Exhibitions

THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION

8 Dec 2009 - 23 Jan 2010 The Bruce High Quality Foundation University (B.H.Q.F.U.) is an unaccredited, free collaborative school founded by the eponymous artist collective and presented by Creative Time, where “students are teachers are administrators are staff.” B.H.Q.F.U. responds to what it views as the over commercialization of the current art school system, offering instead “an education in metaphor manipulation”. Admission is based on a peer-recommendation system; select public programming is also offered. Read more

HOPE GANGLOFF

22 Oct - 25 Nov 2009 Hope Gangloff is a collector of moments, moods, objects, and patterns. Primarily portraits of her friends, Gangloff’s work glamourizes the mundane with a signature style. She describes her role among friends as observer, documenting daily activities, exchanges, and reflections. Objects and patterns that she finds visually compelling also figure into her compositions, rendered with the precision of a master draftsperson. Through this body of work, Gangloff offers a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of others—her fragmented narratives leave the viewer longing to know more. Read more

ELI PING

FULL BLEED 10 Sep - 17 Nov 2009 A bold, dynamic interplay between texture and color, Eli Ping’s work transgresses the constraints of formal and material convention. Ping borrows liberally from the expressive, gestural realm of painting while exploring the tactile and three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture. Ping’s twisted canvas pieces lend insight into the involved, multi-faceted nature of his process, where repeated layering, gouging and molding are the collaborative push and pull between artist and material, creating forms that are as complex as they are beautiful. Read more

LYNDA BENGLIS / ROBERT MORRIS : 1973-1974

18 Jun - 31 Jul 2009 Here Specific Object presents ephemera, magazine articles, video tapes and other artworks and supporting materials that lead up to, and include, Robert Morris’ seminal chains and helmet Castelli-Sonnabend poster and Lynda Benglis’ infamous Artforum advertisement, both of which appeared in 1974. Additionally, the exhibition incorporates never before seen, unpublished letters to the editors of Artforum as well as published responses from within Artforum. Read more

SARAH CHARLESWORTH

WORK IN PROGRESS 7 May - 13 Jun 2009 In her most recent series, Work in Progress, Charlesworth collapses the distinction between the photograph and the tools employed in its creation. Light filtered through colored transparent paper becomes at once the subject and the medium as it highlights the artist’s camera and working materials. Each image discloses its own process as it celebrates the act of making. Read more

WILLIAM VILLALONGO

EDEN'S REMIX 26 Mar - 2 May 2009 William Villalongo is a revisionist. In painting, sculpture and cut paper, the artist lays bare our collective history, mythology, folklore, and religion for review and reprisal. Reordering this massive jumble, Villalongo assigns a voice and a presence to those marginalized or overlooked in the original telling. “Eden’s Remix” begins at the beginning as the story goes, as the first Man and Woman are cast from Paradise after eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Read more

LUCA BUVOLI

INSTANT BEFORE INCIDENT 14 Feb - 21 Mar 2009 In the Futurist Manifesto’s prologue, F.T. Marinetti details a trance-like sequence in which, fueled by his unquenchable lust for velocity, he speeds with increasing intensity, ultimately crashing his car upside-down in a ditch. From this ecstatic experience, the Futurist movement was born. Twentieth- century ideologies and the destructive historical events that unfolded can be read metaphorically as the violent outcome of Marinetti’s crash. Read more