Alburquerque
The works in Lita Albuquerque’s exhibition “Embodiment” continues her investigation of space, depth and perception. These new wall pieces are large-scale sculpture/paintings in which lush earth-toned raw pigments are juxtaposed with concave disks covered in gold or silver leaf.
Read More“There was a point in my career in the fall of 1977 when I decided to give up painting as I had known it in order to go back to the history of painting, to its very beginning where the first artists were using the earth to draw upon its surface, as a need to understand it historically.”
Read MoreLongtime L.A. artist Lita Albuquerque’s new show at Kohn Gallery is simple and regal. Her “Embodiment” paintings hang inside, each with a shimmering gold, gridded, indented circle at its center.
Read MoreAlbuquerque is known for her performance art and recently gathered several hundred participants to create a "performative sculpture" titled Spine of the Earth 2012, for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time Performance. She received the Cairo Biennale Prize at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, and MOCA, among others.
Read MoreIn 20/20: Accelerando, Albuquerque merges film, sound and performance to tell the story of a 25th century female astronaut who lands on Earth in the year 6,000 BC with a mission to seed interstellar consciousness on the planet. Upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, she forgets her mission: “Where was I? And why was I awakening at this moment, on this planet?”
Read MoreWith a career spanning over 40 years, Lita Albuquerque is a seminal artistic force in her exploration of light and space. This new body of work - exclusive to Kohn Gallery - is a series of pigment paintings and salt installations. The exhibition continues her investigations into space, color, materials and the body.
Read MoreFor decades, the Los Angeles–based artist Lita Albuquerque has blurred distinctions between Land art and Light and Space on increasingly grander scales, whether it be building installations surrounding the pyramids in Egypt or placing sculptures across Antarctica to mirror the formation of the stars.
Read MoreFor more than four decades, Lita Albuquerque has been on a diversified yet aesthetically and conceptually cohesive mission, making installations, ephemeral environments, performances involving the artist alone or hundreds of participants, large-scale public commissions, paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Born in Santa Monica, she was raised in Tunisia and Paris before returning to California.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, October 28, 2015, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) will host All Souls Eve: an immersive, macabre evening of dinner, cocktails, dancing, and live performances, capped off by silent and live auctions presented exclusively by Artsy. Artist Sue de Beer will be creating portraits on site, and honorees include Chef Craig Thornton aka Wolvesmouth. The gala will take place at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles.
Read MoreThe magic of the LA art scene over the last four decades: portraits of artists in their studios by photographer Jim McHugh and a selection of original artworks by these artists. The exhibition is curated by Edward Goldman, Host of KCRW’s “Art Talk.”
Read MoreLita Albuquerque has been selected as the recipient of a Santa Monica Artist Fellowship for her creative writing and performance based work. Nominated by a group of distinguished arts professional approved by the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Albuquerque’s dedicated and unique vision, especially her commitment to a writing practice that informs and gives birth to her visual and performance work, provided the group with the impetus to award her this fellowship geared towards the production of new work. Recent performances by Albuquerque include, Spine of the Earth 2012, as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, “Sometimes the sea is silver, sometimes it is actually red, other times it is an azure blue” Or is it ultramarine? for the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2014, An Elongated Now and Particle Horizon commissioned by the Laguna Art Museum for their 2014 Art & Nature festival and an upcoming performance, 20/20 Accelerando, at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in January 2016.
For the last of the series, we spoke with internationally acclaimed environmental artist Lita Albuquerque. Utilizing a variety of mediums, Albuquerque's work is often executed within natural landscapes — paint, installation and sculpture, transforming exotic climes such as Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and South Dakota's Badlands — into transformational works of art.
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Lita Albuquerque’s performance piece An Elongated Now, involving hundreds of volunteer performers dressed in white, takes place on Main Beach and may be viewed from various vantage points on the beach and along the cliffs.
Read MoreIn 2006, Lita Albuquerque planted 99 fiberglass spheres onto a surface of ice, arranging them as if they were points on a star map, for a project now known as Stellar Axis. Even though the large-scale work received international acclaim, it's unlikely you or anyone you know were able to see these works up close and personally. That's because Stellar Axis took place in Antarctica. Albuquerque and a team of artists and scientists went to the icy continent to create a “reverse sky,” a mirror of the South Pole's night sky on ice. Now, however, four photos of Albuquerque's groundbreaking installation is on view at Kohn Gallery so viewers will have a chance to experience her project through photography.
Read MoreThere is one in LA who has long been concerned with creating installations in the landscape and conducting relevant works of performance art: Lita Albuquerque. There are now two opportunities to see her more recent work.
At Kohn Gallery, a selection of large photographs document her ambitious 2006 project called Stellar Axis. This is also the subject of a seriously gorgeous new book by Skira/Rizzoli, published with the Nevada Museum of Art, which presents the exhibition of her work through January 4, 2015.
Read MoreIn 2006 Los Angeles conceptual artist Lita Albuquerque ventured to the South Pole and created the extraordinary Stellar Axis land art installation, arranging 99 blue fiberglass spheres of varying size in the Antarctic snow to reflect the configuration of stars in the night sky. “Light Carries Information,” a new show at the Kohn Gallery, features four large photographs of details from this unique work as well as a wordless eight-minute video presenting Stellar Axis in its geographic context.
Read MoreLos Angeles’ Kohn Gallery is now representing artist Lita Albuquerque.
Lita Albuquerque is an American installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. Born in California, she has been a part of the Light and Space movement, renowned for her ephemeral installations and Land Art pieces. She has been commissioned to create public art around the world at locations including the Washington Memorial and the Great Pyramids, she also represented the US at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale where she took the top prize.
Michael Kohn is hold an exhibition dedicated to the artist, due to open 15 November 2014. The show will focus on Albuquerque’s “Stellar Axis: Antarctica” project from 2006, which saw her lay out 99 blue spheres across the South Pole, mirroring the sky above, in what was the first large-scale work made in Antarctica. The gallery show will feature photographs, film, objects and archive materials from the piece.
LA’s Kohn Gallery has just announced that it has added artist Lita Alburquerque to its roster. Best known for her work in the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has most recently shown at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale (where she took the top prize) and the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time festival.
Read MoreOne could argue that no contemporary topic has more urgency and complexity than that of the interaction between humans and the natural environment. Whether considering contemporary political policy or theories of geologic time, the question of how this moment in human history will come to terms with its existence in the larger world, literally and figuratively, is prominent across academic disciplines and various media discourses. Time, Space & Matter: Five Installations Exploring Natural Phenomena, curated by Betty Ann Brown at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, enters into this discussion, according to the introductory text for the exhibition, by “re-situating [sic] commenting on, and giving new form to environmental processes and the various histories of human interaction with them.”
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