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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Presents LéonieDecember Guyer 31, 2017: form in the realm of The first institutional solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Léonie GuyerErin Mills. 447 East Main Street Columbus, OH 43215 October 18–December 15, 2018

Dear Ms. Mills

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Léonie Guyer, Gift, 2006 (installation detail). Collection of the Shaker Museum | Suspendisse a massa mollis nunc congue lobortis. Donec lacus lectus, varius vitae, sollicitudin vel, Mount Lebanon, New Lebanon, New York. condimentum vulputate, ante. Donec orci. Proin viverra est eget turpis. Curabitur leo. Suspendisse ut tellus. Nam imperdiet fermentum sapien. Nulla rutrum lacus. Phasellus a quam. Suspendisse Sanlorem Francisco, sem, laoreet ac, CA faucibus—September a, faucibus venenatis, 13, 2018 tortor.—San Francisco-based artist Léonie Guyer (b. 1955, New York City) creates paintings, drawings, and booksSincerely, that are intimate in scale and minimalist in sensibility, yet are also expansive, idiosyncratic, and deeply nuanced. Consisting mostly of abstract shapes, some of her works are painted on wooden panels or marble fragments, others are drawn on paper, and others are painted directly onto walls in site-responsive installations. This exhibition, titled Shiraz Chavan [email protected] 800.447.1ART formAssociate in the Director realm of Undergraduate of, is the first Admissions monographic institutional showing of her work that will also feature newly commissioned work. It opens at CCA 1111 Eighth Street Wattis Institute on October 18 and remains on view until December 15, San Francisco CA 94107 2018. It is curated by CCA Wattis Director and Chief Curator Anthony Huberman as part of the institute’s 20th anniversary programming. cca.edu

As an artist, Guyer rejects language. She is drawn to the moment that precedes it, and her paintings locate a space that we can’t yet recognize, SF VERSION TheSerif Plain 9/14

name, or describe. She is seeking an experience that is at the edge of visibility:December 31,pre 2017-language, pre-shape, pre-geometry.

ScalErin Millse plays an important role in Guyer’s work. In her mind, an artwork is a447 place East Mainwhere Street countless decisions are condensed and compacted Columbus, OH 43215 together, and she works to intensify that concentration by keeping her paintings small and reduced down to their bare essentials: color, surface,

andDear shape. Ms. Mills She tries to do the most with the least.

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Sincerely, As a way to point to the many artistic vocabularies that overlap and co- exist within Guyer’s work, this exhibition features a vitrine of objects and references. With her paintings and drawings serving as the common point of departure, each of these elements contributes a different trajectoryShiraz Chavan outward and connects Guyer’s abstract paintings to Shaker [email protected] 800.447.1ART design,Associate Greek Director archeology,of Undergraduate mysticism, Admissions poetry, and music.

1111 Eighth Street In addition to her studio work, Guyer is a dedicated college educator who San Francisco CA 94107 previously taught at CCA. The Wattis Institute is proud to welcome Guyer cca.edu back to campus for her first institutional solo exhibition and to continue its commitment to supporting the careers of local and regional artists.

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About the Artist LéonieDecember Guyer’s 31, 2017 work has been exhibited in galleries such as Feature Inc. and Peter Blum Gallery in New York; Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle; 2nd FloorErin Mills Projects and Triple Base Gallery in San Francisco; among others. Institutions447 East Main orStreet nonprofit spaces such as the Berkeley Art Museum; Pacific Columbus, OH 43215 Film Archive the Lumber Room and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, both in Portland; and the Shaker Museum in Mount Lebanon,

NDearew Ms.York Mills, have also exhibited her work. Guyer has collaborated on book projects with poets Franck André Jamme and the late Bill Berkson. She hasLorem taught ipsum dolorat the sit Californiaamet, consectetuer College adipiscing of the elit. Arts, Quisque the tincidunt.San Francisco Fusce varius Art mattis Institute,ipsum. Nullam and viverra, the University orci eget convallis of California egestas, eros at turpisBerkeley, semper and nibh, she eu laoreet is currently magna anleo adjuncta ipsum. Nulla professor adipiscing at rhoncusSan Jose lorem. State Curabitur University. malesuada Guyer dictum receivedquam. Nullam her vel BFAvelit sedand metus MFA malesuada from the volutpat. San FranciscoDuis nec erat. Art Nunc Institute. sit amet mi. She Maecenas lives andultricies. works Sed id metus. Donec lobortis leo. Pellentesque cursus, urna ut fringilla porta, ligula augue fermentum in San Francisco. nisi, at molestie est eros eget massa. Sed luctus tincidunt diam. Phasellus mollis dapibus risus sed aliquam nulla in orci viverra ornare curabitur neque. About CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts FoundedCurabitur quam in 1998 felis, ullamcorperat California in, volutpat College eu, ofrutrum the Artseu, urna. in NullaSan ultricesFrancisco ligula and nec purus. locatedVivamus dapibusa few blocks justo in risus.from Cras its vitaecampus, turpis. CCA Vestibulum Wattis ante Institute ipsum primis for in faucibus orci Contemporaryluctus et ultrices posuere Arts is cubilia a nonprofit curae cras exhibition sit amet turpis venue quis tellus and faucibus research suscipit. institute Morbi dedicatedvenenatis, erat to neccontemporary semper luctus, quamart and ante ideas. sodales augue,As an et ex dignissimhibition lacus space, nunc velit elit. Nam eu lacus adipiscing dui dignissim scelerisque. Aliquam justo urna, interdum non, pulvinar commissions and shows new work by emerging and established artists non, venenatis viverra, purus. Pellentesque placerat nisl gravida enim. Nunc ut ligula nec magna fromvolutpat around tempus. the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Ken Lum: What’s Old is Old for a Dog; Henrik Olesen: The Walk; Melanie Gilligan: Parts- wholes;Suspendisse Howard a massa Fried:mollis nunc Dereli conguects; lobortis. Laura DonecOwens: lacus Ten lectus, Paintings varius vitae,; Jos sollicitudin de vel, Gruytercondimentum & Harald vulputate, Thys: ante. Tram Donec 3orci. (which Proin viverra traveled est eget to turpis.MoMA Curabitur PS1); leo.Josephine Suspendisse Pryde:ut tellus. Lapses Nam imperdiet in Thinking fermentum by sapien.the Person Nulla rutrum I Am lacus. (which Phasellus traveled a quam. to SuspendisseICA Philadelphialorem sem, laoreet and ac, earnedfaucibus a,Pryde faucibus a venenatis,2016 Turner tortor. Prize nomination); K.r.m. Mooney: En, set; Sam Lewitt: More Heat Than Light (which traveled to Sincerely, Kunsthalle Basel and the Swiss Institute, New York); and Ellen Cantor: Cinderella Syndrome (which traveled to Künstlerhaus Stuttgart). A recent group exhibition, Mechanisms, travels to Secession in Vienna in an expanded form entitled Other Mechanisms. Shiraz Chavan [email protected] 800.447.1ART AsAssociate a research Director institute, of Undergraduate the Wattis Admissions dedicates an entire year to reflect on

the work of a single artist, which informs a regular series of public 1111 Eighth Street programs and publications involving the field’s most prominent artists and San Francisco CA 94107 thinkers. The 2018–2019 season is dedicated to the writer Dodie cca.edu Bellamy; past seasons featured Joan Jonas, Andrea Fraser, David Hammons, and Seth Price.

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The Wattis also hosts an annual Capp Street Artist-in-Residence, one of theDecember earliest 31, 2017 and longest-running artist-in-residence programs in the country, founded in 1983 by Ann Hatch, as Capp Street Project, and incorporatedErin Mills into the Wattis Institute in 1998. Each year, an artist comes to447 live East and Main work Street in San Francisco for a semester, teaches a graduate Columbus, OH 43215 seminar at CCA, and presents an exhibition. Recent participants include contemptorary (2017–2018), Melanie Gilligan (2016–2017), Carissa RodriguezDear Ms. Mills (2015–2016), Nairy Baghramian (2014–2015), Claire Fontaine (2013–2014), Ryan Gander (2012–2013), Harrell Fletcher and Kris Martin (2011Lorem –ipsum2012), dolor Paulina sit amet, Olowskaconsectetuer and adipiscing Renata elit. LucasQuisque (2010 tincidunt.–2011), Fusce varius and mattis Abrahamipsum. Nullam Cruzvillegas viverra, orci eget (2009 convallis–2010). egestas, eros turpis semper nibh, eu laoreet magna leo a ipsum. Nulla adipiscing rhoncus lorem. Curabitur malesuada dictum quam. Nullam vel velit sed metus malesuada volutpat. Duis nec erat. Nunc sit amet mi. Maecenas ultricies. Sed id For more information, visit: wattis.org metus. Donec lobortis leo. Pellentesque cursus, urna ut fringilla porta, ligula augue fermentum nisi, at molestie est eros eget massa. Sed luctus tincidunt diam. Phasellus mollis dapibus risus sed Aboutaliquam Californulla in orcinia viverra College ornare of curabitur the Arts neque. Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) educates students toCurabitur shape quam culture felis, and ullamcorper society in, through volutpat eu, the rutrum practice eu, urna. and Nulla critical ultrices study ligula of nec art, purus. architecture,Vivamus dapibus design, justo in risus.and Craswriting. vitae turpis.Benefitting Vestibulum from ante its ipsum San primisFrancisco in faucibus Bay orci Arealuctus locaet ultricestion, posuere the college cubilia curaeprepares cras sit students amet turpis for quis lifelong tellus faucibus creative suscipit. work Morbi by cultivatingvenenatis, erat innovation, nec semper luctus, community quam ante engagement, sodales augue, etand dignissim social lacus and nunc vel elit. Nam eu lacus adipiscing dui dignissim scelerisque. Aliquam justo urna, interdum non, pulvinar environmental responsibility. non, venenatis viverra, purus. Pellentesque placerat nisl gravida enim. Nunc ut ligula nec magna volutpat tempus. CCA offers a rich curriculum of 22 undergraduate and 11 graduate programsSuspendisse ina massa art, design, mollis nunc architecture, congue lobortis. and Donec writing lacus lectus,taught varius by vitae,a faculty sollicitudin of vel, expertcondimentum practitioners, vulputate, ante.and Donecattracts orci. promisingProin viverra studentsest eget turpis. from Curabitur across leo. the Suspendisse Unitedut tellus. States Nam imperdiet and from fermentum 55 countries sapien. Nulla around rutrum the lacus. world. Phasellus Graduates a quam. Suspendisse are highlylorem sem, sought laoreet-after ac, faucibus by companies a, faucibus venenatis, such as tortor. Pixar/Disney, Apple, Intel, Facebook, Gensler, Google, IDEO, Autodesk, Mattel, and Nike, and Sincerely, many have launched their own successful businesses.

CCA is creating a new, expanded college campus at its current site in San Francisco that will open during the 2021–2022 academic year. SpearheadedShiraz Chavan by Studio Gang architects, the new campus design will be [email protected] 800.447.1ART aAssociate model Directorof sustainable of Undergraduate construction Admissions and practice; will unite the college’s

programs in art, crafts, design, architecture, and writing in one location to 1111 Eighth Street create new adjacencies and interactions; and will provide more student San Francisco CA 94107 housing than ever before. cca.edu

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Shiraz Chavan [email protected] 800.447.1ART Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions

1111 Eighth Street San Francisco CA 94107

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