303 Gallery is proud to announce our representation of Matt Johnson
303 Gallery is proud to announce our representation of Los Angeles-based Matt Johnson. His sculptures allude to the monumental, while maintaining an austere, deadpan sensibility. Whether a piece of bread cast in plastic, or a meticulously crafted pyramid made of artist's studio dust, Johnson reveals new dimensions to prosaic everyday objects, asking that we reconsider them with reverence and contemplation. Johnson has exhibited widely in such international venues as: The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005, 2009); The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2007); The Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); the Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (2011).
Star in a Jar, 2011
Nick Mauss in the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art
opens March 1, 2012The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, 2012, with some programs continuing through June 10. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which the Museum gauges the current state of contemporary art in America. The 2012 Biennial is being curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney, and Jay Sanders, a freelance curator. The curators began working on the research and planning of the show in early December 2010. Fifty-one artists have been selected. The Biennial comprises work-including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations-from both emerging and established artists. In addition to visual artists, the exhibition includes a select group of filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, and playwrights. These multidisciplinary arts will be presented in a large open space in the Museum's fourth floor galleries.
The curators are working on the Biennial's film program with Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-founders of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn. More details on the artists, other Biennial projects, and the schedule of events will be released in January 2012.
Doug Aitken Song 1
A 360° Projection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
March 22 - May 13, 2012 nightly from sunset to midnightIn spring 2012, the Hirshhorn will present one of the most groundbreaking exhibitions in its history. Internationally renowned artist Doug Aitken will illuminate, animate, and transform the Hirshhorn's iconic circular building into "liquid architecture" with his new artwork Song 1. More than a temporary artwork, Song 1 will also become part of the Hirshhorn's permanent collection, enhancing the Museum's cutting-edge and ever-expanding holdings of time-based media.
Using multiple high-definition projectors, the artist will seamlessly blend imagery to envelop the entire façade of the Museum with a 360° projection that will make the structure recede into cinematic space, rotating, rising, and evolving into new forms. Exploding film conventions, the work cannot be viewed from any single perspective or at any single moment in time. Visitors must walk the perimeter of the building to fully experience the panorama of moving images that inhabit the round façade of the Hirshhorn while creating a soundscape in the environment around it.
The scope of this artwork is large, yet at its core is a basic and minimal idea: pure communication expressed through a single short song, the perfect pop song: "I Only Have Eyes for You." For more than 70 years, this simple song has been heard everywhere around the world, but here it becomes the starting point for a remapping of the modern landscape. Beck, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, Mountains, High Places, No Age, Lucky Dragons, and other musicians explore new audio interpretations throughout Song 1.
A series of public programs, including an opening lecture by the artist on March 22 and a closing event featuring live performances on May 11, will accompany the project as well as a fully illustrated artist book.
Curated by Kerry Brougher. Commissioned, with generous production support, by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.
conceptual rendering forSong 1
Sue Williams in "Figuring Color"
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
February 17 - March 20, 2012Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams presents approximately 65 works, all of which employ color and form to represent a metaphorical body. When we stand in front of the paintings and sculptures in Figuring Color, we are compelled to consider the body in space, as a shape and an emotion. The body is rendered as vessel, as pure color, as abstraction, as line, as field, as allegory, as exceedingly tactile, and as surface.
Color Pile, 2002
Matt Johnson in "Lifelike"
Walker Art Center
February 25 - May 27, 2012Is it real? Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often playful, and sometimes surreal. This international group exhibition features artists variously using scale, unusual materials, and sly contextual devices to reveal the manner in which their subjects' "authenticity" is manufactured. Avoiding the brand-name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap. They also favor a handmade, labor-intensive practice rather than technological enhancements. The resulting works-including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video-transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.
American Spirit, 2010
Anne Chu in "Keeping House"
Brooklyn Museum
February 24 - August 26, 2012Brooklyn Museum's period rooms will be the site of a group show called "Playing House,". Ann Agee, Anne Chu, Mary Lucier, and Betty Woodman will be creating "activations" in several of the rooms by installing their own artworks on and around the existing furnishings. The four artists will create both discordant and harmonious juxtapositions, encourage dialogues between past and present, and alter the visitor's perception of the rooms and of their own art works.
Landscape with flowers no. 2, 2011
Jane and Louise Wilson
Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
January 21 - March 25, 2012This exhibition brings together two bodies of recent work by acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson: "Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum)," 2010 and the UK premiere of "Face Scripting - What Did the Building See?", 2011.
Jeppe Hein in "The Art of Deceleration: Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei"
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
December 11, 2011 - September 4, 2012This exhibition uses the polar concepts of acceleration/deceleration to focus on numerous current problems such as time pressures, financial crises, ecological disasters, loss of control, the contraction of the present (Lübbe), the Internet tempo virus as well as stress and burnout syndromes.
Continuity Reflecting Space, 2003
303 Gallery is proud to announce our representation of Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson, influential conceptual artist and member of the mid-eighties Cal Arts generation, returns to 303 Gallery. The focus of the Hammer Museum's 2009 retrospective, curated by Russell Fergusson, Johnson uses drawing, text, photographic techniques, and source materials from mass and underground media to explore themes of "death, celebrity, class, camp, lust, nostalgia, and obsolescence." Johnson's forthcoming exhibition with 303 Gallery will open Friday May 18, 2012. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Untitled Green Screen Memory (13 Fires), 2010
Eva Rothschild Hot Touch
Kunstverein Hannover
November 19 - January 29, 2012The Irish artist Eva Rothschild (born 1972, lives and works in London) is one of the most important protagonists of a generation of young artists dealing with the formal aspects of sculpture. Influenced by minimalism of the nineteen sixties and seventies, Eva Rothschild's works convince through their tension-filled combinations of such diverse materials as leather, paper, Plexiglas, wood and metal.
Hot Touch, 2011
