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9/2/2007

Three Exhibitions

SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

Darren Almond

In his films, photographs, live broadcasts, and kinetic sculptures, British artist Darren Almond explores changing conceptions of time and space as experienced by people in today’s technological age. Delving into both personal and historical memory, Almond often inverts and collapses the normal divisions between space and time, making us question our ability to demarcate them into measurable entities. SITE Santa Fe will present four video works by Almond, including his train trilogy and his poignant multi-screen installation If I Had You (2003), for which he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005. Attempting to capture the memories of his grandmother on film, Almond uses both video and sound to conjure the incessant and inevitable passage of time. SITE will also present the U.S. premiere of Almond’s three-channel train video, In the Between (2006), which he recently shot in Tibet. Darren Almond has established an internationally recognized career with exhibitions and projects throughout the world. Appearing in several biennials, such as the Busan Biennale (2004), the Venice Biennale (2003), and the Berlin Biennial (2001), Almond has also shown in galleries from New York’s Matthew Marks to London’s White Cube to Tel-Aviv’s Sommer Contemporary Art. Museum exhibitions include the Renaissance Society in Chicago as well as Tate Britain and Kunsthaus Zurich. Almond’s work has been acquired by the UBS Art Collection, T-B A21, the Kersliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel, and the Chisenhale Gallery in London. Almond has been featured in numerous art catalogues and publications, including several monographs that explore his work. Born in 1971 in Wigan, England, Almond graduated from the Winchester School of Art in 1993. He lives and works in London.

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Barry X Ball

Barry X Ball’s three-dimensional stone portrait heads move past the constraints of mechanical cutting, pushing detail beyond reason. Working with multi-colored stone such as lapis and marble, Ball creates beautiful deformations by stretching and contorting the heads, and overlaying textures such as brocade and lace. Ball’s carving process is incredibly complex, and it melds ancient and 21st century technology to extraordinary effect. Beginning with a plaster life cast, Ball manipulates the sculpture heads, a number of which are of prominent figures in the art world, adding and subtracting from the original likeness in an extremely labor and time intensive process involving three-dimensional digital laser scanning. Although many of Ball’s portrait heads are disturbing in their distortions, they nevertheless conjure thoughts of Roman or Egyptian heads in their use of precious materials with exquisitely finished surfaces. This exhibition will feature twelve heads, as well as two works from Ball’s new series of Scholars’ Rocks, and will be the most significant presentation of his work to date. Ball has had solo exhibitions at PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston; Luhring Augustine, New York; Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden; Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium; and Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany, France. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Le Quartier, center d'art contemporain Brittany, France; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; and Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, among others. He is currently represented by Salon 94, New York. Born in Pasadena, California in 1955, Ball graduated from Pomona College in 1977. He has lived and worked in New York since 1978.

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Stephen Bush

For his exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, Australian painter Stephen Bush will present a significant body of new works made since 2000 along with a selection of earlier works. Merging representation and abstraction, his canvases explore serial imagery in an apocalyptic palette. Often appearing to have an intrinsic dichotomy created by constant juxtapositions (old and new; man-made and organic), Bush creates a visual argument within his work in an exploration of Australia’s post-colonial identity. He often pairs hermetic figures or structures with heroic landscapes in vibrant, clashing colors that seem at odds with the silent, introverted activities they depict. This exhibition will feature works from several series, including Beekeepers, The Lure of Paris, and his most recent Cabin paintings. Enjoying a well-established reputation in Australia, painter Stephen Bush has become renowned for his intriguing landscapes that depict an array of disparate subjects, including potatoes, elephants, farm machinery, and rubbish bins, to name a few. In his recent landscape paintings (known as his Cabin series), the artist extends his surreal world into an exploration of the unconscious. Fascinated by images of the alpine vista and mountain locations, Bush incorporates images of these anonymous, remote locales into works that he considers to be metaphorical expressions for life's quest for personal or cultural fulfillment. Bush’s work has been exhibited in Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999; Bad Toys and How Say You at the Australian Centre for the Arts. Solo shows include those at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York, and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. His exhibition at SITE is his first major museum show in the United States since 1991. Born in 1958 in Colac, Victoria, Bush lives and works in Melbourne where he received his BFA and Graduate Diploma from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1978.

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