FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Surface Sounding
Ten Curators - Ten Artists
October 10 - November 22, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, October 10, 6-9pm
See Line Gallery presents Surface
Sounding curated
by Janet Levy. Ten curators each selected one artist
to show works
relating to surface. Surface is defined
as the exterior part of anything that has length
and breadth; one of the limits that
bounds a solid.
This exhibition will include sculpture, video, collage
and painting.
JOHN BUCKLIN curated by EMMA GRAY
John Bucklin is one of the rare birds in the art
world whose work can not be separated from his
life. Bucklin's recent
foraging for gold in the
hills of the American West, was most likely born
out of an impulsive desire to roam free and
discover,
as much as it was to trail ancestors and make art
out of his findings. However, Bucklin has an eye
trained in
both Italy and New York - his is not
fool's gold.
Emma Gray was a former ArtReview Magazine Editor
and columnist for Artnet and Saatchi online magazines,
and now
works privately for Sandy Heller.
AMANDA CHURCH curated by COURTNEY J. MARTIN
In Amanda Church’s paintings, the outlines
condition the intimacy of form and color. It is as
if she has contained vibrant,
active fonts of liquid
beneath a seamless shield, creating limited movement.
The limit, of course, is the viewer’s perception,
because
this shield is really only the vibrancy of the paint
on the surface of the canvas. The outlines replicate
and reinforce
the control of the surface.
Courtney J. Martin is an art historian. She is the
curator of numerous exhibitions and a regular contributor
to Artforum.com.
MICHAEL DEE curated by SHANA NYS DAMBROT
Michael Dee moved from New York to Los Angeles in
2004. His negative star photographs and their melted
plastic subjects
strike a precarious balance between
superficiality, depth, and beauty.
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator and
author based in Venice, CA. Her fine art & design
reviews, features and
interviews have appeared in
scores of regional, national, international and online
publications. She is currently the
Managing Editor
at Flavorpill.com/losangeles and the Galleries Editor
at TimeOut LA, A complete account of her published
books and articles can be found at sndx.net.
JOE DEUTCH curated by BRIAN BRESS
Joe Deutch is based in Los Angeles, California. He
received his MFA from UCLA in 2007. He has shown
at Crowe T. Brooks
Gallery, St. Louis; Cirrus Gallery,
Los Angeles; Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica; and
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
He recently
had his first museum exhibition at PS1 in New York.
Brian Bress is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator.
He received his BFA in film from Rhode Island School
of Design in
1998, his MFA from University of California,
Los Angeles in 2006. Bress is a recent Witt Visiting
Scholar at the University of
Michigan’s School
of Art and Design. His videos were recently included
in a survey of the history of video in California
at
the Getty Museum in 2008.
JEREMY EVERETT curated by ANDREA FELDMAN FALCIONE
Jeremy Everett tackles and freezes the titanic themes
of love and death, and all that lies in between,
in amber for us to
reflect and absorb. Whether
a megaphone encased in crystals or a record warped
and burnt, their sounds both muffled,
shout out
at the time racing past all of us. Life is short,
and art is still longer; these works remind us
that we all can have a
moment to sing love's praise
at the top of our lungs before the final curtain
falls.
Andrea Feldman Falcione established her own art
advisory business two years ago and in that time
has built some
important personal collections. She
formerly spent seven years as the curator for the
Ovitz Family Collection, two years
as a curator atthe Broad Art Foundation and nine
years as a curator in the Department of Prints and
Illustrated Books at
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
BILL KLEIMAN curated by LISA MELANDRI
Bill Kleiman's unruly works combine the most quotidian
materials with pure imagination. His sculpture/assemblages
seem to
burst through the wall, sometimes spilling
or dripping onto the floor. Part sci-fi landscape,
part decorative element, Kleiman's
pieces prove
the pleasure in craft and craftiness.
Lisa Melandri is the Deputy Director for Exhibitions
and Programs at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. She
is the curator of
the project room series at SMMoA
and has organized such shows as William
Pope.L—Art
after White People: Time, Trees, &
Celluloid...
and Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio
de Chirico.
XANA KUDRJAVCEV-DEMILNER curated by ALEXANDRA GRANT
Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner is an artist new to Los
Angeles (via Berlin and the MFA Program at Yale).
Her work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally.
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who
works to investigate the nature of language in painting,
drawing,
sculpture and video. Her work has been featured
at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the
MOCA Focus series in
2007 and most recently (2008)
in a solo show at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver
City.
JULIA LATANÉ curated
by ED SCHAD
Julia Latané's sculptures and installations
oscillate between the delicate visible surfaces of
nature and the conjectural,
invisible world of superstring
physics and black holes.
Ed Schad is a writer for Art Review and ArtSlant
and runs the Los Angeles-based art blog, I
call it ORANGES,
http://icallitoranges.blogspot.com.
JEFF ONO curated by MALIK GAINES
Jeff Ono is a sculptor based in Los Angeles. He has
had one-person exhibitions at Feature Inc., New
York; Perugi
Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy;
and Asprey Jacques, London. Ono has also participated
in numerous group
exhibitions, including "Mis-en-Scene" curated
by Bruce Hainley at the Santa Monica Museum of
Art, "To Be Recycled"
curated by Malik
Gaines at Six Months, Los Angeles, and "New
Acquisitions" at MOCA, Los Angeles. Ono is
the
recipeint of a Penny McCall Foundation award.
Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in LA.
Independent curatorial projects have included "Fade:
African American
Artists in Los Angeles" for
the City of LA, "Read Me" for the Armory
Center for the Arts, Pasadena, and exhibitions by
Kalup Linzy and Anna Sew Hoy for LA><ART, Los
Angeles.
JANET ROSENER curated by PETER FRANK
Janet Rosener is a painter working in Orange County.
Her imagery is abstract, with references to nature,
and her
technique, resulting in a luminous, textureless
surface, relates directly and knowingly to the
Finish/Fetish and
Light-and-Space methods associated
with southern California art over the last half
century.
Peter Frank is Associate Editor of THEmagazineLA,
a monthly periodical covering visual art in southern
California, and
Senior Curator at the Riverside Art
Museum.
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