Tauba Auerbach
THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE
May 4 – 26, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, May 4th, 6-9pm

The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based artist Tauba Auerbach, titled THE ANSWER/WASN’T HERE. The title of the exhibition, an anagram itself, alludes to the conceptual framework of Auerbach’s practice, which examines the slippage between language and meaning. The show will consist of drawings, paintings, a video installation and a bartering project – all exploring this central idea from different vantage points.

Auerbach’s large-scale “50/50” drawings consist of varied black and white patterns that create the same grey effect thus expressing the notion that the same idea can be presented in an infinite number of ways. Other drawings and paintings playfully engage the use of anagrams and alphabet composites to investigate the plasticity and subjectivity of meaning. Two large pieces compare the U.S. Military NATO phonetic alphabet – where a word is assigned to each letter (i.e. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,etc.) – to the “Supreme Alphabet” of the Five Percenters – a faction of the Nation of Islam that also assigned a word to each letter to interpret their texts (i.e. Allah, Born, Cee, Devine).

A video installation depicts a large game of “telephone”, subtitled so the viewer can see how the message mutates as it is passed from one player to the next. Auerbach also offers up a bartering project where 100 books of varied black and white patterns can be traded for anything the gallery visitor views as equal in value.

Tauba Auerbach was born in 1981 in San Francisco and continues to live and work there. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Auerbach’s work was most recently presented in a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York and in a group show at Pierogi, Leipzig. She will also be featured in upcoming group shows at Gagosian Gallery and John Connelly Presents in New York.

Jack Hanley

WILLIAM POWHIDA
This Is A Work Of Fiction….¹

May 11 – June 9, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 6-8pm

Schroeder Romero is terrified to present This Is A Work Of Fiction…… a solo exhibition by William Powhida, under professional obligation and personal duress. This is his first solo exhibition at Schroeder Romero.

Dear Art World,

This Is A Work Of Fiction, my one man SOLO show, opens May 11th at Schroeder Romero. Those bitches hos HOOKERS, excuse me, are ecstatic to present my new work, which is destined to confirm my GENIUS and secure my reputation as the greatest artist ever. Now, I know that sounds a little presumptuous on my part, after all I haven’t been reviewed in The Times or sold anything to Saatchi, but it is true, I promise.
BUT, all that doesn’t really matter. The work isn’t that important. I could, say, pack my shit into a can, take nude photos of my beautiful friends at parties, or make BIG EXPRESSIONISTIC paintings of monsters, but it wouldn’t really matter. WHAT matters is that someone says “Did you see that shit on 27th Street?! He called Dash a jerk-off’.” It’s REALLY important that Shamim and Roberta drop by. I mean, otherwise what’s the point? I can’t keep sitting around my studio getting drunk and yelling at my assistants forever, can I? I need some affirmation of my BRILLIANCE like a Times review or a Biennial nod. While I have probably just doomed myself to insignificance by ASKING for those things, aren’t they the very indicators of success?
I would like to ask you to participate in my impossible endeavor to scale the walls of my insignificant existence as an emerging (it’s so pathetic sounding) artist. I know that WE (Richard, you bastard) don’t make art to be rich and famous, but my hair is turning gray, I am getting OLD, and time is running out for me to experience GREATNESS. I mean, I’m not twenty-five anymore! I can feel the studio walls closing in around me, my assistants are giving me dirty looks, and collectors are trying to GUESS MY AGE!!! (I take no comfort in the fact that I too will eventually be recognized as a GENIUS. I mean we ALL will someday when we are dead)
I suppose having AMAZING art helps, which I do and people have actually collected, suckers, but money means nothing. Well, it’d be nice, but I am past such material goals. No, I want what you are (A) waiting for, (B) longing for, or (C) trying to buy. I want to feel necessary, IMPORTANT, like my brief existence here mattered. So, instead of waiting for Jerry to tell you how fucking great I am, I am just letting you know myself, I was a critic after all, and we know everything. Please, come out and help me destroy my career the art world with my ‘fictional’ accounts, lists, and letters. My assistants have done an excellent job of making helping make this work. I had an army of MFA’s working round the clock and I owe them a TON of money.
If you want, send an art consultant in your place, or ask the gallery to send you JPEGS. Or, just wait until the next art fair. Solo shows are like albums, books, or dinosaurs, vestigial at best, SO help me enjoy (party, fuck, pillage) the one, and I mean ONE, show I will ever have in Chelsea because no one is ever going to let me do this again. Maybe you can just come and give me a hug. I’m sorry.

Schroeder Romero

We would be pleased to welcome you!

Opening
ROBERT ADRIAN X

Thursday May 10th, 2007 at 7 PM
through to June 23rd, 2007

opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12 AM – 6 PM
Saturday: 11 AM – 4 PM

Sunday May 13th at 11:05 PM
Ö1 Kunstradio-Radiokunst
„Counting” by Robert Adrian X and Martin Leitner

Thursday May 24th at 7 PM
Replay of „Counting” in the gallery

GALERIE GRITA INSAM
An der Huelben 3
A – 1010 Vienna
Tel*43*1*512 5330
Fax *43*1*512 5330 – 15

Galerie Grita Insam

Wim Delvoye, Donata, 2007, stuffed tattooed pig, life size

We are delighted to announce the opening of the group show Aggression of Beauty II at Arndt & Partner Berlin on Saturday, 12 May 2007 from 6 to 8 pm.

Following the first Aggression of Beauty-show in 1996, Matthias Arndt invited 11 artists to grasp the aggressive aspect of beauty. Works by Erik Boulatov, Jonas Burgert, Sophie Calle, Wim Delvoye, Natalie Frank, Bjarne Melgaard, Randy Moore, Muntean/Rosenblum, Keith Tyson Tommy White and Thomas Zipp will be on view.

We herewith cordially invite you and your friends to join us for the opening.

Many thanks to the galleries which made this exhibition possible as Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin; Harris Lieberman, New York; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg.

Arndt & Partner

We are happy to invite you to the opening of

Form Matters
Friday May 11th from 6 pm till midnight

The participating artists are:

AVPD (DK)
Maiken Bent (DK)
Knut Henrik Henriksen (NO)
Ferdinand Krag (DK)
Eline McGeorge (NO)
Simon Dybbroe Møller (DK)
Ruth Proctor (UK)
Bernd Ribbeck (DE)
Gitte Schäfer (DE)

The exhibition will be celebrated with an outdoor party with cold beer, grilled lamb, mint drinks, sound system and DJs, presented by konvoj.

www.kirkhoff.dk

Kirkhoff

Galerie | Anita | Beckers

at

ART CHICAGO
at the Merchandise Mart
Booth No. 7-8030

April 27 – 30, 2007

We’ll present works by the following artists:

Marc Baruth
Sonja Braas
Clare Langan
Simon Pasieka
Amparo Sard
Miron Schmückle

Video

Clare Langan
Yves Netzhammer
Amparo Sard

curated special programme [in cooperation with Roebling Hall, NY]

Victor Alimpiev
Sigalit Landau
Yves Netzhammer
Bjørn Melhus

Beckers

I just got this e-mail from Doug Fishbone

I just wanted to let you know that the Saatchi Gallery website is currently featuring a clip of my video “Towards a Common Understanding” on its wesbite.

Please have a look at the following link if you’d like to watch the clip:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/mtvideobox.php?video_id=66

Also, I will be doing a live performance at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin on May 4th as part of the “Navigation: per Forma” series.
Do stop by for a drink if you will be in the neighborhood. The info is listed below.

Thanks, and best wishes for a lovely spring. Let me know if you will be passing through London anytime soon.

Cheers,

Doug

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Performance info:

Friday May 4 at 8pm

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
5-9 Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland

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Deitch

Half the Artist’s Proceeds from This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism

Zak Smith, The Title Didn’t Really Explain Anything So He

Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present “Half the Artist’s Proceeds From This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism”, the first solo exhibition in Chicago of New York based painter Zak Smith. The title refers to the artist’s intention to donate a portion of his take from the show to various causes such as the West Memphis 3’s legal defense fund and anarchist/activists Food Not Bombs. The exhibition will feature paintings on paper including abstractions as well as portraits, and drawings from the ever-growing autobiographical piece “Drawings Made Around The Time I Became A Porn Star”. The paintings continue in Smith’s uniquely intricate style that finds inspiration from sources that range from comic books and illuminated manuscripts to Art Nouveau and Austrian Secessionism.

Women dominate Smith’s work, particularly his series of portraits of friends in the sex industry. Though this simple fact is extremely loaded, Smith is more interested in visual provocation–the use of aggressive colors and unique paint techniques coupled with an obsessive attention to detail inevitably reveals the beauty and intelligence of these women – an intrigue revealing complex but human individuals embedded in an unpredictable world. His distinctive hand evokes a raw tension between the abandon of graffiti, the graphic intensity of comic books and the quiet monumentality of classical portraiture. Far more confrontational than voyeuristic, the portraits look directly at the viewer. These are not timid women we are encountering and Smith is a part of this culture – not a spectator but a participant.

“Drawings Made Around The Time I Became A Porn Star”-the artist’s sketches from time spent as a cog in the gears of Hustler, Vivid Video and other agents of Silicone Valley, makes this abundantly clear, but more than that, the enormous series, (following in the footsteps of Smith’s most celebrated work–illustrations for every page of Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page novel, “Gravity’s Rainbow”) offers a window into Smith’s frenetic world and working process.

The environments of his subjects are often cluttered with personal objects and iconography. These possessions gradually evolve into abstracted ornate moments in themselves revealing intricate patterns and moments of seemingly invented or imagined space. Zak Smith’s abstract paintings take this invention a step further, offering an illegible but eerily specific world, as chaotic, hypnotic, and carefully limned as these environments.

Zak Smith was born in 1976 in Syracuse, NY and lives and works in New York City. After receiving his MFA from Yale University in 2001, Smith was included in several museum exhibitions including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Smith has had solo exhibitions at Fredericks & Freiser, NY and Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis and his work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Two books have been published on Zak Smith’s work: Pictures of Girls and Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow. His work is also included in the publication Vitamin D published by Phaidon Press.

Kavi Gupta

Baro Cruz