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20/2/2009

Gina Osterloh

Chung King Project, Los Angeles

Shooting Blanks is Gina Osterloh’s debut Los Angeles solo exhibition as her photographs continue to deftly combine elements of sculpture, performance, and painting.

Building upon her use of restrained serial performances and gesture, the photographs in Shooting Blanks mark a pivotal shift in Gina Osterloh’s arc of work. While previous work insisted upon the use of her own body, Shooting Blanks expands to incorporate other anonymous bodies, and “cast paper maché mannequins, as she transforms the human subject of her surreal photographs into a prop, devoid of identity.” 1

Created during her recent Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Manila, Osterloh obsessively cut and collaged colored office bond paper, which comes in only four colors in the Philippines – candy pink, blue, yellow and green, as well as recycled paper from a local factory in Manila. The result is unsettling images of life size rooms where Osterloh activates metaphors of camouflage beyond the language of war and makes visible the psychological and physical space that both the body and its environment occupy.

Gina Osterloh’s photographs are unexpected propositions that interrupt established narrative through an oblique angle. Employing a conceptualist strategy, Osterloh incorporates a loose rule-based practice that investigates the body as material and image as language. Shooting Blanks is based upon the impotence and futility of language, dislocation, mimicry, and the desire to connect with one’s surroundings.

Previously, Osterloh's work has been the subject of two solo exhibitions: Shooting Blanks at Green Papaya Art Projects, Makati City, PH in 2008 and Blank Athleticism at [2nd Floor Projects], San Francisco, CA in 2007. Osterloh's work has been included in numerous international group exhibitions, most recently including CUT: Contemporary Photography from South East Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009); Recent Acquisitions: Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, PH (2008); Tints of Majesty, Lizabeth Olivieria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2008); Galleon Trade, Magnet Gallery, Quezon City, PH (2007) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA(2008); Swarm in the Aperture, National Museum of the Philippines with Japan Foundation, Manila, PH (2008); Truthiness, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (2008); Outside In, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (2007); Body Double, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2007); There, There, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (2006); and Satelite, Ojo Atomico/Antimuseo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain (2006).

Osterloh's work has been discussed in such periodical publications as Art Asia Pacific, Art Monthly Australia, Asian Art News, Artform Online, CTRL+P, Artweek, Los Angeles Times, and her work has been featured in exhibitions catalogs including Truthiness, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Body Double, Luckman Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA; and Silverlens Foundation 2008 Grantees Exhibition, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, PH.

Osterloh was a Fulbright Scholar in Photography and Contemporary Art Research in 2007. She was received a Completion Grant from the Silverlens Foundation, Manila, PH in 2008; Medici Grant in 2006; Graduate Travel and Research Grant from the University of California, Irvine, CA in 2005 and 2006; and a Diversity Fellowship from the University of California, Irvine, CA in 2004 and 2005. Osterloh has taught and lectured widely, and her work is included in several collections including significant private collections in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Manila.

Opening Reception Saturday February 21st from 6 pm to 10 pm

Chung King Project
936 Chung King Road - Los Angeles
Free admission

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