Charles Irvin | Graff Mourgue D'Algue

New Directions in Alchemy

10-May/17-Jun-12
Opening 10-May-12, 6 PM

CHARLES IRVIN

Los Angeles-based Irvin deals with inner landscape and scenery constructed from common icons such as pyramids, jesus, aliens or the misfits skull. His education and personal experience impregnated these images into his subconscious. Raised as a Catholic in Fundamentalist Christian North Texas, he developed an affinity for Christian imagery.

In New Directions in Alchemy most of the paintings are haunted by crescent moon figures. Sometimes they are depicted as alien divinities lounging on a pyramid, sometimes they perform scatological rituals in sterile rooms. The ensemble is blue suspended in space, a parallel universe where you'll be enlightened by an infinity fountain and where rock hard vanities emerge through vaginas. We never would have believed these new directions where possible to initiate, but we felt they were there somewhere in our very own alchemy. Irvin's work constantly clashes the subconscious and the conscious.

Charles Irvin's work was included in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, White Columns in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg and currently in The Art Of Cooking curated by Hanne Mugass.

7, Bvd. d'Yvoy

CH - 1205 Geneva

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Dennis Hollingsworth | Michael Kohn Gallery

Dennis Hollingsworth: Terestrial
March 23 - May 4, 2012

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Los Angeles-based artist, Dennis Hollingsworth. At the heart of Hollingsworth's practice is a rigorous fidelity to the dichotomous nature of painting. Simultaneously materialist and conceptual, abstract and figurative,
textual and painterly, Hollingsworth makes us question the étre of painting in the way Donald Judd did with the object.
Structure plays an integral role in these luxuriously rich, dense works, allowing the painting to take on a sculptural identity. Paint is dropped, both marbled and monochrome, and scraped up with scrapers and drywall knives. Tools are invented in order to achieve intended effects, such as daubers made of balled up knit fabric (which delivers flower-like forms which he then rocks into a bed of paint) or origami-like pincers that he uses to pull the spines off the monads. Spatulas and various knives are used in abundance. Brushes are cut and thinned into specific shapes and rarely does he rely on them as they
are sold in stores.
Re-working the identity of painting, Hollingsworth presents the viewer with an existential conundrum that demands an awareness and a re-shaping of our own process of seeing. First you are asked to confront the sheer physicality of the work, which repositions the painting as a sculptural object and then back again, a never-ending balancing act between two different practices. Slowly the conceptual underpinnings and gestalt effect take hold as forms emerge and disappear, demanding a unique and powerful engagement with the work.
Dennis Hollingsworth received his M.F.A. at the Claremont Graduate School in 1991. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the U.S. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona.

8071 BEVERLY BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90048
Tel: 323 658 8088 Fax: 323 658 8068
Tuesday to Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday 11 am - 6 pm

MItchell Syrop | Thomas Soloman Gallery

Opening Reception Saturday, March 10, 6 - 8 PM

Mitchell Syrop: Bifurcated Life
Mar 10 - Apr 21

Thomas Solomon Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the artist Mitchell Syrop entitled,Bifurcated Life. This is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Bifurcated Life is a series of 28 images, derived from notebook pages, both written and viewed in succession. The work evolves through a series of statements sometimes repeating themselves while transmuting in the process and eventually pushing the boundaries of language and representation.

Taken as a whole, the piece plays like a song. Pages can be grouped together and a viewer can conceive of sets of images within the larger body that resemble verses and refrains. After five repetitions of statements revolving around the theme of bifurcation, the piece transitions into its next movement.

Written from an interior perspective, the work resounds with existential tones that reflect on the dialectic of writing as creation and the embodiment of the artist’s divided public and private personas. In this case we find that the writing reveals secrets the author might not make known to himself.

The piece assumes a responsibility that negates the assumption that language is an indispensable nucleus of communication. Statements which can only be read through phonetic pronunciation unravel into what appear more like symbols; words become as divided as their meanings.

Mitchell Syrop's work has been widely exhibited in America and throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia. The artist has participated in a number of significant group exhibitions including Tomorrow Land: A Tribute to CalArts, MOMA (2006) and Forest of Signs, MOCA, Los Angeles (1989). His work is represented in prominent collections, including MOCA, Los Angeles, LACMA, ICP NYC, San Diego Museum of Art, and the Orange County Museum of Art.

Thomas Solomon Gallery

427 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

323 275 1687 www.thomassolomongallery.com

Re:Cut | Fil Rüting + John Pearson @ TAM Last week

RE:CUT
Jan 21 - March 10, 2012

3 Installations by
Mclean Farnstock, Michael Kelly, Fil Rüting

3 curated selections of video including work by:
Chris Coy, Valerie Green, Masood Kamandy, William Kaminski, Zach Kleyn, Owen Kydd, Lisa Madonna, Jesse McLean, John Pearson, Nicole Sloan, Joe Sola

RE:CUT features video artists that play with appropriation, cinema, and the imagined space created within video and film. By deconstruction and re-imagining footage that has already had a life in the world, these artists expand the familiar into new, multi-faceted installations and single-channel videos.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
310.618.6340

Tuesday - Saturday
From 11 am - 5 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Closed Sunday, Monday, and all major holidays

Henry Taylor | Gallerist NY

Gallerist NY has published an interesting article by Michael H. Miller on Henry's current mini retrospective at MOMA PS1.
Read it here.

Henry Taylor | MOMA PS1

Henry Taylor
On view January 29, 2012—April 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor (American, b. 1958) applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials—suitcases, crates, cereal boxes, cigarette packs—offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material. While Taylor drew and painted in his youth, he studied art later in life, attending the California Institute of the Arts after working for ten years as a psychiatric technician at a state hospital. In the months preceding the exhibition, the artist will be in residency in one of MoMA PS1's former classrooms, using it as his New York studio to create new work for the exhibition.

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084
Hours12–6 PM, Thursday through Monday, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Tyler Vlahovich | Feature Inc NYC

Tyler Vlahovich: recent work
15 February – 18 March 2012
reception: Sat, 18 Feb, 6–8pm

FEATURE INC.
131 ALLEN ST NY NY 10002
212.675.7772
featureinc@featureinc.com