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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Kathy MacPherson kmacpherson@otis.edu / (310) 665.6909
Emily Roysdon, Sense and Sense, 2010. A project with MPA. Collection of Museum of Modern Art. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is Pleased to Present the Exhibition
Performing the Grid January 23 – May 15, 2016
LOS ANGELES – November, 2015 – Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition Performing the Grid, to be held January 23 – May 15, 2016. A public opening reception takes place Saturday, January 23, 4-6pm.
Artists in the exhibition: Neil Beloufa, Lucinda Childs with Sol LeWitt and Philip Glass, Charles Gaines, David Haxton, Channa Horwitz, Xylor Jane, Rudolf Laban, Dashiell Manley, Debra McCall, Rebecca Morris, Bruce Nauman, Kelly Nipper, Heather Rowe, Emily Roysdon, Kathleen Ryan, and Emmett Williams.
Performing the Grid is the inaugural exhibition curated by Kate McNamara, Otis’s new Director of Galleries and Exhibitions. Performing the Grid brings together an intergenerational group of artists and cultural producers that utilize the grid as a performative strategy to examine, challenge and position philosophical, political, social, domestic, corporeal, mythical and ideological perspectives. Rosalind Kraus famously wrote that the grid “functions to declare the modernity of modern art” in her 1979 essay, Grids. The grid has played a historical role in conceptual and minimalist art practices and continues to motivate and engage artists today. As we delve deeper into technology, a culture of images, violence, and surveillance, how do we locate presence inside of the grid? How is the self presented within the grid? Can intimacy be made visible? The included works in Performing the Grid access, address, reject and evoke the grid using video, performance, documentation, sound, sculpture, painting and installation. At times the grid is a means of tracing movement, a tool for documenting the passage of time and arranging visual texts and compositions. In other works, the grid is conjured as a blatant motif, a utopian design, and theatrical prop. From Debra McCall’s geometric re-performances of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances to Bruce Nauman’s meditative studio walks and Kelly Nipper’s Laban Movement informed performances to Heather Rowe’s film-inspired sculptures, the grid takes on new meaning and new movement.
Events
Saturday, January 23, 2016, 4pm-6pm | Free Opening Reception
Sunday, February 7, 4pm, Otis Forum | Free Screening | Bauhaus Dances, 1986 presented by Debra McCall Performing the Grid artist Debra McCall screens the 1986 film of her reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer's 1920s Bauhaus Dances in their entirety and describes her process of rediscovering the original notes and sketches, visiting the Bauhaus in East Germany and reconstructing the pieces with the help of
Object Description
| Exhibition | Performing the Grid |
| Artist(s) |
Beloufa, Neil Childs, Lucinda Gaines, Charles Glass, Philip Haxton, David Horwitz, Channa Jane, Xylor Laban, Rudolf LeWitt, Sol Manley, Dashiell McCall, Debra Morris, Rebecca Nauman, Bruce Nipper, Kelly Rowe, Heather Roysdon, Emily Ryan, Kathleen Williams, Emmett |
| Title | Press release for "Performing the Grid" |
| Year | 2016 |
| Decade(s) | 2010s |
| Exhibition Dates | 2016 January 23 - May 15 |
| Curator(s) | McNamara, Kate |
| Description | For immediate release. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| Media |
Installation Painting Performance Sculpture Video |
| ImageID | PerformingtheGrid_PressRelease_1 |
| Rights | Copyright Otis College of Art and Design |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Kathy MacPherson kmacpherson@otis.edu / (310) 665.6909 Emily Roysdon, Sense and Sense, 2010. A project with MPA. Collection of Museum of Modern Art. Photo courtesy of the artist. Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is Pleased to Present the Exhibition Performing the Grid January 23 – May 15, 2016 LOS ANGELES – November, 2015 – Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition Performing the Grid, to be held January 23 – May 15, 2016. A public opening reception takes place Saturday, January 23, 4-6pm. Artists in the exhibition: Neil Beloufa, Lucinda Childs with Sol LeWitt and Philip Glass, Charles Gaines, David Haxton, Channa Horwitz, Xylor Jane, Rudolf Laban, Dashiell Manley, Debra McCall, Rebecca Morris, Bruce Nauman, Kelly Nipper, Heather Rowe, Emily Roysdon, Kathleen Ryan, and Emmett Williams. Performing the Grid is the inaugural exhibition curated by Kate McNamara, Otis’s new Director of Galleries and Exhibitions. Performing the Grid brings together an intergenerational group of artists and cultural producers that utilize the grid as a performative strategy to examine, challenge and position philosophical, political, social, domestic, corporeal, mythical and ideological perspectives. Rosalind Kraus famously wrote that the grid “functions to declare the modernity of modern art” in her 1979 essay, Grids. The grid has played a historical role in conceptual and minimalist art practices and continues to motivate and engage artists today. As we delve deeper into technology, a culture of images, violence, and surveillance, how do we locate presence inside of the grid? How is the self presented within the grid? Can intimacy be made visible? The included works in Performing the Grid access, address, reject and evoke the grid using video, performance, documentation, sound, sculpture, painting and installation. At times the grid is a means of tracing movement, a tool for documenting the passage of time and arranging visual texts and compositions. In other works, the grid is conjured as a blatant motif, a utopian design, and theatrical prop. From Debra McCall’s geometric re-performances of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances to Bruce Nauman’s meditative studio walks and Kelly Nipper’s Laban Movement informed performances to Heather Rowe’s film-inspired sculptures, the grid takes on new meaning and new movement. Events Saturday, January 23, 2016, 4pm-6pm | Free Opening Reception Sunday, February 7, 4pm, Otis Forum | Free Screening | Bauhaus Dances, 1986 presented by Debra McCall Performing the Grid artist Debra McCall screens the 1986 film of her reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer's 1920s Bauhaus Dances in their entirety and describes her process of rediscovering the original notes and sketches, visiting the Bauhaus in East Germany and reconstructing the pieces with the help of |
