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.
Read MoreTroika has been selected for a solo exhibition at NC Arte, Bogotá in 2015. NC Arte is a cultural gallery with an educational program funded by Neme Foundation. Its main purpose is to contribute to the development of the visual arts in Colombia and Latin America.
Read MoreThe Broad Museum is about to open its doors this September, and by doing so it's going to explode a U.S. military style daisy cutter on the Los Angeles art scene. Then comes Hauser Wirth and Schimmel (HWS) a few blocks away in LA's undeniably burgeoning Arts District. The Museum of Contemporary Art's former chief curator, Paul Schimmel, will take command of the 100,000 square foot super fortress with a dynamic multi-disciplinary arts center. Its palatial grounds, amidst the growing number of galleries, will cement LA as the new capital of the art world, what I simply call ArtWorldInc.
Read MoreInventory of Light | The Art of Systems Biology & Nanoscience
March 27, 2015 - April 25, 2015
Peters Projects
Goode is probably not that well-known to New York’s current art audience, but he was a seminal figure in the development of the Los Angeles art scene in the early 1960s. A colleague of Ed Ruscha, Goode was included in one of the very first exhibitions of Pop Art in America, “New Painting of Common Objects,” curated in 1962 by Walter Hopps at the former Pasadena (now Norton Simon) Museum. Goode’s work evolved over the ensuing years to include expansive painted views of the sky, which he then defaced by tearing away or gouging substantial portions of the image. Much like the slashed canvases of Italian abstractionist Lucio Fontana, Goode’s work focused on the space behind the painted surface. This show presents a small selection of his “Torn Cloud” and “Vandalism” series, dating between 1967 and 1976.
‘Drawing Biennial 2015’ at the Drawing Room
London / 5 March- 30 April 2015
‘Shortcuts’ at Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt
Biel/Bienne / 19 Apr. - 14 Jun. 2015
‘Walk the Line. New Paths in Drawing’ at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg / 26 Apr. -16 Aug. 2015
‘Limits of a Known Territory’ at NCarte (solo show)
Bogota / 13 Jun. - 5 Sept. 2015
‘Globale. Renaissance 2.0’ at ZKM / Centre for Art and Media
Karlsruhe / 21 Jun. 2015 - Spring 2016
This is the last week to see the fascinating Cartography of Control, the first stateside exhibition by Troika, the UK-based artist collective Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel. This brainy show uses drawings, installations and sculptures to explore the idea that society has become “increasingly governed by rational thinking and scientific methodology” — through maps that offer “different accounts of the same territory” and an installation that appears to change shape depending where the viewer is standing.
Read MoreThe show examines the topic of order and disorder combining constructivist-concrete or digital art with fields of mathematical research, exploring the similarities and differences between artistic and scientific approaches.
The exhibition includes works by Thomas Baumann, Cod.Act, Attila Csörgő, Alexandre Joly, Peter Kogler, Pe Lang, Carsten Nicolai, Troika and Semiconductor.
Read MoreThank you! to the all the artists that participated and supporters of Cry Me A River!
Simmons & Burke, Zoe Crosher, Jen DeNike, Todd Gray, Tanya Haden, Janet Levy, Rachael Neubauer, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Alia Penner, Fay Ray, Jim Shaw, Penny Slinger, Lola Rose Thompson
Special Thanks to: The Masons from Etoile Polarie #1 who lent a hand and gave their support. ANR Transport LLC, Carol Martori and Yogi Proctor, Thomas and Tanya Black, Ian Adams, Shelly Halcomb, Dorian Bennett, Charles Whited, Jr, Todd Erlandson and Sherry Hoffman, Laura Whitcomb, Mary Jo Thatcher, Marc Loeliger and Ilinca Manaila,Miraya Surya, Aaron R Collier, Chris McLellan, Christopher J. Alfieri, April Siese, Nina Schwanse, Eve Melvan, Blum & Poe, Michael Kohn Gallery, John d' Aaddario, Franklin Sirmans
Read MoreBruce Conner: Somebody Else's Prints
February 7 - May 16
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Opening Reception
Friday, February 13
6-8pm, All Welcome
Relinquishing control is the central theme of London-based trio Troika’s “Cartography of Control.” It’s the first stateside show for the collective formed by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who employ a distinctly scientific approach to their work. The eloquently heady exhibition, currently on view at Kohn Gallery’s 12,000-square-foot space in Hollywood, uses experimental procedures to question the really big stuff, like the laws of gravity or the path of least resistance. Though their work nods to mid-century mathematicians like Alan Turing and Einstein who were masters of prediction, Troika feel at ease leaving the outcome of their own experiments to fate.
Read MoreEmpire of the Senseless
February 2015 through April 2015
In “Empire of the Senseless” the world is populated by new age humanoids, and punctuated by random violence; punky kids are terrorists, secret agencies viciously plot, and ethnic groups
are displaced. When reading American author Kathy Acker’s 1988 apocalyptic novel, some plots don’t seem like fiction anymore.
As with the anesthetized emotions of Acker’s new age humanoids, it seems that emotions of individuals in 2014 have equally fallen silent.
Our exposure to an endless stream of violent news has made us equally resilient to emotion.Prone to processing the world mechanically, the individual today becomes submerged in the mass. In his influential book “The Revolt of the Masses” by Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, written in 1929, he describes the phenomena of the mass: “To be different is to be indecent. The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” These words find expression in our society close to a century later.
In the exhibition “Empire of the Senseless”, Friedman Benda invites five painters, all of them women, to react to the world around us and to show us their reaction to the world we live in.The works that we will compile will illustrate each artists’ quest for conceptual and empriric realitiy amidst their own unique exploration of identitiy through art.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery presents Cartography of Control, the first solo exhibition by Troika in North America. This new exhibition brings together both existing and new works including drawings, installation and sculpture.
Read MoreThe European artist collective Troika will make its North American debut with “Cartography of Control,” a new exhibition at Kohn Gallery that explores the roles that systems and serendipity play in contemporary life. One series of works, for example, consists of thousands of black-and-white dice laid out in coordination to create machine-like patterns.
Read MoreWhen it comes to the universe or nature, can we really talk of control? Human being have been relying on their developing notion of knowledge in order to understand and practice the way of governing forces we might not truly understand. And, what of it? We have managed to gain control over the vastness of the ocean, travelled to the Moon and harnessed the power of electricity? But what does this control entail? How far can our scientific methods lead us in this quest for control? Find out at Kohn Gallery in the upcoming period…
Read MoreLos Angeles's Kohn Gallery will host the first North America solo exhibition for European artist collective Troika. Titled "Cartography of Control," the show is inspired by the increasingly rational and scientific precepts that seem to govern society. Through a series of sculptures, drawings, and installations, Troika hopes to challenge the idea that there is only one way to interpret human experience.
Read MoreLita 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 MoreWatching the recent digital restoration of Bruce Conner’s thirty-six-minute film Crossroads, 1976, which depicts 1946 footage of the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, is a vertiginous experience of telescoping back in time. Conner obtained this government-shot film from the U.S. National Archives and with minimal interventions (editing and, most notably, the addition of music), turned it into a resonant meditation on the apocalyptic sublime, rendering the familiar nuclear mushroom cloud strange again. The mushroom cloud is one of Conner’s signature images, appearing in A Movie, 1958, and briefly in Cosmic Ray, 1961, as well as in his collage works and drawings, some of which are also on display here.
Read MoreIn October 2013, Esther Kim Varet, director of the Venice Beach–based gallery Various Small Fires, placed a bid on 812 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a more than 5,000-square-foot lot containing a temple-like Art Deco edifice. The listing had gone up the night before, and Kim placed one of the first offers—by that afternoon, there were seven others bidders.
“It’s a landgrab right now,” Varet said of the situation in Hollywood. It was once “tranny-hooker corner,” she joked, but over the last few years, the neighborhood has established itself as a gallery district with North Highland Avenue recast as its main drag. Regen Projects claims to have spearheaded the eastward shift in 2012, when the business moved just blocks from Overduin & Co. andKohn Gallery, and was soon followed by new venues like Hannah Hoffman. Within the last year alone, a number of emerging galleries have migrated closer to the Hollywood Hills; David Kordansky moved nearby in September, Various Small Fires opened on Highland in October, and LAXART will officially open again in January 2015 on Santa Monica Boulevard.
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