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MEDIA RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEPTEMBER, 2007
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present:
Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon
April 19 – July 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 2-5pm
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to premiere a new body of work and installation by Southern California based artist Keith Puccinelli opening Saturday, April 19, 2-5pm with a public reception and on view through July 3, 2008.
Keith Puccinelli is creating a new body of drawings, sculptures, and an interactive installation called “The Morgue” for his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis.
The title of the exhibition, The Wondercommon, combines two seemingly opposite ideas into one and refers in part to the artist’s use of common materials and tinkering techniques to evoke a sense of wonder or the wonderful. Simple pen and ink drawings on paper and sculptures are made out of everyday materials like twigs, leaves, shoes, pipe, glue, house paint, varnish, mud, and bone. The strong juxtaposition of materials often brings a sense of humor to glaze or emphasize the serious or tragic presented in the work. The title of the show is also a direct reference to the wunderkammer or a “cabinet of curiosities,” which is the genesis of museums as we know them today.
Working in the vein of Jeffrey Vallance, Michael C. McMillen, Jim Shaw, and Robbie Conal, Puccinelli is using an irreverent quick wit, modest materials, and tableaux to broach the conflict between the preciousness of life and man’s disregard for life during times of war to create a kind of carnival of sorrow. He is assembling a body of work filled with moments of laughter ranging from the fitful and joyous to uncomfortable and embarrassed. The title of the interactive installation is indicative of Puccinelli’s passion for wordplay. He is using the word “morgue” more like an illustrator or journalist’s archive of ideas and stories versus a coroner’s lab. It is an area of the gallery that he is filling with hundreds of interesting objects that can be handled, examined, and arranged by the viewer. Many of the altered objects are items he found on his working farm in Ventura.
Keith Puccinelli was born on Cinco de Mayo in 1950 in San José, California, in the heart of the once fertile Santa Clara Valley—now Silicon Valley. On the brink of adopting after eight years of trying, Irene and Julius were blessed with an eight and one-half lb. screaming yellow-jaundiced bundle of joy.
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Object Description
| Exhibition | Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon |
| Artist(s) | Puccinelli, Keith |
| Title | Press release for "Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon" |
| Year | 2008 |
| Decade(s) | 2000s |
| Curator(s) | Linton, Meg |
| Description | For immediate release: September 2007. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | Puccinelli_Release |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
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| Full Text of PDF | MEDIA RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEPTEMBER, 2007 Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909 The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present: Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon April 19 – July 3, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 2-5pm The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to premiere a new body of work and installation by Southern California based artist Keith Puccinelli opening Saturday, April 19, 2-5pm with a public reception and on view through July 3, 2008. Keith Puccinelli is creating a new body of drawings, sculptures, and an interactive installation called “The Morgue” for his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis. The title of the exhibition, The Wondercommon, combines two seemingly opposite ideas into one and refers in part to the artist’s use of common materials and tinkering techniques to evoke a sense of wonder or the wonderful. Simple pen and ink drawings on paper and sculptures are made out of everyday materials like twigs, leaves, shoes, pipe, glue, house paint, varnish, mud, and bone. The strong juxtaposition of materials often brings a sense of humor to glaze or emphasize the serious or tragic presented in the work. The title of the show is also a direct reference to the wunderkammer or a “cabinet of curiosities,” which is the genesis of museums as we know them today. Working in the vein of Jeffrey Vallance, Michael C. McMillen, Jim Shaw, and Robbie Conal, Puccinelli is using an irreverent quick wit, modest materials, and tableaux to broach the conflict between the preciousness of life and man’s disregard for life during times of war to create a kind of carnival of sorrow. He is assembling a body of work filled with moments of laughter ranging from the fitful and joyous to uncomfortable and embarrassed. The title of the interactive installation is indicative of Puccinelli’s passion for wordplay. He is using the word “morgue” more like an illustrator or journalist’s archive of ideas and stories versus a coroner’s lab. It is an area of the gallery that he is filling with hundreds of interesting objects that can be handled, examined, and arranged by the viewer. Many of the altered objects are items he found on his working farm in Ventura. Keith Puccinelli was born on Cinco de Mayo in 1950 in San José, California, in the heart of the once fertile Santa Clara Valley—now Silicon Valley. On the brink of adopting after eight years of trying, Irene and Julius were blessed with an eight and one-half lb. screaming yellow-jaundiced bundle of joy. (more) |
