Keltie Ferris / Xylor Jane
dal 16/1/2014 al 4/4/2014
Segnalato da
16/1/2014
Keltie Ferris / Xylor Jane
Santa Monica Museum of Art SMMoA, Santa Monica
Two Project Room exhibitions, "Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie" and "Xylor Jane: Sea Legs". Each of these accomplished painters has made a groundbreaking contribution to the legacy of abstraction. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip.
KELTIE FERRIS
Doomsday Boogie
18 January – 5 April 2014
Keltie Ferris is a New York-based artist who, armed with a spray paint of vaporized oil pigments, has developed a fresh and entirely original abstract language. Doomsday Boogie includes several of Ferris’s large-scale paintings, along with a series of thin vertical paintings—physical realizations of the zips that originated in Barnett Newman’s abstract expressionist work. The larger paintings, with their pixelated backgrounds and neon, atmospheric foregrounds, evoke technological cityscapes. They have all the layered space and temporality of Tron, City of Night, and masterpieces of sci fi-noir. The paintings measure up to nine feet and juxtapose earthy blacks, greens, purples, and browns with vivid, chemical shots of gold, red, pink, acid green, and chartreuse. To achieve her desired effects, Ferris overlays hand painted geometric grounds with her signature, graffiti-like markings in spray paint. In select pieces she also outlines the fields of spray in abrupt, vertical strokes of color.
Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie is organized by Jeffrey Uslip, curator-at-large for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
About the artist:
Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in 2006 from Yale University in New Haven, CT and her BFA in 2004 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). Her solo show Maneaters was on view at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO in 2009. In addition, her paintings have been included in group exhibitions at institutions around the country, including The Kitchen, New York; The Addison Gallery, Andover, MA; the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; and the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana; in addition to galleries in the U.S. and abroad. She is the recipient of both a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
About the curator:
Jeffrey Uslip was born in 1977 and lives and works in New York City. At SMMoA, he most recently organized Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders; Agnes Denes: Body Prints, Philosophical Drawings, and Map Projections, 1969 – 1978; Samira Yamin: We Will Not Fail; and Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY. Uslip has also organized exhibitions for PS1/MoMA, New York; Artists Space, New York; Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles; and LA>
This exhibition has been made possible by SMMoA’s Ambassador Circle. Support has also been provided by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
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XYLOR JANE
Sea Legs
18 January – 5 April 2014
Sea Legs includes a series of recent paintings by Xylor Jane, a a Massachusetts-based artist whose paintings are made up of regimented numerical patterns and spectrums of color. The paintings in Sea Legs look like vibrant abstractions but are in fact made up of thousands of dots, methodically applied according to complex numerical systems. Jane regularly uses palindromes and prime numbers in her paintings, along with the Fibonacci sequence—the golden ratio used by Mother Nature and financial analysts alike. She also employs the Julian date system, a calendaring sequence that has assigned a unique decimal to each day since January 1, 4713 BC. Through compulsive patterning, Jane subverts and queers logical systems as a means of ordering the universe. Her signature use of the ROYGBIV color scale riffs off of the gay pride flag, but insists on the inclusion of indigo—presenting a challenge to the commodification of LGBTQIO symbols and broader normative systems.
At its core, Xylor Jane’s work is embedded in human experience. One recent painting lists the full moons of her life by Julian day number, and another is a hauntingly precise numerological translation of a near death experience. Rather than existing as industrialized abstractions, her paintings approach the spiritual and even the sublime. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is pleased to highlight her recent work and present her heavily-coded canvases in the context of Southern California’s Silicon Beach.
Xylor Jane: Sea Legs is organized by Jeffrey Uslip, curator-at-large for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
About the artist:
Xylor Jane was born in California in 1963 and lives and works in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Her paintings have been included in group exhibitions at institutions and galleries around the world, including the Boston University Art Gallery; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; International Art Objects, Los Angeles; The Garage, Moscow; Deitch Projects, New York; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She has had solo shows in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Dublin.
About the curator:
Jeffrey Uslip was born in 1977 and lives and works in New York City. At SMMoA, he most recently organized Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders; Agnes Denes: Body Prints, Philosophical Drawings, and Map Projections, 1969 – 1978; Samira Yamin: We Will Not Fail; and Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY. Uslip has also organized exhibitions for PS1/MoMA, New York; Artists Space, New York; Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles; and LA>
This exhibition has been made possible by SMMoA’s Ambassador Circle. Support has also been provided by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
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Image: © Keltie Ferris
Doomsday Scenario, 2013
Oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
90 by 80 inches
Collection of Dan Desmond and Uya Chuluunbaatar
Press contact:
Claire Ruud T 310 586 6488 x122 or claire.ruud@smmoa.org
Opening reception Friday, Jan 17, 2014 7:30pm–9:30pm
Members’ Preview 6:30 to 7:30 pm
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