Kelley Walker and Scott Rothkopf November 30

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KELLEY WALKER

Kelley Walker (b.1969 Columbus, Georgia) is an American artist.

Walker graduated with a BFA from the University of Tennessee in 1995.

Walker’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo in Spain, the New Langton Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and FRAC Franche-Comté Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole in France. His work was included in the Greater New York exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and USA Today at The Royal Academy in London. He participated in the 7th Sharjah Biennial. He is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.








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Paula Cooper Gallery
Thomas Dane
Interview
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NY TIMES

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Scott Rothkopf

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Whitney-Walker/Guyton

Scott Rothkopf comes to the Whitney from Artforum, where he has been Senior Editor since January 2004. During his time at the magazine he has been intimately involved in planning its editorial direction and has worked closely with many distinguished writers and artists on essays, projects, and special issues. He was a guest curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, where he organized Mel Bochner Photographs 1966-1969 (2002), a survey of Bochner’s photographic works and related drawings, which traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. At the Fogg, Rothkopf was also co-curator, with Linda Norden, of Pierre Huyghe’s This Is Not a Time for Dreaming (2004), a site-specific installation, performance, and film made by Huyghe in response to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, where it has entered the permanent collection of the Musée national d’art moderne. Scott Rothkopf was a contributing curator of the 2007 Lyon Biennial, for which he selected and installed the work of Wade Guyton.

“I’m delighted to join the Whitney and its distinguished curatorial team at this pivotal moment for the museum,” said Scott Rothkopf. “The Whitney has long been a venturesome advocate for contemporary artists and an imaginative steward of a rich historical collection. I look forward to advancing that dual mission and to exploring new approaches to our understanding of art in the United States within a broader international context.”

As a frequent contributor to Artforum, Scott Rothkopf has written on exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, and on topics ranging from the art and architectural criticism of the 1980s to the writings of 1960s critic Gene Swenson. His texts for the magazine have addressed the work of Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, Paul Chan, Carroll Dunham, Josiah McElheny, T. J. Willcox, Katharina Fritsch, Richard Aldrich, Diller & Scofidio, Francesco Vezzoli, and Karen Kilimnik, who was the subject of his 2007 book, Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik’s Fancy Pictures, co-authored with Meredith Martin. Scott Rothkopf’s museum and gallery catalogue contributions include essays on Jeff Koons, Wade Guyton, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Kelley Walker, Terry Winters, and Takashi Murakami, as well as interviews with James Rosenquist and Laura Owens, for, among others, Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Le Magasin, Grenoble, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In addition to writing for the catalogue of Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, on view at the Whitney from November 6, 2009, through January 24, 2010, Scott Rothkopf is contributing to a book on Paul Thek, which will accompany the Whitney’s retrospective in the fall of 2010.

Scott Rothkopf has served as a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has participated in numerous public lectures and panels, as well as having organized and chaired “Photography and Conceptual Art” with Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Jan Dibbets at Harvard University, and “Transatlantic,” a College Art Association session devoted to the interchange between American and European artists in the 1960s and ’70s. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University, for which he is completing his Ph.D. on the work of Jeff Koons and the art of the 1980s

Tuesday Nov 23rd Jonathan Berger and KIOSK

Jonathan Berger’s work encompasses the fields of sculpture, drawing, architecture, installation, performance, design, education, and curatorial projects. Since 2006, Berger has been a part-time lecturer, teaching art and art history in the Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU and the Department of Sculpture at the University of the Arts.

His most recent curatorial projects include “Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve,” presented in November 2009 at Participant Gallery, NYC, as a major contribution to the 2009 PERFORMA Biennial. He is presently organizing “Peter Schumann: Black and White,” the first major retrospective exhibition of Bread and Puppet Theater Founding Director, scheduled to open at the Queens Museum in 2012. In process is “Andy Kaufman: On Creating Reality,” a retrospective exhibition scheduled for 2013. Past curatorial projects include “Where Art and Life Collide: Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B,” a series of premiere performances, lectures, and events (presented in 2006 at Artists Space, Participant Inc., and Siberia, NYC), and the 2005 exhibit “Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention,” at Grimm-Rosenfeld NY.

Jonathan Berger was born in New York City in 1980. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1998-2000, completing his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2002, and receiving his MFA from New York University in 2006. He has been awarded multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Corporation of Yaddo.


artforum
paticipant
nothing up my sleeve
vaginal davis

Images from "Andy Kaufman: On creating Reality"







KIOSK



Every six months, Alisa Grifo and Marco Romeny (KIOSK) prepare to take a trip. The outcome of each trip is a collection of sorts, or rather, a portrait of a place in the form of a collection. The objects that constitute each collection challenge the way that we see, value, appreciate, historicize, consume, exoticize, understand, and learn. KIOSK is as specific to itself as it is to the vast array of practices and formats by which it is influenced and upon which it comments. Their work, and the venue it inhabits, navigate a hybrid terrain that incorporates aspects of the formats of the store, museum, academy, studio, gallery, and design collection. What KIOSK is and does puts all of these contexts, along with their baggage, in a constantly evolving dialogue with one another. Grifo and Romeny take on the roles of historian, anthropologist, ethnographer, tourist, curator, designer, user, producer, critic.

It is the accumulation of expansive narratives, the investigation of aesthetics, representation, and shifting perspectives and contexts that become the substance of each collection. In viewing a KIOSK collection in its entirety, we are presented with an alternate truth of that place: what we assume it is, what we want it to be, what we have been led to believe, what we don’t know.

Sharon Lockhart: Friday November 12th, 6:00pm

Sharon Lockhart received her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Since 1994, Lockhart's work in photography and film has been widely exhibited in national and international venues. Her film Goshogaoka, 1997, launched Lockhart's career in film-making and has been screened in museums and film festivals throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Lockhart has also participated in several international art exhibtions including the 1997 Site Santa Fe Biennial and the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials. A major survey exhibition of her work was organized by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam traveled to the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. In March 2000 the San Francisco Art Institute presented her work, along with the photographs of Kelly Nipper, in the exhibition 2 Artists in 3 Takes.

View images:

http://www.gladstonegallery.com/lockhart.asp




Sharon will be screening her film Double Tide, a luminous and meditative portrait of a woman digging clams in the mudflats of the Atlantic Ocean, at MoMA this Thursday November 11th. Filmed in Seal Cove, Maine, a historic site for commercial clamming, during a rare natural phenomenon—when low tide occurs twice during daylight hours, once at dawn and once at dusk—Double Tide depicts an ageless tradition of backbreaking work within the sublime and quiet beauty of a wild coastal landscape. The film, which also exists as a double-screen gallery installation, continues the fascination with ritual and labor seen in Lockhart’s other recent works, from her choreographed study of Japanese farmers piling hay (NO, 2003) to her recent look at Maine shipyard workers at rest (Lunch Break, 2008) and leaving the factory at day’s end (Exit, 2008). As with many of her films, Double Tide occupies the liminal space between stillness and movement, and between actual time and subjective time.

Thursday November 4th: Fionn Meade in Conversation with Kerstin Bratsch

Kerstin Brätsch’s practice moves fluidly between mediums and between individual and collective practice. Brätsch's installations feature large oil paintings and three-dimensional units, such as magazine and poster racks. She blurs the divisions between traditional media. Posters and zines both advertise and remix corresponding paintings. She is the co-founder of Das Institut, a quasi-commercial 'import/export agency.'

Brätsch currently lives and works in both Hamburg and New York.

Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter in New York. Recent independent curatorial projects include Degrees of Remove: Landscape & Affect, co-curated with Sarina Basta at SculptureCenter, NY; Entr’acte, a group exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY: and Bivouac, a guest-curated exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. He received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. His critical writing appears in Artforum, Bidoun, BOMB, Parkett, and The Fillip Review, among other publications.


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