Exhibitions

SHAUN O'DELL

BY CLOUD 11 Dec 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 O’Dell’s work has long dealt with mythology both literally and on a broad scope. His work is an allegory of painting seen through the lens of abstraction. Whether dealing with named characters or specific incidents in a personal or collective memory, these canvases are riddled with formal clues and innuendo. The patchwork palettes not only map a historical investigation of different psychological states for O’Dell, they also map a history of the studio. Read more

RYAN WALLACE

SLO CROSTIC 23 Oct - 6 Dec 2014 Wallace’s process of abstraction is based in materiality, working methodically back from the detritus left behind in the studio, the ends become the means. The artist delves into the technical and formal properties of abstract painting by creating reliefs that prize texture, light and surface tension. By limiting his palette Wallace makes the medium the message, the works are chromatically minimalist, and materially maximalist. Read more

ROBYN O'NEIL

I BURNED WAVES 12 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 As intimated in the title of the exhibition, O’Neil conjures a place still in dramatic formation, witnessed in different or even parallel stages of becoming. Less concerned with narrative, the artist’s interest lies in capturing a sense of mystery inspired by the natural world. O’Neil builds up turbulent grounds from powdered graphite smudged and then partially erased before layering on oil pastel. This technique creates depth and a delicate play of luminosity and tactility while managing to convey darkened psychological states. Read more

AKTIONSRAUM 1 + PABLO GOMEZ URIBE

12 Jun - 25 Jul 2014 Each summer the gallery devotes itself to the examination of a moment in art history as told through its detritus, its ephemera. This year we turn our attention to 1969 and the events that took place under the aegis of Aktionsraum 1, the avant-garde collective established by Eva Madelung (patron), Peter Nemetschek (artist), and Alfred Gulden (writer/filmmaker) in an empty factory in Munich. The exhibition tells the history of the movement through the posters designed and produced to publicize events of the day. To illustrate the zeitgeist of the moment, we have invited the Colombian artist Pablo Gómez Uribe to respond with a modern day intervention, “Planning an Accident and/or in Pursuit of a Perfect Demolition”. The exhibition will run 12 June to 25 July 2014. Read more

GREG SMITH

BREAKDOWN LANE 1 May - 7 Jun 2014 As we all know most road movies come to a disappointing end. This one begins in disappointment, yet our hero/artist/”artifice mechanic” refuses to accept the inevitable. Through a series of performances the artist pimps his ride customizing the car first to serve as mission control and finally altering it to the point the driver is seated backward in order to face the video monitors in the rear. The car moves, or seems to, but the driver’s experience is completely mediated and motion not necessarily forward. Read more

GARY STEPHAN

20 Mar - 26 Apr 2014 In Stephan’s canvases, familiar paint and palette handling along with figure and ground relationships are inverted. He privileges shadows, outlines, parts that make up wholes. Displacements are commonplace in these works. He uses vacillation as a subject, creating punctures in the canvas that provide progressive openings from background to foreground. Some works originate in landscape, others in architecture and some are informed by the making and unmaking of the work itself as different types of space and perspectives come into view Read more

BEVERLY SEMMES

FRP 6 Feb - 15 Mar 2014 The Feminist Responsibility Project (FRP) is a collection of images and objects produced by crude gestures and the application of ink and paint to defile pornography. Picture a committee of rogue censors responding to the stained, dog-eared pages of vintage erotica. Teasingly they blot out select passages of nudity while allowing others to slip through their fingers unmarked. In the end, these haphazard interventions serve better to direct rather than divert our attention from the naughty bits. Read more