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19/4/2013

Three exhibitions

Art in General, New York

Letha Wilson
Landmarks and Monuments

Art in General is pleased to present Landmarks and Monuments, a series of new works by Letha Wilson from April 20 – June 29, 2013, in Art in General’s sixth floor galleries, 79 Walker Street, NY.

Letha Wilson’s new series of photo-based sculptures explore the magnetic pull of the American West, alluding to landscape’s intrinsic role in our own myths of reinvention, endless possibility, and inevitable promise. Photographs of expansive canyons, mountains, and vistas are tied physically to the gallery, in some cases embedded directly into the walls, floor, and ceiling, blurring the lines between image and object. Using architecture as both frame and armature, Wilson reclaims the photograph, exploring the medium’s inability to encompass the site it represents.

Landmarks and Monuments bends, punctures, and distorts images of an iconic American landscape, rendering the terrain’s vastness and raw potential into form. The pieces operate as monuments, evoking the legacies of the mythic American west while positing questions about what our landscape holds for the future. In the current climate, where the natural world has been overshadowed by the enormity of our capacity for industrialization, Wilson’s work captures the sublime power of nature.

Letha Wilson was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been shown at many venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea; Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria; Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA; and P.P.O.W, NY, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include, Letha Wilson, Higher Pictures, NY, NY (2013) and Punch the Sky, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2011). Wilson was an artist in residence at The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012), The Farpath Foundation, Dijon, France (2012), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2011); and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2009). Letha’s work has been reviewed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, the New Yorker and Time Out New York. In Fall 2013 Letha will be an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, outside San Francisco, CA.

Image credit: Letha Wilson, Ghost of a Tree, 2012. Digital print on vinyl, drywall, wood, wood column, 10 × 8 × 14 feet (image size 13 ¾ x 8 feet). Installation view at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

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Kimberlee Venable
All this comes back

The empty blue sky of space says “All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don’t care, it still belongs to me”–The blue sky adds “Don’t call me eternity, call me God if you like, all of you talkers are in paradise: the leaf is paradise, the tree stump is paradise, the paper bag is paradise, the man is paradise, the sand is paradise, the sea is paradise, the man is paradise, the fog is paradise”
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

Art in General is pleased to present Kimberlee Venable’s site-specific video installation All this comes back on view in the Storefront Project Space from April 20-June 29, 2013.

All this comes back presents a unending video loop that fills the front two windows of Art in General’s Storefront Project Space. Filmed on location in Jones Beach and Long Beach, Long Island, the black and white video stretches and skews tidal imagery, positioning us at the water’s edge. Waves approach and recede, creating a hypnotic rhythm that is both common and uncanny. Though filmed at specific beaches, at specific times, Venable has created a work that denies its specificity, becoming a stand-in for our relationship to the ocean, and the vastness of the world at large. All this comes back seduces passersby, pulling us closer, and suggesting that a small sliver of an all too familiar site is enough to make us take pause.

Kimberlee Venable is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from School of Visual Arts, NY, NY in 2011 and her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH in 2005. Recent exhibitions include True Lies, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY (2012); EXCEEDINGLY FEMININE, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY (2012); Walking Forward-Running Past, Art in General, New York, NY (2011); stillspotting nyc, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY (2011); and P h a n t a s m o r g a n i c a, Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York, NY (2010).

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Youmna Chlala
Days of Being Wild

Art in General is pleased to present Days of Being Wild, a short film by Youmna Chlala, opening on April 20 and running through June 29, 2013.

Youmna Chlala is an artist and writer born in Beirut and based in New York. Her work investigates the relationship between fate and architecture. She has exhibited and performed in the US, Middle East, Canada and Europe at institutions such as Camera Austria, Graz; the San Jose Museum of Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA; and Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo. She has participated in Performa 11, NY; the International Roaming Biennial of Tehran (Berlin and Istanbul); and has read her fiction as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Chlala has received residencies and fellowships at Headlands Center for the Arts, CA; CAMAC: Center for Art and Technology, France; Fine Arts Work Center, MA; AIWA, Lebanon; Makan House, Jordan; Goethe-Institut and European Cultural Fund. She is the Founding Editor of the Eleven Eleven Journal of Literature and Art.

Image: Kimberlee Venable

Press contact:
Maureen Sullivan T 212 2190473 maureen@redartprojects.org

Opening reception: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 6–8pm

Art in General is located one block south of Canal Street, between Broadway and Lafayette.
Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 12 to 6 pm

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