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29/10/2010

Julian Hoeber and Mark Flores

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Mark Flores

October 30 - April 14, 2011

curated by Anne Ellegood

Los Angeles-based painter, Mark Flores translates the optically-driven mechanics of the photographic process into color-saturated handmade paintings. His ambitious Hammer Project will consist of ninety-nine individual paintings layered and juxtaposed across the lobby wall. Painted alternately with an expressive, brushy technique and a labor-intensive benday-like technique in which the CMYK colors of the printing process are layered upon one another in small dots, the paintings are based on photographs taken by Flores during hours-long journeys in which he walked the full length of Sunset Boulevard, both during the day and at night. The imagery runs the gamut from architecture to landscape, creating an idiosyncratic, and highly personal, map of the city that is both representational and abstracted, both historically rooted and of-the-moment, ending at the top of the stairs with a large pastel drawing of the ocean. In addition to this multi-paneled work, the exhibition will include a digital slide show of the hundreds of photographs Flores took. Flores’s cityscape serves to capture and lovingly represent the passage of time, focusing our attention on aspects of our environment that might have otherwise gone unnoticed. Hammer Projects: Mark Flores will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition.

Biography

Mark Flores was born in Ventura in 1970 and currently lives in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in 2002 from CalArts and his BA from UCLA in 1999. Flores has had solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and Alison Jacques Gallery in London. His work was also included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; California State University, Los Angeles; Golinko Kodansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Reviews and articles of Flores’ work have appeared in Artforum, Flash Art, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, and The New York Times.

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Julian Hoeber

October 30 - January 23, 2011

Los Angeles-based artist Julian Hoeber uses a wide range of media—including sculpture, drawing, filmmaking, installation, and photography—to explore psychology, emotion and narrative. For this exhibition, Hoeber presents Demon Hill, a freestanding structure based on the architecture of “gravitational mystery spots.” The architecture of these shacks creates the illusion that gravity works at an angle, that water runs uphill, and that bodies stand at a sharp angle to the floor. “Mystery spots” claim to be an effect and marker of a geological anomaly or a supernatural phenomenon and the illusion is so convincing that it gives even rational people pause. The project will allow for a playful experience of space and narrative while opening questions of how psychology and ideology form meaning in art. Installed on the Museum’s Lindbrook Terrace, Demon Hill is a combination art installation and roadside attraction, transplanted to the marble terrace of the Museum.

Biography
Julian Hoeber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1974 and currently lives in Los Angeles. He received a MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; a BA in Art History from Tufts University, Medford, MA; and he also studied at Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium. Hoeber has exhibited in the U.S. and Europe and his work was included in Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009); Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens Greece (2007); Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2006); and 2004: Planet B: The Aesthetics of the B-Movie, Palais Thurn & Taxis and Magazin4, Bregenz, Austria, among others. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy, and Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France. Hammer Projects: Julian Hoeber is his first one-person museum exhibition.
This exhibition is organized by Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator.

Hammer Projects is a series of exhibitions focusing primarily on the work of emerging artists.

Hammer Projects is made possible with major gifts from Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; L A Art House Foundation; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.

Image: © Julian Hoeber
Demon Hill (prototype), 2010
Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Photo: Heather Rasmussen

Press Contacts
Sarah Stifler, Director, Communications 310.443.7056 sstifler@hammer.ucla.edu
Morgan Kroll, Public Relations Associate, 310.443.7016 mkroll@hammer.ucla.edu

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