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Kate Costello, Untitled (Heart), 2008 Acrylic on paper, H 244 x 193 cm – H 96 x 76 in. © Kate Costello

Exhibition from September 7 to October 10, 2009 Opening on Saturday the 5th of September 2009, from 4pm to 8pm

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The title of this exhibition is meant to conjure a sense of family and of the favorite things therein and perhaps a small fancy of running wild in the Alps with a large Austrian family who perseveres through very trying times.

I find myself, and we find the world, in a similar place where looking to the support of family, friends, and in fact, the greater realm of one’s local community, essential in calming more worldly fears.

My local community is the City of Los Angeles and the 4 artists included in this show all live and work here. I do consider myself fortunate to live in a city with such a rich collection of artists from whom I can select work that is not only dynamic, and compelling, but also simply good and thoughtful…all considerations that seem most appropriate for these times.

I selected the respective works that are featured in this show, based on a variety of criterion including thoughts from the conceptual to the pragmatic and a tad of ruminating about neo‐modernism. There was also certainly a sense of desire for works with a strong use of colour, material and/or form. And lastly as always, there is more than a little bit of beauty thrown in for good measure, since it is after all, PARIS.

So I bring to La Ville‐Lumière, to JGM Galerie, whom I hold dear, from the City of Angels:

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things… *

Madeleine Hoffmann Curator

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FROM THE ARTISTS // SELECTED EXHIBITED ARTWORKS // BIOGRAPHIES

Justin Beal

Le Corbusier’s first impressions of New York, originally recounted, When the Cathedrals were White: A Journey to the Country of Timid People, describe American modernist architecture as sinisterly superficial and characterized by cleanliness tantamount to a “national virtue”. In White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture, Mark Wigley links Le Corbusier’s understanding of repressed American architecture to his thesis of the psychosexual charge of the white wall…”The desire for white is a desire for the control of desire. But, like all obsessively puritanical rejections of sexuality, it is itself sexual”.

The four plaster sculptures in this show are cast around cucumbers that gradually deteriorate to reveal the negative spaces within the form. The absent cucumbers, like the produce and pomegranate bottles in preceding works, act as a surrogate for the occupant of the built environment. The introduction of organic material as a stand‐in for the human follows naturally from a critique of modern design’s failure to address the human need to eat, digest, shit, etc. An earlier series of tables made with glass, sheetrock and oranges, for example, inverts the still life by taking the fruit off the surface of the table and placing it within its structure. The fruit is to the sculpture as the human is to the building. The mould, the drips and the discoloration illustrate the inevitable awkwardness of containing a human organism within a built structure and the sculptures retain a metonymic relationship to the architecture that surrounds them.

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Justin Beal, Hot House (6), 2009 Plaster, cucumbers, pedestal and zip tie H 190.5 x 18 x 18 cm – H 75 x 7 x 7 in. © Justin Beal

Justin Beal, Untitled (Orange Table), 2008 Aluminium, sheetrock, glass and oranges H 81 x 61 x 61 cm and H 61 x 51 x 51 cm – H 32 x 24 x24 in. and H 24 x 20 x 20 in. © Justin Beal Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 4 JGM. Galerie ‐ 79, rue du Temple – 75003 Paris ‐ Tel : 33 1 43 26 12 05 ‐ Fax : 33 1 46 33 44 83 JGM. PRESS RELEASE Galerie

Justin Beal lives and works in Los Angeles.

2007 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2005 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan 2003 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York 2001 BA (Architecture and Design), Yale University, New Haven

Solo Exhibitions 2008 Melamine Everything, ACME., Los Angeles The Whites, Project Room, Bortolami, New York

Solo Projects 2007 Calender LA>

Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 TIME‐LIFE, Taxter and Spengemann, New York Tables and Chairs, D’Amelio Terras, New York 1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles Just Around the Corner, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Video Journeys, Sister, Los Angeles Skin Jobs, Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles The Chef’s Theory, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles Accept with Pleasure*, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York Boofthle Booth‐Booth: Deux Doox – Hollywood Biennial, Pauline, Los Angeles 2008 The Station, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman, Midblock East, Miami 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Radio Three on the Tree in the Light of the Dark Black Night, Esther Schipper, Berlin Records Played Backwards, curated by Daniel Baumann, The Modern Institute, Glasgow Nina In Position, curated by Jeffery Uslip, Artists Space, New York Past‐Forward, curated by Vincent Honoré, Zabludowicz Collection, London Mystery of the Invisible Clock, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles Boofthle Booth‐Booth, Pauline, Los Angeles Thoughts on Democracy, The Wolfsonian, Miami and the University of Mexico City 2007 Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

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Wu‐Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York Project room, Bortolami Gallery, New York Reality Disorder (with Mateo Tannatt), Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles Everyday is Saturday, curated by Daniel Baumann, Cumberto Space, Tbilisi, Georgia Warhol and…, Kantor‐Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles Petroliana, Moscow Biennial, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York Darling, Take Fountain, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Eleven, Twelve, Pilar Parra & Romero Gallery, Madrid The Trans‐Aestheticization of Daily Life, UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside 2006 Pose & Sculpture, curated by Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and Q.E.D. Gallery, Los Angeles Let’s Stay Alive Till Monday, Art Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi, Georgia Wight Biennial: The Anxiety of Influence, University of California, Los Angeles 2005 Radiodays, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Traffic: Exit Art Biennial II, Exit Art, New York 2004 Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York Tuesday is Gone, Art Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi, Georgia Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City Strange Animal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles High Desert Test Sites 4, Joshua Tree Sprawl, Hudson Clearing Gallery, New York

Bibliography - Michael Ned Holte, Review: Pauline, Artforum, April 2009 - Holly Myers, Sculpture Gives Shape to Videos, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2009 - Younger Than Jesus/Artists Director, Phaidon Press, 2009 - Tyler Coburn, Future Greats, Art Review, March 2009 - Blake Gopnik, Critic’s Picks, Artforum.com, March 2008 - Vincent Honoré, “A Fragmented Time,” Past–Forward, Zabludowicz Collection, 2008 - Holland Cotter, Nina In Position, The New York Times, Art Listings, February 15, 2008 - Aram Moshayedi, “Justin Beal in Conversation with Aram Moshayedi,” 2008, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, 2008 pp. 50 ‐ 53 - Arty Nelson, “The Never‐ending Exploration,” LA Weekly, January 11‐17 2007, p. 42 - Shamim Momin, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Olga Adelantado, ed), 2007

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- Michael Ned Holte, On the Ground: Los Angeles, Artforum, December 2007 - Holland Cotter, I Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon, The New York Times, Art Listings, November 23, 2007 - Roberta Smith, Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups, The New York Times, Critic’s Notebook, July 28, 2006 - Bruce Hainley, Artquake. The New York Times Magazine, October 1, 2006 - Adam E. Mendelsohn, Look Again: “Pose & Sculpture,” Spike Art Quarterly, September, 2006 - Adam E. Mendelsohn, Review: “Pose & Sculpture,” Time Out New York, Jul. 27‐Aug. 2, 2006 - Julia Morton, Eye Candy v. Hard Candy, artnet.com, November 2007 - Amra Brooks, Must See Art, LA Weekly August 16, 2007 - Tommy Freeman, The Trans‐Aestheticization of Daily Life,” Art Week, May 2007 - James Trainor, Anybody Home?, Frieze, May 2006 - Ken Johnson, Review: Sprawl, The New York Times, Art in Review, January 23, 2004 - Bill Wheelock, Review: Sprawl, ArtUS, June‐August, 2004 - Wade Guyton, Desert Storm, V Magazine, September‐October 2003

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Jedediah Caesar

My work is rooted in the collection of objects and materials within a limiting framework, for example studio detritus, organic waste from my home, cast‐off materials in the world. These are industrial projects, actions related to a manufacturing sensibility and the industry around the leftovers of industry.

As in assemblage, facets of the materials are revealed through juxtaposition, but my process incorporates industrial processes and materials that connect the works to systems of production outside art making. This is a key step because I want for my works to be read in ways that include a vernacular language for understanding objects. By that I mean the associations we use to understand how everything, from natural forms to mass‐produced commercial objects, relate to each other and ourselves. By repositioning materials you see them again. In the cut pieces objects sometimes run backwards, for example a 2 x 4 is just wood again.

Claybrick,stackhorizontalvariation,1stwallbridge(the hive) is one of a group of works collectively called The Hive. This series consists of variations of groups of brick‐like objects. The potential variations are huge, and it is unknown when or if The Hive will reach the limits of that potential. Each individual brick is a container, a piece of cargo (in this case resin, sand and cement‐ but in general an unlimited variety of materials including wax, plants, detritus and dust).

That the pieces lend themselves to stacking brings up the possibility of utility that I hope to explore. In one instance this set of forms may stand alone as a sculpture, and in another they may find themselves incorporated into architecture or masquerading as a stone wall in the countryside. The two large groups of bricks represent this potential.

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Jedediah Caesar, The Hive, 2005 Mixed media (4 elements), H 56 x 34 x 90.5 cm – H 22 x 13 1/3 x 35 ½ in. © Jedediah Caesar

Jedediah Caesar, Triptych B, 2008 Watercolour and xenotype on paper, each: H 28 x 43 cm – H 11 x 17 in. © Jedediah Caesar

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Jedediah Caesar lives and works in Los Angeles

1973 Born in Oakland, CA 2001 M.F.A, University of California, Los Angeles 1998 B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Solo exhibitions 2009 Holding Station, Susanne Vielmeter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA Gleaner Stone, public project with LAXART, Culver City, CA 2008 The Ruinsed, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris France 2007 3 Views from Space, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY City of industry, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Susanne Vielmeter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Done by the Forces of Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Jedediah Caesar (with Brad Phillips), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Jedediah Caesar, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

Selected group exhibitions 2009 Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Stardust, Fundament Foundation, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands Extra Extra (project with Kate Costello), China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA 2008 The Station, curated by Shamiim Momin and Nate Lowman, Miami, Fl California Bienniel, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Multiverse, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA Whitney Bienniel, Whitney museum of American Art, New York, NY Red Wind, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Silence of Infinite Space, curated by Aram Moshayedi, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA 2007 Everyday Eden, Public Art Fund at Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY Circumventing the City, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY Paper Bombs curated by Bart Exposito, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artist Drawings, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Jessica Stockholder, Jedediah Caesar, Markus Amm, Garth Weiser, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Trace, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, New York 2005 Take it Further! curated by Gyonata Bonvicini, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England

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Ask the Dust, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY Sculpture ‐Nouvelles formes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Sugartown, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY Fearless Vampire Killers, Casey Kaplan 10‐6, New York, NY Thing, Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA The 7th Annual Altoids Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA; Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX; Soo Visual, Minneapolis, MN; New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY; Luckman Center for Visual Arts, LA, CA. 2004 Rule the Wasteland, Locust Projects, Miami, FL Strange Animal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (in conjuction with High Desert Test Sites 4, Joshua Tree, CA) Black Dragon Society, Apex Art, New York, NY Surface Tension, Lombard‐Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY Run For The Hills, Locust Projects, Miami, Fl 2003 Hitoshi Nishiyama, Jedediah Caesar, Robert Billings, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 3D4Deep, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA …Butt Seriously, Moore Space, Miami, Fl High Desert Test Sites 2, Joshua Tree, CA Win, Lose or Draw, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA New Sculpture, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jack Tilton/ Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY Beautiful Artists, curated by Yutaka Sone, Yamaguchi Institute of Art, Japan Drawing Show, Black Dragon Society, Vienna, Austria

Curation 2009 Tables and Chairs (with Shana Lutker), D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography - “The Shape of Things To Come: New Sculpture”, Saatchi Gallery and Rizzoli International Publications, July 2009 - “Vitamin 3‐D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation”, Phaidon Press Inc., May 09 - Berardini, Andrew, “One of these Landscapes Is not like the other”, Mousse Magazine, Issue 19, Summer 2009 - Myers, Holly, “Holding Station”, Art Review, Issue 33, Summer 2009 - Satorius, Katherine, “Jedediah Caesar at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Artweek, June, 2009 - Searle, Adrian, “The Saatchi’s art exhibition Abstract America is stupid stuff turned out smart”, The UK Guardian, June 2, 2009 - Ollman, Leah, “Jedediah Caesar at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Los Angeles Times, April 30

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- Berardini, Andrew, “2008 California Biennial,” Frieze, Issue 121 March 2009 - Michno, Christopher, “Multiverse: Idiosyncratic Theorizing”, Inland Empire Weekly, January 2009 - Knight, Christopher, “California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art”, Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2008 - Dambrot, Shana, “Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades”, Art Ltd, July, 2008 - Danto, Arthur C., “Unlovable”, The Nation, May 26, 2008 - Mansoor, Jaleh, “Matters that Matter: Über die Whitney Biennale, New York”, - Texte zur Kunst, June, 2008 - Canning, Susan, “Whitney Biennial: New York”, Art Papers, May, 2008 - Vikram, Anuradha, “The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June, 2008 - Volk, Gregory, “Spring In Dystopia”, Art In America, May, 2008 - Saltz, Jerry, “When Cool Turns Cold”, New York Magazine, March 13, 2008 - Morton, Julia, “The Does and Don’ts on Collecting in Style: The 2008 Whitney Biennial”, New York Press, March 11, 2008 - Camhi, Leslie, “The Whitney Biennial and the Failure of an Empire”, The Village Voice, March 11, 2008 - Cotter, Holland “Is Whitney's subdued biennial a sign of the times?”, International Herald Tribune, March 10, 2008 - Schuker, Lauren A.E., “The Fine Art of Less”, The Wall Street Journal, March 7 - Davis, Ben, “Rave On”, Artnet, March 7, 2008 - Yablonsky, Linda, “Goat Farm, Milkmaids Entertain at Whitney Biennial - (Update1)”, Bloomburg.com, March 7, 2008 - Cotter, Holland, “Art’s Economic Indicator,” The New York Time, March 7, 2008 - Cohen, David, “Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe,” The New York Sun, March 5, 08 - “Not Surprisingly, Whitney Museum’s 2008 Biennial Showcases Everything and Everything” Associated Press March 5, 2008 - Kaufman, Jason Edward, “2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, March, 2008 - Vogel, Carol, “Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory,” New York Times, November 16, 07 - “Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial,” Artforum.com, November 16, 2007 - Khuri, Elizabeth, “Public Art Angel: Lauri Firstenberg gets art out of museums and into the streets”, West: LA Times Magazine, September 16 - Smith, Roberta. “Matt Keegan, Jedediah Caesar” New York Times. Sep. 7, 2007 pg. E33 - Smith, Roberta, “In These Shows, the Materail is the Message”, New York Times. August 10, 2007 pg. E27 - Rochette, Anne and Wade, Saunders. “Place Matters: Los Angeles Sculpture Today” Art in America. November 2006 pg. 170‐191 - Lavitt, Lauren. “Focus Los Angeles” Flash Art. Jan‐Feb 2006 pg. 69

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- Muchnic, Susan. “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles” Sculpture. November 1, 2005 - Firstenberg, Lauri. “Thing” Frieze. June/July/August 2005. p. 163 - Forgacs, Eva. “Thing” Art US. July 1, 2005 - Miles, Christopher. “The Idolaters’ Revenge: New Los Angeles Sculpture” Flash Art. May‐June 2005 p. 104‐108 - Dambrot, Shana Nys. “THING at the Hammer Museum” Artweek. May 1, 2005 - Cotter, Holland. “Fearless Vampire Killers” New York Times. April 8, 2005.p B32 - Mack, Joshua. “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles” Modern Painters. April 1, 2005 - Rosen, Steve. “Slices of sculptured Life” Daily News. February 5, 2005 - Knight, Christopher. “The next big Thing in LA” Los Angeles Times. February 9, 2005 - Harvey, Doug. “Good Thing” LA Weekly. February 4‐10, 2005.p 32 - Roug, Louise. “Object Lessons” Los Angeles Times. January 2, 2005.p E41, E48‐E49 - Israel, Nico. “Under the Sun” Artforum. September 2003. p50 - Cotter, Holland. “Eduardo Abaroa, Jedediah Caesar and Abraham Cruzvillegas” New York Times. August 2, 2002. p E33. - Wood, Eve. “Jedediah Caesar at Black Dragon Society” Art Week. March 2002. - Harvey, Doug. “Great Walls: Chinatown Revisited” LA Weekly. January 25‐31, 2002.p 39. - Feaster, Felicia. “Channel Surfing: Panoptic Mind” Creative Loafing. January 12, 2002.

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Kate Costello

As one encounters the world, it is built by multiples of ideologies, histories and methodologies. Art affords an opportunity to engage with so many stacks of received information in a variety of ways. Art is comfortable with unanswered questions or contradictions or run on sentences. And within this opening framework, there is a chance to pull pieces out of these piles of information, examine them, reassign importance, discard the outdated, rearrange the order, or make new decisions about how to proceed.

I am drawn to this enormous cache of the known. I pick my way through and find details that are present as products of long cultural and visual histories that I can learn and reconsider then re‐direct into new objects to take position in another context. Making art is the realization that it is a succession of decisions that leads to any point on a map or in time; many points can be reached through only slight differences.

I work out of art historical traditions, including architectural ornament, portraiture, murals, and archetypal narratives; these are realized as sculptures, large‐scale drawings and filmic interpretations of familiar stories.

Art is important to the contemporary mind in its ability to continually re‐introduce and maintain the presence of diverse modes of thinking, to assert multiple systems of value, and practice methodologies that can initially seem at odds.

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Kate Costello, Untitled (Palm), 2008 Kate Costello, Untitled (Foxes), 2008 Acrylic on paper, H 305 x 193 cm – H 12 x 76 in. Acrylic on paper, H 244 x 366 cm – H 96 x 144 in. © Kate Costello © Kate Costello

Kate Costello, Parrots, 2008 Plaster Each: H 40 x 23 x 43.5 cm H 15 ¾ x 9 x 17 in. © Kate Costello

Kate Costello, La Mascara, 2008 Plaster, H 69 w 35.5 x 13 cm H 27 x 14 x 5 in. © Kate Costello

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Kate Costello Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

1974 Born in Newfane, VT 2003 M.F.A., University of Southern California 1998 B.F.A., The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1997 B.A., Tufts University 1995 School for International Training, Fortaleza, Brazil

Solo exhibitions 2009 Extra Extra, with Jedediah Caesar, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Tattooed Ladies, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Kate Costello & Monique VanGenderen, Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg, Austria 2003 Kate Costello, F‐Space, Los Angeles, CA 2002 One Another, F‐Space, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Small Buildings & Small Cities, Storage, Los Angeles, CA

Selected exhibitions 2009 Tables and Chairs, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY Time‐Life Part II, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY 2007 Obscene Soft Sounds, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Warhol & …, Kantor Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Brain Form, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2005 THING, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Strange Animal, LACE, Los Angeles, CA Nature Study, curated by Sarah Vanderlip, Todd Madigan Gallery, CSUB 2003 Free Roaming, curated by Charles Long, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA High Desert Test Sites 2, Joshua Tree, CA 2003 MFA Graduate Group Exhibition, F‐Space, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Beautiful Artists, curated by Yutaka Sone, Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art, Yamaguchi, Japan Sometimes It’s Dark, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Random Channels, Eyedrum, Inc., Atlanta, GA 2000 Big Wave II, Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Salon Autonome, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA

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Graduating Student Show, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA 1997 Boit Competition & Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston,MA Women in Photography, Anderson Gallery, Boston, MA Shifting Grounds, Weems Center, Boston, MA Four Artists, Works on Paper, The Middle East, Cambridge, MA Pax et Lux et Art, Koppleman Gallery, Medford, MA 1995 The Drawing Show, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA

Writing 2009 “Law Giver” in “OMNI” organized by Jennifer Teets, Pist Protta – Pazmaker

Bibliography - Firstenberg, Lauri “Thing UCLA Hammer Museum” Frieze Issue 92 June/July/August 2005, p.163 - Miles, Christopher, “New Los Angeles Sculpture” Flash Art, Vol XXXVII No. 242, May‐June 2005, p.104‐8 - Knight, Christopher, “The Next Big ‘Thing’ in Los Angeles” The Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2005. - Harvey, Doug, “Good Thing: Emerging LA Sculptors at the Hammer” LA Weekly February 4‐10, 2005. - Miles, Christopher, “Kate Costello” THING, UCLA Hammer Museum, 2005 - Israel, Nico “Under the Sun: High Desert Test Sites” ArtForum, XLII, No. 1, September 2003.

Residencies & awards

- 2001‐3: Graduate Fellowship, USC, Los Angeles, CA - 1997: Shapiro Memorial Grant, for travel and work in Mexico - Residency at The Contemporary Artists’ Center, North Adams, MA

Lectures - Kate Costello at “It’s a Student Thing”, organized by UCLA Student Alliance at UCLA Hammer Museum, April 15, 2005

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Mary Weatherford

My paintings of Point Dume, are bound to Monet’s pictures of the cliffs at Normandy and Picasso’s massive bathers enjoying the seaside. The large night painting is modelled after a Morris Louis veil painting ‐ the image goes to every edge and fills the space with transparent and tragic colour. The starfish stuck to phosphorescent shore are ode to your daredevil Yves Klein, and my odd American modernist Arthur Dove. Repeating the image – rock, rock, rock – is my enthusiasm for the filmic. Point Dume is the cliff you see in the final scene of Planet of the Apes when Charleton Heston realizes he has been on earth…all along.

Mary Weatherford, Phosphorescent Shore, 2009 Flashe and starfish on linen, H 112 x 127 cm – H 44 x 50 in. © Mary Weatherford

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Mary Weatherford, Night Painting, 2005 Flashe on linen, H 162.5 x 175 cm – H 64 x 69 in. © Mary Weatherford

Mary Weatherford, Two Rocks, 2007 Flashe on jute, H 41 x 51 cm – 16 x 20 in. © Mary Weatherford Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 19 JGM. Galerie ‐ 79, rue du Temple – 75003 Paris ‐ Tel : 33 1 43 26 12 05 ‐ Fax : 33 1 46 33 44 83 JGM. PRESS RELEASE Galerie

Mary Weatherford Lives and works in Los Angeles

1963 Born in Ojai, CA 2006 M.F.A. Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College 1985 Whitney Independent Study Program Helena Rubenstein Fellow 1984 B.A. Princeton University, Art History/Visual Arts Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts

Selected solo exhibitions 2008 Sister and Cottage Home, Los Angeles 2007 Sister, Los Angeles 2006 Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois 2005 Sister, Los Angeles 2003 Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois 2000 Debs & Co., New York 1998 Debs & Co., New York Thomas Korzelius Fine Art, New York 1993 Ralph Wernicke, UNFAIR, Cologne Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida 1992 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York 1991 Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich 1990 Diane Brown Gallery, New York 1989 P.S. 1 Museum, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

Group exhibitions 2009 These Are A Few, JGM. Galerie, Paris, France The Ballad Becomes an Anthem, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles 2008 California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach 2007 Something about Mary, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach 2006 Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California The Trace of a Trace of a Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York 2005 Faure & Light Gallery, Santa Monica 2004 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? curated by Katherine Berhardt, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles 8 artists, curated by Shane Campbell, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles Painting & Sculpture, Marc Moore Gallery, Santa Monica Eastman, Weatherford & Arnold, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Still or Sparkling, organized by Nancy Chaikin for John Connelly Presents, New York

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Cats, Acme, Los Angeles 2002 The Stray Show, boom, Chicago What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth, Los Angeles Artists at Work, Michael’s, Santa Monica Simmer, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles, organized by Ciara Ennis New Angeles, The Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2001 New Angeles, curated by Bill Conger, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal Sharing Sunsets, MOCA Tucson, curated by Julie Deamer Modern Art from the Collection of Steve M. Jacobson, Mead Art Museum Amherst College, Amherst Bloodlines, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles Chicago project room and Laura Owens’ studio, Los Angeles, curated by Laura Owens Eugene Binder, Long Island City, New York People are (still) Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles 2000 Paintland, a project by Terry Meyers, lemon sky and Schmidt Contemporary Art of LA Los Angeles as i love you you become more pretty, organized by Karin Gulbran, 937 N. Hudson, Los Angeles People are Animals, a Three Day Weekend event at Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 1999 Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, curated by George Negroponte and Roger Shepherd Love, Cynthia Broan Gallery, curated by Douglas Kelley with Michael St. John, New York Stars of Track and Field, Debs & Co. New York Life in Space, a Three Day Weekend event at CCAC, San Francisco, CA a ball and a bat, curated by Michael St. John, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon OM, Dorsky Gallery, curated by Joe Fyfe, New York

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MADELEINE HOFFMANN

Madeleine Hoffmann is an independent curator whose company Pageant Projects, coordinates and consults on independent art projects. She is also a senior staff member at Judd Foundation, based in New York and Texas, where she is in charge of External Affairs and Programming, as well as Judd Furniture.

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