Two Exhibitions
dal 8/9/2006 al 12/10/2006
Segnalato da
8/9/2006
Two Exhibitions
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
MFA WMDs: Selections From L.A. Art Schools. I’d Love to Turn You On: Works from the 60s and 70s. Although there are other surveys of MFA work, including the broad student-run supersonic shows, this exhibition has the advantage of greater focus on fewer artists.
2nd Annual Weekly Biennal: MFA WMDs: Selections From L.A. Art
Schools.
Curated by Tom Christie and Holly Myers
Following up on last Fall’s successful first “annual biennial"
exhibition of emerging artists, L.A. Weekly and Track 16 Gallery host
“MFA WMDs: Selections From L.A. Art Schools." The show, co-curated by
L.A. Weekly Senior Features Editor Tom Christie and art critic Holly
Myers, features the work of some 20 artists studying in MFA programs in
2006 - at UCLA, USC, CalArts, Art Center, Claremont Graduate School,
Cal State Long Beach and Otis. The exhibition runs from September 9
through October 13, 2006, with an opening reception on Saturday,
September 9 from 7 to 11 P.M. During the reception there will be a
special performance at 9 P.M. of Jocelyn Foye’s “Fighting in Clay."
The 2005 exhibition, curated by L.A. Weekly art critic Doug Harvey,
included such collage artists as Elliott Hundley and Brenna Youngblood,
both of whom went on to have Hammer Projects at the UCLA Hammer
Museum.
One throughline of this year’s show is a strong commitment to craft,
say curators Christie and Myers: “What impressed us about this group
of artists was an unusually high degree of both ambition and skill.
These are artists with big ideas, looking to make big statements, but
who are dedicated enough to push those ideas to a sophisticated level
of form."
Although there are other surveys of MFA work, including the broad
student-run supersonic shows, this exhibition has the advantage of
greater focus on fewer artists. They include, from UCLA, Joshua Aster,
Frank Ryan, Karen Liebowitz, Patterson Beckwith, Tracy Powell,
Theodosia Pulitzer, Lily Simonson, Jacob Stewart-Halevy, Claire Baker,
and Alex Klein; from USC, Jonathan Butt, Patrick Jackson and Michelle
Mary Lee; from Claremont, Brad Eberhard; from CSLB, Jocelyn Foye, Jean
Robison and Julie Rofman; from CalArts, Robert Russell and Louisa Van
Leer; from Art Center, John McAllister and Christopher Michlig; from
Otis, Eric Medine and Chris Oatey.
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I’d Love to Turn You On: Works from the 60s and 70s
Curated by Steven Leiber
Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present “I’d Love to Turn You On: Works
from the 60s and 70s," an exhibition of multiples and unique works made
in the 1960s and 1970s by artists such as Ray Johnson, Marcel Duchamp,
William Wegman, Claes Oldenberg, and John Wesley, among others. The
exhibition runs from September 9, 2006 through October 13, 2006, with
an opening reception on Saturday, September 9 from 7 to 11 P.M.
The title of the exhibition, “I’d Love to Turn You On," taken from the
Ray Johnson collage (1969), and an excerpt of the Beatles’ lyrics from
“A Day in the Life," is used as a metaphor for tackling the issue of
political and artistic nonconformity of that era. The genres
represented in the exhibition range from conceptual to pop, with the
portfolios, Ten works by Ten Painters, S.M.S., (Shit Must Stop)
published by surrealist artist, William Copley, and the multiples, 7
Objects, and Les Nouveaux Realistes, featuring works by such artists as
Yves Klein, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Niki De St. Phalle, Bruce
Nauman, and Eva Hesse, to name a few.
Stressed is the importance and innovative nature of these works as they
represent a movement away from the traditional constraints that had
previously been established in museums and galleries, and moved art
into controversial directions both for the individual and the
collective.
In many respects, the work in this exhibition book ends close to fifty
years of contemporary art, as it continues to influence and serve as an
antecedent to the work of current emerging artists such as those
featured in concurrent exhibition, “MFA WMDs: Selections From L.A. Art
Schools." For more information, please visit our web site at
www.track16.com
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Opening reception: on Saturday, September 9 from 7 to 11 P.M
Track 16 Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue 310 - Santa Monica