Archive for September 2nd, 2006


Fair Exchange

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Lisa Anne Auerbach, “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Sweater; Straight Edge / Poseur Skirt”, 2005

Participants:
Lisa Anne Auerbach; Enid Baxter Blader; Nao Bustamante; Jeff Cain and Shed Research Institute; Gary Cannone for Outpost for Contemporary Art; Civic Matters; Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn; Karl Erickson; Fallen Fruit: David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young; Robert Fontenot; Fritz Haeg and Gardenlab; Institute For Figuring; Adrià Julià; Martin Kersels; Karen Kimmel; D’nell Larson; Los Angeles Urban Rangers; Daniel Marlos; Jamie McMurry; New Chinatown Barbershop; Julie Orser; Jessica Rath; George Stoll; Mercedes Teixido; Melissa Thorne; Rubén Ortiz Torres; Elizabeth Tremante; Andre Yi

Curators:
Exhibition curator: Irene Tsatsos
Consulting Curators: Glenn Phillips; Jeff Cain; Julie Deamer; Veronica Wiman.

Accompanying Fair Exchange is a 96-page, full-color, fully-illustrated catalogue in an edition of 1500 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9789111-0-2 and ISBN-10: 0-9789111-0-5) designed by Department of Graphic Sciences with essays by curators Irene Tsatsos, Glenn Phillips, Jeff Cain, Julie Deamer, and Veronica Wiman; an introduction by Millard Sheets Gallery Executive Director Dan Danzig; and an exhibition checklist and artist biographies.

The Millard Sheets Gallery at the Los Angeles County Fair will present Fair Exchange, a group exhibition by 28 Los Angeles-based artists and collectives, for the annual L.A. County Fair, September 8 – October 1, 2006.

Traditionally, the Fair has been a celebration of regional domestic and agricultural arts and sciences. Although fairs and art galleries share the practice of exhibition as a way to communicate cultural meaning and values, historical boundaries have distinguished one tradition from the other. Fair Exchange aims to challenge these barriers and open a meaningful dialogue between artists, fairgoers, and art audiences. At the same time, the participants in Fair Exchange make work that falls into categories that are appropriate for the county fair as a venue, including work that employs crafts that are typically put into competitions at the fair; work that deals with agrarian and domestic subject matters; work that engages with politics at the local and regional levels; and work that takes the fair itself as subject matter. Within the broader thematic framework of the Los Angeles living experience, the participants in Fair Exchange will produce, for example: knitwear that bears sociopolitical commentary; a meditative mandala constructed of prizes from the Fair’s midway; “Urban Ranger” tours of the Fairgrounds that illuminate the cultural history of the Fair; edible garden kiosks proffering sustainable land use models; the time-honored New Photography competition juried by the competition’s own entrants and the public via the web; and a public forum for presentation of social and artistic ideas.

In addition to the works displayed in the Millard Sheets Gallery, a number of projects in Fair Exchange will be dispersed throughout the fairgrounds itself, including works that have been integrated into the Fair’s exhibitions of crochet, quilting, knitwear, tablescaping, and Christmas tree decoration.

In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a rich and extensive program of performances, concerts, workshops, demonstrations, and educational events. For more information, please visit http://www.millardsheetsgallery.org

Gallery Hours and Admission:
Monday-Tuesday Closed
Wednesday-Thursday 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Friday 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Admission to the Millard Sheets Gallery is free with Fair admission. Public parking is available at Gates 9 and 17. Trams to and from parking lots are free of charge. For additional information about Fair hours, admission, and transportation please visit http://www.lacountyfair.com or call (909) 623-3111.

Fair Exchange is presented by Farmer’s Insurance. The exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

Fair Exchange
Exhibition: 8 September through 1 October 2006

Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair
1101 West McKinley Avenue
Pomona, California 91768

http://www.millardsheetsgallery.org
millardsheetsgallery@fairplex.com
T: 909-865-4560
F: 909-865-4650

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Summer Exhibitions draw record crowds at The Power Plant, Toronto

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Annie Pootoogook

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TORONTO, September 1, 2006 – This weekend is the LAST CHANCE to view summer exhibitions. Vast numbers of visitors are attending the free summer programs at The Power Plant in response to ALL SUMMER, ALL FREE. With attendance levels increased by 400% compared to the same time last year, some days see well over one thousand visitors.

In response, Director of The Power Plant, Gregory Burke, said, “The aim of ALL SUMMER, ALL FREE was to expand our audience and provide access to a wide range of communities in Toronto and beyond. This campaign has been astoundingly successful and attendance figures have jumped dramatically. As well, our survey results have suggested that there is a marked increase in first time visitors, and that the overwhelming majority of all visitors have been very satisfied by their visit to the gallery. We couldn’t be more thrilled.”

“The results are a validation to our sponsors and funding partners, whose continued support enables us to deliver high quality programming to our visitors. In particular, I would like to thank the Hal Jackman Foundation and NOW Magazine, who made ALL SUMMER, ALL FREE possible,” said Mr. Burke.

Public programs also prove popular. Open Late Saturdays extend gallery hours until 8pm; patrons relax at the al fresco, lakeside lounge, watch the sunset and hear great music, MP3 playlists created by local and international visual artists at Playlist Saturdays (5-8pm); and hear different perspectives through talks, tours, and screenings at Sunday Specials (2pm). DON’T MISS the final Labour Day weekend events: Playlist Saturday (2 September) by Dave Muller, and Sunday Special (3 September) Screening of Art Docks 1 & 2: Dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening, and Geoffrey Farmer and Joelle Tuerlinckx.

The summer exhibitions featuring Angela Bulloch and Annie Pootoogook conclude this Labour Day weekend. Engaging and accessible to wide audiences, the two solo exhibitions consider contemporary life from two vastly different perspectives, drawing on popular culture, music, TV, film, and art history. The Power Plant gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc., and would like to extend special thanks to Feheley Fine Arts, for the Annie Pootoogook exhibition.

The Power Plant will be open Labour Day weekend, including holiday Monday: Saturday 2 September, 12–8pm, Sunday 3 September and Monday 4 September,

12–6pm. The Power Plant is located at Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay West. For exhibition and tour information, the public can call 416 973 4949 or visit www.thepowerplant.org.

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EXHIBITION: “GUSTAV KLIMT: FIVE PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FERDINAND AND ADELE BLOCH-BAUER” @ Neue Galerie

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Gustav Klimt

“One of the treasures of New York”
The New York Post

“Welcome to town, Adele”
The New York Times

Thousands
have made the pilgrimage to see the exhibition “Gustav Klimt:  Five
Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer,” a
display of masterworks by Klimt that have been restituted to the heirs
of the Bloch-Bauer family by the Austrian government.  

The
show is scheduled to end September 18, 2006, and with it will end the
opportunity to see the five Bloch-Bauer paintings together in one
place.  Adele Bloch-Bauer I (detail, left) will remain on view at the Neue Galerie.

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Skellefteå Konsthall, Skellefteå presents In Moment

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006


In Moment
September 8 – October 18
Opening: September 7 at 7 p.m.
Curator: Power Ekroth

Artists:
Pierre Bismuth, Gabriel Lester, Johan Thurfjell and Clemens von Wedemeyer


Skellefteå Konsthall
Nordanå kulturcentrum
931 30 Skellefteå
Telephone: +46 910 735 510

To master the moment of silence, the pause of thrilling suspense, is
what makes a great storyteller captivate an audience. The artists
invited for the exhibition In Moment are known for their innovative approach towards narrative structures and have all produced new works for the show.

All works make use of slides, transparencies, in various ways. The
slide represents an antiquated technique as the importance of the
digital image is expanding. However the specificity of the medium
provides a unique tool for story telling where the succession of
sequences becomes a natural edit of the narration in the slide show.

Pierre Bismuth’s work Coming Soon is commenting on the “teaser” for upcoming movies; Gabriel Lester’s work Prelude to the death of a murderer uses screen images from the television for his story; Johan Thurfjell’s double projection Leaving
portrays the last hours in the life of a woman that has decided to take
her own life told from two different perspectives; and Clemens von
Wedemeyer tells a story in a Beckettesque way about two persons that
talk to each other but seem to have forgotten how to listen to each
another in A Divided Monologue.

A conversation between Johan Thurfjell, Power Ekroth and Anna-Lena
Lundmark (Artist, Director of Culture, Skellefteå Municipality) will
take place on September 7th at the Konsthall 7 p.m.

The exhibition In Moment is generously supported by Skellefteå Municipality, Office of Culture, Skellefteå Konsthall.

The exhibition is a part of the experimental exhibition format of
Access developed by curators Power Ekroth and Veronica Wiman in
collaboration with the graphic designers Research & Development.

For press inquiries and images please e-mail to anna-karin.larsson@skelleftea.se or phone +46 910 736 074

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