Bob Nickas

Sign-ups will be posted on Tuesday Feb. 22nd at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Thursday Feb. 24th:

Studio Visits for Thursday February 24th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

Lecture at Warner on March 2nd, 7pm: "Q. Who is your work for? A. To keep me busy."

You could say Bob Nickas behaves more like an artist than a critic. Since moving to New York in 1984, he has developed a reputation for being a truly independent voice in his field, working against the prevailing narratives of contemporary art without compromise. Nickas has curated over 80 exhibitions and from 2003 and 2006 served as curatorial advisor for PS1. In 1994 he co-founded the highly influential, now-defunctIndex Magazine with artist Peter Halley.

As a writer, Nickas is known for his direct, jargon-free prose, that are accessible in their convictions. Many such interviews and reviews are collected in two books Live Free or Die (2000, Les Presses Du Reel) andTheft is Vision (2007, JRP Ringier). Nickas' latest book brings patent inclusiveness to one of the most equivocal genre's in art. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting intimately profiles 80 abstract painters working today. Nickas writes an involved report of each artist's work and practice, creating a multifarious portrait of the phenomenon's practitioners at a time when painting has been declared dead several times over. Make no mistake: this is not the final word on abstract painting, nor a strategic list of names meant to collectively prove the existence of a historic "moment." Like everything Bob Nickas has done before, here he shares his independent take on specific artists doing work that he respects.

excerpt from:

Paging: Bob Nickas on Abstraction

by asher penn 11/05/09

BOB NICKAS links:

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2009-06-22/cave-paintings-a-conversation-with-bob-nickas-/

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2009-11-05/bob-nickas/

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/bob_nickas/

http://www.amazon.com/Painting-Abstraction-New-Elements-Abstract/dp/0714849332

Kori Newkirk: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Thursday February 17th:

1:30 - 2:00

2:05 - 2:35

2:40 - 3:10

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3:50 - 4:20

4:25 - 4:55

Kori Newkirk

Sign-ups will be posted on Tuesday Feb. 15th at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Thursday Feb. 17th:

1:30 - 2:00

2:05 - 2:35

2:40 - 3:10

BREAK

3:50 - 4:20

4:25 - 4:55

Lecture is at 7pm at Warner.

This is from the Studio Museum in Harlem's website- (the show was titled- Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007)

Los Angeles-based artist Kori Newkirk transforms everyday images and objects into lyrical expressions of life. Born in the Bronx in 1970 and raised in Cortland, New York, he fuses his formal art education with childhood memories, social and political commentary, and popular culture. His works in sculpture, photography, video and mixed-media explore issues of race, gender, masculinity, alienation and place.

Newkirk’s formal training as a painter—he received his MFA from the University of California in Irvine—is evident in his command of composition, color and form. His approaches to subjectivity and objectivity, as well as his use of found materials, exemplify his innovative art practice. From his signature landscape works composed of plastic hair beads to the insertion of his body in social spaces and natural environments, his work reminds viewers of the isolation experienced by urban youth, the over-consumption of popular culture and the prevalence of racial stereotyping, as well as the beauty and experiences of African-American culture and life.

Kori's Bio/CV- http://www.artnet.com/artists/kori-newkirk/biography-links 2006 Whitney Biennial- http://whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Newkirk_Kori Kori Newkirk - fun interview by Christopher Bollen for Interview Magazine http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/kori-newkirk/

Jim Shaw: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Thursday January 6th:

2:00 - 2:30

2:35 - 3:05

3:10 - 3:40

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4:10 - 4:40

4:45 - 5:15

Jim Shaw

Sign-ups will be posted on Tuesday January 4th at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Thursday January 6th:

2:00 - 2:30

2:35 - 3:05

3:10 - 3:40

BREAK

4:10 - 4:40

4:45 - 5:15

Lecture is at 7pm at Warner.

http://www.clairebarliant.com/writing/jim-shaw/

Mark Grotjahn: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Wednesday, December 8th

2:35

3:10

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4:10

4:45

Mark Grotjahn

Sign-ups will be posted on Monday December 6th at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Wednesday December 8th:

2:35 - 3:05

3:10 - 3:40

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4:10 - 4:40

4:45 - 5:15

Lecture is at 7pm at Warner.

While at first glance, Mark Grotjahn's oeuvre appears to be bound to purely aesthetic in modernist discourse, references to nature and movement are plentiful. His butterfly motif, one of several recurring connections to the natural world along with flowers and water, has yielded extensive possibilities in both painting and drawing. His ongoing Butterfly series focuses on perspectival investigations, such as dual and multiple vanishing points, techniques used since the Renaissance to create the illusion of depth and volume on a two-dimensional surface. These iconic compositions of complex, skewed angles and radiant, tonal color allude to the multiple narratives coursing through the history of modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art. The extreme elegance of Grotjahn's works is often tempered by visible scuffs and markings that attest to the contingencies of process in his otherwise highly controlled compositions.

Centering each work is a single stroke of color from which rays (or wings) emanate. The paintings are essentially monochromatic, but the luster of the painted surface vibrates and oscillates, offering comparison with Barnett Newman's "zip" paintings. Resembling abstract butterfly wings, the works also call to mind "the butterfly effect", introduced by a mathematician and meterologist in the 1960s, which maintains that the slightest movement of a butterfly's wings could eventually cause a tornado to appear – a ready amalogy, perhaps, to Grotjahn's quietly provocative experiments within the history of abstract art. Mark Grotjahn was born in 1968 in Pasadena, California. He received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Recent solo exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006); and Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2007). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He lives and works in Los Angeles.