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Margaret Kilgallen MARGARET KILGALLEN: In the Sweet Bye & Bye June 16 - August 21, 2005 Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 15, 7 pm – 12 am Live sets by The Hallflowers and Tommy Guerrero, 8 pm Screening of Bill Daniel's new film, Who is Bozo Texino?, 10 pm This exhibition presents a survey of the works of the highly influential Bay Area painter, Margaret Kilgallen. The exhibition will feature over 50 individual works and groupings of paintings and drawings from private collections and the artist's estate. These works will be punctuated by one or two recreations of Kilgallen's wall paintings. The exhibition will be the first survey of Kilgallen's work and will be accompanied by a catalogue designed by Michael Worthington that documents and contextualizes the hundreds of works the artist produced during her prolific career. The catalogue will include an essay by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art curator Alex Baker, who organized East Meets West at the ICA Philadelphia in 2001, Kilgallen's last and arguably most profound installation (later recreated for the 2002 Whitney Biennial). It will also feature excerpts from Susan Sollins' interview with the artist from the PBS television program, website and book Art21. Kilgallen devoured old-time sources with an insatiable ear and respectful eye: Appalachian music, hand-painted signage, letterpress printing, hobo train writing and all host of religious and decorative arts. With an elegant hand, she meticulously copied letterforms and numbers in long forgotten scripts, revisiting the now forgotten pace of craftsmanship and the personal tales buried beneath official history. Kilgallen's unique re-sourcing of sweetly familiar and non-hierarchical everyday places, markings and people found throughout California was in large part inspired by the wandering culture of immigrants, railway workers and dreamers. She was especially interested in evidence of a maker's hand--in seeing traces of the maker in her work. The artist explained: I like things that are handmade and I like to see people's hand in the world, anywhere in the world; it doesn't matter to me where it is. And in my own work, I do everything by hand. I don't project or use anything mechanical, because even though I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, my hand will always be imperfect because it's human. And I think it's the part that's off that's interesting, that even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is. (from Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Kilgallen was born in 1967 in Washington, D.C. She received a BA in printmaking from Colorado College in 1989 and her MFA from Stanford University in 2001. Kilgallen's work has been exhibited at The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Drawing Center, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Kilgallen died in 2001. Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye is made possible by the generous support of The Judith Rothschild Foundation, The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and an Anonymous donor. Additional funding for the exhibition publication provided by Everloving and Feal Mor, Eve Steele and Peter Gelles, Jeffrey Deitch, 2K by Gingham, Giant Robot, and Stuart Shave. Gallery hours: noon to 6pm or curtain, closed Mondays Admission to the gallery is always free Visit www.redcat.org or call +1.213.237.2800 for more information REDCAT 631 West 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA.
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