Artificial Paradises curated by Sarah Jane Bruce at ACME., Los Angeles, CA, May 1 - 29, 2010

www.acmelosangeles.com

 

 

 

 

 

John Williams will be performing Record Projection at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum on Thursday June 3rd at 7 PM.

www.sbcaf.org

 

 

 

Artforum Best of 2009 (Michael Ned Holte)

Michele O'Marah ill present her new project, "Benediction" at our Cottage Home space opening on January 9th 2010.

She will be featured in the February 2010 issue of Artforum in a piece written by Michael Ned Holte. 

Kathryn Brennan at ARCO Madrid February 2010.

 

ABSTRACT AMERICA: New Painting and Sculpture

May 29th - September 13th, 2009

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4SQ, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Jeni Spota "Don't Tread on Me"
opening Friday May 15th at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

MAY 16 - JULY 22

In her first West-Coast museum exhibition, Jeni Spota brings contemporary elements to classical themes in her paintings, exploring traditional, often religious, imagery, in a new way. Through her small canvases, the viewer is able to peer into another world, watching epic scenes play out with a surreal, impressionistic twist.

In this exhibition, which includes new work, Spota fills her canvases with cramped figures engaged in frenzied activity, complete with choruses of angels, rows of haloed figures, and the Virgin floating, often repeatedly, in a mandorla, creating a heavy, purposeful yet intimate connection with the viewer that is rarely found in the Medieval and Renaissance pieces that her works recall. Other canvases are more abstract in their subject matter, as if she has cut and pasted detailed elements from her works to form a new composite. Don't Tread on Me features a new bronze cast of her paintings, perfectly underscoring Spota's attention to the construction of both narrative and surface.

Adopting the flattened pictorial space of medieval icons combined with the rich, globular application of paint, Spota creates an ecstatic, almost abstract surface through her brushstroke technique, in which paint is heaped on in indulgent, cake frosting-like daubs and layers.
Spota was born in New York and earned her B.F.A. at State University of New York at Purchase and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

For More Information visit:
www.smmoa.org

 

Several images from Spiegelman's 2006 project "For Freida" appear in the current issue of Blind Spot, Issue 40. 

For more information visit: 

www.blindspot.com

PRESCRIPTIONS

APRIL 25 - MAY 23, 2009

Lisa Anne Auerbach, Bill Jensen, Kurt Kauper, Michael Lazarus, Aaron Morse, Sandeep Mukherjee, Matthew Spiegelman, Jennifer Steinkamp

ACME, 6150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 

 

 

Kirsten Stoltman's "Motivational Posters and Meditation Sculptures" exhibition at Cottage Home reviewed in the March-April issue of Flash Art International

 

 

Michael Lazarus

tend to forget

Recent Work

March 5 - 28, 2009 

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 N.W. 9th Avenue Portland, OR 97209 503.224.0521  

OPENING and PERFORMANCE THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th at the ABRONS ART CENTER/HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT 

 

at the LAS VEGAS ART MUSEUM, Curated by David Pagel

Exhibition runs through March 8, 2009

www.lasvegasartmuseum.org 

Beginning August 1st, Sister's new location is 955 Chung King Road in Chinatown. 

Sister is opening a new space to be shared with China Art Objects and Tom Solomon Gallery. 

The space, called "Cottage Home" is a 4000 sq ft gallery space in Chinatown that will present monthly shows organized by each gallery. Each gallery will use the space in addition to our existing galleries. It affords us the opportunity to mount large scale exhibitions in a uniquely expansive and beautiful space. 

The schedule is as follows:

May 10th - June 21st: Sister presents Sandeep Mukherjee

July 12th - August 16th: Sister, China Art Objects and Thomas Solomon Gallery present an inaugural group exhibition

September - October: China Art Objects occupies Cottage Home for a group exhibition.  

October- November:  Sister presents Mary Weatherford, "Brick Walls and Sea Life."   

December - January: Thomas Solomon Gallery occupies Cottage Home and presents Krysten Cunningham

January - February: Sister occupies Cottage Home and presents Kirsten Stoltmann

www.cottagehomela.com

Sister is pleased to be participating in:
Art Cologne: Open Space. April 16 - 20, 2008
Booth #E39 (Rental Gallery with Sister, Andrew Kreps, and Ritter/Zamet)
www.artcologne.com

We will be featuring the work of Jeni Spota 

Giotto's Dream, for Saint Francis (Guido di Graziano Nightmare Version)
2008, oil on canvas, 12 x 14 inches