Installation
Tuesday, 01 Aug 2006 to Saturday, 05 Aug 2006
Guest curator — John Baldessari
Sarah FitzSimons
During her residency at Langton Sarah FitzSimons explores traditional ideas of a teahouse as a place for private reflection and connection with nature. She creates an intimate chamber for one or two people to sit. She projects video, and incorporates sound and natural materials to produce an all-encompassing environment. “Both the video images and physical space will look at dualities and convergences of inside/outside, and culture/nature,” explains the artist.
Sarah FitzSimons, Tent, rip-stop nylon, fiberglass poles, velcro, mesh, zippers,
tarp, steel, 2005
Image Courtesy of the artist.
Skylar Haskard
Skylar Haskard presents a sculpture that unravels every day by a process of selfdocumentation. The work bares witness to its own environment by incorporating elements found in the exterior of the gallery.
Skylar Haskard, Octagonal Erection (exterior view), 2005
Image courtesy of the artist.
Dawn Kasper
Dawn Kasper creates a death scene in reference to the death of the squatter Hans Kok, who died in 1985 in a police cell after being arrested for squatting in Amsterdam. Protests and rioting ensued after his death. The performance will take place the opening night and it will lay a foundation for information that will range from specific facts surrounding Kok's death to broader information on squatting and squatting culture in general.
Dawn Kasper, performing in Motorcycle Crash Installation, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, 2003.
Image courtesy of the artist and Anna Helwing Gallery.
Nicholas Kersulis
Kersulis presents a 34-hour video screening. Set up as a continuous film series Anarchy/Love/Spectacle is made up of 22 films that depict rebellious and anarchistic behavior en masse, or at times center on an individual subject’s interior psychological resistance.
Nicholas Kersulis, A Matter of Seconds (Movie Poster Mock-Up),
Image courtesy of the artist.
Kim Schoenstadt
Kim Schoenstadt develops a project that links notions of drawing and architecture. Her project Can Control begins by inviting artists and curators to email instructions to make a word, mark, or shape. She then works with local artists who use graffiti techniques to come practice and study their skills in her space at the gallery. The space will be previously drawn with tape, and painted over. At the end of the five days the artist will remove the taped lines to expose her drawing through the spray paint. This culmination of activities will produce an inversion of sorts, a wall of graffiti with architecture imbedded within. The progress of the project is documented at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ksprojects/
Kim Schoenstadt, 7/8 Time Series: Roadside Destination (wide angle). Paint, pen, pastel, and oil stick on wall and floor, 2005. View of installation at Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA.
Image courtesy of the artist.
BIOS
John Baldessari's art has been featured in more than 120 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and in over 300 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards, and public works. His awards include the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Governors Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in California, the Oscar Kokoschka Prize from Austria and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia until 1990 and is currently teaching at UCLA as Professor of Art. Recent projects include solo shows in New York, Europe, and Los Angeles, books, films, a commissioned project at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (2004); and retrospectives at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Austria (2005), and at the Musee d'art Contemporain de Nimes, France (2005). Upcoming projects include a curatorial project at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, as well as two shows in Germany at the Kunst Museum Bonn, and the Kunstverein Bonn.
Sarah FitzSimon's exhibitions include Desert Pier, Moonlight Mesa, Joshua Tree (HDTS), CA (2006); Supersonic, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA (2005); Greater LA MFA Exhibition, Long Beach, CA (2005); Character Traits, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005); and Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2004). FitzSimons graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Skylar Haskard's selected group exhibitions include Love After the Cold War in a an Open House of a (Re) Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic, Mackley Apartments, MAK Centre, Los Angeles, CA (2006); Invitational, Roski Gallery, University of Southern California (2006); Transcontinental Nomadenoase, Los Angeles, CA and Miami Art Basel, FL (2005); Groupshowboard, Kunst Pavillion, Innsbruck, Austria (2005); Speed Need and Greed, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2005); Sugar Town, Elizabeth Dee Gallery/ Participant Inc, New York (2005); Fantastic Five, Gallery 341, San Pedro California (2004); and Lost Desert Stage with Joel Kyack, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (2004). He has presented a solo exhibition at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005). Haskard received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Dawn Kasper's solo exhibitions include Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2005); Night of the Living, Pandemonium Collective, Santa Monica, CA (2005); Sundown Salon, curated by Fritz Haeg, The MAK Center for Art and Architecture LA Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA (2003); Bambi Meets Hulk Hogan, Bradford Gallery, Richmond VA (1999); and Shake it off, Henry Street Gallery, Richmond VA (1999). Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions including LA Art Girls Work, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005); Apocalypse Soon, QED, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2004); and Mania For Coleslaw: New Hybrid Media Performance, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA (2004). Kasper graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003). She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Nicholas Kersulis' solo exhibitions include A Matter of Seconds at 4F Gallery in Los Angeles (2004) and White Panel Project at the Patricia Faure Gallery’s project room in Santa Monica (2003). Organized No Act is Unpredictable: Michael Baers, Nicholas Kersulis, Peter Lynde at Sixteen: One Gallery in Santa Monica (2006). Collaborated with Elena Kovylina, Sonia Leimer, and David Moises at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2006). Kersulis is a recipient of the 2006 Core Artist-in Residence Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Glassell School of Art; and in 2004 he received a Creative Capitol Professional Development Award. Kersulis received his MFA from UCLA in the Interdisciplinary Studio Specialization (2000). He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kim Schoenstadt's solo exhibitions include Down the Road, to the Right: (New Wall Drawings by Kim Schoenstadt), 18th St. Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA (2005); Kim Schoenstadt: The Meeting of Exposition and Advance, Lemon Sky Projects and Editions, Los Angeles, CA (2002) and Kim Schoenstadt, Susan Inglet Gallery, New York, NY (2001). Her work has also been shown in two-person and group exhibitions Jon Furmanski and Kim Schoenstadt: Another Cowboy Song, A two part collaborative project-Part B, 4-F Gallery, Chinatown, CA (2003); LA Art Girls, Anna Helwing Gallery, Culver City, CA (2005); The Shape of Space, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA (2005); Prague Biennale, National Gallery, Veletrizni Palac, Kinski Palac, Prague, Czeck Republic (2005) and Lodz Biannale, International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland (2004). Schoenstadt graduated from Pitzer College in 1995. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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