html
February 10, 2009
Pascual Sisto in Contemporary Semantics Beta
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam February 13rd - March 22ndGroup exhibition with Ryan Barone, Chris Coy, Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Martijn Hendriks, Frank Koolen, Jan Robert Leegte, Guthrie Lonergan, Ellis McDonald, Jon Rafman, Pascual Sisto and Ola Vasiljeva.
Curated by Constant Dullaart.
LINK
February 7, 2009
SE Barnet upcoming London exhibition
DOES GOD LIVE IN THE NO-FLY ZONE’SE BARNET and THE KIT COLLABORATION
SE Barnet and The KIT Collaboration take a look at the restricted airspace above the dwellings of selected Heads of States in cities such as London, Berlin, Paris and Moscow. Their images capture the act of looking up into the nationalized sky, a space of covert restrictions, surveillance, threat and anxiety. The photographs are accompanied by Symphony for No Fly Zones, a twelve hour audio work. This uses layers of national anthems, slowed and transformed into a textured sonic universe.
February 5, 2009
Jeffrey Wells in Jerry Saltz' Top 10 List of 2008
6. Jeffrey Wells
"For his sleeper show, Wells projected barely visible auras of light, shifting blips, and flickering effects on the white walls and onto the furnishings. Visitors experienced the vision that happens without lenses, the glitches, negative images, flashes, and floaters our eyes produce."http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2008/52749/index1.html
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