Upstairs gallery: sorry i've been trying to teach a peacock how to act
Artists Ricci Albenda, Miranda Lichtenstein, Munro Galloway and James Miller, Munro Galloway, Trisha Baga, Doug Ashford, Andrea Blum, Lucky DeBellevue, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Joe Goode, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, Dmitri Hertz, Annabeth Marks, Cameron Martin, Ulrike Müller, Lucy Raven, Halsey Rodman, Nancy Shaver, Amy Sillman
Dates19 April – 31 May 2015
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sorry, i've been trying to teach a peacock how to act
Ricci Albenda, Doug Ashford, Trisha Baga, Andrea Blum, Lucky DeBellevue, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Munro Galloway, Joe Goode, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, Dmitri Hertz, Miranda Lichtenstein, Annabeth Marks, Cameron Martin, Ulrike Müller, Lucy Raven, Halsey Rodman, Nancy Shaver, and Amy Sillman
Curated by Pam Lins
April 19 – May 31, 2015
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 19, 6 – 8 pm
The exhibition is framed in terms of color/non-color – and, more specifically, how these qualities are experienced spatially. The works included address issues of space and color, using color and the absence of color to organize the physical gallery space and the viewer's movement within it. It will expand on these concerns in open-ended terms, structured loosely in reference to the essay, "The Elimination of Color in Far Eastern Art and Philosophy" (Toshihiko Izutsu, 1974).
But we should not forget that the absence of color is the result of the "killing" of color. That is to say, under the total absence of color there is a vague reminiscence of all the colors that have been "killed." In this sense, the absence of color is the negative presence of color. It is also in this sense that the external absence of color assumes a positive aesthetic value as the internal presence of color.
This show will place color and non-color together, but keep them separate.
Organized by Pam Lins with Rachel Uffner Gallery.
Works
Wall
Munro Galloway and James Miller
2014 · wood
Bauhaus Boat
Ulrike Müller
2014 · vitreous enamel on steel. Painting
Brain Drawing
Munro Galloway
2014 · pencil
Brain Drawing
Munro Galloway
2014 · pencil
L&J
Amy Sillman
2007 · ink on paper. Drawing
Stranthen
Cameron Martin
2014 · acrylic on canvas over panel. Painting
One of Six Paintings and One Photo from Saturday, June 25, 2005
Doug Ashford
2014 · tempera on wood and inkjet print on paper. Painting
No bad taste
Nancy Shaver
2015 · wooden blocks
Arcade
Nancy Shaver
2013 · found metal
blue ANTENNAE
Phillip John Velasco Gabriel
2007 · enamel on wood
Rainbow House
Andrea Blum
2011 · laminated digital image on 48 in. MDF shelf. Photograph
Flower
Trisha Baga
2015 · flax seed
Wanderer (Under Changing Conditions)
Halsey Rodman
synthetic polymer
Ab Original 1
Trisha Baga
2008 · single channel video. Video/Film
Black Drawing 6
Joe Goode
1977 · oil on paper. Drawing
Yesterday
Joe Goode
2012 · acrylic on fiberglass. Painting
Segments Part at O
Dmitri Hertz
2015 · acrylic sheet
Framing Device (Blue Mercedes-Benz ML500)
Rachel Harrison
2015 · wood
Untitled (LD20)
Lucky DeBellevue
2014 · graphite
Morning After the Deluge
Lucy Raven
2015 · stereoscopic rear projector with unique stereo slide. Sculpture
The Creation of COLOR-I-ME-TRY
Ricci Albenda
acrylic and pencil on envelope
Cream of Tartar
Ricci Albenda
2009 · acrylic on corrugated cardboard and drywall screw. Painting
Untitled
Wade Guyton
2008 · Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen. Painting
Siren
Miranda Lichtenstein
xerox print
Creeping Rootstalks and Rootstocks III
Annabeth Marks
2015 · oil on metal. Painting
Untitled
Lucky DeBellevue
2015 · acrylic
Untitled
Lucky DeBellevue
2012 · acrylic on paper. Painting
Creeping Rootstalks and Rootstocks II
Annabeth Marks
2015 · oil on metal. Painting
Creeping Rootstalks and Rootstocks I
Annabeth Marks
2015 · oil on metal. Painting
Creeping Rootstalks and Rootstocks IV
Annabeth Marks
2015 · oil on metal. Painting