Elspeth Pratt, Implantation, 2007 Mat board 18 x 32 x 8 inches February 1 – March 6, 2011 The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, is proud to present NONETHELESS, the first U.S. solo exhibition of Vancouver B.C. artist Elspeth Pratt, an artist who has had a deep impact on Vancouver’s internationally recognized visual arts culture. In the words of writer Robin Laurence, “Elspeth Pratt is one of Canada’s most accomplished and possibly [...]
Work by Jaan Poldaas. February 5 – March 12 We are pleased to announce the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Jaan Poldaas; whose show will also mark the artist’s first solo show of a new series of work in more than a decade. As heir apparent to Guido Molinari’s abstractionism, this body of work further separates him from the Canadian originator’s style of hard-edge; as always, Poldaas employs much more vibrant and [...]
Work by Ceal Floyer Ceal Floyer’s art displays a clarity of thought within elegantly concise presentations. Engaged and active viewing is typically required—and then rewarded—in the artist’s minimalist-conceptualist amalgams. Her work, which resonates in a gently philosophical manner long after the first encounter, often draws attention to neglected everyday objects and situations. Floyer thinks of her art as very self-reflexive: not necessarily about anything outside of the work itself, but focused instead on the context [...]
Dan Flavin, Untitled (to Barry, Mike, Chick and Leonard) 1972-1975 Yellow and pink flourescent light 8 feet high x 8 feet wide installed in a corridor September 10 – October 30, 2010 The Paula Cooper Gallery will present an exhibition of four early Dan Flavin works, produced between 1964 and 1975. The exhibition will provide a look into Flavin’s varied configurations of paired contrasting colors, centering on a major “corridor” piece of pink and yellow [...]
Installation views Participating Artists: Douglas Allsop, Dieter Balzer, Rafael Barrios, Michael Burges, Freddy Chandra, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Brad Howe, Gilbert Hsiao, Jae Ko, Hans Kotter, Camill Leberer, Milen Miltchev, Manfred Mohr, Dany Paal, Jürgen Paas, Frank Piasta, Regine Schumann, Kane Shimoosake, Klaus Staudt, Gaby Terhuven, Wolfram Ullrich, Achim Zeman
Ryoji Ikeda, data.tron Photographer: Ryuichi Maruo September 26 – December 13, 2009 How many points are there in a line? What is the number of numbers? How can we verify that the random is random? Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda exhibits two works from his datamatics project, a series of experiments that explore such questions, physically and mathematically. data.tron and data.scan are audiovisual installations composed from a combination of pure mathematics and the vast sea of [...]
I’ve long admired the large ambition and seriousness of purpose underlying Fawn Krieger’s deceptively funky sculptural work. She is at home in a variety of scales and situations: crafting “product lines” for a “store” (COMPANY, Art in General), a room-sized installation and collaboration with musician Wynne Greenwood at The Kitchen, scale-shifting architectural sculpture shown both here and abroad, a storyboard for a film, and finally, a new “stage setting” at the Portland Institute for Contemporary [...]
New work by artist Richard Bottwin “One of the pleasures of being an artist is looking, constantly looking, at art. One of the frustrations of being an artist who blogs is that there’s never enough time and space to blog about everything I’ve seen. But I do want to show you as much as possible of what I’ve been seeing this summer, so I’m putting together a few roundup posts under the rubric of “What [...]
