Pickman's Mephitic Models, 2004
Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles
The Alchemy of Things Unknown and a visual transformation on meditation
10 June – 31 July 2010
Khastoo Gallery 7556 West Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046
This exhibition intends to examine and expose individual works of art in relation to theosophy, sacred tradition and devotional practice. From William Blake’s illuminated works of divine imagination to Carl Gustav Jung’s drawings of collective symbolic unconscious, the visual is undoubtedly an integral creative tool for reaching, exploring, animating and pervading the indefinable spaces beyond body and mind.
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Physically Alive Structured Environment: The Bauharoque, 2004
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
NineteenEightyFour
27 May – 5 September 2010
Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022
This exhibition examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which clearly reflected the historical background of totalitarianism, this exhibition attempts to distance itself from this source by considering forms of surveillance and control today, where an all-powerful apparatus as described in Orwell’s work appears overly simplistic. The expansion of the scope of media, both through information technology innovations and connectivity, has shifted the frontier delineating public and private. Stereotypical notions, such as the ubiquitous eye of “Big Brother” and CCTV channels constantly recording the streetscape, seem less relevant as we enter a new age of alienation. It is now as if the objects and ideas we desire control us more deeply than those that Nineteen Eighty-Four’s protagonist Winston Smith feared, and ultimately surrendered to, controlled him. In addition, the acceptability of constant self-exposure entices us into what can be called the “participatory panopticon.” As a result, the artists represented in this exhibition, all of whom live and work in Europe and the United States, continue to question the effects of surveillance systems on the subject, but also the possible subversive usage by the subject, in a variety of media – including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation.
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Pistis Sophia, 2004-06
Knoedler & Company, New York
Wynn Newhouse Award Recipients of 2009: Thomas Kovachevich, Paul Laffoley,
Ralph Mindicino, Edward Shalala
3 June – 30 July 2010
Knoedler & Company 19 East 70th Street
New York, New York 10021
KNOEDLER PROJECT SPACE is pleased to present a group exhibition of the Wynn Newhouse Award recipients of 2009. The Wynn Newhouse Awards program was established in 2006 by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. Artist candidates are peer-nominated and then selected by a panel of judges including curators, artists, and other art world professionals. Past judges have included Cheryl Brutvan, Phong Bui, Chuck Close, Donna De Salvo, Dorothea Rockburne, Mark Rosenthal, Patterson Sims, among others. The 2009 recipients form a diverse group, whose work represents installation art, multi-media artworks, hand engraved paintings on Plexiglas, and conceptual paintings.
Wynn Newhouse (b. 1954) died on March 6, 2010. The Wynn Newhouse Awards program will continue through 2012, in his memory.