Joan Tanner
dal 21/7/2006 al 22/9/2006
Segnalato da
21/7/2006
Joan Tanner
Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles
On Tenderhooks is a large-scale installation. Using raw materials like Blister-Pac, corrugated plastic paneling, galvanized metal, air-duct filters, plywood, industrialized coating, light and video, Tanner assembles a precarious environment to tackle the visual paradox of architectonic order.
On Tenderhooks
Saturday, July 22, 4pm walk-through with the artist followed by a reception until
7pm, with live band Masanga Marimba.
Same evening, 5-7pm, book signing by artist Joyce Burstein for "the epitaph
project," currently on view in the Bolsky Gallery.
Thursday, September 7, 7:30pm, Conversation with Joan Tanner and Julien Robson,
Curator of Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Otis Forum, Ahmanson Building.
Saturday, September 23, 2pm, walk-through with Joan Tanner and Meg Linton, followed
by a reception until 5pm, Ben Maltz Gallery.
On Tenderhooks is a large-scale installation created by Southern California artist
Joan Tanner, curated by Meg Linton, Director of the Ben Maltz Gallery. Using raw
materials like Blister-Pac, corrugated plastic paneling, galvanized metal, air-duct
filters, plywood, industrialized coating, light and video, Tanner assembles a
precarious environment to tackle the visual paradox of architectonic order and
disintegration ordering to achieve perfection and humankind s inability
to escape imperfection..
In a review of Joan Tanner's work in a 1996 issue of Art in America, Michael
Duncan wrote that Tanner, who had just turned 60, is making some of the
freshest work around and now at age 70 the work is even more daring and
ambitious. It is time for her to receive recognition for her unwavering creativity,
voracious intellect, and incredible drive.
Tanner's work has been likened to that of Kurt Schwitters, Constantin
Brancusi, Joseph Cornell, Lee Bontecou and Richard Tuttle in the ordering of
objects and manipulation of materials. On Tenderhooks expands upon her use of
detritus and acknowledges a debt to Assemblage Art while engaging in a larger
discussion about consumer culture and representation.
Tanner is installing the work at the Ben Maltz Gallery from July 6-21st in
preparation for the opening on Saturday, July 22, 4-7pm. An exhibition
catalog documenting On Tenderhooks is available in September featuring an
introduction by Meg Linton, Curator of the Exhibition; an essay by Michael Darling,
the Jon & Mary Shirley Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Seattle
Art Museum; and an interview with Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Artist Biography
Born in 1935 in Indianapolis, Joan Tanner has lived in Southern California for a
number of years. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison in 1957. Since 1983, she has consistently exhibited her
sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and site-specific installations. She
has exhibited widely and her works are held in collections of the Getty Center for
the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Houghton
Library at Harvard University, and the New York Public Library. Tanner has been a
visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and more
recently at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more information
visit http://www.joantanner.com.
Ben Maltz Gallery at OTIS College of Art + Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd - Los Angeles USA
Opening hours: Tue-Sat: 10am-5pm / Thu: 10am-7pm
Admission free