BOUNCE: AND February 5 - March 21, 2004 Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 7 - 10 pm Artists' Talk: Saturday, March 13, 3 pm

left: Mark Bradford, Los Moscos (detail) 2003. 120 x 192 inches. Paper on canvas Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Fine , New York right: Glenn Kaino, Time Machine #2 (To Summon the Past and the Present to the Aid of the Future) 2004. mixed media. dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and The Project, New York and

The 2003-2004 inaugural season at REDCAT continues with Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino. CalArts alumnus Mark Bradford makes that explore the limitations, restrictions and artistic tensions rooted in human experience and social negotiations of place. Glenn Kaino's often kinetic, always dynamic sculptures play off language, history and theoretical constructions to question the cultural matrix in which he is entangled. Bounce features new works by both artists commissioned by the American Center Foundation. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition features an essay by curator Eungie Joo and artists' conversations between Mark Bradford and , and Glenn Kaino and Daniel J. Martinez, as well as installation views of the exhibition will be available in March. The city as an abstraction is of great interest for Mark Bradford. According to the artist, "The signage in the 'hood is about something that is abandoned.[t]he barricades that go up around burnt-out buildings, some of which are still not rebuilt from the 1992 riots. You learn quickly walking by these urban abstractions that within the walls of those abandoned buildings lie the accumulated stories, half-forgotten but retaining an energy- in-waiting." In his latest works, Bradford appropriates print advertisements by removing them from fences and walls around the city, then integrating them with various other papers, applying layer upon layer to stretched canvas. For Bounce, Bradford will unveil three new canvases that toil with Los Angeles as an atmospheric abstraction. In the ten by sixteen-foot work, Los Moscos (2003), colored paper elements and print advertising are collaged amidst a network of negative spaces and pauses. A profound absence of paint is juxtaposed with the excess of , obscuring figurative moments in the rescued ads. Absence and removal figure prominently in the work as the artist defaces his surfaces with household bleach, foil, and still more layers of paper.

Glenn Kaino's works explore the cultural matrix in which he operates. His recent work reveals a fascination with Rube Goldberg machines and their exaggerated economies of work, and The Factory, Schrodinger's Cat, and quantum equations. He considers his approach a fourth-dimensional one, based in time and spaciality. Kaino's 2003 work In Revolution... plays off a quote attributed to Napoleon: "In Revolution, there are two types of people, those who create it and those who profit from it." With what might be considered a wry critique of revolutionary actions and their consequences, Kaino mounted a weathered engine to an A-frame base that spins a large metal propeller-a literal interpretation of cyclic rotation. On one side of the propeller is a large boulder, tethered to the edge. The other side has attached to it a square diorama of a suburban house, complete with a water-filled swimming pool. While the momentum of spinning threatens to hurl the rock as if from David's sling, the same spinning creates the force that maintains the oppositional stasis of the system, reinforcing a kind of status quo. Mark Bradford's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American at Altria, New York, and the Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, , and in group exhibitions at the , New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; and the UCLA , Los Angeles, California. He earned both a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A fourth- generation Angelino, Glenn Kaino is co-founder with Daniel J. Martinez and Tracey Shiffman of Deep River Gallery, the not not-for-profit space for exhibition and experimentation in downtown Los Angeles (1997-2002). Kaino's works have been included in group exhibitions at Bronx Museum of Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles. His work will be included in the 2004 . Both artists live and work in Los Angeles.

Catalogue to feature artists' dialogues with Kara Walker and Daniel J. Martinez. Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino is made possible by a generous grant from the American Center Foundation. Additional funding provided by Gil Friesen and Lombard- Freid Fine Arts, New York.

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