Main Gallery: ANGELINA GUALDONI Proposals for Remnants
Project Space: VAGUELY PAPERLY(curated by Chris Johanson) Randy Colosky Dana Dart-McLean Brendan Fowler Tom Greenwood Randy Moore Max Schumann
With opening night performances by Tom Greenwood with Ron Burns BARR Lichens
ANGELINA GUALDONI
Kavi Gupta is pleased to present our third solo exhibition by New York based painter Angelina Gualdoni.
Angelina Gualdoni's subject matter has been focused on modern ruins such as abandoned strip malls, decaying corporate high-rises, and housing projects in various states of demolition. As Gualdoni's work became more anonymous, buildings and neglected social spaces were depicted overgrown with graffiti, weeds and rubble emphasizing how these spaces remained far from lifeless. Often a recurring ethereal light seeped through cracked ceiling boards and broken skylights and piles of debris began to have a life of their own.
Gualdoni's latest series of paintings depict groupings and configurations of this detritus allowing room for exploration with paint, surface and abstraction. These "Proposals for Remnants" mold shapes and ephemera, and uses them as the basis for invented constructions. Pilings hint to the architectural and optimistic influences of Buckminster Fuller and humble sculptural paper assemblages represent liminal spaces between the abstract and the representational. These paintings, while less specific to current architectural conditions, are more representative of a subjective emotional and psychological read and offer a connection to our current conditions that call for making-do with what is at hand.
Angelina Gualdoni (b. 1975, San Francisco, CA) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include Currents: 100 at the St. Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany. Selected group exhibitions include shows at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), Ulrich Museum of Art, (Wichita, KS) and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS). Gualdoni's paintings are in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
VAGUELY PAPERLY curated by Chris Johanson featuring: Randy Colosky, Dana Dart-McLean, Brendan Fowler, Tom Greenwood, Randy Moore and Max Schumann
Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Vaguely Paperly, a group exhibition curated by Chris Johanson. Vaguely Paperly brings together a diverse group of artists who create works on paper utilizing varying mediums and techniques. The artists in this exhibition approach paper as a painting surface as well as a sculptural medium and address issues of re-use, repetition, memory, and personal politics.
Randy Colosky lives and works in Oakland, CA and has exhibited at White Box Gallery (New York) and Alston Skirt Gallery (Boston). Dana Dart-McLean lives and works in Portland, OR and has shown her work at Small A Projects (New York), Laura Bartlett Gallery (London), Nicolai Wallner (Copenhagen), Wrong Gallery (New York). Brendan Fowler lives and works in Los Angeles and has had solo exhibitions at Rivington Arms (NY) and Mesler&Hug; (Los Angeles). Fowler will be included in The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at The New Museum (New York) and has performed as BARR at various venues including John Connelly Presents (NY), The Kitchen (NY) and the Orange County Museum of Art. Tom Greenwood lives and works in Portland, OR and has been included in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Jack Hanley (Los Angeles), Nicolai Wallner (Copenhagen) and is the founding member of the band Jackie-O Motherfucker. Some works in the exhibition are original art included in the upcoming record titled Ballads of the Revolution. Randy Moore lives and works in New York and has had solo exhibitions at Sperone Westwater (New York), Sprovieri Gallery (London) and has been included in shows at Arndt & Partner (Berlin), Printed Matter (NY) and The Drawing Center (NY). Max Schumann lives and works in NY and has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis and Taxter & Spengemann (New York).
