Gallery Picks: August 2011
The Shape of the Problem
30th Anniversary Exhibition
August 4 – 27, 2011
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Louise Bourgeois What is the Shape of This Problem?: The Small Hours 1999
“The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is thrilled to present our 30th Anniversary Exhibition. Launched in 1981, the gallery has focused on presenting prominent Northwest and internationally established artists working in a wide variety of contemporary media, bolstering a dynamic dialogue between the local community and the global art world. The Shape of the Problem aims to examine these relationships, as well as issues that have faced artists throughout the decades, from exploration of self-expression, to formal concerns, questions about identity, optimism, accumulation, exuberance, and deconstruction. This exhibition seeks connections between the past and the present. What do the artists of the 1950s and 60s have in common with the artists of today. What endures? What is the shape of this problem?”
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun
August 6 – September 17, 2011
Minus Space Gallery, NYC
Doug Ohlson, PU-011, 2004-2006 Acrylic on canvas 26 1/4 x 24 1/8 inches
“MINUS SPACE is pleased to present Pointing a Telescope at the Sun, a group exhibition highlighting abstract color painting by five highly-influential NYC-based artists: Gabriele Evertz, Vincent Longo, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Doug Ohlson (1936-2010) who passed away last year at age 73.
- A core concern shared among these five artists is their pioneering investigation of color and its transformative effect on the viewer. Their strategies with color range from the exhaustively systematic to the intuitively poetic to the radiantly visceral. The exhibition will feature one recent painting by each artist.All five artists have also held decades-long associations with the renowned Art Department at Hunter College in New York City, one of the leading champions of color and abstraction – not to mention painting – among art schools in the United States. With more than 150 years of combined teaching experience at Hunter among them, these five artists have mentored countless generations of artists and have profoundly impacted the artistic discourse on the local, national, and international levels.”
Keith Walsh: Stealth Space
August 5- 28, 2011
Weekend Gallery, Los Angeles
Keith Walsh, Stealth Vehicle, Interior, 2011
“The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body. Stealth Space is about different perceptions of space and time mediated by the inhabitable Stealth Vehicle sculpture and its related two-dimensional work within the gallery context. The conceptual premise of the Stealth Vehicle sculpture is that any space existing beyond its own physical limits is deemed as ‘outer space’– hence positioning itself in relation to the sensibility of the gallery as a ‘non-site.’ The gallery, along with a participant’s engagement, acts as an instrument to facilitating connections to the beyond. Stealth Space is grounded in American secular progressivism of the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan’s sensibilities of mediated consciousness, and Space Age adventurism.”
