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Joanne Greenbaum, Workbook, 2006, oil on canvas, 78 x 78 inches, 198.1 x 198.1 cm

D’Amelio Terras presents new paintings by gallery artist Joanne Greenbaum. Her recent canvases continue to be informed by her drawing practice but take a departure from a more formal and spare past work. Graphic formations that are broken up by painterly gestures allow different layers of meaning and visual readings to emerge. Combining multiple techniques and colors, Greenbaum explores the concept of gesture outside of its expressionistic trope. The paintings are surfaces on which to perform with paint, challenging the notion of “doneness” and “finishing”; this positioning is best manifested by the act of painting over or crossing off areas of the canvas. The system of numbers charts the chronological life of a painting and reinforces the self-referential process. She states: “In fact I make painting by building” — and with this body of work Greenbaum’s process is laid bare.

Michelle Grabner, in a review published in Flash Art, 2004 writes: “Greenbaum pines for the vagaries within the most rudimentary elements of visual language, complicating them with intuitive and emotional impulses. The result is both familiar and original but consistently self-confident”.

Joanne Greenbaum shows in London, UK with greengrassi gallery and in Basel, Switzerland with Nicolas Krupp gallery. Greenbaum’s paintings will be included in The Triumph of Painting, Abstract America at The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK in 2007. In 2008 she will have a solo museum survey at Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany that will travel to Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

Front Room:
SETS

BJORN COPELAND: OCTOBER 19 – NOVEMBER 4
Opening Reception: October 19, 6-8pm

BRIAN CHIPPENDALE: NOVEMBER 9 – NOVEMBER 25
Opening Reception: November 9, 6-8pm

HISHAM AKIRA BHAROOCHA: NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 23
Opening Reception: November 30, 6-8pm

For more information about the show please visit www.damelioterras.com
D’Amelio Terras shows Adam Adach, Polly Apfelbaum, Erica Baum, Whitney Bedford, Delia Brown, Case Calkins, Tony Feher, Amy Globus, Joanne Greenbaum, Matt Keegan, Kim Krans, John Morris, Rei Naito, Noguchi Rika, Cornelia Parker, Dario Robleto, Heather Rowe, Karin Sander, Yoshihiro Suda, and Sara VanDerBeek.

Featuring Discussions by
Farheen & Christopher HAQ
Deanna Bowen
Jude Norris

Trinity Square Video is pleased to announce the introduction of new web based content in the form of an online Artist Talk archive. Current content includes Artist Talks by Farheen HAQ and Christopher HAQ, Deanna Bowen, and Jude Norris. New content will continue to be added following future artist talks, ensuring the section stays up to date and freely available at anytime to visitors of www.trinitysquarevideo.com. The new online Artist Talk feature is a part of Trinity Square Video’s ongoing commitment to reinforce and encourage continued interaction between its members and the local community.

To find artists talks go to: www.trinitysquarevideo.com then click on the “Exhibitions” link. From there simply click on the “past exhibitions” drop down menu to make your selection.

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Edgar Arceneaux. Based on an intense interest in relationships, Edgar Arceneaux’s work exploits alliteration, association, and connotation to weave a complex fabric of unconventional structures and meaning. His exploration of how culturally established relationships form conventional codes of consensus has gradually developed into an approach in which linear logic is often subverted to create an improvisational field of experimentation that opens up new possibilities of understanding.

The Alchemy of Comedy…Stupid examines the structure and nuance, the rapture and pathos of jokes. In a nine channel video installation featuring popular comedian David Alan Grier the exhibition explores an unfamiliar context of these jokes, describing the awkward, funny, painful, and sometimes devastatingly lonely moments of comedy. Inter-cut among the multiple screens are reconfigured video segments of Grier debuting poignantly difficult material, his interactions with audience members and awkward moments of anticipation or rumination. By destabilizing our familiarity with the joke and its context, Arceneaux reveals possibilities for new meaning created from an improvisational, free-flowing context of experimentation. The video installation will be accompanied by a series of new drawings expanding the relationships addressed in Grier’s performance beyond the context of comedy into auto-biographical territory.

Edgar Arceneaux has shown his drawings, sculptures, installations and films in solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam; UCLA Hammer Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, among others. His collaboration with Charles Gaines, entitled “Snake River” has been shown at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, and is currently on view at the REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles. Arceneaux’s work has been included in “Uncertain States of America” at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Bard College and the Serpentine Gallery, London; in “Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures”, Museum of Modern Art, New York; in “The Imaginary Number”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; in “The Need to Document”, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg; in “Monuments for the USA”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; in “Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970″, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, in “Quicksand”, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands; in “Upside Down: Neueingerichtete Raeume zur Gegenwart”, Ludwigforum Aachen, Germany; and in “Persoenliche Plaene”, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, among others. Arceneaux was recently awarded a residency at ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas. He has been the subject of an Artforum feature by Jeffrey Kastner (Feb. 06) and his work was featured in Afterall in essays by Charles Gaines and Catrin Lorch. Arceneaux’s books “Lost Library” and “107th Street, Watts” were published in 2003 by Kunstverein Ulm, Germany and Revolver, Frankfurt, respectively. This is our third solo exhibition of Edgar Arceneaux’s work.

“Alchemy of Comedy…Stupid” was originally commissioned by Artpace San Antonio

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 5795 West Washington Blvd in Culver City, between Fairfax and La Cienega. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment. Directions: Coming from downtown, take the 10 frwy west, exit at the Washington / Fairfax exit, turn left, it’s the second building on your right. 10 frwy coming from the west side, take the Fairfax exit, turn right on Fairfax, turn immediately right on Washington Blvd, the building is the second on your right, next to the Dunn Edwards store.

5795 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232 phone 323.933-2117 www.vielmetter.com info@vielmetter.com

sala rekalde presents Animated Stories, a group exhibition that gathers together the work of thirty international artists whose output investigates new strategies in animation film and the potential it has for criticality.

Animated Stories explores drawing and digital animation in relation to their artistic potential for imagining and producing stories to critically reflect on the world around us. The works shown in this exhibition have in common a special relationship with original sources such as caricature, satire, fable and allegory, used to question concepts like truth, authenticity and evidence. Moreover, parody is the strategy that situates animated film squarely between the real and the fictional so as to unveil the limits between what should or should not be said and between the appropriate and the inappropriate.

The focus of the exhibition is not an analysis of the various contemporary animation techniques employed in the works, but rather an exploration of the extent to which creative strategies are capable of assuming critical responsibilities in the face of the current predominance of mass media disinformation and the consequent discrediting of image. In this respect, animation film opens up a new line that runs parallel to documentary strategies, within a shared aim of commitment to disarticulate the politics of truth and unfrock authoritarian voices that might narrow the representational terrain.

Within a referential endeavour, the exhibition opens with a clear example of the potential animated film has for weaving magic whilst being critically incisive, in the shape of the video-installation Journey to the Moon (2003), in which the artist William Kentridge intentionally pays homage to the legacy of Georges Méliès. Through fantasy and imagination, some of the artists of Animated Stories directly mount attacks on policies that promote speculation and the devastation of our surroundings (as in the case of the works by Donna Conlon, Till Nowak, Hans Op de Beeck and Miguel Soares), while others (Kao Chung-li, Cristina Lucas and Feng Mengbo) disarticulate the politics of truth by retrieving stories withheld from History. The representation of absence, fear and exclusion (Carlos Amorales, J. Tobias Anderson, Zilla Leutenegger, Sven Pahlsson, Magnus Wallin, Sara Serrano and Eduardo Balanza) and the construction of notions such as community and subjectivity in a period of rampant cultural capitalism (Benoît Broisat, Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser, Simon Faithfull, Ruth Gómez, Basim Magdy, Joshua Mosley, Yusuke Sakamoto, Martijn Veldhoen, Catharina van Eetvelde and Abigail Lang) are some of the other issues addressed.

In addition, the exhibition’s documentary space presents a selection of short films made by Catalan amateur authors who, during the seventies and eighties, used animation as a vehicle to create a critical voice of contemporary social reality. This section includes works by Jordi Tomàs and Francesc Estrada, Jan Baca and Toni Garriga, Anna Miquel and Domènec Aran and Arturo O´Neill.

This show, produced by “la Caixa” Foundation, Spain, and Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, France, brings together some of the most recent works by 30 international artists: Carlos Amorales, J. Tobias Anderson, Lars Arrhenius, Benoît Broisat, Donna Conlon, Catharina Van Eetvelde / Abigail Lang, Shelley Eshkar/ Paul Kaiser, Kota Ezawa, Simon Faithfull, Ruth Gómez, Susanne Jirkuff, Chung-Li Kao, William Kentridge, Zilla Leutenegger, Cristina Lucas, Cecilia Lundqvist, Basim Magdy, Feng Mengbo, Joshua Mosley, Till Nowak, Hans Op de Beeck, Sven Pahlsson, Arthur de Pins, Yusuke Sakamoto, Sara Serrano / Eduardo Balanza, Miguel Soares, Sheila M. Sofian, Martin Veldhoen, Magnus Wallin and Lev Yilmaz.

Animated Stories was presented for the first time at CaixaForum, Barcelona, in June 2006 and will subsequently be shown at Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, France.

Animated Stories
30 October 2006 to 7 January 2007
Curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Laurence Dreyfus, Marta Gili and Neus Miró.

sala rekalde
Alameda de Recalde, 30
Bilbao 48009 (Spain)
http://www.salarekalde.bizkaia.net

For further information please contact:
Constanza Erkoreka
Tel: (+34) 94 406 87 07
salarekalde@bizkaia.net

Information service:
http://www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial
Tel. (+34) 94 470 37 07

On Thursday, November 9th, Suzanne Ulrich will open a solo exhibition at the John Davis Gallery. The work will be on display through December 3rd with a reception for the artist on Saturday, November 11th from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

Ms. Ulrich thinks of herself as a painter, however, she has been making small cut, torn, gouache painted and pasted paper collages now exclusively since 1997. As a painting major, she was most Interested in a design course where she could play with basic shapes. These collages bring her full circle back to that interest. Even as a painter, she worked on painted stripes, large and small, canvas and paper.

The collage works have a small intimate scale. The rectangle both dominates and gives structure to the work with attention to surface detail and layering. With a compositional ordering, avoiding any illusionist references, each piece becomes a composed self-contained presence with consistent high quality and purity of vision.

This is the first show of Ms Ulrich’s work in Hudson, New York. In Boston she is represented by Barbara Krakow Gallery. In New York, both Kathryn Markel and OK Harris share her work.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 10:00 till 5:30 p.m. For further information about the gallery, the artists and upcoming exhibition, visit www.johndavisgallery.com or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: art@johndavisgallery.com.

The Carriage House will be closed for winter and re-open in the spring of 2007.