Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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April 30 - July 16, 2011 Reception: Saturday, April 30, 6 - 8 pm
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Nicole Eisenman. In her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Eisenman presents several large portraits as well as a range of figurative paintings featuring gatherings of people engaged in different social activities.
Nicole Eisenman, who came to be known in the early nineties for her outrageously funny figurative installations combining mural painting, sculpture, drawing and multi-media work, has always been fundamentally interested in painting. Since the nineties, when her work was often narrowly eclipsed through a lens of gender politics, her work has been unwaveringly committed to this interest. For this exhibition, Eisenman has developed a new intensely focused body of paintings. More than anything else, these new works are carving out an emotional space - a space that gives room both to the most intimate and to the most disillusioned encounters between people, the need to destruct as well as the need for two people to melt together in a kiss. Eisenman effortlessly moves between representation and abstraction, between expressive and impressive modes - the paintings are specific and yet shifting and ambiguous. Above all, her paintings are deeply human, they speak of the joy and the desperation of this specific moment in time, gloriously fleshing out those larger overarching human themes of love and friendship, alone-ness and mortality.
More than anything else, these new paintings are carving out an emotional space - a space that gives room both to the most intimate and to the most disillusioned encounters between people, the need to destruct as well as the need for two people to melt together in a kiss. Using history, and more specifically the history of Western European painting, as a "slippery terrain" where styles, modes, and approaches are "free for the taking", Eisenman freely borrows and effortlessly moves between representation and abstraction, between expressive and impressive, between classic and comic modes. The resulting paintings are above all deeply human, they speak of the joy and the desperation of this specific moment in time, gloriously fleshing out those larger overarching human themes of love and friendship, alone-ness and mortality.
Nicole Eisenman's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; the Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; at Le Plateau le Frac, Paris; at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht; and at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. She was included in group exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Denver Museum of Art, Denver; Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; San Fransisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Kunsthaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Drawing Center, New York; Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany. She shows in New York with Leo Koenig, Inc. and in Berlin with Galerie Barbara Weiss.
WYNNE GREENWOOD How We Pray
April 30 - June 11, 2011 Reception: Saturday, April 30, 6 - 8 pm
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition and a performance of Wynne Greenwood in the fourth gallery. For this exhibition, Greenwood constructs a women's spa in the gallery to look at security, transformation and mythic interaction. The space of the spa is suggested with hand-dyed fabric flooring and video projection. The fabric floor extends upwards into space through three 3-D soft sculpture forms.
As the soaking pools, the videos in the show are loose prayers of noticing and un-isolation. For the video "Pregnant Medusa," Greenwood puts Medusa and Pebbles Flintstone into relationship to engage symbols and archetypes of woman behavior and being. Taking these myths out of isolation allows for transformation of the cartoonish experience of being stuck in one role. In "Rose, Wall, Purpose," Greenwood further explores the experience of isolated subject-hood through a collage of physical movement with the camera and acknowledgement of the frame.
Viewers are invited to sit on floor mats, made from old purses and bags. Greenwood has dyed fabric to match the bags' patterns, woven the strips of fabric into baskets, and then cut them open to lie on the floor as mats. Forms designated to hold, to possess, unfold into locations, places to be here. Security is not held in the ownership of an idea, but rather in the participation with it. Greenwood will perform in the gallery as the space of the spa.
Wynne Greenwood received her MFA in 2004 at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions, partially in collaborations with Fawn Krieger and K8 Hardy, at the Moore Space, Miami, FL; at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK; at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; at Reena Spaulings, New York; Foxy Productions, New York; and at The Kitchen, New York. Group exhibitions and performances include The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Harvard University; a screening curated by Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dead Already, Reena Spaulings, NY, screenings curated by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether; USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist; Media Burn, TATE, London, curated by Emma Dexter; The F Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Tracy + the Plastics, TBA Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Tracy + the Plastics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; What is Human?, Transmodern Age Festival of Experimental Performance , Baltimore, MD; Tracy + the Plastics, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and Hot Topic and On the Verge, videos for Le Tigre live performance, world tour 2004-2005.
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 6006 Washington Blvd in Culver City, 1 block west of La Cienega at Sentney Avenue, on the south side of the street. Gallery parking is available across the street from the gallery off of Sentney Avenue. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment.
6006 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232 phone 310.837-2117 www.vielmetter.com
