Tag: 2010
Melinda Dahl ~ “Josephine”
POVevolving Gallery & Print Studio is very happy to announce our upcoming exhibition opening this Saturday, May 8th ~ from 6 – 10 pm.
The event is the first multimedia fine art exhibit from DahlHouse Productions, the independent production company run by Melinda and her twin sister Caitlin. Together they fuse photography, music, and film to present Josephine as both a corporeal and pastoral figure, captured in the bare shoulders and elegiac expressions of Dahl’s models and the vivid landscapes that they confront.
Calling out from shadowy cliffs, crouched in forsaken gardens, and suspended atop a turbulent seashore, the women and the stories in Dahl’s work command more than one of the onlooker’s senses. Accompanying her photography will be the debut of “Josephine,” the song written by Melinda and performed by the twins’ other production, The Dahls – the band that’s had them packing clubs around Los Angeles for the past year. The track also features Rocco DeLuca and is engineered by famed producer Mark Howard (Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithful).
The highly anticipated music video for “Josephine,” directed by Caitlin Dahl, will also be debuted at the event.
Busk // Bleach Zadok
Matt Leines & Alex Lukas //
It is part 2 of the Dear …….,
CALLY SPOONER
Anne Eastman, Maggie Foster, Guthrie Lonergan, Hayley Silverman
The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibit of videos by
Anne Eastman, Maggie Foster, Guthrie Lonergan and Hayley Silverman. The show
will include Eastman’s A Record of Abstract Ideas (2009),
Foster’s Untitled (2009), Lonergan’s Floor Warp 2 (2008) and
Marble Mirror (2007) and Silverman’s 1st Movement (2009). Using low
fidelity or computer generated visual techniques, the videos all impart
mesmerizing effects through slight movement and/or the manipulation of
environmental elements, achieving, at times, subtly psychedelic results.
Anne Eastman makes sculpture and video that, although highly formal, invokes
a destabilizing effect. Through the documentation of her exhibition
installations she creates a sense of disorientation, calling into question
what is being perceived. Her work has been exhibited, most recently, at
Claudia Groeflin Galerie in Zurich, ATM Gallery, Frederick Petzel Gallery and
Guild and Greyskul in New York. She is a founding member of
B’L’ing, an art collective that screens and trades bootleg video
art and rare media. Eastman received her MA in sculpture from Yale
University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Maggie Foster is a San Francisco-based video artist. In Untitled (2009)
Foster creates a machine that makes distance. Characteristically, she
examines a deliberate mediation of experience and atmosphere. Her work has
been exhibited at Pool Gallery, Berlin, Artist Television Access and Little
Tree Gallery in San Francisco, Casa Cuadrada Arte Contemporaneo in Bogotá,
Colombia and at the WRO Center in Wroclaw, Poland. She received her BFA in
New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.
A founding member of the Internet surfing club Nasty Nets, Guthrie
Lonergan’s body of work addresses the language and conventions of the
Internet through the appropriation of stock imagery, subtly linking the
virtual space of the web to the more restrained or banal interiors of the
gallery or bedroom. Lonergan’s work has been exhibited at the New
Museum and Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York and was included in the
Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2009. He received his BA from the
University of California, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Hollywood,
California.
Hayley Silverman, like Lonergan, engages in the discourse between the virtual
and the “real.” Through her implementation of both video and
sculpture, often integrated, she straddles the divide, manipulating volume
digitally and physically. Her work was recently exhibited at Open Space
Gallery, Baltimore and Kunstverein, New York and will be included in upcoming
exhibits at Peer to Space, Munich and the Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Holland. Silverman received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies
with a concentration in Interactive Media from the Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. She lives and works in Berlin.
GETTING THERE FROM HERE by: James Benjamin Franklin
Ben Jones at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The third Director’s Council FOCUS exhibition for the 2009-2010 season will feature the work of American-born artist Ben Jones. Jones’ work investigates new methods of pictorial storytelling in the digital age. An interdisciplinary artist working in video, sculpture, painting, light painting and drawing, his artworks and installations evoke environments and themes both familiar and bizarre.
For years, Jones has sharpened his skills by working as an animator and comic book illustrator. Consequentially, his work has a colorful and playful visual language. Jones’ artwork reflects the wide-ranging influences that inundate the artist (and viewer) in their daily experience within contemporary society. The artist levels the playing field for such disparate references as minimalism, video games, dogs and “The Simpsons,” by equally favoring all in his work, and in so doing, he slyly merges high art with popular culture in a present-day vocabulary.
Jones currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island; he is a member of the acclaimed East Coast artist collective Paper Rad. He has shown internationally on his own and with Paper Rad. Jones was recently in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) in Rome, Italy; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Deitch Projects in New York; and Andreas Melas Presents in Athens, Greece.
