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BEN MALTZ GALLERY
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL, 2006
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson,
galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909.
Images available
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present
Joan Tanner: On Tenderhooks
Exhibition Dates: July 22 – September 23, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 4pm walk-through with the artist followed by a reception until 7pm with live music by marimba band Masanga Marimba.
Thursday, September 7, 7:30pm, Conversation with Joan Tanner and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Speed Art Museum, Otis Forum, Ahmanson Building.
Saturday, September 23, 2pm, walk-through with Joan Tanner and Meg Linton, followed by a reception until 5pm.
On Tenderhooks is a large-scale installation created by Southern California artist
Joan Tanner, curated by Meg Linton, Director of the Ben Maltz Gallery. Using raw materials like Blister-Pac, corrugated plastic paneling, galvanized metal, air-duct filters, plywood, industrialized coating, light and video, Tanner assembles a precarious environment to tackle the visual paradox of architectonic order and disintegration—ordering to achieve perfection and humankind’s inability to escape imperfection.
In a review of Joan Tanner’s work in a 1996 issue of Art in America, Michael Duncan wrote that Tanner, who had just turned 60, “is making some of the freshest work around,” and now at age 70 the work is even more daring and ambitious. It is time for her to receive recognition for her unwavering creativity, voracious intellect, and incredible drive.
Tanner’s work has been likened to that of Kurt Schwitters, Constantin Brancusi, Joseph Cornell, Lee Bontecou and Richard Tuttle in the ordering of objects and manipulation of materials. On Tenderhooks expands upon her use of detritus and acknowledges a debt to Assemblage Art while engaging in a larger discussion about consumer culture and representation.
Because this is a site-specific installation, at this date it is difficult to describe the final work. Attached are photographs by Wayne McCall of the work in progress taken at the artist’s studio in Santa Barbara. Tanner is installing the work at the Ben Maltz Gallery from July 6-21st in preparation for the opening on Saturday, July 22, 4-7pm.
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Object Description
| Exhibition | Joan Tanner: On Tenderhooks |
| Artist(s) | Tanner, Joan |
| Title | Press release for "On Tenderhooks" |
| Year | 2006 |
| Decade(s) | 2000s |
| Curator(s) | Linton, Meg |
| Description | For immediate release: April 2006. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | Tanner_release |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | BEN MALTZ GALLERY MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL, 2006 Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909. Images available Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present Joan Tanner: On Tenderhooks Exhibition Dates: July 22 – September 23, 2006 Saturday, July 22, 4pm walk-through with the artist followed by a reception until 7pm with live music by marimba band Masanga Marimba. Thursday, September 7, 7:30pm, Conversation with Joan Tanner and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Speed Art Museum, Otis Forum, Ahmanson Building. Saturday, September 23, 2pm, walk-through with Joan Tanner and Meg Linton, followed by a reception until 5pm. On Tenderhooks is a large-scale installation created by Southern California artist Joan Tanner, curated by Meg Linton, Director of the Ben Maltz Gallery. Using raw materials like Blister-Pac, corrugated plastic paneling, galvanized metal, air-duct filters, plywood, industrialized coating, light and video, Tanner assembles a precarious environment to tackle the visual paradox of architectonic order and disintegration—ordering to achieve perfection and humankind’s inability to escape imperfection. In a review of Joan Tanner’s work in a 1996 issue of Art in America, Michael Duncan wrote that Tanner, who had just turned 60, “is making some of the freshest work around,” and now at age 70 the work is even more daring and ambitious. It is time for her to receive recognition for her unwavering creativity, voracious intellect, and incredible drive. Tanner’s work has been likened to that of Kurt Schwitters, Constantin Brancusi, Joseph Cornell, Lee Bontecou and Richard Tuttle in the ordering of objects and manipulation of materials. On Tenderhooks expands upon her use of detritus and acknowledges a debt to Assemblage Art while engaging in a larger discussion about consumer culture and representation. Because this is a site-specific installation, at this date it is difficult to describe the final work. Attached are photographs by Wayne McCall of the work in progress taken at the artist’s studio in Santa Barbara. Tanner is installing the work at the Ben Maltz Gallery from July 6-21st in preparation for the opening on Saturday, July 22, 4-7pm. (more) |
