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The Dump Show
A Collaboration with the Recology Artist in Residence Program 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 The Dump Show is a collaboration with, and an homage to, the Recology Artist in Residence Program. It’s also an acknowledgement and celebration of the legacy of artists in the Bay Area working with found materials. Assembling 20 artists who have participated in the Recology program, we explore the transformational... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
11 May - 29 Jun 2024 Freedom wonders inside the fantastic, joyous, in relentless dreams free from constraints with movements wandering rotating entangled sinuous perpetual and glowing in effortless being and while wielding free will as “metallic otherness” we reach ourselves, our true selves, as singular and connected, diverse forever searching OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST:... Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Cabinet Pictures 30 Mar - 4 May 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 30 March, 3-5 pm The California artist Tim Hawkinson is renowned for transforming everyday materials into objects that are as uncanny as they are poetic. Through virtuoso craftsmanship and the use of peculiar materials and drastic shifts in scale, he unsettles our expectations and... Read more -
Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe
Mlango (The Door) 30 Mar - 4 May 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 30 March, 3-5 pm Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He appropriates found objects — rubber tire inner tubes, doors, antiquated maps — and the vocabulary of traditional body modification (Nzoloko, or scarification, a pre-colonial tradition that... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Of Sunsets and Beautiful Endings 10 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 10 February, 3-5 pm The most important themes in my work are flowers, wallpaper-like patterns, and domestic architecture. Of course, I'm referring to places of beauty, comfort and safety in a complex and sometimes frightening world... and our attempts to create a 'perfect world'... Read more -
LOT-EK
SPILL / from 1 to 29 8 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 Opening reception for the artists: Saturday 9 December, 3-5pm An entire shipping container - chopped into 29 pieces and exploded throughout the gallery to create sculpture, furniture, and architectural elements - is the centerpiece of an installation that calls attention to systems of global production and transportation and proposes the... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Fine Line 20 Oct - 22 Nov 2023 Emil Lukas' wall-hanging sculptures reimagine painting both materially and structurally. In his Thread Paintings, Lukas constructs shallow wooden trays or parabolic plaster bowls across which he stretches tens of thousands of colored filaments. The accumulation of delicate fiber lines creates complex color fields that shimmer and glow, changing radically with... Read more -
Bruce Conner + Jess
The Virtue of Uncertainty 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Reception: Saturday September 9, 3-5pm, with a curatorial tour at 3pm Two of the most original and broad-ranging 20th century American artists — Bruce Conner (1933-2008) and Jess (1923-2004) — are brought together in a presentation of more than 60 artworks to call attention to common, repeating motifs and intentions... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Unfinished Tales 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Reception: Saturday September 9, 3-5pm Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today – the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter. In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
The Shape of Us 8 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Opening reception: Saturday 8 July, 3-5 pm For more than a quarter of a century, Lordy Rodriguez has utilized an ever-developing visual language inspired by map-making to generate drawings that direct our attention to complex social and cultural issues. From code-switching, to the disenfranchisement inherent in gerrymandered congressional districts, to... Read more -
Russell Crotty
An Astronomy of Dreams 8 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 8 July, 3-5pm Russell Crotty is renowned for his intricate representations of night skies, made on spheres which hang suspended in space. In his sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, he adds quintessentially Western, extremely exaggerated horizontal landscapes beneath stellar expanses. With these drawings,... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
Amulets 25 May - 30 Jun 2023 Opening reception: Thursday 25 May, 5-7pm In her newest body of work, Julie W. Chang wields a dictionary of talismans to investigate and celebrate the power of cultural symbols to shape and transform our lives. In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, Chang began reconsidering how traditional amulets operate as... Read more -
Bernard Lokai
24.2.22 25 May - 30 Jun 2023 Opening reception: Thursday 25 May, 5-7pm When German painter Bernard Lokai saw images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he was immediately transported to memories of his family’s escape from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. He responded with a series of abstract, deeply felt paintings that explore... Read more -
OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism
11 Apr - 20 May 2023 This sprawling group exhibition traces the use of the form of the grid in contemporary art, beginning with some of its most illustrious mid-20th century proponents. From there, it examines conceptual uses of the grid from the 1970s and 80s and utilizes that history to establish a vantage point from... Read more -
Max Gimblett
The Beginning of Time 11 Feb - 1 Apr 2023 Opening reception: Saturday February 11, 3-5 pm In the spirit of impermanence — one of the core precepts of Buddhism—artworks in this solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett will rotate in and out of the galleries throughout the run of the exhibition. Viewers,... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
A tangled path sustains us 10 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday December 10, 3-5 pm Artist talk and walkthrough @ 3 pm Simultaneously captivating and discomforting, Patricia Piccinini’s sculptures, films, and environments confront viewers with possible ecological and genetic consequences of the way we live. In her third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, the Australian... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Golden Thread 22 Oct - 23 Nov 2022 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday October 22, 3-5 pm German painter Jutta Haeckel’s subversive artworks invert the act and purpose of painting—both materially and subjectively. Beginning with jute as her substrate—much thicker and rougher than standard canvas—she frays it by removing some of the threads. This opens the weave... Read more -
Marco Maggi
Tiny Tyrannies 6 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 For more than two decades, the Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi — known for his virtuoso drawings and conceptually driven installations — has considered, then elegantly answered, the question of how to take drawing from two into three dimensions. Using his abstracted lexicon, he has drawn in relief on aluminum foil,... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Yonder 25 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 In his fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Los Angeles-based Andrew Schoultz deploys a battery of both familiar and new motifs to depict the ambiguity and turmoil of our contemporary reality. Intertwining his pictographic vocabulary with densely-packed, meticulously-rendered patterns, and using bright, often fluorescent hues, he creates shimmering, optically vibrating... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Wandering 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 For nearly three decades, Jim Campbell has designed and built custom electronics, hijacking tech developed for information transfer and storage and repurposing it to make artworks that explore the limits of human perception. The pieces in this show of new work should, in theory, defy comprehension. They are either so... Read more -
Gerhard Mayer
Analog Analogy 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 German artist Gerhard Mayer's ink drawings — hand-drawn though they appear they could only be computer generated — follow seven rules: 1. Every sheet of paper is 34.3 x 43.4 cm. 2. Each drawing is made with one ellipse. 3. The ellipse must always lie in the horizontal. 4. No... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
Enacting Arcadia 26 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Birgit Jensen is interested in the connection between artifice and truth and the role of mediation in our pursuit of perfection. In service of that exploration, she's created a group of atmospheric landscape paintings, carefully constructed to suggest they might be photographic. The depictions refer to Insel Hombroich, a 52-acre... Read more -
Judith Belzer
Where We Stand 26 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 In her debut exhibition at the gallery, Judith Belzer presents her newest series of paintings developed over the past 3 years. The unusual protagonists in this body of work are rocks, ranging in size from diminutive to massive and hovering in precarious relationship to each other, to the ambiguous spaces... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
In the Last Light 25 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Cornelius Völker explores the thorny relationships we humans have with nature and time in a series of paintings that, while rooted in conventions of historical European painting, are eminently contemporary. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of heroically-scaled works of luxuriant foliage. Theatrically illuminated, the vegetation emerges out... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
Red Boys and Green Girls 27 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 Opening Reception: January 27, 5-7 pm Space is limited, RSVP with the link below The paintings in Gideon Rubin’s seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflect the zeitgeist of our COVID-defined world. Solitary figures, frequently turned away from the viewer, stand immobilized or move dreamily in blurry, indefinite spaces.... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Datum 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll collaborate to create bewildering paintings devised of layers of carefully misaligned, concentric circles which generate optical effects. The resulting moiré — the fusion of two or more patterns which create another, much more complex pattern — echoes... Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Color Study 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s newest body of work marks an abrupt shift from a minimal palette of black, white and gray to an exuberant burst of color. Consistent with prior work, Fein restricts herself to watercolor applied to paper in the... Read more -
Where We Are
23 Oct - 24 Nov 2021 In a group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of the year 2021. What defines the spirit or mood of this particular point in time? The function of art —... Read more -
William T. Wiley
MONUMENTAL 7 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Enormous paintings comprise the heart of an exhibition honoring the colossus William T. Wiley, who died on April 25, 2021 at age 83. An audacious visionary, Wiley was an oracle, combining imagery, symbols, and wordplay to articulate social and environmental angst. For nearly sixty years, Wiley (who was referred to... Read more -
Alan Rath
19 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 In formally elegant yet winsome sculptures — almost every component of which he designed, machined, and programed himself — Alan Rath explored the relationship between technology and the human body and behavior. In this exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery surveys the 35-year oeuvre of the sculptor and electronic art pioneer, who died... Read more -
Isabella Kirkland
THE SMALL MATTER 1 May - 12 Jun 2021 Self-taught in the meticulous and time-consuming techniques developed by 17th century Dutch painters, Isabella Kirkland directs her technical proficiency and rarefied access to biological specimen collections and scientific experts towards illuminating the ecological instability inherent in the Anthropocene — and more specifically, the acute threat to Earth’s smallest creatures. In... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
The Awakening 1 May - 12 Jul 2021 Patricia Piccinini creates some of the most surprising, provocative and pertinent artworks of our time. Famous for her life-like, chimeric creatures, anthropomorphic sculptures made of fiberglass and extraordinarily elaborate auto body paint jobs, and sculptural hot air balloons, Piccinini raises questions about how we define “human” and how we resolve... Read more -
Liliana Porter
The Riddle / Charada 13 Mar - 24 Apr 2021 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the world premiere of the most recent video by Liliana Porter, The Riddle/Charada, featuring an idiosyncratic cast of characters culled from her ever-evolving collection of toys and figurines that she finds in flea markets, antique stores, and souvenir shops. The narrative is constructed from... Read more -
Ben McLaughlin
Ex Libris 13 Mar - 24 Apr 2021 The tiny and evocative oil-on-panel paintings in Ben McLaughlin's third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery were mostly made in 2019 and 2020, and they mark a time of global uncertainty, tension and precariousness. Yet the London-based painter’s intimate, often dream-like tableaus are a reflection of the slower, more interior-focused lives... Read more -
ASSEMBLED
Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood 23 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Hosfelt Gallery is thrilled to present its first exhibition in collaboration with the Conner Family Trust - a show which mines 60 years of work by Bruce Conner and Jean Conner (as well as by Anonymous, Anonymouse, Emily Feather and Signed in Blood), across the genres of drawing, collage, assemblage and painting... Read more -
Emil Lukas
All Connected, Like It or Not 5 Dec 2020 - 16 Jan 2021 Confounding and exquisitely strange, the objects that Emil Lukas develops out of his alchemical studio practice are meditations on the workings of the universe. Lukas interweaves the organic and mineral, micro and macro, ordinary and sublime, natural and technical, scientific and mystical in tinker-y processes that are ultimately transcendent. Lukas’s... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
Polar Democracy 17 Oct - 25 Nov 2020 Twenty-four years ago, Lordy Rodriguez (b. 1976, Quezon City, Philippines) started using a visual lexicon of map-based forms as metaphors for defining an individual's position within a culture or society. For his sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Rodriguez utilizes this ever-developing, cartography-inspired vocabulary to ruminate on issues about the... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Revisited Spaces 17 Oct - 25 Nov 2020 After having trained as an architect, Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi (b. 1959, Casablanca, Morocco) immigrated from post-colonial North Africa to study painting at the renowned Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. Influenced by his lived experience as an émigré he has developed a unique visual vocabulary – a synthesis of structural design... Read more -
Max Gimblett
juggernaut 8 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of work by the esteemed painter, calligrapher, and Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett. Gimblett's paintings are a harmonious, postmodern synthesis of American and Japanese art. Often working on shaped panels or canvases—tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil—he marries Abstract Expressionism, Modernism and Spiritual Abstraction with mysticism and traditions of Asian calligraphy. Gimblett's paintings are defined by masterful brushwork combined with an eccentric and sophisticated color sense, and finished with sensuously glossy surfaces. Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Tantric Drip Drawings 17 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 The word tantra, Sanskrit for 'loom' or 'weave,' is a metaphor for Hindu and Buddhist spiritual practices that bring together rituals, texts and teachings to guide understanding of the universe and a person's place within it. To create this group of large-scale drawings, Tim Hawkinson constructed an apparatus that functions... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Mother Nature, Father Time 1 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 Uncannily prescient, LA-based Andrew Schoultz’s new exhibition of paintings and sculptural installations looks at mortality—personal, societal, cultural, environmental—with an eye to taking responsibility, and glimmerings of hope. Schoultz’s stylized, symbolic lexicon includes archaic military machines, volcanic eruptions, Greek vases, mythical creatures and iconography from the Great Seal of the United... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
True Colors 1 Feb - 21 Mar 2020 Stefan Kürten’s paintings explore the complexities of our universal yearning for the ideal place to call home. His source material includes appropriated images from architecture and design magazines as well as photographs he has taken during his global travels. These become starting points for carefully constructed scenes whose idyllic environments... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Closer to Nothing 14 Dec 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 With light as his primary medium, Jim Campbell probes the liminal boundaries of perception. Utilizing devices and techniques he has developed over the last nineteen years, his newest body of work exploits extreme data deficiency as a means of engaging primal pathways of comprehension. Each piece, effectively incomplete without viewer... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Double Nature 19 Oct - 22 Nov 2019 Düsseldorf-based Jutta Haeckel may be the most original painter of her generation. Her recent paintings on jute—the strong, coarse, natural fiber that burlap is made of—utilize a series of unorthodox techniques to undermine the physical and conceptual precepts of painting. Read more -
Reed Danziger
To Sweep the Horizon 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Reed Danziger thinks of herself as a researcher, documenting the scene of a disruption in an imagined time and space. Her artworks take the form of large-scale paintings on paper, in which she develops a vocabulary of mark making using watercolor, ink and graphite to record moments of flux. In... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
Blemish 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo show of new mixed media paintings on paper by Kolkata-born, New York-based Rina Banerjee, as an ancillary exhibition to her touring mid-career survey, currently on view at the San Jose Museum of Art. Banerjee’s sensuous and otherworldly paintings reflect both her transnational background and her... Read more -
BETWEEN THEM
An Installation Composed of Drawings 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, from European Old Masters to work made utilizing technology, from South American geometric abstraction to photo-realism, drawing directly on the wall, drawing... Read more -
Bernard Lokai
Painting 11 May - 3 Jul 2019 In two distinct bodies of work, German painter Bernard Lokai explores the seemingly infinite possibilities of paint applied to canvas. The first body of work, which he calls Landscape Blocks, is comprised of grids of 12 x 16 inch panels in which he both refers to and disrupts the history... Read more -
William T. Wiley
SCULPTURE, EYES WEAR TUG ODD 23 Mar - 4 May 2019 William T. Wiley is one of the most influential American artists to come out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflects the importance of what is perhaps the least known aspect of his output—sculpture—through a range of works spanning the last six decades.... Read more -
Russell Crotty
Bordering the Habitable Zone 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 Internationally recognized for his innovative drawing practice, Russell Crotty presents a new body of work that combines his fascination with space exploration and concerns about environmental degradation from the viewpoint of an accomplished amateur astronomer, passionate surfer and native Californian. The central motif of this exhibition is imagined planetary landers—representing... Read more -
Michael Light
Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 In his eighth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Michael Light presents a new body of work from his ongoing aerial photographic survey of the arid American West. Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas ventures into deep time, moving from habited, placed settlements into pure space and its attendant emptiness. The resulting... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
Inter-natural 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 In her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Patricia Piccinini presents an immersive installation of hyper-realistic sculptures probing the increasingly permeable boundaries of humanness. For more than two decades, Piccinini has explored the potentialities—both liberating and threatening—inherent in our advancing capabilities in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Her meticulously-crafted sculptures... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
Principles of Arrangement 13 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 With his distinctive and sensuous method of handling paint — simultaneously fluid and precise — Düsseldorf-based artist Cornelius Völker reinvigorates the traditional genre of the still life painting in a surprising and contemporary investigation of the history of art and the nature of humanity. The subjects of the paintings in... Read more -
Marco Maggi
SUPRA muro 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2018 Known for his virtuoso drawings, Marco Maggi presents a new body of surprising and beguiling sculpture for his eighth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. SUPRA muro consists primarily of works made of the tiniest hand-cut paper shapes that cluster, fold, curl, stack and bend, encrusting all sorts of surfaces, including the... Read more -
Frankenstein’s Birthday Party
23 Jun - 11 Aug 2018 2018 is the bicentennial of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Why does a 200-year-old ghost story continue to feel so relevant? It’s important to remember that the Frankenstein of Hollywood and pop culture – Boris Karloff, The Munsters or Rocky Horror Picture Show – is quite... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Twin Orbit 5 May - 16 Jun 2018 Emil Lukas’ exquisitely strange and phenomenological objects are meditations on the way we perceive the world. “We’re affected by lots of things that are larger than us — things we don’t normally know how to see — for example the laws of physics,” says Lukas. “I’m attempting to make the... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
The Kaiser's Daughter 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Most of the paintings in Gideon Rubin’s sixth solo exhibition with Hosfelt Gallery were selected from work made for an exhibition at the Freud Museum in London. As source material, Rubin — an Israeli living in London whose work always refers to found images — mined photographs illustrating a serialized... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
structural color 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 In Anoka Faruqee’s sixth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she collaborates with her partner David Driscoll to present new paintings from their Circleseries. These works exploit the optical complexity of interference created through the layering of misaligned patterns — turning what is considered a corruption in digital imagery into a source... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
What a Perfect Combination 27 Jan - 10 Mar 2018 In her first solo exhibition in the United States, German artist Birgit Jensen looks to the history of the landscape in painting to examine the role of artifice in our never-ending pursuit of perfection. Made without a brush, Jensen’s paintings are meticulously and labor-intensively constructed to look as if they... Read more -
Angelina Pwerle
27 Jan - 10 Mar 2018 Angelina Pwerle’s subtly shifting, abstract paintings come out of a history of Aboriginal art-making that is thousands of years old. Yet audiences of contemporary art will find reference points in the spatial complexity of Jackson Pollock, optical intensity of Bridget Riley, technical elegance of Vija Celmins or meditative process of... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Illuminated Opposition 16 Dec 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Andrew Schoultz brings his signature street-savvy style to a new body of work that questions the meaning and function of public space and the nature of political discourse. With an emphasis on the formal vocabulary of abstraction, Schoultz exposes the ways in which meaning is manipulated and perception skewed as... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Millefleurs 21 Oct - 2 Dec 2017 Stefan Kürten likes to say that every weekend of his childhood was spent accompanying his parents and their realtor in their search for the “perfect home.” In his eighth solo exhibition, marking the 20th anniversary of working with Hosfelt Gallery, Kürten explores the deep and universal yearning to find that... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Far Away Up Close 7 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Through constantly-evolving and continually innovative iterations, Jim Campbell parses one of the most fundamental questions regarding the human mind: what enables us to interpret and understand the world around us? The 15 new works in this exhibition should, in theory, defy comprehension. They are either so low resolution (too little... Read more -
Mirror Mirror
8 Jul - 12 Aug 2017 The first mirror — likely a pool of still water — allowed humans to see themselves as others did. Later came polished surfaces — copper, bronze, silver, pyrite, even stone — though the quality of the image was so very low that Paul, in Corinthians 13:12, used it as a... Read more -
Garage Inventors
6 May - 1 Jul 2017 This exhibition features artists who exemplify the ethos of Silicon Valley in the form of the genius “garage” inventor. Many of these artists have deep roots in the Bay Area, as well as a streak of “mad scientist” that they harness to make works of brilliant technical, conceptual and aesthetic... Read more -
Marco Maggi
Global Myopia (Language in Residence) 11 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Marco Maggi’s first video installation. The two-channel, 30-minute video installation draws its content from Maggi’s 2015 Venice Biennale exhibition in the Uruguay pavilion. Maggi’s video venerates and satirizes the complexities and paradoxes of the experience of contemporary art from... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Future Echo 11 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Düsseldorf-based painter Jutta Haeckel has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded arena of contemporary art — she has developed a style of painting that is unique. In her fifth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she uses her technical breakthrough to express the uncertainty of our time. Haeckel creates multiple viewpoints... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
Human Likeness 28 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 Kolkata-born and New York-based, Rina Banerjee fills the entire gallery with her fantastical, immoderate sculptures and delicately swirling paintings in an exhibition that seeks to describe the human experience in an era of unprecedented migration and interconnectedness. Banerjee’s sculptures are shamanistic assemblages of textiles, feathers, sparkling glass and tinkling bells.... Read more -
Crystal Liu
weighing it out 10 Dec 2016 - 21 Jan 2017 Crystal Liu constructs landscapes that are metaphors for her emotional states. In large-scale paintings on paper that incorporate her adaptation of the technique of marbleized paper along with watercolor and metallic pigments, the fundamental elements of earth and sky enact narratives of conflict, entrapment, longing, and precarious hope. There are... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
New Work 10 Dec 2016 - 21 Jan 2017 Drawing from sources as diverse as African mudcloth, Japanese shibori, and Native American basket weavings, Julie Chang investigates how identities are constructed, engaging patterns to explore the personal and political forces that shape and misshape our lives. Chang will create a work directly on the walls and floor of the... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Actualidades / Breaking News 15 Oct - 23 Nov 2016 Argentinian artist Liliana Porter is a master at distilling life and art to simple profundities through humorous juxtapositions of incongruous objects. For her first exhibition at the gallery in four years, Porter premieres a new video,Actualidades/Breaking News. In addition to the video, the exhibition showcases a full range of new... Read more -
20th Anniversary Exhibition
Banerjee, Campbell, Crotty, DeFeo, Hawkinson, Higgins, Kürten, Lukas, Maggi, O'Reilly, Ouadahi, Piccinini, Porter, Pwerle, Rath, Rodriguez, Schoultz, Wiley, Basquiat, Cave, Hansen, Ruscha, Sikander, and Wilke. 9 Sep - 8 Oct 2016 Hosfelt Gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary with an exhibition exploring what makes an artwork significant and lasting, and the qualities that distinguish the most innovative artists of our era. This carefully curated selection of artists and works has been chosen to reflect the gallery’s distinct philosophical and aesthetic approach as... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Breach in the Silence 16 Jul - 20 Aug 2016 Algerian painter Driss Ouadahi studied architecture before immigrating to Germany, where he continues to live and work. Utilizing a vocabulary of architectural motifs, Ouadahi makes large-scale paintings that borrow from the history of modernist grid painting and traditional Islamic aesthetics, while tackling the difficult and timely topic of human migration.... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep 14 May - 9 Jul 2016 Since she burst into international prominence at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Patricia Piccinini has become famous for creating some of the most troubling and provocative artworks of our time. With silicone, fiberglass, resin, human hair and animal fur, she imagines creatures that are eerie in their verisimilitude to flesh, but... Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Garden Variety 26 Mar - 7 May 2016 Tim Hawkinson returns to his native San Francisco for his first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery and the first in the Bay Area since his survey exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 1997. Hawkinson is a master at conjuring both organic and inorganic materials into extraordinary objects... Read more -
Particle and Wave
Campbell, DeFeo, Hawkinson, Lukas, Maggi, Conner, Derges, Donovan, Ehm, Fuss, Klotz, Marioni, McCaw, Outlaw, Tomasello 6 Feb - 19 Mar 2016 “Particle and Wave” is a group exhibition of sculpture, photography and technological media in which artists explore the properties of light. Reflection, refraction and color theory are used as tools to examine human perception and to consider science and philosophy’s attempts to explain the universe. For centuries, scientists have debated... Read more -
William T. Wiley
& So… May Cuss Grate Again? 11 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 William T. Wiley’s second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery sheds light on two important and under-examined aspects of Wiley’s oeuvre—his use of black and white and his interest in abstraction. In this show, large-scale paintings made between 2010 and 2015 are paired with a selection of watercolors to reveal references... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
17 Oct - 5 Dec 2015 In his first solo exhibition on the West Coast, German artist Cornelius Völker, painting with extraordinary prowess and sensuality as well as uncanny awareness and insight, chooses traditional genres — the still life and portrait — to explore and decode the history of representational painting. Frequently choosing subject matter that... Read more -
Jay DeFeo
ALTER EGO 12 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 alter ego: Latin, “the other I.” The sub-conscious. In literary analysis, used to describe characters that are psychologically similar, or a fictional character that stands in or speaks for the author. An exhibition of 55 paintings, photographs, collages and drawings – 46 of which have never been exhibited before –... Read more -
Luka Fineisen
Luka Fineisen: Smoke and Mirrors 7 Jul - 8 Aug 2015 In her first solo exhibition on the West Coast, German sculptor Luka Fineisen uses fog, helium, coffee, viscous liquids, fans, mirrors, glitter, various plastics and sugar to explore sensuality, beauty, decadence and truth. Fineisen is unafraid of delighting, with her sparkly surfaces, magical special effects, voluptuous media and sugary treats.... Read more -
Bernard Lokai
Painting 16 May 2015 - 20 Jun 2016 In his first solo exhibition in the United States, German painter Bernard Lokai presents two bodies of work – multi-paneled grids he terms “Landscape Blocks” and singular bold abstractions. Lokai uses the historical vernacular of painting – including the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism and the spray paint of graffiti... Read more -
Crystal Liu
i always meant to love you 16 May - 20 Jun 2015 In her seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Crystal Liu presents five new series of works on paper. Using a limited palate of black, blue and gold, Liu weaves poignantly distilled narratives of life’s emotional landscape in a delicate balance between optimism and melancholy. The protagonists in Liu’s tales are... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Ringing of Distant Events 21 Mar - 9 May 2015 In Ringing of Distant Events, Emil Lukas presents four disparate types of work whose unconventional media and quirky techniques are completely dissimilar. Yet they are unified by an experimental approach driven by an insatiable curiosity about the behavior of materials, both living and inanimate. Lukas’ most eccentric process in the... Read more -
Surabhi Saraf
Fold 31 Jan - 14 Mar 2015 New media/performance artist and composer Surabhi Saraf presents her mesmerizing video FOLD, which, like all of her work, is rooted in her training in Indian classical music and dance. FOLD is a wall-sized projection divided into a grid of 96 frames. In the beginning, the moving image in each of... Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Vantage 31 Jan - 14 Mar 2015 Nicole Phungrasamee Fein presents new watercolors on paper, including a new circular Tondi series, in her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. The San Francisco-based artist has become known for creating beguiling works of deceptively minimal simplicity, using a basic technique of brushing lines of lightly pigmented watercolor in free-hand... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Eternal Return 31 Jan - 14 Mar 2015 Inside of what Romanticism wants there already lies the seed of its failure, for at the end of the longing, the search for insight, stands the darkness of mystery. –Reinhard Lindenhahn Düsseldorf-based painter Jutta Haeckel’s twenty new paintings are studies in dichotomy and ambiguity. They are representational yet abstract, both... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Blown to Bits 13 Dec 2014 - 24 Jan 2015 Andrew Schoultz’s first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery transforms 7,000 square feet of gallery space with an installation of sculpture, paintings and works on paper that charts a new trajectory in his work. Schoultz has built an international reputation for his monumental outdoor murals and high-impact, multi-dimensional installations constructed from... Read more -
Surabhi Saraf
Remedies 25 Oct - 26 Nov 2014 Composer and new media and performance artist Surabhi Saraf draws on her background in Indian classical music and experimental sound to create a series of multi-channel video installations, the first two of which will have their world premiere at Hosfelt Gallery. Remedies is inspired by the artist’s family’s pharmaceutical factory... Read more -
Jim Campbell
New Work 6 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 Jim Campbell’s tenth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery continues his examination of the liminal space of perception, where data becomes image and light becomes material. As a unique embodiment of Campbell’s engineering and film-making backgrounds, his art is consistently at the forefront of the development of the genre of new media.... Read more -
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage
12 Jul - 16 Aug 2014 RINA BANERJEE, JAY DEFEO, TIM HAWKINSON, EMIL LUKAS, JOHN O'REILLY, PATRICIA PICCININI, LILIANA PORTER, ALAN RATH, ANDREW SCHOULTZ, WILLIAM T. WILEY, BRUCE CONNER, JEAN CONNER, JOHN ASHBERY, JOE BRAINARD, SARAH CAIN, NICK CAVE, MATHEW HALE, JESS, MATT LIP This group exhibition highlights artists whose practice involves combining disparate elements to... Read more -
Marco Maggi
West vs East 10 May - 28 Jun 2014 In his sixth solo show at Hosfelt Gallery, Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi fills more than 6,000 square feet of exhibition space with miniscule drawing and sculptures that are virtually invisible except for the shadows they cast. Glance around the exhibition and you’ll see little but vast white space. As you... Read more -
Reed Danziger
The Edge of Chaos 20 Mar - 3 May 2014 In her eighth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Reed Danziger presents new works on paper in sizes ranging from approximately 20 to 40 inches square. Working with ink, watercolor, graphite and gouache, Danziger allows the interaction of materials and the accumulation of marks to determine the development of each piece.... Read more -
Ben McLaughlin
The Night Sky 20 Mar - 3 May 2014 Ben McLaughlin’s second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery consists of approximately 60 paintings ranging in size from 2 x 1 inches to 5 x 7 feet. The title of the exhibition, “The Night Sky,” comes from an old science book that fascinated the artist as a child. In this body... Read more -
William T. Wiley
Newslate 8 Feb - 14 Mar 2014 William T. Wiley is among a handful of the most influential American artists to come out of the Bay Area. His first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery will consist of very recent paintings on canvas and watercolors on paper, contextualized with work from the past decade, as a means of... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Tilted Plane 14 Dec 2013 - 25 Jan 2014 Jim Campbell (b. 1956, Chicago) presents Tilted Plane — a room-sized installation that tests the boundary between abstraction and representation and explores the perception and interpretation of our experiences. Physically and technologically, Campbell has been investigating the concept of ‘exploding’ two-dimensional, digital imagery into three dimensions for several years. Exploded... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
On the Road 14 Dec 2013 - 30 Jan 2014 In his fifth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Gideon Rubin (b. 1973, Tel Aviv) presents a new series of paintings that question the meaning of art by testing the limits of two of the most traditional genres of painting: portraiture and landscape. In a decisive shift from his past work,... Read more -
Angelina Pwerle
Bush Plum Dreaming 19 Oct - 7 Dec 2013 This is the first U.S. exhibition of Angelina Pwerle’s subtly optical, abstract paintings. Coming out of a history of Aboriginal art-making – painting on bark, stone or the human body – that is thousands of years old, Pwerle’s paintings are completely her own, transcending tradition, cultural specificity and ethnographic pigeonholes.... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Substance and Accident 19 Oct - 7 Dec 2013 Hosfelt Gallery presents the West Coast debut of Anoka Faruqee’s newest body of work: the moire paintings. While the surfaces of these paintings appear refined and even digitally produced, closer inspection dispels that illusion, revealing the physicality both of the artistic process and of the paint itself. Faruqee’s moire paintings... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Stefan Kürten 3 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 In his sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Dusseldorf-based painter Stefan Kurten fills the entire gallery with new paintings on linen or paper depicting the environments we create in our tenacious attempt to make our lives perfect. Chic mid-century homes, picturesque bungalows, meticulously manicured landscapes and resort architecture evidence the... Read more -
Christian Houge
Shadow Within (2010-2013) 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2013 For the work in his second solo exhibition in San Francisco, Norwegian photographer Christian Houge spent months living with a pack of wolves – gaining their trust and taking remarkably intimate and revealing portraits. The gorgeously printed, large-scale color and black and white images elicit a visceral response – the... Read more -
Call of the Wild
Hawkinson, Jensen, Light, Piccinini, Rath, Beuys, Ruscha, Smith, Wietz 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2013 A companion exhibition to Christian Houge’s photographs, the group show Call of the Wild features work that reflects our primal, tenacious urge to explore the remote corners of the world, and the simultaneous drives to conquer and embrace nature. Artists include Joseph Beuys, Tim Hawkinson, Birgit Jensen, Michael Light, Patricia... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
Code Switch 28 May - 13 Jul 2013 In his fifth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Lordy Rodriguez presents new works on paper that utilize the map as a framework in which to experiment with unorthodox combinations of familiar visual languages from a variety of sources, including advertising, reality TV, fashion, gift-wrapping, and signature images associated with celebrity... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
Tender Mahal – Lifted 28 May - 13 Jul 2013 For her first project at Hosfelt Gallery, Rina Banerjee brings together a monumental, pink, Mughal-inspired sculpture and a group of her delicate and sensuous paintings on paper, in a paean to the potential of 21st century love. Banerjee, who was born in Kolkata, India and lives in New York, works... Read more -
Alan Rath
Irrational Exuberance 30 Mar - 18 May 2013 In his first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, sculptor and electronic art pioneer Alan Rath premiers a new body of work that challenges the distinction between animal and machine by utilizing feathers to transform aluminum and fiberglass into charismatic ‘beings.’ While robotics have been part of Rath’s vocabulary since the... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Trans-Location 2 Feb - 23 Mar 2013 trans- prefix 1. across: beyond: on the other side of 2. through Hosfelt Gallery will present 17 new paintings by Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi in his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Ouadahi has developed a unique visual vocabulary – a synthesis of structural design and modernist grid painting –... Read more -
Michael Light
Private Frontiers 15 Dec 2012 - 26 Jan 2013 Private Frontiers features the work of Brooklyn-based painter Chris Ballantyne and San Francisco-based photographer Michael Light in a collaboratively-conceived exhibition. Having addressed similar themes in their work for some years, both artists have been in dialogue for the past year to develop work that examines the human urge to stake... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Screen Obscura 13 Oct - 8 Dec 2012 Using LEDs and custom electronics, Jim Campbell constructs works that flirt with the limits of perception. In this exhibition, Campbell presents two permutations of his Home Movies series, whose source material comes from found footage of old home movies. In addition to the perceptual challenge of low-resolution imagery typical of... Read more -
Jay DeFeo
Mechanics 13 Oct - 8 Dec 2012 Coinciding with the sweeping retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition aims to illuminate a new understanding of Jay DeFeo’s oeuvre through a focused examination of her exploration of the relationship between the mechanical, the animal and the transcendent. Twenty-five works from the 1970s – paintings... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts 5 Oct - 29 Dec 2012 Hosfelt Gallery, New York Anoka Faruqee’s mastery of color, experimentation in pattern, and relentless study of the optic converge in an exhibition of extraordinary paintings rich with dichotomy. One body of work, unlike anything she has exhibited before, riffs on the moire patterns that develop accidentally through digital processes. At... Read more -
Look Both Ways
Banerjee, Campbell, Crotty, Danziger, DeFeo, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Hawkinson, Lukas, Maggi, O'Reilly, Ouadahi, Porter, Pwerle, Rath 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2012 Hosfelt Gallery will inaugurate its new San Francisco venue with the group exhibition, Look Both Ways, opening at 260 Utah Street (at 16th Street) on September 8, 2012. Both a culmination of the gallery’s 15th anniversary and a preview of programming in our new 8,900 square foot San Francisco space,... Read more -
SEMI-PERMEABLE
Julie W. Chang, Jay DeFeo, Jutta Haeckel, Tim Hawkinson, Stefan Kürten, Crystal Liu, Emil Lukas, John O'Reilly, Driss Ouadahi, Janine Antoni, Luka Fineisen, Baseera Khan, Byron Kim, Naomie Kremer, Shahzia Sikander 28 Jun - 17 Aug 2012 Hosfelt Gallery, New York Hosfelt Gallery’s summer group exhibition addresses the porous nature of identity and reality. Every living organism is encased by a semi-permeable boundary. This delicate, thin layer between self and other is what essentially enables us to believe that we are unique and separate beings. Psychologically, this... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
Chinese. Japanese. Indian Chief. 12 Apr - 16 Jun 2012 Hosfelt Gallery, New York The title of Julie Chang’s exhibition, Chinese. Japanese. Indian Chief, refers to a children’s game she remembers playing with her friends in elementary school. Chang’s newest body of work, comprised of 84 hyper-colorful paintings on panel ranging from 12 x 12 to 24 x 96 inches,... Read more -
Ruth Marten
Strange Bedfellows 12 Apr - 16 Jun 2012 Read more -
Luka Fineisen
Phase Transitions 2 Feb - 31 Mar 2012 Hosfelt Gallery, New York Using frost, foam, food, glitter, viscous liquids and molten metal, German artist Luka Fineisen presents ambitious sculptural works that explore moments of becoming. This exhibition is the premiere of Fineisen’s work in the United States. “Phase transitions” is the term used in thermodynamics to describe the... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Recent Work 9 Nov 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 Hosfelt Gallery, New York In one monumental 5×20 foot painting, one calamitous installation and a dozen incongruous photographic works, Liliana Porter’s exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery explores with dark humor the nature of catastrophe and other frightening events. Drawing from a large and eccentric collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Out of Alignment 20 Sep - 29 Oct 2011 New York Gallery Dusseldorf-based painter Jutta Haeckel has developed a style of painting that is unique. In her second solo exhibition in New York, Hosfelt Gallery presents twelve new paintings – nine large-scale paintings on paper and three even larger on linen – in which she uses her signature technique... Read more -
Jonathan Brand
Jonathan Brand 20 Sep - 29 Oct 2011 New York Gallery A full-scale 1969 Ford Mustang — made of paper — is the centerpiece of Jonathan Brand’s second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, New York. In One Piece At A Time, Brand reproduces the car in its entirety, right down to the nuts and bolts, displaying it as... Read more -
Jay DeFeo
DEFEO 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2011 In the first West Coast exhibition of Jay DeFeo ‘s art in fifteen years, Hosfelt Gallery presents a focused investigation of some of the formal and metaphoric themes that run through various bodies of work made in the two decades between the completion of her legendary painting The Rose and... Read more -
TIME FLIES
Jim Campbell, Julie W Chang, Anoka Faruqee, Andrea Higgins, Stefan Kürten, Michael Light, Crystal Liu, Marco Maggi, John O'Reilly, Liliana Porter, Gideon Rubin, John Andrews, Nelleke Beltjens, Jonathan Brand, Anthony Discenza, Alfredo Jar 9 Jul - 13 Aug 2011 Celebrating the artists and exhibitions of the past 12 years at our San Francisco location, Time Flies explores permutations of the experience of time, including memory and nostalgia; disruptions and inconsistencies in our perception of time; alternate means of measuring and recording time; and time as an integral component to... Read more -
Ruth Marten
New Work 23 Jun - 5 Aug 2011 New Yok Gallery Read more -
Christopher Adams
Natural Selection 23 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 New York Gallery Boston-based Christopher Adams presents more than 700 unique wall-mounted ceramic objects in his first exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. Lush and phantasmagorical, these exquisitely crafted specimens showcase the exuberant freedom of a self-taught artist. Adams’ art plays on the concept in biological speciation called “adaptive radiation,” in which... Read more -
Jeremy Stenger
New Work 23 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 New York Gallery Jeremy Stenger’s second one-person exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery features new paintings that expand Stenger’s rich world of pattern, color and surface. Stenger draws reference from antique textiles, cloisonné and complex glazes on porcelain, but he can also be influenced by something as common as the pattern on... Read more -
Rachell Sumpter
Cornucopia 23 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 New York Gallery In her first solo exhibition in New York, West Coast painter Rachell Sumpter exhibits a group of gouache and pastel works on paper with narratives that exist somewhere between documentation and myth. Dwarfed by the environments they populate, her characters – sometimes masses of them – intently... Read more -
Ben McLaughlin
A List of Destinations 21 May - 1 Jul 2011 Ben McLaughlin’s anachronistic paintings are small windows into enigmatic worlds. This exhibition, representing the British artist’s West Coast debut, includes approximately 20 new paintings ranging in size from 12 x 9 inches to 16 x 24 inches. The title of the exhibition, A List of Destinations, refers to a box... Read more -
Emil Lukas
in, on, un 21 May - 1 Jul 2011 Emil Lukas’ fourth solo exhibition with Hosfelt Gallery continues to explore the primacy of process in his practice. Lukas’ work is labor-intensive and experimental. It is playful and poetic. The pieces derive from the artist’s investigations of material, action, re-action, residue and re-purpose. His techniques are organic — a series... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
Shallow Waters 5 May - 18 Jun 2011 Hosfelt Gallery, New York Israeli artist Gideon Rubin presents twenty-two new paintings and his first video animation in his second solo show in New York. This new body of work–originating from early twentieth-century found photographs–shows figures on the shoreline, capturing private moments of a family on holiday. They are intimate... Read more -
Reed Danziger
Quantum Jitters 2 Apr - 14 May 2011 In her seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Reed Danziger presents new paintings on panel, a transition from her last show of large-scale works on paper. Danziger began to develop the color palette for this most recent work while at the Ucross artist residency program in Wyoming. The forms reflect... Read more -
John O'Reilly
Montages from 2008-2011 2 Apr - 14 May 2011 In his seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, 81-year-old, Boston area artist John O’Reilly moves away from the black and white work that he has been making for the past 40 years – to work in color. Bits of color photographs taken by O’Reilly are combined with imagery from art... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
The Map Is Not the Territory 25 Mar - 30 Apr 2011 New York Gallery In “The Map Is Not the Territory,” Filipino-American artist Lordy Rodriguez presents three bodies of new work, comprised of more than 400 drawings. This, his fourth exhibition with Hosfelt Gallery and his first one-person show in Hosfelt Gallery’s New York space, is the most ambitious exhibition of... Read more -
Crystal Liu
what sparkles… 12 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 With sparse sophistication, Crystal Liu transforms elements of nature into a lexicon of characters that enact imaginative narratives with ominous undertones. Liu’s inventive use of glitter animates her work with an unexpected counterpoint to the turmoil depicted. In the series “what sparkles,” a snake in love with a garden sets... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
Silk Road STYLE, Orange County Chic! 12 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 Inspired by her 2010 residency at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Julie Chang presents a series of paintings made by layering repeating patterns. With a lexicon pulled from traditional Central Asian tribal sources as well as contemporary signifiers of place, social class and personal history, she explores the West’s fixation... Read more -
Jim Campbell
4 Works 4 Feb - 19 Mar 2011 New York Gallery Hosfelt Gallery will exhibit four new, museum-scaled pieces by Jim Campbell. The work will utilize custom L.E.D. technology — for which the M.I.T. educated artist is renowned — in new configurations as he continues his exploration of the limits of human understanding. This is Campbell’s ninth solo... Read more -
EINFLUSS: 8 from Düsseldorf
Haeckel, Jensen, Kürten, Lokai, Ouadahi, Völker, Ettlinger, Fineisen 18 Dec 2010 - 5 Feb 2011 Introducing the Next Wave from Germany Part 2: San Francisco Panel discussion moderated by Laura Janku: Saturday 18 December, 2:30 pm Düsseldorf is the center of European art making because of its Kunstakademie — the most influential training ground for artists in the world. This autumn, Hosfelt Gallery will introduce... Read more -
EINFLUSS: 8 from Düsseldorf
Haeckel, Jensen, Kürten, Lokai, Ouadahi, Völker, Ettlinger, Fineisen 19 Nov 2010 - 22 Jan 2011 Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Foci 23 Oct 2010 - 11 Dec 2011 In her third solo show at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein presents two new bodies of work: intricate variations on the shockingly-precise, free-hand watercolors for which she has become known, and flat 'sculptures' made with ink and layers of translucent paper. The paintings are accomplished by applying brushstrokes... Read more -
Brad Brown
Serials 23 Oct - 11 Dec 2010 Hosfelt Gallery will present the first Bay Area exhibition of Brad Brown’s work in six years, with a show comprised of approximately one thousand individual works on paper. This body of work is based on a combination of systematic procedure, spontaneity, theme and variation. Each piece is comprised of an... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Densité 30 Sep - 13 Nov 2010 New York Gallery Before immigrating to Europe and studying at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Algerian Driss Ouadahi studied architecture. His paintings of the ubiquitous high-rise, the legacy of Modern Architecture’s failed promise to improve the human condition, are renderings of impenetrable boundaries of steel, glass and concrete. Ouadahi’s exploration begins... Read more -
Marietta Hoferer
Drawings 7 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 German-born, New York-based Marietta Hoferer will present a selection from four recent bodies of works on paper for her first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. Hoferer makes drawings that create luminous and beguiling optical effects through the refraction of light on their surfaces. Although the drawings begin with a preconceived... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee
The Longest Day of the Year 7 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 In her third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Los Angeles-based Anoka Faruqee presents new paintings that are surprisingly freehand and subjective in nature, all the while maintaining the discipline and precision characteristic of her practice. An artist’s book, “Field Notes,” published in conjunction with the exhibition, reveals Faruqee’s remarkable painting... Read more -
Russell Crotty
Seascapes and Surf Works 26 Jun 2010 - 14 Aug 2011 California artist Russell Crotty’s ink and watercolor drawings in the form of hanging ‘globes,’ flat works on paper and books interpret his observations of natural and man-made phenomena. As his ink drawings of constellations and nighttime skies came out of his experience as an amateur astronomer, his visions of surf... Read more -
MOONLIGHTING
Arendt, Asper, Carroll, Collins, Daly, Friedman, Fridge, Graham, Horisaki-Christens, Hussey, Killoran, Maysles, Noterdaeme, Reid, Sadek, Shaw, Simonton, Smillie, Taylor, Webb 28 May - 2 Jul 2010 New York Gallery ‘Moonlighting’ generally means the second job one takes to make ends meet. In this case, the second job may be the only job. Most artists don’t make a living solely by their art practice. The job that comes with the paycheck allows the artist to do the... Read more -
Jim Campbell
New Work 7 May - 19 Jun 2010 Jim Campbell makes innovative works that have set standards for art made with technology for more than twenty years. Campbell’s media and message are inseparable. He uses technologies developed for information transfer and storage to explore human perception, memory and the ways we measure time. In signature works, pixilated representations... Read more -
WALL DRAWING
Jim Campbell, Marco Maggi, Marietta Hoferer, Wendy Hough, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Mayer 20 Mar - 24 Apr 2010 Sol LeWitt / Gerhard Mayer / Marietta Hoferer / Marco Maggi / Jim Campbell / Wendy Hough. Sol LeWitt made his first wall drawing in 1968. In doing so, he asserted that the art object he was creating could be executed on any wall and that the artwork would change... Read more -
Stephanie Metz
Amorphozoa 30 Jan - 6 Mar 2010 Somewhere on the spectrum between low-maintenance house pets and minimalist sculptures lie Stephanie Metz’s needle-felted wool pieces. Amorphozoa are animals without mouths or obvious internal organs. Shapeless. Unclassifiable. Indefinite. Metz’s work is definitely organic, tactile, sensuously attractive, formally beautiful. The process of creating them involves jabbing barbed needles hundreds of... Read more -
Chris Ballantyne
Some Songs from the Shore 30 Jan - 6 Mar 2010 With deadpan finesse, Chris Ballantyne graphically renders the landscape of parking lots, fences, jetties, housing developments and excavations. Despite and because of the simplicity of his style, the works are spatially and narratively complex and ambiguous. In his second solo exhibition in Hosfelt’s San Francisco gallery, Ballantyne explores the in-betweenness... Read more -
In Full Color
Campbell, Chang, Faruqee, Haeckel, Liu, Lukas, Ouadahi, Rodriguez, Andrews, Grubin, Houge, Kremer, Mayer, Stenger 9 Jan - 7 Mar 2010 New York Gallery John Andrews, Jim Campbell, Julie Chang, Anoka Farquee, Joan Grubin, Jutta Haeckel, Christian Houge, Naomie Kremer, Crystal Liu, Emil Lukas, Gerhard Mayer, Driss Ouadahi, Lordy Rodriguez, Jeremy Stenger Read more -
Nelleke Beltjens
Apparently 12 Dec 2009 - 23 Jan 2010 In her sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Dutch artist Nelleke Beltjens presents complex, process-based, ink drawings that raise existential questions. Beltjens begins with a small piece of paper as a tool. Placing the small paper on a large sheet of paper that will become the finished drawing, she makes... Read more -
Arngunnur Yr
Distant 12 Dec 2009 - 23 Jan 2010 Arngunnur Yr lives in California, but returns to lead hikes in the mountains of her native Iceland each summer. For several years she has painted atmospheric cloudscapes with mere hints at landmasses – more sea and sky and mood than actual place. Though dislocated, the paintings are clearly based on... Read more -
Gerhard Mayer
Organic Virtual Aseptic Lines 24 Oct - 5 Dec 2009 I find it much more interesting to show the energy flow and the relationship of an object to its surroundings than to show the object as such. German artist Gerhard Mayer’s drawings are created within the parameters of seven strict rules. Using drafting pens and an elliptical stencil, he draws... Read more -
Ruth Marten
Side-Saddle 24 Oct - 5 Dec 2009 Ruth Marten draws on antique etchings. Literally. The etchings, often of scientific subjects, are likely to be of dubious accuracy. Marten’s masterful interventions further propel the imagery toward the fantastic, though where one leaves off and the other begins is not easy to discern. Like a child’s game of “telephone,”... Read more -
Andrea Higgins
Appearance 24 Oct - 5 Dec 2009 GoFukakusa took special pains with his costume. He wore a yellow informal robe lined in green, with a design of burnet flowers worked into it, over a light violet gown bearing gentian flower crests. His light violet trousers were lined in green, and everything was carefully scented. – The Confessions... Read more -
Black and White
Campbell, Liu, Porter, Ballantyne, Battle, Beltjens, Grubin, Hoferer, Horn, Mayer, Schulz, Weisbecker 16 Oct 2009 - 2 Jan 2010 New York Gallery Including: Chris Ballantyne Laura Battle Nelleke Beltjens Jim Campbell Joan Grubin Marietta Hoferer Timothy Horn Crystal Liu Gerhard Mayer Liliana Porter Charlotte Schulz Philippe Weisbecker and others. Read more -
Crystal Liu
Give Us Our Dream: Part One 8 Sep - 17 Oct 2009 Crystal Liu’s visual vocabulary has always been composed of certain child-like themes – birds, houses, trees, mountains, sugary cakes, clouds, flowers – illustrating simple narratives while expressing metaphors for complex emotional states. In her newest body of work Liu has photographed cut flowers that she has frozen in blocks of... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
Mexican Summer 8 Sep - 17 Oct 2009 “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Gideon Rubin’s paintings are replete with dichotomy. Their subject matter, taken from a found early twentieth-century family photo album, is unapologetically nostalgic – yet the work is not saccharine. Austere and elemental, the palate is subdued,... Read more -
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was A Summer in San Francisco
Campbell, Chang, Crotty, Danziger, Light, Liu, Porter, Rodriguez, Ballantyne, Hoferer, Horn, Houge, Yr 7 Jul - 15 Aug 2009 It’s doubtful that Mark Twain actually uttered the famous line, but that makes it no less true. While the rest of the country swelters, residents of San Francisco don sweaters, and under-dressed visitors freeze to death. Consequently, “summer” here has particular and peculiar connotations. In this exhibition we present “cool”... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Matinee/Matine 7 Jul - 15 Aug 2009 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Liliana Porter’s newest video, Matinee/Matine. Drawn from an extensive collection of vintage knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs, Porter’s characters (with occasional help from a human hand) act in a succession of seemingly unrelated vignettes that together comprise a poetic vision... Read more -
New Work
Campbell, Faruqee, Lukas, Ouadahi, Porter, Horn, Stenger 1 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 New York Gallery NEW WORK: Timothy Horn, Jim Campbell, Liliana Porter, Driss Ouadahi, Anoka Faruqee, Jeremy Stenger, Emil Lukas, and others. Read more -
Marco Maggi
Cubic Drops 9 May - 27 Jun 2009 'If we have macro and global problems, we deserve micro and cubic solutions.” – Marco Maggi Marco Maggi’s intricate drawings demand time – time to make, and time to see. Working with modest materials like graphite, X-acto knives, claybord, Plexiglas, office paper, or aluminum foil, he cuts, draws or etches... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Once In A Lifetime 28 Mar - 2 May 2009 Stefan Kurten’s subject matter comes from his own photographs of the places he grew up or has traveled to: the familiar, prosaic settings of public gardens and sculptures, shopping malls, and suburban architecture. His use of gold, silver, and copper under-painting creates a warm glow that enhances the nostalgic mood... Read more -
Baseera Khan
InSearches: Hindu Kush 28 Mar - 2 May 2009 Baseera Khan makes paintings on paper, video animations and installations about, among other things, internationalism. Born and raised in a suburb of Dallas, Texas to Muslim-Indian immigrants, Khan’s experiences of India are either as a visitor or as an observer of the immigrant community in which she was raised. Her... Read more -
Michael Light
New Work 7 Feb - 21 Mar 2009 San Francisco-based Michael Light shows new work from his ongoing series of aerial photographs investigating the complex landscapes of the American West. Shot with a large-format camera from a small, self-piloted aircraft or rented helicopter, Light’s photographs capture the collision between the vast, stunning beauty of the Western topography and... Read more -
Christian Houge
Arctic Technology 7 Feb - 21 Mar 2009 There is an island located between Greenland and the North Pole called Spitsbergen or Svalbard (“the cold land”). The seclusion of the island results in its having the cleanest atmosphere in the world and being one of the best places to do astronomical, meteorological or climate research. Hence, the remote... Read more -
John Andrews
Reflections on Painting 13 Dec 2008 - 31 Jan 2009 John Andrews has always created art within the prescribed limits of the grid. He has previously worked with black wax surfaces modified by rows of penetrating dots filled with pigment, and, more recently, aluminum panels coated with layers of encaustic glazes. His new work continues his trajectory, from opacity to... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Titration 13 Dec 2008 - 31 Jan 2009 Emil Lukas’ work is driven by the visceral energy of studio practice and the vitality of the cluttered working and living environment. His new works explore the concept of “titration,” a chemical term referring to the process in which small, incremental chemical alterations are applied to a solution until they... Read more -
Liliana Porter
LILIANA PORTER 30 Oct 2008 - 7 Feb 2009 New York Gallery Liliana Porter’s work playfully subverts convention, disrupts time, and messes with reality. Using a wide range of media, Porter mixes the absurd with the philosophical, creating extraordinary situations that lure us unwittingly into the realm of her idiosyncratic cast of characters. Drawing from an eclectic collection of... Read more -
Jonathan Brand
One for Another 25 Oct - 6 Dec 2008 Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Brand’s five year rebuild of his 1969 Mustang from scrap metal to “like new” condition has provided the artist with more than just fodder for his latest show. Selling his pony car gave him the financial means to buy his fiancee her engagement ring. Dubbed “The Diamond... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Whiteout 25 Oct - 6 Dec 2008 Dusseldorf-based Jutta Haeckel has developed a style of painting that, while technically related to printmaking, is unique. Perhaps more impressively, her signature technique and the concepts she explores with it are inseparable. Haeckel’s brushstrokes do not define objects but instead describe the space between them. Essentially, she makes representational paintings... Read more -
Chris Ballantyne
Everything Means Something and Nothing is What it Seems to Be 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2008 New York Gallery A curious emptiness permeates the work of Chris Ballantyne. Banal features of suburban and industrial zones are sources for paintings that highlight the quirky and absurd. Graphically-rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color. Dysfunctional... Read more -
Naomie Kremer
Force Fields 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2008 New York Gallery California and Paris-based artist Naomie Kremer writes that her process allows her to ‘visualize and materialize’ at the same time. In this exhibition of new work, her paintings evoke representation, but remain stubbornly abstract. The viewer experiences simultaneous sensory occurrences in the manner of experiencing the natural... Read more -
VOCABULARIES OF METAPHOR: MORE STORIES
Crystal Liu, Liliana Porter, Amy Cutler, Henry Darger, Seonna Hong, Baseera Khan, Fay Ku, Ruth Marten, Rob Matthews, Charlotte Schulz, Shahzia Sikander, Sara Stites, Rachell Sumpter, Yuka Yamaguchi, Yelena Yemchuk 6 Sep - 16 Oct 2008 Vocabularies of Metaphor is an exhibition of works on paper by fifteen international artists exploring narrative through symbolic vernacular. The visual language of each artist is highly personal and lyrical. The stories, which are also original to the artists, are coded and may be interpreted in many ways. The artists’... Read more -
SUMMER READING: Artists Interpret Literature
Blackwell, Campbell, Chang, Dill, Grubin, Hicks, Higgins, O'Reilly, Rodriguez, Ramirez Jonas, Porter, Tiscornia 21 Jun - 9 Aug 2008 The emphasis of this exhibition is not on illustration, but rather a conceptual response to, or interpretations of, stories, characters and texts. Although Jim Campbell has never actually read the Bible, using the information encoded in a digital file and LED technology, he “reads” the Bible to the viewer one... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
Ox-Herding 10 May - 14 Jun 2008 In ten paintings on panel, Julie Chang interprets the early Buddhist “Ox-Herding Pictures” describing the path to enlightenment. While the first depictions can be traced to the 12th Century Chinese Zen master Kuoan Shiyuan, Chang’s translation is rooted in her experience as a first generation Chinese-American growing up in Orange... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
201 Drawings 10 May - 14 Jun 2008 In this exhibition of 201 drawings, each 10 x 14 inches, Lordy Rodriguez chronicles the visual alphabet of topography-based forms that has comprised his work of the last 15 years. The vocabulary of cartography forms the basis of Rodriguez’s work. As his drawings have evolved, the works have become more... Read more -
100 STORIES
Crystal Liu, Ruth Marten, Rachell Sumpter, Yuka Yamaguchi 11 Apr - 31 May 2008 New York Gallery Photographs and Drawings by Crystal Liu, and drawings by Ruth Marten, Rachell Sumpter & Yuka Yamaguchi. In Crystal Liu’s photographs, meditations on her domestic surroundings become metaphors for her emotional life. Ordinary objects are arranged and framed to create extraordinary places. Peeling wallpaper implies secret histories. Cracks... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Fox in the Mirror 29 Mar - 3 May 2008 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the West Coast premier of Liliana Porter’s most recent video, “Fox in the Mirror.” Porter’s work playfully subverts convention, disrupts time, and messes with reality. With enchanting incongruity, Porter mixes the absurd with the philosophical, creating extraordinary situations that lure us into the world... Read more -
Reed Danziger
Inelastic Collision 29 Mar - 3 May 2008 Reed Danziger’s works are given new expanse in this, her 6th show at Hosfelt Gallery. As her swirls of imagery take to large planes of unmounted paper, often made even bigger by being joined in diptychs and triptychs, her signature intense visual vocabulary is balanced by open, white space. Within... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee
CMY RGB XYZ 22 Feb - 5 Apr 2008 New York Gallery Anoka Faruqee’s exceptionally beautiful paintings are the product of an insistent practice of conceptual exploration. In one series of works, Faruqee has meticulously replicated paintings that have been spontaneously poured or brushed by analyzing complex color shifts and reproducing their effects through highly controlled mark making. The... Read more -
John O'Reilly
John O'Reilly 9 Feb - 22 Mar 2008 For the past 40 years, Boston area artist John O’Reilly has constructed complex and intimate photographic “montages.” Using a Polaroid camera, he re-photographs images from art history, found photographic albums and gay pornography. He cuts and pastes them with Polaroids he takes of himself, his home and his studio —... Read more -
Chris Ballantyne
When the World Was Flat 9 Feb - 22 Mar 2008 A curious emptiness permeates the work of Chris Ballantyne. Banal features of suburban and industrial zones are sources for paintings that highlight the quirky and absurd. Graphically rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color. Dysfunctional structures are... Read more -
Jeremy Stenger
Recent Paintings 4 Jan - 16 Feb 2008 New York Gallery Jeremy Stenger’s paintings evolve from the imagery and resources found in his home and studio. Layer upon layer of patterns and decorative elements are compressed and thickly painted onto each work using a multi-colored palette and varied forms. Foreground and background merge as the elements of his... Read more -
Christian Houge
Arctic Technology 4 Jan - 16 Feb 2008 New York Gallery There is an island located between Greenland and the North Pole called Spitsbergen or Svalbard (“the cold land”). The seclusion of the island results in its having the cleanest atmosphere in the world and being one of the best places to do astronomical, meteorological or climate research.... Read more -
Outside the Box
Jim Campbell, Emil Lukas, Marco Maggi, Liliana Porter, Alan Rath, Felipe Barbosa, Jonathan Brand, Rebecca Goldfarb, Paul de Guzman, Byron Kim, Gay Outlaw 15 Dec 2007 - 2 Feb 2008 So there’s this old visual puzzle of a nine dot grid (3 dots by 3 dots). You’re probably familiar with it. Or, if not, the graphic (complete with its solution) is likely attached to this release or on an announcement card nearby, depending upon where you’re reading this. But in... Read more -
Greg Rose
15 Dec 2007 - 2 Feb 2008 “Landscape” takes the form of a verb in Los Angeles artist Greg Rose’s paintings of manicured nature. Beauty that is created and cultivated, making something more ideal than it is in reality, is particularly apparent in the suburban yards and celluloid landscape of greater Los Angeles. Rose’s paintings express “natural... Read more -
Jonathan Brand
Some Day 2 Nov - 29 Dec 2007 New York Gallery Jonathan Brand’s varied artistic practice combines aspects of performance, object-making, drawing, and filmmaking. His works are the product of actions propelled by experimentation, problem solving, and discovery. Autobiographical sources are a means to contend with personal history, the notion of failure, and developing new methods of thinking... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
A Boy’s Life 2 Nov - 29 Dec 2007 New York Gallery Gideon Rubin’s paintings are simultaneously spare and rich, simple and complex. The subjects, pared down to their essence, are described with thick, luscious paint. Their pale, muted tonal range is made up of purples, oranges, crimson, blues and greens. Though the subjects are often nostalgic, the paintings... Read more -
Susan Marie Dopp
Ether 20 Oct - 8 Dec 2007 Through her paintings, Susan Marie Dopp attempts to create a state akin to that of a meditation practice in her viewers. Painted in acrylic gouache on unbleached muslin, these pieces involve geometric configurations and abstracted forms that are rooted in Islamic sacred geometry. Carefully composed in a borderless picture plane,... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Another Place, Another Me 20 Oct - 8 Dec 2007 In his first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Düsseldorf-based painter Driss Ouadahi draws upon a lifelong interest in architecture to create a language of structure and abstraction. Layers of broad brushstrokes define the geometries of glassy high-rise buildings. The rigor of the modernist grid is made sensuous through the... Read more -
Emil Lukas
One to the Other 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2007 New York Gallery Emil Lukas evidences the importance of process in labor-intensive pieces derived from the artist’s experiments in unusual combinations of objects and materials. Byproducts of his studio practice and the natural environment around his home in rural Pennsylvania become source material for and subjects of works that are... Read more -
Richard Barnes
Murmur 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2007 New York Gallery Richard Barnes’ recent photographic pursuits have centered on two distinct bodies of work, linked by their relationship to natural history. The first series represents an ongoing investigation into the ways museums classify and display information, and de- and re-contextualize objects, thereby altering their meaning and value. The... Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Materialize 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2007 Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s work is about processes of line making. Her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery is comprised of watercolor paintings on paper and three-dimensional works made of linen. Fein’s sculptures are the product of a multitude of stitched lines. Sewn seams become cubes. Row after row of cubes... Read more -
Nelleke Beltjens
Complex/Incomplete Completion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2007 Best known for her diminutive minimalist sculptures in steel or steel and concrete, Dutch artist, Nelleke Beltjens will exhibit two groups of drawings: “Complex” and “Incomplete Completion,” and two three-dimensional works in hardwood. The ten large-scale drawings made with a draftsman’s rapid strokes represent a year of intense labor. The... Read more -
PATTERN VS. DECORATION
Chang, Danziger, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Higgins, Kürten, Liu, Ouadahi, Rodriguez, Adibi, Brand, Dopp, El Hanani, Grubin, Hackett, Hoferer, Mayer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Stenger, Wasson 12 Jul - 14 Aug 2007 New York Gallery The “Pattern and Decoration” movement of the 1970s arose in response to the emergence of Minimalism and its strictures. It derived in part from Pop Art’s exuberant cultural mining and partly from feminist theorists’ re-thinking of traditional hierarchies. It expressed a renewed interest in “craft” and a... Read more -
PATTERN VS. DECORATION
Chang, Danziger, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Haeckel, Higgins, Kürten, Liu, Ouadahi, Rodriguez, Adibi, Brand, Dopp, El Hanani, Grubin, Hackett, Hoferer, Mayer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Stenger, Wasson 16 Jun - 4 Aug 2007 The “Pattern and Decoration” movement of the 1970s arose in response to the emergence of Minimalism and its strictures. It derived in part from Pop Art’s exuberant cultural mining and partly from feminist theorists’ re-thinking of traditional hierarchies. It expressed a renewed interest in “craft” and a sense that the... Read more -
Michael Light
Bookworks 18 May - 30 Jun 2007 New York Gallery Six large-scale, handmade artist’s books centerpiece Michael Light’s ongoing aerial photographic investigation into the complex landscapes of America. Shot with a large-format camera from small, self-piloted aircraft and rented helicopters, Bookworks highlights Light’s vision of vast, stunning beauty coupled with the bleakest realities of human manipulation of... Read more -
Roland Flexner
New Sumi Ink Drawings 5 May - 9 Jun 2007 Roland Flexner is known for his delicate and precise works on paper, from graphite drawings of skulls, contorted faces, and ripples of water to more recent “bubble” drawings involving ink, soap, and the resulting bubble that bursts onto paper. Flexner’s newest works are evocative, undulating abstractions based on the Japanese... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee
As Far As the Eye Can See 5 May - 9 Jun 2007 Anoka Faruqee’s paintings are intensely colored and laboriously produced. Her process exploits the relationship between the spontaneous, authentic occurrence and the methodical construction. One segment of her work involves diptychs, in which one painting is made through a process involving chance and spontaneity, and the second painting represents an attempt... Read more -
Liliana Porter
LILIANA PORTER 5 Apr - 12 May 2007 New York Gallery With enchanting incongruity, Liliana Porter’s work playfully subverts convention, disrupts time, and messes with reality. Using a wide range of media, Porter mixes the absurd with the philosophical, creating extraordinary situations that lure us unwittingly into the realm of her idiosyncratic cast of characters. For this exhibition... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Home Movies 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2007 M.I.T.-educated Jim Campbell is known for his extremely low-resolution moving images accomplished by utilizing L.E.D. technologies. For the past seven years, Campbell has presented pixilated representations created with so few L.E.D.s (more than a thousand times fewer than the number of pixels on your computer screen) that a viewer should... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Shadows and Tattoos 23 Feb - 31 Mar 2007 New York Gallery A leisurely nostalgia pervades the work of German painter Jutta Haeckel. Fenced-in parks and yards, a house tucked into a forest, skeletons of roller coasters peeking over lush trees, colors a little too bright and shiny. Wistfulness makes room for a stranger mood, not quite ominous, not... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Unexpected Neighborhoods 23 Feb - 31 Mar 2007 New York Gallery In his first solo New York exhibition, Algerian Driss Ouadahi paints lush, gridded abstractions that reference architecture found on the outskirts of urban Europe. Cities like Paris and Berlin built huge high-rise housing developments on their peripheries to accommodate growing immigrant populations. Without revealing the inhabitants, the... Read more -
Michael Light
Near Planet 27 Jan - 31 Mar 2007 Five new large-scale, handmade artist’s books centerpiece San Franciscan Michael Light’s ongoing aerial photographic investigation into the complex landscapes of the American West. Shot with a large-format camera from small, self-piloted aircraft and rented helicopters, Near Planet highlights Light’s vision of vast, stunning beauty coupled with the bleakest realities of... Read more -
Crystal Liu
Before I Ever Dreamed You 6 Jan - 17 Feb 2007 New York Gallery Chinese-Canadian artist Crystal Liu exhibits new paintings and collages on paper and works “painted” with felted wool in her first solo exhibition in New York. Liu transforms elements of nature: the night, stars, clouds, fleshy mountains, willow trees, blood, water, owls, octopuses into a lexicon of characters... Read more -
Naomie Kremer
Pleasure and Paint 6 Jan - 17 Feb 2007 New York Gallery Oakland- and Paris-based artist Naomie Kremer’s new paintings are “improvisations,” a term she borrows from music and theatre to describe her studio method and the way in which her works are experienced. As the eye wanders through these works, dense with abstract and representational imagery, it picks... Read more -
Crystal Liu
Remember When We Used to Dream 2 Dec 2006 - 20 Jan 2007 ko-an (‘ko,an) noun: a paradoxical anecdote or riddle used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment. Origin: Japanese, “matter for public thought,” from Chinese gongan “official business.” The meanings of Crystal Liu’s enigmatic photographs unfold quietly — revealing, obscuring, gently teasing, delighting. Quotidian objects... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Recent Sculptures Related Paintings 2 Dec 2006 - 20 Jan 2007 Emil Lukas makes evident every process and part that goes into his work. Byproducts of his studio practice and the natural environment become source material for and subjects of works that are both painting and sculpture. The pieces are histories of their own inspiration and construction. Wide ranging materials, including... Read more -
Greg Rose
Arcadia 4 Nov 2006 - 22 Dec 2007 New York Gallery Landscape takes the form of a verb in Los Angeles artist Greg Rose’s new paintings of manicured nature. Beauty that is created and cultivated, making something more ideal than it is in reality, is particularly apparent in the suburban yards and celluloid landscape of greater Los Angeles.... Read more -
Timothy Horn
Villa Medusa 4 Nov - 22 Dec 2006 New York Gallery Australian Timothy Horn’s sculpture, informed by queer and feminist theories, reinterprets historical imagery and objects. Detail and craftsmanship seduce the viewer. Extensive research evidences itself in layers of references. Playful, satirical relationships form between his works and their audience. Horn’s first New York exhibition is comprised of... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Green Carpet 21 Oct - 22 Nov 2006 Stefan Kurten’s work is informed by archetypes of suburbia. Houses with tamed gardens, concrete patios, old metal swing sets and withering potted plants represent our vain search for the Euro/American dream of “the good life.” These “dream homes” express an architectural attempt to portray wealth and style, with a 1950s/’60s... Read more -
Jim Campbell
4300 watts 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2006 New York Gallery Known for his extremely low-resolution moving images accomplished utilizing L.E.D. technologies, M.I.T. educated Jim Campbell presents his first New York exhibition of installation pieces. For the past seven years, Campbell has presented pixilated representations created with so few L.E.D.s (more than a thousand times fewer than the... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
Red Ribbon 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2006 Images bleached by the passage of time — this is the emotional and visual impact of Gideon Rubin’s paintings. As though fading from memory, Rubin’s figures float in a pale, indistinct atmosphere, backs turned as though walking away, faces lacking identifiable features that could rescue the individual from the decay... Read more -
Liliana Porter
For Instance 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2006 Liliana Porter’s work is disarming and dysfunctional. It playfully subverts convention, disrupts time, and messes with reality. In photographs, 3-dimensional prints, and multiples made with fabric and thread, Porter mixes the absurd with the philosophical, creating extraordinary situations which lure us unwittingly into the realm of her idiosyncratic cast of... Read more -
DELINEATION: Nelleke Beltjens, Dominic Di Mare, Jacob El Hanani, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Nelleke Beltjens, Dominic Di Mare, Jacob El Hanani 21 Jul - 18 Aug 2006 New York Gallery This exhibition brings together work on paper by four artists using line as a their primary focus. Nelleke Beltjens’ large-scale ink drawings are made of thousands of minute lines that converge and concentrate at differing rates. The marks seem to swarm across very large sheets of heavy... Read more -
Susan Marie Dopp
SUSAN MARIE 21 Jul - 18 Aug 2006 New York Gallery Susan Marie Dopp’s jewel-like paintings on mulberry paper give form and dimension to the inner state of tranquility she feels when she meditates. Dopp utilizes geometric form and color in a reductive process. Contrasting colors and repetition of pattern act upon the brain, affecting its visual apparatus.... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
Landscapes 17 Jun 2006 - 29 Jul 2007 Lordy Rodriguez has made a career of drawing maps. His first cartographic project, representations of each of the United States as he wished them to be, came from a desire to envision his own personal sense of place and history. His newest drawings, based on techniques of topographical plotting, explore... Read more -
Russell Crotty
Twilight in the West 17 Jun - 29 Jul 2006 L.A.-based artist Russell Crotty makes ink drawings of nighttime skies based upon his own astronomical observations. Some of the resulting drawings are two-dimensional, some are three. Flat drawings made within telescope-view-inspired circular fields are one way he interprets his sightings. Merging traditions of drawing and sculpture provides another. Russell marks... Read more -
Gay Outlaw
Structure and Void 20 May - 30 Jun 2006 New York Gallery Gay Outlaw’s work in photography and sculpture explores form through structure, pattern, and translation. Her process often begins with a photograph. Carrying a camera wherever she goes, she shoots anything that catches her eye. Once the film is developed, forms that would otherwise go unnoticed are revealed... Read more -
SONNTAG: Painting from Dusseldorf
Jutta Haeckel, Stefan Kürten, Driss Ouadahi, Bjorn Dressler, Stefan Heller, Glen Rubsamen, Stefan Wissel 29 Apr - 10 Jun 2006 “Sonntag” means Sunday, and to me is the strangest day of the week.* Sundays are the traditional day of rest. They frequently entail amusement, recreation, family, reflection and religion. They are the antithesis of the workweek or “the everyday.” They promise the possibility of the exceptional. They are about imagining,... Read more -
Michael Light
100 SUNS 1 Apr - 13 May 2006 New York Gallery Between 1945 and 1992 the United States detonated 1,149 nuclear test explosions. Until 1962 the tests were conducted in the atmosphere and oceans. 106 of the 216 above-ground blasts were exploded 63 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. The remaining were detonated at the Enewetak or Bikini Atolls... Read more -
Marco Maggi
PROFILES: THE TED TURNER CATALOG (from CNN to DNA) 4 Mar - 22 Apr 2006 DNA: Watching a hair for hours doesn’t allow us to identify its owner, even though that hair includes much more information than any high-resolution picture. It’s now possible with a single strand of hair to reconstruct genetically even the most intimate details of a person. Knowing that a file as... Read more -
HOSFELT GALLERY NEW YORK Preview
Campbell, Faruqee, Phungrasamee Fein, Higgins, Light, Liu, Maggi, Porter, Rubin, Andrews, Barnes, Beltjens, Chippendale, Dopp, Horn, Hsu, Kremer, Napangardi, Outlaw, Rose 18 Feb - 25 Mar 2006 New York Gallery Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition in its new Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, venue. The exhibition spaces are designed around concepts of spatial flow and proliferation of daylight. A sixty-foot-long exhibition space links two forty by forty-foot galleries. Art will be lit by diffused skylight,... Read more -
Book
Crotty, Light, O'Reilly, Porter, Callan, Di Mare, Dopp, Felzmann, Hunt, Lewitt, Suarez Londono, Ruscha, Sikander, Spector, Tiscornia 28 Jan - 25 Feb 2006 The history of books and bookmaking is extensive, from sacred objects of veneration to downloadable printouts, but artists’ books are a special circumstance. This exhibition explores what the book can mean to an artist — as the site for introspection and exploration — as well as how an artist’s book... Read more -
Michael Light
Hover 3 Dec 2005 - 21 Jan 2006 Michael Light explores the aesthetic frontiers of landscape in this exhibition of recent aerial photographs. “Some Dry Space” is a series of large black and white photos of the Southern California and Nevada deserts taken from an airplane flying at 300 to 1000 feet in elevation. While some images have... Read more -
Dorothy Napangardi
Dorothy Napangardi 3 Dec 2005 - 21 Jan 2006 Australian artist Dorothy Napangardi conveys her sense of place with points of paint. Every point is a marker and each marks a path. The results are aesthetically enticing — intricate, rhythmic, undulating skeins. However, the work transcends its visual sensuality to communicate ideas of travel, trade, tradition and spirituality. ‘Dreamings,’... Read more -
M Theory
Kürten, Liu, O'Reilly, Porter, Colosky, Diener, Gutierrez, Hsu, Mayer, Ortbal, Ross, Young Sim 15 Oct - 23 Nov 2005 The most revolutionary theory in physics today is M Theory. It postulates, among other things, that the universe consists not of three or four dimensions, but rather eleven. And in the 11th dimension there exists not only our Universe, but an infinite number of other possible universes. Some of these... Read more -
Crystal Liu
You’re Invited 6 Sep - 8 Dec 2005 Recent San Francisco Art Institute graduate Crystal Liu shows whimsical, slightly ominous drawings from two bodies of work. The first, “My House is Dead; it’s my birthday,” is a series of stylized cakes in various stages of transmutation. Portrayed at a point sometime beyond their purest state, the individual cakes... Read more -
Arngunnur Yr
Les Barricades Mysterieuses 6 Sep - 8 Oct 2005 At the most apparent level, Arngunnur Yr paints landscapes evocative of her native Iceland. Actually, they are more skyscape; the horizon line is near the bottom of the paintings, and the land is, at most, a bump of mountain in the distance. The effect is one of atmosphere and mood,... Read more -
Susan Marie Dopp
SUSAN MARIE 18 Jun - 30 Jul 2005 Bay area painter Susan Marie Dopp’s works on mulberry paper represent a recent and enlightened departure from her figurative past. Dopp’s new oeuvre finds balance in the application of boldly painted spaces on fields of fine-spun paper. The result is crisp compositions of patterned events. Some works develop according to... Read more -
Catherine McCarthy
That tiny ember of rage flared bright and on dry regrets caught hold 18 Jun - 30 Jul 2005 In the past 5 years, Boston-based painter Catherine McCarthy’s life-long fascination with Japanese woodblock prints has emerged as the primary influence on her paintings of layered and appropriated imagery of self-discovery. This series of paintings follows the journey of the artist’s alter ego, the geisha Nagasaki Moon. Enfolded in multi-layered... Read more -
Jose Antonio Suarez Londono
JOSE ANTONIO SUAREZ LONDONO 29 Apr - 11 Jun 2005 Colombian artist Jose Antonio Suarez Londono makes delicately detailed drawings using a variety of media in miniature format. Making use of materials as small as labeling tags or as familiar as a journal’s page, he constructs his drawn musings as much as he composes them. Imagery that includes animals and... Read more -
Reed Danziger
Unknown Knowns 21 Apr - 11 Jun 2005 In her new work, Reed Danziger creates visual playgrounds of oil, pencil, pigment and shellac. Detailed mandala patterns frolic amidst draping threads of color. Lacy webs of circlets traverse organic and floral structures. Rosary-like chains navigate double helices and cellular bursts. The building blocks of her work individually imply modes... Read more -
John O'Reilly
Still Life 12 Mar - 23 Apr 2005 John O’Reilly’s new photo montages are little Wonderland worlds unto themselves. Their extreme horizontal format creates the sense of a journey, from the familiar and safe to the chaotic and mysterious. Many images come from O’Reilly’s home and neighborhood. These are inter- mingled with children’s building blocks that transition into... Read more -
Timothy Horn
Difficult to Swallow 12 Mar - 23 Apr 2005 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the US of Australian Timothy Horn’s work. His antique jewelry–inspired sculptures are unabashedly about desire. In the 18th century, when a jewel dangled from an earlobe at court, it was a seductive ornament. But Horn’s sculptures, enlarged twenty-fold and... Read more -
Jim Campbell
New Work 5 Feb - 5 Mar 2005 Jim Campbell has been making innovative technology-based work for almost 20 years. An interest in filmmaking, combined with his engineering expertise, has resulted in groundbreaking installations and sculptural works that have set the standard for new media art. Campbell continues to explore the limits of perception using both high and... Read more -
Stefana McClure
Don’t Look Now and other films on paper 11 Dec 2004 - 29 Jan 2005 New York–based artist Stefana McClure’s drawings are re-creations of the dialogues from translated films. Her laborious and complicated method entails copying the text from a frame of a subtitled film onto an individual sheet of tracing paper. Frame by frame, sheet by sheet, she traces the translation of the entire... Read more -
Ron Griffin
Black and White Paintings 11 Dec 2004 - 29 Jan 2005 For twelve years, Los Angeles artist Ron Griffin has made paintings of paper objects. Junk, mostly. Wrappers and envelopes and crushed boxes and cellophane cigarette packaging picked up from the street. All rendered exactly. Despite their trompe l’oeil accomplishment, the paintings are more akin to abstraction than realism. In 2000,... Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Layers 16 Oct - 24 Dec 2004 In her first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein shows exquisite watercolor paintings on paper. Beginning with only 4 pencil points that mark a square, and without the aid of a straight edge, Fein lays down strokes of color in precisely-timed applications. Multiple layers result in... Read more -
Nelleke Beltjens
Repetition in Diversity 16 Oct - 24 Nov 2004 Dutch artist Nelleke Beltjens makes elegant, serene sculptures in a minimalist vein. Her previous work exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery involved steel or steel and concrete, and later, wood and plaster. This new series uses a light-colored synthetic concrete, with which she molds block-like forms. The shapes vary slightly as she... Read more -
Byron Kim
Permanent 7 Sep - 9 Oct 2004 Byron Kim is known for paintings that are rooted in minimal abstraction but operate on a conceptual level. Prior work has included color field “portraits” that represent the skin pigmentation of his friends and family, site-specific wall paintings made with the grime collected from the building’s vacuum cleaners, and “action”... Read more -
TROY STORY
Campbell, Phungrasamee Fein, Maggi, Porter, Amado, Ambe, El Hanani, Griffin, McClure, Ruscha, Shin Sigurdardottir, Solomon, Sugimoto 6 Jul - 21 Aug 2004 In 1870, Heinrich Schlieman, an amateur archeologist from Germany, excavated a hill in present-day Turkey. In his search for the remains of the Troy described in Homer’s Iliad, he dug through layer after layer of ruined cities. Each city, built upon the remains of the last, obliterated those preceding it.... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
New States 15 May - 26 Jun 2004 Lordy Rodriguez was born in the Philippines, raised in Louisiana and Texas, and currently lives in Los Angeles. For several years he has been working on a series of ink drawings that reinterpret the United States of America as delineated by geographic, civic and state boundaries. These handmade maps, drawn... Read more -
Greg Rose
New Work 15 May - 26 Jun 2004 Greg Rose makes paintings that lie somewhere on the spectrum between landscape and abstraction. Organic shapes and architectural structures commingle in jarring color combinations, both pleasing and shocking. Textured decal-like forms sit atop flat, pristinely smooth surfaces. The Los Angeles-based artist’s graphic, stylized imagery seems like a mutant outgrowth of... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Somebody Else’s Dream 27 Mar - 8 May 2004 Stefan Kürten’s paintings expose the dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the surface. Stale bourgeois interiors, corporate lobbies, and suburban homes recall the expectations and dreams embodied in the last four decades of economic progress in the Western world. Some of Kürten’s imagery comes from 1970s books... Read more -
John Andrews
Irreducible Calculations 7 Feb - 20 Mar 2004 Like the simplest of universal laws applied repeatedly, John Andrews’ paintings unfold into vast complexity. At a distance each painting is an evocative and gorgeous field of color. At close range, intricate details and patterns emerge, along with a multitude of colors and layers. In his book, A New Kind... Read more -
Richard Barnes
Animal Logic 7 Feb - 20 Mar 2004 In this new body of work, San Francisco–based photographer Richard Barnes continues his exploration of the way humans collect, classify, value, contextualize and display artifacts in an institutional setting, and how presentation methods have evolved over the centuries. For the last 10 years Barnes’ work has followed the trajectory of... Read more -
John O'Reilly
The Orpheus Suite 13 Dec 2003 - 31 Jan 2004 Boston area artist John O’Reilly has been creating “photo-montages” using re-photographed images from art history and gay pornography, and photographs of himself and studio dioramas, for the past 40 years. His most recent work is an exploration of the artist’s power to affect his environment as well as a meditation... Read more -
Shahzia Sikander
Drawing to Drawing 13 Dec 2003 - 31 Jan 2004 Born in Pakistan, Shahzia Sikander studied traditional Indian miniature painting before coming to the U.S. to further her education. Once here, she began to add loosely painted symbols, often Hindu-based, on top of the detailed and precise forms of her miniature paintings. Western imagery also appeared, fusing with the Eastern... Read more -
Michael Light
100 SUNS 18 Oct - 26 Nov 2003 Between 1945 and 1992 the United States detonated 1,149 nuclear test explosions. Until 1962 the tests were conducted in the atmosphere and oceans. 106 of the 216 above-ground blasts were exploded 63 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. The remaining were detonated at the Enewetak or Bikini Atolls in the Pacific... Read more -
Marco Maggi
exPECTACLE 6 Sep - 11 Oct 2003 Uruguayan Marco Maggi’s needle-thin line drawing webs, nearly invisibly, across surfaces of aluminum, mat black, and paper white. Drawings perceptible only through the shadows they cast are made of the most modest materials. Inscriptions (or encryptions) in Maggi’s vocabulary of “pre-Columbian and post-Clintonian” abstraction suggest incomprehensible alphabets, genome mapping and... Read more -
PAPER
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Michael Light, Marco Maggi, John O'Reilly, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Jacob El Hanani, Lukas Felzmann, Ron Griffin, Jill Lear, Wes Mills, Mark Sheinkman 19 Jul - 16 Aug 2003 Paper is all new work made on paper, with paper or about paper by artists Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Jacob El Hanani, Nicole Fein, Lukas Felzmann, Ron Griffin, Jill Lear, Michael Light, Marco Maggi, Wes Mills, John O’Reilly and Mark Sheinkman. The pieces in the show range from relatively traditional drawing... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Dot and Others 7 Jun - 12 Jul 2003 Liliana Porter, a New York-based artist of Argentinean origins, draws from her extensive collection of souvenirs, toys, functional knickknacks and figurines in the creation of her work. In photographs, video, and prints, Porter represents these figures in various scenarios that, with masterful simplicity, distill life into its basic elements, at... Read more -
Timothy Berry
Circumstances 26 Apr - 31 May 2003 San Francisco artist Timothy Berry shows a new series of paintings evolving from his ongoing exploration of humankind’s futile struggle to control nature. Berry draws from the decorative arts of the past two centuries, which reflected our efforts to contain the wild beauty of nature through stylized representations of flora... Read more -
Nelleke Beltjens
Seeking Subtleties 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2003 Nelleke Beltjens, a young artist from The Netherlands, makes formalist sculptures of steel and concrete or wood and plaster. The diminutive works in this show are about relationships. Together, two separate,interlocking steel forms make one piece. Another piece is made from concrete and steel, fused. In yet another, lines of... Read more -
Ron Griffin
White Paintings 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2003 Los Angeles artist Ron Griffin’s abstract paintings aren’t actually abstractions, but the culmination of a process of meticulous representation of flattened, found paper objects. In his previous body of work, the “Black Paintings,” a few diaphanous white forms seemed to float on surfaces of highly polished black gesso. The sensuous,... Read more -
STILL/MOTION
Campbell, Rodriguez, Discenza, Frank, Hundere, Jaar, Bahrs Janssen, Linder, Parazette, Swartz 25 Jan - 1 Mar 2003 The fifth in a series of thematic exhibitions investigating the current state of a particular style, subject, or medium in contemporary art, this exhibition explores the theme of movement and its cessation. Motion is intrinsic to video-based work, while arrested motion is intrinsic to photography. But historically, traditional media have... Read more -
Gerhard Mayer
NGC 1976 14 Dec 2002 - 18 Jan 2003 German artist Gerhard Mayer’s drawings are created within the parameters of seven strict rules. Using drafting pens and an elliptical stencil, he draws curving parallel lines that, among other requirements, cannot intersect, cannot become complete ellipses or mere points, and must always lie on the horizontal. The complex reiteration of... Read more -
Reed Danziger
false truth 14 Dec 2002 - 18 Jan 2003 San Franciscan Reed Danziger makes complex, intricately-layered paintings that become worlds in themselves. Arabesques, mandalas, dots, and other ornamental designs co-mingle with organic shapes and patterns from nature. Like cells frantically reproducing in a petrie dish, their dense clusters seem about to explode from the surface. As she builds each... Read more -
Roland Flexner
Recent Ink Drawings 12 Oct - 30 Nov 2002 Roland Flexner — French-born, now living in New York — creates drawings by breath rather than by hand. Mixing ink and soap in a shallow dish, the artist dips a hollowed brush into the mixture and blows a bubble over a sheet of paper. While chance and physics play a... Read more -
Stuart Arends
Four Splits, One Stand 12 Oct - 30 Nov 2002 New Mexico-based Stuart Arends makes delicate yet assertive paintings whose dimensions never exceed 8 inches. Despite their size, or because of it, a single three-dimensional painting can easily command an entire wall. The paintings are based on the cube, the classic Minimalist, abstract form. And while there is a precision... Read more -
Andrea Higgins
The Presidents’ Wives 12 Oct - 30 Nov 2002 Once, during the Reagan administration, when Barbara Bush turned up for a luncheon in the First Lady’s trademark color, Mrs. Reagan shrieked, “Never wear red again as long as I live in this house!” –Anne Slowey, Elle, quoting Lesley Stahl’s book Reporting Live Every recent First Lady with the notable... Read more -
Marc Lafia
Possibilities of a Beautiful Love 3 Sep - 12 Oct 2002 Marc Lafia is the creator of the pioneering and award-winning internet art site ArtandCulture and of other interactive art projects like Memex Engine. For this exhibition, he explores his interest in film as a series of frames, with each frame being the particular of an instant. “An instant when taken... Read more
