JGM. PRESS RELEASE Galerie THESE ARE A FEW… 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 Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 1 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 THESE ARE A FEW… 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 Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 2 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 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. Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 3 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, 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><ART, Los Angeles Tasteful Guidance (with Mateo Tannatt), Pauline, Los Angeles 2006 In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY 2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 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 Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 5 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 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 Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 6 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 - 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 Press Contact: Magali Deboth ‐ E‐mail: [email protected] 7 JGM.