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Mary Heebner in Persistence at the Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College
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ECAA is pleased to announce Mary Heebner in Persistence
at the Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara
City College.
For the first exhibition of 2012, Atkinson Gallery is pleased to focus on abstract art in Santa
Barbara. Mary Heebner and nine other artists are exemplary of the extensive and insistent history of
abstraction in the Santa Barbara region. Diverse in style, technique and attitude, they are vital
components of Santa Barbara’s visual chronicle.
Opening Reception is Friday, January 27 at 5 to 7pm. The exhibition is accompanied by a lecture
by Dr. Joy Kunz from the SBCC art department on Wednesday, February 8, at 4:30 in Art
Department, room H111. The exhibition will remain through February 16, 2012. Gallery hours are
Monday through Thursday, 10am to 7pm. Friday and Saturday, 10 am to 4pm. For more
information, please contact Dane Goodman: goodman@sbcc.edu
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ECAA ARTISTS IN THE NEWS
Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces
at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Through February 25, 2012
For his most important solo exhibition in Los Angeles to date, Adam
Berg uses the city’s modern
architectural heritage to explore the relationship between the man-made environment and threatened
wildlife. Using a new series of videos to encircle the gallery space in Project Room 1, each video
presents sequences of endangered animals occupying vulnerable Los Angeles landmarks: Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, the Rudolf Schindler House, Richard Neutra’s Kronish House,
and
John Lautner’s Beyers House. Berg complements the videos with stainless steel sculptures that
refract and reflect the video projections. Taken all together, the sculptures, videos, and photography
create a sublime space that challenge our contemporary perceptions of animalism and the humane,
domestication and wild, and the man- made and natural.
For more information, please visit www.smmoa.org
Deborah Aschheim: feeling-of-knowing
at the University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
Through December 3, 2011
Deborah Aschheim: feeling-of-knowing features sculptures, drawings, and sculptural installations
that incorporate video and sound, the latter produced in collaboration with musician and composer
Lisa Mezzacappa. For several years, Aschheim has explored aspects of personal and collective
memory, including how memories are formed, how they change over time, how they can be
forgotten, and how they might be preserved. The artist is interested in both a subjective and
a
scientific understanding of memory, and has titled the exhibition with a poetic phrase that is, in
actuality, a clinical term borrowed from memory studies.
For more information, artgallery.sdsu.edu.
Lebbeus Woods’s The
Light Pavilion at the MAK Center for
Art & Architecture
Through August 6, 2011
Designed by Lebbeus
Woods and created in collaboration with architect Christoph A. Kumpusch,
the Light Pavillion will be Woods’ first built piece of built architecture. Inserted
in the Steven Holl’s
newest building in Chengdu, China the Pavilion employs a dynamic geometry that contrasts with
the more regular rectilinear lines of Holl’s building surrounding it. The exhibition features
construction drawings, in-process photographs and a model. Other than heading to China, this will
be the only West Coast opportunity to experience the work of the internationally respected
experimentalist at the Garage Top at the Mackey Apartments.
George Legrady’s interactive project Cell Tango at SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco
Through April 14, 2011
George Legrady’s dynamic, interactive project Cell
Tango is installed as part of Spread which takes
place at the SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco. The group
exhibition features the work of seminal,
emerging and mid-career conceptual artists all with strong ties to the Bay Area. The exhibition and
panel discussion highlight the history and continuing contributions of Bay Area artists to the
conceptual and new media arts around the world. Participating artists include Sharon Grace, Paul
Kos, Tony Labat, George Legrady, Laetitia Sonami, Carissa Potter, Julien Berthier, Guy Overfelt,
Angus Forbes and Jaqueline Gordon.
Mark Harrington
featured at LAMAG’s Framing Abstraction:
Mark, Symbol, Signifier
February 27, 2011 to April 24, 2011
Mark Harrington
will be featured in the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery’s honoring of the
centennial of abstract painting. Organized by Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue and Peter Selz, they
note, “Abstract art has evolved from its original spiritual and utopian stance in the early 20th
century
to an art which was seen as radical-avant-garde, and on to its present vibrant position. Refuting
the
digital display of the current moment, abstract paintings are simply pictures, brushed by the hand of
the artist, in which emotional intuition is framed by the artist’s rational mind in to dynamic
metaphors.”
Mary Heebner
exhibits at Carl Cherry Center for the Arts (Carmel)-Black
Island / Isla Negra
January 11, 2011 to February 19, 2011
Mary Heebner
will be featured in a solo exhibition titled: Black Island / Isla Negra. This is an
exhibition featuring over a decade of work by Santa Barbara based artist Mary Heebner. Inspired
by
the beauty and power of the Pacific Ocean, and the poetry of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, this body
of works on paper will pair Heebner’s art with Neruda’s poetry translated by Neruda scholar
Alastair
Reid.
Deborah Aschheim chosen as Columbus State University Resident Scholar
CSU Arts Department announces Deborah
Aschheim’s Fall 2010 participation in the program.
Deborah Aschheim makes installations based on invisible networks of perception and thought. Her
recent work exploring the subject of memory has led her to collaborate with musicians and
neuroscientists on projects that are an equal mix of science and poetry. Examples of Aschheim’s
work are included in an group exhibition at the Corn Center for the Visual Arts.
Ball-Nogues Studio exhibits at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Showing through March 6, 2011
Ball-Nogues Studio’s Gravity’s
Loom will feature an immersive, site-specific installation for the IMA’s
Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion. Their studio fuses the disciplines of art, architecture and
design, bringing aspects of each world to the other to create technologically innovative and visually
spectacular built environments.
George Legrady exhibits at Meditation Biennale: Poznan,
Poland
Showing through October, 2011
ECAA artist George Legrady is presently exhibiting
several of his works in this event featuring
International artists in Poznan, Poland. Mediations
Biennale is the largest exhibition of
contemporary art in Poland. Biennale’s idea is fostering the dialogue between civilizations,
between
culture and art, presentations of achievements in the latest art from remote corners of the globe, as
well as artistic explorations of Central European artists.
Mary Heebner’s Face/Vase: Parallel Features, featured at
Cabana Home, Santa Barbara
Cabana Home, in collaboration with Edward Cella
Art + Architecture, presents a solo exhibition by
artist Mary Heebner. Face/Vase:
Parallel Features features several of her new, alluring paintings
on paper. Drawing together works from three distinct series, Heebner invites us to make
associations among them that connect human and earth-centered forms. Heebner’s exhibition offers
insight into her current studio practice that explores this continual metamorphosis.
R. Nelson Parrish to participate in the Gibson Sunset Strip Guitartown Showing
August 2010 and beyond
Chosen along with dozens of participating artists, R.
Nelson Parrish will be displaying a 10 foot
custom-finished fiberglass Gibson Les Paul guitar replica in a program titled The
Gibson Sunset
Strip Guitartown Project. These fiberglass guitars, customized by the chosen artists,
will be placed
in front of various hot spots and iconic clubs and other businesses along the Sunset Strip beginning
in August of 2010 to kick-off the third annual Sunset
Strip Music Festival (August 26 – 28th). The
completed guitars are expected to be on-display for a period of approximately 9 months. The
guitars will be auctioned for charity at the conclusion of the event.
Mary Heebner at Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University
July 11 – July 31, 2010
Building on her recent exhibition with ECAA, Heebner will be featured in the group show New
Used
Borrowed at the Guggenheim Gallery
at Chapman University in Orange, CA. The exhibit will include
new works created specifically for the exhibit, works traded or purchased from other artists, and
works on loan from artists’ studios. Heebner contributes a recent work, entitled Messenger
from the
Parallel Features series, which is a substantial reworking of a Roman era limestone bust on view
at
the Santa Barbara Museum of Art using her distinctive drawing processes.
The Guggenheim Gallery is located at:
1 University Drive, Orange, CA 92866-1005 (714) 997-6661
Thomas Zika at Projektraum-Bahnhof 25
July 3 – July 25, 2010
A selection of new and recent works by Thomas Zika will
be on view at Projektraum-Bahnhof 25
along with works by fellow German artist, Dirk D. Knickhoff.
Projektraum-Bahnhof is an artist
collective and kunsthalle that features regular exhibition and public programs located in north-
western Germany. This event is free and open to the public.
Projektraum-Bahnhof 25 is located at:
Bahnhofstrasse 25, 47533 Kleve, Germany
Mark Harrington Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times
June 25, 2010
Leah Ollman, of the Los
Angeles Times, recently reviewed Mark Harrington’s Depth of Field at
Edward Cella Art + Architecture. Ollman notes that the paintings, “marry programmatic order and
chance, the geometric and organic. Their layering hints at archaeological strata; the horizontal
stripes suggest both a musical staff and audible rhythms. In other words, the paintings are more
expansive than reductive, more intriguing than their category would suggest”. Harrington’s
exhibition
also received favorable notices in California
Contemporary Art, ArtScene, ArtDaily and Fabrik
Magazine. The exhibition has been extended through July 31, 2010 during normal gallery hours
and
through the month of August by appointment.
Deborah Aschheim at the Museum of Jurassic Technology
June 14 – 17, 2010
In June, Deborah Aschheim was featured in an exhibition at the Museum
of Jurassic Technology, which was
celebration and culmination of Viralnet.net’s
2008 to 2009 web based curatorial initiative. For the project,
artists were asked to respond to the words “home” and “garden” through a variety
of processes and media.
Aschheim presented drawing of places inspired by the Museum’s eclectic holding which anticipate
her
forthcoming solo exhibition with ECAA in September 2010.
Ruth Pastine Installs Public Installation at Ernst & Young Plaza
Now on View
Artist Ruth Pastine’s newest public commission, Limitless, covers two adjoining lobbies
of the Ernst &
Young Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. The project consists of eight large format, oil on canvas paintings
(each measuring 8’ 6” by 4’ 6”) arranged in four diptychs on adjoining walls.
Inspired by the distinct and
contrasting light conditions in the building’s two atrium lobbies; Pastine set out to reveal the
perceptual
interplay between saturated, brilliant and bold color relationships in concert with intimate, dark and
subtle
color experiences. Creating new works from her Blue Orange Series for the North Lobby and
works from the
Red Green Series for the South Lobby, the installation initiates a lively dialogue of opposition, balance
and
rhythmic flow. Pastine notes, “As I work serially on several paintings simultaneously, focused
on the
interactions between systems of color, structure, and perception, the Limitless installation has become
paramount in advancing the direction of my work.”
Ernst & Young Plaza is located at:
725 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Public parking is available in surrounding lots.
ECAA Presents New and Recent Works by Brian Hollister at Cabana
Home.
April 5 – May 29, 2010
Featuring a select grouping of large-format abstract paintings, which represent a culmination of
Hollister’s interest in how light appears and changes over land, water and in the sky. The Los
Angeles based artist’s passion for the physical beauty of nature, inspired by the artist’s
frequent
and extensive hikes though the landscape of California and the greater Southwest, transforms into
serene yet powerful works which are luminous, richly colored, and expressively painted
Although abstract painting is sometimes viewed as nothing more than color and form, Hollister’s
abstract imagery is born out of a desire to evoke the majesty found in nature. Suggesting the
stratigraphy of earthen forms, Hollister creates works with strong horizontal bands of color, which
shift between field and ground. Utilizing this visual stratagem has empowered the artist
to eschew
concerns for composition and allowed him to focus on the expressive power of color and light. The
resulting works, in part due to their large and encompassing format, offer viewers direct experiences
that are immersive and transformative. In describing his work, Hollister states, “rather than being
an
illustration, I make paintings that seek to offer an experience of what it feels like to be in and of
the
landscape during summer and winter – to convey a sense of place without specificity. My paintings
are an attempt to go beyond something that can be described but not defined.”
The artist studied painting at the University of California, Los Angeles under teachers such as
Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Garabedian, and Lee Mullican. Hollister’s work is exhibited regularly
in Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Critic David Pagel, in a recent review published in the Los Angeles
Times stated: “Brian Hollister paints horizontal lines across juicy atmospheric fields,
playing contrasting
colors against one another in ways that warp space, boggle the mind and delight the eye.”
Brian Hollister: Recent Works, representing the Santa Barbara debut exhibition for the artist,
is the
third in an on-going sequence of exhibitions curated by former Santa Barbara gallerist, Edward Cella
of Edward Cella Art + Architecture in collaboration with Caroline and Steven Thompson, principals of
Cabana Home. Through regular presentation of new and notable contemporary artists in Santa
Barbara, the ongoing series seeks to open a dialog between artists and collectors in Santa Barbara,
Los Angeles and beyond
For more information please visit www.cabanahome.com
Guggenheim New York Exhibits ECAA Architect Ball Nogues Studio with Jessica
Fleischmann.
February 12 – April 28, 2010
On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, the Museum has invited
approximately 250 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream intervention in Frank
Lloyd Wright’s rotunda. Entitled, Contemplating
the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim
Museum, the exhibition will feature a salon-style installation of two-dimensional renderings
of their
visionary projects and will emphasize the rich and diverse range of inspired proposals. Ball
Nogues
Studio envisions the iconic museum and its structure of inter-linked spaces and ramps as ideal
form
to house a demonstration, sustainable manufacturing system. In adapting Wright’s masterwork to
house the industrial transformation of raw, organic sugar cane into delectable candy confection, Ball
Nogues Studio’s reuse is a frank acknowledgement of the imperative of architects to shape the
careful appropriation and preservation of noted structure while adapting them economically and
functionally using new green technologies and systems. That Wright designed the structure, a
priori, to suit this pressing, contemporary need is proof enough that form follows function.
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
Organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for
Architecture and Design.
Open to the public February 12, 2010.
For more information please visit www.guggenheim.org
Vancouver Olympics Highlight ‘New Media Artists’: ECAA Artist George Legrady Included.
February 4 – February 28, 2010
The Vancouver
2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE) is the first to create a digital
celebration of culture and the arts as part of a Games experience. George Legrady’s
We Are
Stardust is a two-screen projection installation that uses infrared sensors to connect the real-time
location of the audience in the exhibition gallery with the total vastness of space. Based on data
and observations of the sky collected by the sun-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope from 2003 to
2008, over 36,000 observations are represented and projected in a five-hour cycle. Simultaneously,
a FLIR thermal sensing infrared surveillance camera repositions its gaze on the audience based on
the positions of the Spitzer's observations. As one screen represents this galaxy as it evolves, the
other screen, using a similar sensing device, represents the changing space within the installation
itself. The universe is projected and visualized, and the exhibition space records the spectator's
thermal presence and actions, creating a work of art that is truly universal and local at the same
time. We are Stardust reminds us of how small we really are, yet how interconnected we can be
beyond what we can normally see with the human eye.
Cathy Daley to be featured in 10th Anniversary of New Gallery
Walsall, England.
February 12 – 17, 2010
To mark their 10th Anniversary the New
Walsall Gallery in England is hosting PARTY, an exhibition
designed to celebrate both 10 years of achievement and also the range and diversity of the visual
arts. Cathy Daley’s elemental and spontaneous black oil pastels on translucent vellum will be
featured in the exhibition with their wide range of tonality, evanescence and strength. The Party
theme extends across music, song and dance, performance, dress and decorations. This exhibition
brings together consciously diverse and eclectic group of works by both internationally renowned
and emerging artists.
For more information please visit www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
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