Ben Maltz Gallery
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Current Exhibition
Opening January 24  The Future Imaginary January 24 - March 28, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, January 24, 4-6pm The Future Imaginary features work by 11 artists whose work responds to the new interactive DVD novel The Imaginary 20th Century by Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andreas Kratky. The exhibition curators Tom Leeser, Director of the Center for Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts, and Meg Linton, Director of OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery and Public Programs, worked in collaboration with author Norman Klein and historian Margo Bistis to create this dynamic, kinetic and provocative interpretation of man's need to envision the future. The curators and arists are engaging with the novel by assembling work in response to Klein's interst in what he calls the "misremembering of the future." Featured artists previewed the DVD novel caland responded by creating a new work or submitting an existing work that engages the premise. The exhibition is sponsored by OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery and Public Programs, OTIS Board of Governors, The Center for Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts, and The David Bermant Foundation. Featured artists Deborah Aschheim, Jeff Cain, Tom Jennings, Jon Kessler, Ed Osborn, Lea Rekow, Douglas Repetto, Phil Ross, Kari Seekins and Aaron Drake, Susan Simpson. DVD-Rom Novel The Imaginary 20th Century by Margo Bistis, Norman Klein, and Andreas Kratky The Imaginary 20th Century is a journey into the comic and perverse phantoms - factual, and at the same time, very fictional. It contains a double story: the story of the century that opened at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and the story of a woman (Carrie), who in 1901, selects four men to seduce her, each with his own version of the new century. In Europe and
Gallery Current Exhibition
Mark Dean Veca: Phantasmagoria
October 11 - December 6, 2008Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11, 5-7pm Reception for artist in conjunction with OTIS at 90! Homecoming Celebration, sponsored in part by Whole Foods Market at Plaza El Segundo Press Release (PDF) Walk-through with Artist (YouTube) Time-lapse Video of Installation (YouTube) Mark Dean Veca is the Fall 2008 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lecturer and Resident (JHCDLR) in the Fine Arts Department at Otis from September 20 to November 14, 2008. An internationally acclaimed artist and Otis alumnus (Fine Arts, 1985), Veca will be working with students and conducting one-on-one critiques with senior and graduate level painting students, and presenting a free public lecture about his work during his residency.
Mark Dean Veca opens a site specific installation entitled Phantasmagoria on Saturday, October 11, 5-7pm at the Ben Maltz Gallery and is a featured highlight of the “Otis Celebrates 90 Years” homecoming weekend, taking place October 10-12, 2008. On view through December 6, Veca’s solo exhibition will introduce a new large-scale site-specific painting installation and is curated by Meg Linton, Director of the Ben Maltz Gallery and Public Programs. A catalogue documenting the exhibition and residency will be available in Spring 2009. Marc Dean Veca was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design in 1985. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Veca is renowned for creating paintings, dr awings and installations that portray surreal cartoons, psychedelic landscapes, and pop culture iconography while also being inspired by long-established decorative motifs. Veca is widely recognized for his all-encompassing installations that surround the viewer and inspire a sense of awe. Revealing fantastical and, at times, humorous, aggressive, or sexual imagery with frenzy and pattern-like precision, his works often resemble a modernized interpretation of toile painting. In the 1998 catalogue for Veca’s El Gloominator exhibition, Steve Mitchell asserts that “Veca works in the meticulous tradition of the fresco painter to produce an image that paradoxically evokes the immediacy of the graffiti artist.” Mark Dean Veca’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan at institutions such as The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Veca’s work has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, Juxtapoz, and Flash Art. Amongst his many honors, Veca has twice received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2006. Veca’s recent solo exhibitions include Imbroglio (2007) at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, his most ambitious New York exhibition thus far, as well as Pulsation (2004) at 255 Elizabeth Street in New York, where he was commissioned by Nike to design an installation as well as a limited edition product series. Otis College of Art and Design created the JHCDLR with the support of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, to honor the memory of Jennifer Howard Coleman, a talented artist and an Otis alumna. It acknowledges leading contemporary painters by awarding an annual residency and lectureship hosted at Otis in the fall semester. Otis students engage with a professional artist who is pursuing an active and viable studio practice, about aesthetic, economic, and technical issues that artists face today. |
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