Kevin Appel
"Salton Sea (heap)", 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
KEVIN APPEL
Paintings
July 14 - August 23, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present an installation of new paintings by Kevin Appel.
In his new work, Kevin Appel breaches new territory in exploring the tenuous relationship between the modes of photography, painting, and architecture and the incongruities that are produced at their collision.
As in earlier projects, Appel builds his compositions upon a narrative stream of constructing and dissolving architecture. For this series, he has moved from found photographs to those of his own, emphasizing his intimate relationship to the landscape in place of one mediated by an outside source. Appel's photographs are of the Salton Sea, a complicated space of utopian collapse and a failed site of sorts. The photographs function as the basis of each composition - large scale images are being printed with UV ink directly onto the canvases which have been prepared with a porcelain finish. Acrylic, oil and enamel paints are then layered in complementary ways, creating a complex correlation between the painted and the printed surfaces. Evoking a sense of ordered chaos, the reclaimed landscapes featured in the photographs break down into the essential patterns, tones, and textures of painting.
"Paintings" is an investigation into the connections between different visual strategies and the story of collapse that forms at their intersection. Rooted in photographs that are compromised and compressed by paint, Appel's current explorations evolved from the dissolution of the Pile Paintings from 2006. The exhibition pursues a trajectory of reassembly from that upheaval, where expanses of monochrome paint and intricate fields of textured abstractions push and pull against each other to shape a bittersweet optimism.
Kevin Appel received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York and his MFA from UCLA. He is a professor of studio art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; ACME Gallery, Los Angeles; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland; Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Appel's work has been published in catalogs for Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Tobias Ostrander, Elizabeth Smith, ed.); Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art (Laura Hoptman, ed.); Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Hatje Cantz (Alan Koch, et al., ed.); 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (David A Ross, et al., ed.); Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center (Douglas Fogle, ed.); and Kevin Appel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Jeremy Strick, Paul Schimmel, Jan Tumlir, ed.).
IVA GUEORGUIEVA
"Recoiling Earth"
July 14 - August 23, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present new paintings and three-dimensional works by Iva Gueorguieva in galleries 3 and 4.
Gueorguieva's work, while simultaneously indebted to the history of gestural abstraction and distancing itself from that history, is committed to the idea that gesture in painting can carry information that is neither simply graphic nor subjective, but that this gesture can have an active relationship with the real world.
The paintings presented in her first exhibition at the gallery started out as ruminations on the landscape. They are based on the construction of a specific field upon which a series of projections take root. These projections layer personal memories, fragments of films and fiction, as well as culturally specific narratives about what the land is. The layering of marks, painterly swirls and colored fields create forces within the composition that act upon each other resulting in a dynamic spin that sends the allusion of landscape and space into sweeping movements.
Also on view are sculptural paintings that share the title "Talisman Debris." The title is meant to connect the sculptures to the Land paintings and to turn them into tumbleweeds of material memory. They are the physical leftovers, accumulated in a corner during the making of the paintings. In thinking of the stretchers as skeletons with canvas skin, Gueorgueiva has long been interested in collage and cutting, seeking to explore this bodily dimension of the painting. The featured constructions are developments of the stretcher, where it's no longer compelled to be a flattish rectangle. Referencing a cross between James Dean and dusty depression-era characters from Cannery Row, the sculptures invigorate the painterly mark as eloquently as the paintings do.
Iva Gueorguieva earned her MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2000. Recent solo exhibitions include the Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, New York, NY; Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY and Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Galerie Lelong, New York, NY; the Contemporary Art Museum at USF, Tampa, FL; and at the Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA among others. She is the recipient of the Orange County Contemporary Art Collectors Fellowship for 2012, the California Community Foundation mid-career fellowship for 2010 and the Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2006. Iva Gueorguieva would like to extend special thanks to Emette Rivera of ReMade Studio for his invaluable help in producing the wood elements of the constructions.
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 6006 Washington Blvd in Culver City, 1 block west of La Cienega at Sentney Avenue. 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.
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
6006 West Washington Blvd
Culver City
Los Angeles, CA 90232
T: +1 310.837-2117
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"Salton Sea (heap)", 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
KEVIN APPEL
Paintings
July 14 - August 23, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present an installation of new paintings by Kevin Appel.
In his new work, Kevin Appel breaches new territory in exploring the tenuous relationship between the modes of photography, painting, and architecture and the incongruities that are produced at their collision.
As in earlier projects, Appel builds his compositions upon a narrative stream of constructing and dissolving architecture. For this series, he has moved from found photographs to those of his own, emphasizing his intimate relationship to the landscape in place of one mediated by an outside source. Appel's photographs are of the Salton Sea, a complicated space of utopian collapse and a failed site of sorts. The photographs function as the basis of each composition - large scale images are being printed with UV ink directly onto the canvases which have been prepared with a porcelain finish. Acrylic, oil and enamel paints are then layered in complementary ways, creating a complex correlation between the painted and the printed surfaces. Evoking a sense of ordered chaos, the reclaimed landscapes featured in the photographs break down into the essential patterns, tones, and textures of painting.
"Paintings" is an investigation into the connections between different visual strategies and the story of collapse that forms at their intersection. Rooted in photographs that are compromised and compressed by paint, Appel's current explorations evolved from the dissolution of the Pile Paintings from 2006. The exhibition pursues a trajectory of reassembly from that upheaval, where expanses of monochrome paint and intricate fields of textured abstractions push and pull against each other to shape a bittersweet optimism.
Kevin Appel received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York and his MFA from UCLA. He is a professor of studio art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; ACME Gallery, Los Angeles; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland; Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Appel's work has been published in catalogs for Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Tobias Ostrander, Elizabeth Smith, ed.); Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art (Laura Hoptman, ed.); Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Hatje Cantz (Alan Koch, et al., ed.); 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (David A Ross, et al., ed.); Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center (Douglas Fogle, ed.); and Kevin Appel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Jeremy Strick, Paul Schimmel, Jan Tumlir, ed.).
IVA GUEORGUIEVA
"Recoiling Earth"
July 14 - August 23, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to present new paintings and three-dimensional works by Iva Gueorguieva in galleries 3 and 4.
Gueorguieva's work, while simultaneously indebted to the history of gestural abstraction and distancing itself from that history, is committed to the idea that gesture in painting can carry information that is neither simply graphic nor subjective, but that this gesture can have an active relationship with the real world.
The paintings presented in her first exhibition at the gallery started out as ruminations on the landscape. They are based on the construction of a specific field upon which a series of projections take root. These projections layer personal memories, fragments of films and fiction, as well as culturally specific narratives about what the land is. The layering of marks, painterly swirls and colored fields create forces within the composition that act upon each other resulting in a dynamic spin that sends the allusion of landscape and space into sweeping movements.
Also on view are sculptural paintings that share the title "Talisman Debris." The title is meant to connect the sculptures to the Land paintings and to turn them into tumbleweeds of material memory. They are the physical leftovers, accumulated in a corner during the making of the paintings. In thinking of the stretchers as skeletons with canvas skin, Gueorgueiva has long been interested in collage and cutting, seeking to explore this bodily dimension of the painting. The featured constructions are developments of the stretcher, where it's no longer compelled to be a flattish rectangle. Referencing a cross between James Dean and dusty depression-era characters from Cannery Row, the sculptures invigorate the painterly mark as eloquently as the paintings do.
Iva Gueorguieva earned her MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2000. Recent solo exhibitions include the Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, New York, NY; Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY and Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Galerie Lelong, New York, NY; the Contemporary Art Museum at USF, Tampa, FL; and at the Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA among others. She is the recipient of the Orange County Contemporary Art Collectors Fellowship for 2012, the California Community Foundation mid-career fellowship for 2010 and the Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2006. Iva Gueorguieva would like to extend special thanks to Emette Rivera of ReMade Studio for his invaluable help in producing the wood elements of the constructions.
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 6006 Washington Blvd in Culver City, 1 block west of La Cienega at Sentney Avenue. 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.
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
6006 West Washington Blvd
Culver City
Los Angeles, CA 90232
T: +1 310.837-2117
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