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CB1 Gallery Artists In Solo and Group Shows Outside Los Angeles.
Several CB1 Gallery artists have shows up at the moment or soon to open all around the US and as far away as London.
Alexander Kroll, Untitled, 2010, Oil and Ink on Mylar, 11" x 7"
Alexander Kroll, whose first LA solo show, Unfoldings, opened last weekend at CB1, has a solo works on paper show that opens today at James Harris Gallery in Seattle, Washington. This is Alex’s second solo show at the gallery and will be on view through February 26, 2011.
Five other gallery artists–Fang Ling-An, Timothy Nolan, Tameka Norris, Mira Schor and Amy Yoes are in group shows currently or soon to open in Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia and London.
Outside America at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, from January 21 through February 24, includes Fang Ling-An‘s work. The show explores the infinite aspirations, identities, and political and cultural expressions that exist outside of orin opposition to constructions and realities of American identity, politics, and culture. Woman Made Gallery will be showing works in all media by nine women artists, both U.S.-born and originally from other countries, addressing issues “Outside America”.
Timothy Nolan is one of the featured artists in a show at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY, that opened last Saturday and continues on view until February 20, 2100. The exhibition, SITE 92: Work Permit Approved, the third exhibition in a series, features site specific installations. Tim Nolan’s work (pictured below) uses white and mirror laminated shapes arranged on the concrete floor, He creates a pattern that suggests fleeting allusions to three-dimensional forms. The mirrored surfaces reflect the ceiling and catch ambient light and colors.
Tim Nolan installation, detail view
Tameka Norris, Post Katrina Self Portrait, digital print
At Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, as a part of Prospect 1.5, paintings, photographs and a video by Tameka Norris are included in a two person exhibition that runs through February 6, 2011. A gulf coast native, Norris’ work often stages an exaggerated display of self-mockery and personas, creating tension within the juxtaposition of her body to the objects surrounding it. The show includes her Post- Katrina Self Portraits consisting of images of the artist shot in a Los Angeles photo shoot that were mounted on board and cut out. These cut-outs were then taken to locations on the Gulf Coast placed within the landscape.
At the IMT Gallery in London England, Common Logic opens on January 21, 2011 and includes the work of Amy Yoes. Interlocking planes flip and dance and multiple vanishing points play out over time in Amy Yoes’s stop-motion animations. Made by the countless manipulations of hand-made geometric shapes cut from simple materials such as Plexiglass, paper and tape her shifting abstract compositions record a multitude of actions and thoughts. Her animations are accompanied by a sound landscape of both familiar and unfamiliar sounds that echo that the reciprocate and the visual. References to architectural and pictorial space constantly shift and fluctuate as compositions are built up and pared down in perpetuity.
Finally, Mira Schor, whose solo show just closed at CB1, is included in Sex Drive at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibition opens on January 28, 2011. Sex Drive, curated by Stuart Horodner, presents contemporary artworks that address sexuality across a panoply of forms. Sex Drive included 22 artists and asks us to consider the conventions that govern sexuality, as well as its unruly power.
If you are in any of these cities during the next month, check out these exhibitions and let us know what you think.