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MEDIA RELEASE
Press Contact:
Kathy MacPherson
kmacpherson@otis.edu / 310.665.6909
Chan & Mann, Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy (The Video), production still, HD video, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Otis College of Art and Design’s Ben Maltz Gallery Presents:
3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann
A three-part exhibition of two poignant and political Southern California artists
June 22 – August 30, 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA - January, 2013 – The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is
pleased to present the exhibition 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann
on view June 22 – August 30, 2013, with an opening reception taking place Saturday, June 22, 4-6pm.
The exhibition features the poignant and political work of two artists in three parts: Audrey Chan,
Elana Mann, and the collaborative artwork they create under the name Chan & Mann. Their
multidisciplinary work often incorporates video, performance, public engagement, sound, painting,
drawing, photography and installation. This exhibition is the third in a series called 3 Solo Projects
that began in 2004 in an effort to highlight and support new work by Southern California based artists.
Audrey Chan & Elana Mann have been collaborating as the entity “Chan & Mann” for the last seven
years, pushing boundaries of collaborative practice through role-playing and a performative merging
of identities. Chan & Mann are creating a video installation entitled “Chan’s Mannese Theater,” which
humorously deconstructs discourse in cultural identity through feminist and ethnic role-play within
painted, performative, and animated realities. Based on Hollywood’s landmark movie house, TCL
Theater (previously known as Grauman’s Chinese Theater and briefly Mann’s Chinese Theater), they
are hybridizing their Chinese and Jewish identities and iconography into one setting. The theater will
host the world premiere of “Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy (The Video),” a short movie that depicts a
not-so-ordinary day in the studio with Chan & Mann. They bring to life their collaborative painting,
“Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy" (2012), inspired by the French Renaissance painting, “Gabrielle
d’Estrées et une des ses soeurs.” In the video Chan & Mann converse with a coven of familiars
depicted in still-life, while wrestling with the legacy of Second Wave Feminism, Jewish- and Chinese-
American identities in the 21st century, and the nature of codependency.
Object Description
| Exhibition | 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, Chan & Mann |
| Artist(s) |
Chan, Audrey Mann, Elana Chan & Mann |
| Title | Press release for "3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, Chan & Mann" |
| Year | 2013 |
| Decade(s) | 2010s |
| Exhibition Dates | 2013 June 22 - August 30 |
| Curator(s) | Linton, Meg |
| Description | For immediate release: January 2013. |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | Chan-Mann-PR-Final |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | MEDIA RELEASE Press Contact: Kathy MacPherson kmacpherson@otis.edu / 310.665.6909 Chan & Mann, Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy (The Video), production still, HD video, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Otis College of Art and Design’s Ben Maltz Gallery Presents: 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann A three-part exhibition of two poignant and political Southern California artists June 22 – August 30, 2013 LOS ANGELES, CA - January, 2013 – The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann on view June 22 – August 30, 2013, with an opening reception taking place Saturday, June 22, 4-6pm. The exhibition features the poignant and political work of two artists in three parts: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and the collaborative artwork they create under the name Chan & Mann. Their multidisciplinary work often incorporates video, performance, public engagement, sound, painting, drawing, photography and installation. This exhibition is the third in a series called 3 Solo Projects that began in 2004 in an effort to highlight and support new work by Southern California based artists. Audrey Chan & Elana Mann have been collaborating as the entity “Chan & Mann” for the last seven years, pushing boundaries of collaborative practice through role-playing and a performative merging of identities. Chan & Mann are creating a video installation entitled “Chan’s Mannese Theater,” which humorously deconstructs discourse in cultural identity through feminist and ethnic role-play within painted, performative, and animated realities. Based on Hollywood’s landmark movie house, TCL Theater (previously known as Grauman’s Chinese Theater and briefly Mann’s Chinese Theater), they are hybridizing their Chinese and Jewish identities and iconography into one setting. The theater will host the world premiere of “Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy (The Video),” a short movie that depicts a not-so-ordinary day in the studio with Chan & Mann. They bring to life their collaborative painting, “Chan & Mann’s New Fantasy" (2012), inspired by the French Renaissance painting, “Gabrielle d’Estrées et une des ses soeurs.” In the video Chan & Mann converse with a coven of familiars depicted in still-life, while wrestling with the legacy of Second Wave Feminism, Jewish- and Chinese- American identities in the 21st century, and the nature of codependency. |
