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The Black Mirror January 19 – March 9, 2013 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 6:00 pm Opening: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Curators: James Welling and Diane Rosenstein Associate Curator: Farrah Karapetian

Diane Rosenstein Fine Art is pleased to present The Black Mirror, a group show curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein. This will be primarily an all-black show, engaging the literal and associative properties of reflective black surface materials. The power and provocation of each work is in the proposal it makes for presence in the absence of a diversified palette. The Black Mirror, opening Saturday, January 19th, will inaugurate Rosenstein's new gallery at 831 N. Highland Avenue in Hollywood.

The title of the show is inspired by Henri Matisse's painting Anemones au Miroir Noir (1918-19) and also the history of artistic engagement with Claude glass, convex mirrors used especially in the 18th and 19th century by painters. A layer of black tint was placed over the mirror's surface producing impure images. The convexity of the mirror and its shape were variable, but in general were designed to enhance perception at differing distances.

The relations of this exhibition's individual works to the conceit of The Black Mirror are as complex as are their relations to one another. Each work alters the viewer's perception, as might a Claude glass, using, by turns, literal or figurative transformation of objects, space, and material to suggest differing relations between an artwork and a self.

The show spans in chronology from Louise Nevelson's Untitled "Door" (1976-78) to recent work by Matthew Brandt, Eben Goff, and Farrah Karapetian. Its material scope ranges from the sculptural draping of Nancy Rubins' monumental Drawing (2007) to a black fiberglass "Plank" (1988) by John McCracken to the burned linen and acrylic Dead Day IV (2008) painting by Barnaby Furnas. Each artist addresses formal, social, and conceptual goals from within the means enabled by its medium and maker; the dialogue between them is surprising and unexpected.

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Some of the works mirror one another, but their differences are revealing. James Welling's dark Polaroid Lock (1976) echoes John McCracken's polished resin plank. Here the differences between these works enhance specific relationships to objecthood as much as medium.

Tom Burr's assemblage of domestic objects, Rectangled Restraint (2012), exists within the tradition established by Louise Nevelson seventy years prior, but engages with social associations in a different way. Burr's floor work suggests the social space activated by Jose Alvaro Perdices' Cruising Bar, Madrid (1997/2010), which captures a dark interior lit solely by the embers of a moving cigarette.

Dispersal is a formal link between Allan McCollum's Surrogates (1982-88) and Teresita Fernández' onyx and marble Double Cameo (2007); these pieces are comprised of many individual elements which use the wall as the site of their organization, or, in essence, as their frame. John Sisley's photographic grids are likewise an echo of this practice of conceptual accumulation.

Liz Deschenes uses the photograph Black & White #3 (2003) as a sculptural and performative material. Matthew Brandt's images at the grave of Edwin H. Land, inventor of Polaroid film, and Marco Breuer's physical engagement with the cameraless photograph pose alternative arguments for the relationship between the photograph, the , and the subject.

Representation flickers into the monochromatic field in Hiroshi Sugimoto's South Pacific Ocean, Tearai (1992), Rodney McMillian’s Unknown portraits (2006) and Phil Chang's unfixed portraits, from his Cache, Active series (2011). The material realism of Eben Goff's black wax and polished aluminum sculpture resonates with the oil, asphaltum and alkyds in Charles Fine's painting as well as the rich charcoals of Matthew Brandt's prints of George Bush Park (2009-11).

The exhibition will present photography, painting, sculpture, and works on paper from twenty-one artists, as follows: Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Tom Burr, Phil Chang, Mary Corse, Liz Deschenes, Teresita Fernandez, Charles Fine, Barnaby Furnas, Eben Goff, Whitney Hubbs, Farrah Karapetian, John McCracken, Allan McCollum, Rodney McMillian, Louise Nevelson, Jose Alvaro Perdices, Nancy Rubins, John Sisley, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and James Welling.

The show will inaugurate Diane Rosenstein's new gallery, a 4,300 square foot exhibition space in Hollywood, just two blocks south of Santa Monica Boulevard. Diane Rosenstein Fine Art is moving to this permanent home in Hollywood, after having presented a series of four exhibitions during 2012 in Beverly Hills, at 9399 Wilshire Boulevard, a new Richard Meier building (designed by Michael Palladino, AIA).

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About the Curators: James Welling (USA, b.1951) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. In January of 2013, Aperture will publish James Welling/Monograph to accompany a major survey exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum curated by James Crump opening February 1, 2013.

Diane Rosenstein owns and directs the programming at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, which alternates 20th century Post-War historical exhibitions with presentations of the work of emerging and mid-career artists. She is also the art advisor to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

Artist Biographies Matthew Brandt (USA, b. 1982) is an experimental photographer interested in physicality and process. He studied at Cooper Union (BFA 2004) and UCLA (MFA 2008.) Brandt's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The , and the Elton John Collection. His work has been recognized in publications Modern Painters, LA Weekly, and The New Yorker. Brandt lives and works in Los Angeles.

Marco Breuer (Germany, b. 1966) studied at the Fachhochschule, Darmstadt (1988- 92) and the Lette-Verein, (1986-88). His experimental photographs are in important collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; , New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany. Breuer is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2006), a Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (2005), and MacDowell Colony residencies (2003, 2001, 2000). In 2007, Aperture published Early Recordings, a monograph of Breuer's work.

Tom Burr (USA b. 1963) is an artist based in New York who works conceptually with sculpture and photography. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program, Burr has had solo exhibitions: Clouds in Trousers (2011- 12) at Museo Civico Diocesano di. S.M. dei Servi, Citta della Pieve, Italy; Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present (2010) at Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Monica Bonvicini/Tom Burr (2009) at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); Collezione La Gaia, Turin, Italy; mumok, , Austria; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Phil Chang (USA b. 1974) received his BA from the University of California, Irvine and his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts. He has had solo exhibitions at LAXART. His work has been recognized by Artforum, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and Blind Spot. In 2010, Chang completed Four over One, (publ. LACMA/Textfield). He is currently visiting faculty in the Department of Art at UCLA and a lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design. Phil Chang lives and works in Los

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Angeles.

Mary Corse (USA b. 1945) received her BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1963) and her MFA from Chouinard Art Institute (1968). Corse's work was recently exhibited at Venice in Venice, curated by Nyehaus in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2011); and Phenomenal: California Light and Space, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2011). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Los Angeles; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Mary Corse lives and works in Los Angeles.

Liz Deschenes (USA b. 1966) lives and works in New York. Her work has been featured recently in the 2012 Whitney Biennial; the Secession in Vienna, Austria; and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is part of the permanent collections of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Teresita Fernández (USA, b. 1968) is a conceptual artist based in New York. She received her BFA from Florida International University (1990) and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992). She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Artist's Grant, an American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. In 2011, President Obama appointed her to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a seven-year position. Fernández's works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Fernández is currently on the board of Artpace, a non-profit, international artist's residency program. Teresita Fernández lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Charles Fine (USA b. 1951) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. A thirty- year survey of his drawings, paintings, , and photographs is currently on view at Ace Gallery Los Angeles from 26 Oct. 2012 - 1 Feb 2013. His work is in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University.

Barnaby Furnas (USA b. 1973) lives and works in New York. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (1995) and an MFA from Columbia University (2000.) Furnas' work is the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2012. His work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; ZKM, Karlsruhe,

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Germany; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, .

Eben Goff (USA b. 1977) holds a BS from Skidmore College (2000) and an MFA from UCLA (2009). A two-time recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2007, 2009), Goff works on the cusp of the natural and the minimalist, moving between painting and sculpture in exhibitions nationwide.

Whitney Hubbs (USA b. 1977) holds a B.A. from California College of the Arts and an MFA from UCLA (2008). Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Library, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A recipient of the Tobey Lewis Award (2009) and the Juror Prize at Review Santa Fe (2007). Hubbs lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Farrah Karapetian (USA b. 1978) took her BA in fine art from Yale University (2000) and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2008). She has been a MacDowell Fellow (2010) and an artist-in-residence at the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War (2009). Artforum and The Los Angeles Times have recognized her work. Her writing has been published in Art & Education, Whitehot, and The Brooklyn Rail. Karapetian is currently working on an installation for the Flint Public Art Project, funded by grants from Artplace and the Center for Cultural Innovation. She is also the recipient of a 2012 Arts Writers Grant from the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Grant for her bog, housingprojectsblog.tumblr.com, launching January 2013.

Allan McCollum (b. USA 1944) is an artist who lives and works in New York. In 1978, he became known for his series Surrogate Paintings. This series, like much of McCollum's work, suggests the application of strategies of mass production to handmade objects, systematically arranged. His work was shown recently in Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years (2012), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and in major exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009); the Bienal de São Paulo (2008); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (most recently in 2007); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2006); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004). His works are held in over seventy art museum collections around the world.

John McCracken (USA, d. 2011) studied painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. McCracken's early work was included in groundbreaking exhibitions such as Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum, New York (1966) and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967). In 2011, his work was the subject of a major retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, Turin. Work by the artist is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais des Beaux-Arts, ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Rodney McMillian (USA, b. 1969) took his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998), and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2002). Mr. McMillian’s complex artistic practice encompasses sculpture, video, photography, and painting. He acutely examines the relationship between language, aesthetics and content. His work has been presented extensively in the United States and Europe, including Sentimental Disappointment, Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian, a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA (2008). Recently, his work has been included in major group exhibitions including Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); 30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2012); New Art for a New Century, Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2010); and Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Mr. McMillian is a United States Artist Broad Fellow (2008) and a recipient of the William H. Johnson Prize (2007).

Louise Nevelson (Ukraine, d. 1988) is an American sculptor. In 2010, her work was included in Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture at The Museum of Art and Louise Nevelson at Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson was organized by The Jewish Museum, New York (2007) and travelled to the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Galleria Civia d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Jose Álvaro Perdices (Spain, b. 1971) lives and works as an artist and curator in Madrid. His work has been shown at Instituto Cervantes, Miami; Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; and the Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.

Nancy Rubins (USA b. 1952) studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore (BFA, 1974) and the University of California, Davis (MFA, 1976). Her work has been presented in major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (1999), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1995), the 1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition; the 45th Venice Biennale (1993); and in Helter Skelter; LA Art in the 1990s at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1992). Ms. Rubin's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She currently lives and works in Topanga Canyon, CA.

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John Sisley (USA b. 1977) received a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MFA in visual art from the University of California, Riverside. His work has been exhibited in 2012 at West in Den Haag, The Netherlands, and in 2011 at CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japan, b. 1948) moved to Los Angeles in 1970 to study photography at the Art Center College of Design. His work was shown in 2012 at Hèrmes Editeur - Couleurs de l'Ombre, Museum der Kulture, Basel; and at Hiroshi Sugimoto, LAM, Lille, France; From naked to clothed (2012), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre Georges Pompidou, , France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. He lives in New York and Tokyo.

The Black Mirror opens Saturday, January 19th, with a reception from 7 - 9 pm. For More Information, contact: [email protected]

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