ANISH KAPOOR
S-Curve, 2006
polished steel
85.25 x 384 x 48 inches
(216.5 x 975.4 x 121.9 cm)

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Regen Projects
633 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. (310) 276-5424 Fax. (310) 276-7430
www.regenprojects.com

ANISH KAPOOR
February 24 - April 1, 2006
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 pm
Opening reception: Friday, February 24, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Regen Projects is pleased to announce the exhibition of a major new
sculpture by the London-based artist Anish Kapoor. In the spirit of his
recent large-scale commissions, such as Cloud Gate for Millennium Park
in Chicago and Marsyus for Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, London,
Kapoor has created S-Curve, a large, polished steel sculpture that
measures approximately 33 feet long and 8 feet high. The sculpture’s
concave and convex mirrored surfaces turn the space that it occupies
upside down, creating an illusory sense of the reflected reality and
confounding one’s relationship to the space. S-Curve continues Kapoor’s
investigation into the principle of the non-object.

Kapoor has stated, “I do not want to make sculpture about form - I wish
to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience that
is outside material concern.” Kapoor first became known for his
installations of abstract geometric sculptures that were biomorphic in
form and dusted with monochromatic colored pigments. In a sense, these
works sought to translate spiritual tenets into their sculptural
equivalents. As the work evolved, Kapoor shifted his focus from the
exterior form of objects to their dematerialized interiors. This change
in emphasis from outer to inner resulted in Kapoor’s
“voids”–sculptures incised in walls, stone, stainless steel, and
fiberglass that invite a consideration of both their physical and
metaphysical qualities. Kapoor’s sculptures achieve a subtle balance
between surface and space, the material and the immaterial, the visual
and the aural, and the literal and the illusory.

Having completed numerous public sculptures around the world, in 2004
Kapoor unveiled his most ambitious site specific installation in the
U.S. with the monumental Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park, along
side Frank Gehry’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion. The 110-ton sculpture is
forged from a seamless series of polished stainless steel “plates”
creating an elliptically arched, mirror-like surface that reflects the
Chicago skyline and surrounding park. Inspired by liquid mercury, Cloud
Gate is among the largest sculptures in the world, measuring 66 feet
long by 33 feet high.

Kapoor’s work has been the subject of several major exhibitions
throughout Europe and the U.S. Solo exhibitions include the Tate
Modern, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Fondazione Prada, Milan;
Reina Sofia, Madrid; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; the Baltic Center
for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; and the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain
de Bordeaux. Kapoor received the prestigious Turner Prize in 1991 and
was awarded the Premio Duemila for representing Great Britain in the
1990 Venice Biennale.

Monographs of Kapoor’s work have been published by Edizioni Charta, the
Hayward Gallery, Fondazione Prada, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, the Tate Gallery, the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
and the National Archeological Museum, Naples.

An opening reception for Anish Kapoor will take place on Friday,
February 24th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the gallery. For further
information please contact Shaun Caley Regen or Lisa Overduin at (310)
276-5424.

Untitled (Rocks)
2002
oil and wax on paper
12 x 15 feet (3.7 x 4.6 m)

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Regen Projects

633 North Almont Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tel. (310) 276-5424

Fax. (310) 276-7430

TOBA KHEDOORI

September 9 – October 14, 2006

Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Los
Angeles-based artist Toba Khedoori. Khedoori is best known for her
large-scale oil and wax on paper paintings of precisely rendered
interior spaces, structures, and other familiar forms that float within
the otherwise vacant space of the paper. In her new paintings, Khedoori
isolates her subject matter to different effect, alternating between
depictions of light and dark, forms that are solid or amorphous,
visions that are familiar yet disconcertingly distant.

Khedoori’s sense of structure and scale strives to reinvent a painting
that is as bold as it is quiet, as complex as it is understated, and as
elegant as it is gritty. Her paintings, singular in their look and
intent, have a resonance that is rarely achieved.

“…Khedoori’s pictorial antecedents may be the desolate fractured spaces
of Edward Hopper, Vija Celmins, or Edward Ruscha, but her sensibility
belongs elsewhere: to the metaphysical labyrinths of Jorge Luis Borges,
the infinite regression of Franz Kafka’s hierarchical universes, the
fantastic architecture of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities. Smuggled
into her deserted structures is the sadness of late summer’s
diminishing evenings…Withdrawn from the very worlds they seek to
describe, theirs is a seductive quietude which lives on in the mind as
if in a particular time now wholly their own.”

(Neville Wakefield, Artforum, October 1995)

Toba Khedoori’s work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and
internationally. She has had solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Art
Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; the Royal Hibernian Society, Dublin,
Ireland; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland; Whitechapel
Art Gallery in London, England; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.;
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work will be
included in this year’s Seville Biennial in Spain. In 2002, Khedoori
was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Grant and she received the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1995.

Monographs of Khedoori’s work have been published by the Museum fur
Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles.

An opening reception for Toba Khedoori will take place on Saturday,
September 9, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. For further information or questions
please contact Julie Hough or Kristina Kite at (310) 276-5424.

Installation view at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
June 24 - July 29, 2006

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Regen Projects

633 North Almont Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tel.: (310) 276-5424

Fax.: (310) 276-7430

EDGAR BRYAN: the love gang

June 24 – July 29, 2006

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Opening reception: Saturday, June 24, 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Regen Projects is pleased to present the love gang, an exhibition of
new paintings by Los Angeles-based painter, Edgar Bryan. Bryan’s
canvases incorporate a number of painting styles and influences that
encourage a dialogue between the medium and the subject matter.
Infusing Classicism’s idealism with Romantic expressiveness, Bryan
draws upon both personal and historical themes, often reflecting upon
the role of the painter in playful and richly painted scenes.

“…Announcements of the ‘return’ of painting are routine. Edgar Bryan
has taken his investigation of this traditional medium to an unusual
depth, however, producing intensively worked still lifes and portraits
that have only the slightest hint of irony. His still life paintings
pay explicit homage to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779),
whereas the portraits tend toward the allegorical, often recalling the
work of eighteenth-century genre painters such as Jean –Baptiste
Greuze. Like Greuze, Bryan is not afraid of the sentimental.”

(Russell Ferguson, Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, p. 7)

“…Above all, the young artist’s beautifully painted pictures are weird.
Not a trace of Postmodern irony can be found in them. Nor can a whiff
of mockery or sarcasm. Nevertheless, you’d be hard pressed to say
they’re sincere. Their pleasures are direct but hardly straightforward.”

(David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2002.)

Edgar Bryan lives and works Los Angeles. His work was included in “The
Undiscovered Country” at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
“Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists” at the CCA Wattis
Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and “Snapshot: New Art
form Los Angeles,” at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Bryan has
had several solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. A forthcoming
monograph of Bryan’s work will be published by Regen Projects and c/o
Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin with an essay by Lars Bang Larsen.

An opening reception for Edgar Bryan will take place on Saturday, June
24 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Regen Projects. For further information
please contact Kristina Kite or Lisa Overduin at (310) 276-5424.

Helen Levitt, Untitled, New York City, 1980, C-print, 10 x 15 inches

Vancouver, August 11, 2006 - Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver is pleased to announce a group show of vintage and contemporary street photography.

IN THE STREET
Vintage and Contemporary Street Photography

AUGUST 11 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Opening reception Friday, August 11th, 8pm.

Artists
include: Roy Arden, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank,
Chris Gergley, Greg Girard, Helen Levitt, Nicholas Nixon, Howard
Ursuliak, Stephen Waddell, Garry Winogrand

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 19, 2006
CONTACT: JENENE NAGY 908.616.5477 tilt@jjfab.com
NEW WORK BY Aili Schmeltz September 7-30, 2006
(Portland, OR-) Using suburban middle America as source material, the new work of Aili Schmeltz continues her exploration of the interaction of architectural development and the natural environment. Materials such as shag carpet, vinyl, and Styrofoam serve as emblems, snapshot memories of Schmeltz¹s youth. These materials speak to the dualities inherent in the suburban landscape as hideous and seductive, kitsch and homey, humorous and heartbreaking. Her work explores the standardized and controlled attitude of human interaction towards nature, resulting in surreal landscapes. Her sculptures are a hybridization of modern American architecture and landscape.
Schmeltz¹s work will be on exhibit September 7-30, 2006 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett, Suite 106, Portland, Oregon. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday September 7 from 6-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays noon-5pm and by appointment.
Aili Schmeltz received her MFA from the University of Arizona in 2003 and her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 1997. She has recently completed a residency at Raid Projects in Los Angles. Schmeltz has exhibited at Dinnerware Gallery in Tucson, Sculpture Space in NY, and Gallery 500 in Portland. Her work has been reviewed in the Willamette Week, the Portland Mercury, and the Tucson Weekly.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
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– Tilt Gallery and Project Space 625 NW Everett Suite 106 Portland, Oregon 97209 http://www.tiltpdx.com

Anti-Brancusi, 2005

Rossendale, 2006 video still courtesy of the artist

Rossendale Allison Hrabluik
April 15 - May 20, 2006 Opening Friday, April 14, 8 pm

Solo exhibition featuring stop-animation video and installation by Antwerp-based Canadian artist Allison Hrabluik.
Western Front Exhibitions is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Antwerp-based Canadian artist Allison Hrabluik. The artist will be in attendance for the opening.
The exhibition looks at the farmer as inventor and augmenter: DIY traits passed down through generations. The objects created by the farmer, and reproduced by Hrabluik for video, form accidental portraits of the farmer as industrious, meticulous, fallible, and stoic. They also operate as analogies to the small-farm industry - an industry sometimes considered superfluous in light of new technologies. The objects (including a garbage burning oven, hydraulic wood chopper, water well, and appendages for a tractor) delineate examples of the composition and sculptural skills the farmer has developed, and when seen together their anthropomorphic nature recalls a magic realism that sets the stage for theatrics not normally associated with the above connotations.
Currently completing postgraduate studies at the HISK in Antwerp, Hrabliuk has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals across Canada and internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Vancouver at the Or Gallery and Catriona Jeffries Gallery, in Toronto at Mercer Union and Diaz Contemporary, the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax, the Market Gallery in Glasgow (Scotland), and Artspace in Adelaide (Austrialia).
The Western Front gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and our members and volunteers. The Western Front is a member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC).

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ROBERT
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Curated
by Adam Harrison

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