Exhibits
Impossible Vacation
May 7 – June 4, 2011
Tommy Hartung
Thomas Helbig
Tony Matelli
Lin May
John McAllister
Scott Olson
Virginia Overton
Mitzi Pederson
Impossible Vacation attempts to assert the primacy of the artist, proposing a reduced curatorial role in mediating the interaction between art and its audience. Discarding any organizing construct and foregrounding discrete artworks, this exhibition urges each contribution's independent consideration, unencumbered by any edict or secondary scholarship. "Impossible Vacation" sees the gallery space as a simple machine for the transmission of art to the viewer, declining to contrive connections or contextualize the works on view beyond the terms defined by the artists themselves. In adopting this institutional distance, the artworks and the exhibition are freed from superfluous interpretation, cultivating fuller experiences of uncertainty and understanding without capitulating to expectations for articulated linearity, resolution, or codification.
Thomas Helbig
Tony Matelli
Lin May
John McAllister
Scott Olson
Virginia Overton
Mitzi Pederson
Impossible Vacation attempts to assert the primacy of the artist, proposing a reduced curatorial role in mediating the interaction between art and its audience. Discarding any organizing construct and foregrounding discrete artworks, this exhibition urges each contribution's independent consideration, unencumbered by any edict or secondary scholarship. "Impossible Vacation" sees the gallery space as a simple machine for the transmission of art to the viewer, declining to contrive connections or contextualize the works on view beyond the terms defined by the artists themselves. In adopting this institutional distance, the artworks and the exhibition are freed from superfluous interpretation, cultivating fuller experiences of uncertainty and understanding without capitulating to expectations for articulated linearity, resolution, or codification.
Organized by Matthew Strauss
- Installation view with works by (left to right) Thomas Helbig and Scott Olson
- Virginia Overton
Untitled, 2011
Poplar, 176 x 191 x 14 inches
- Virginia Overton
- Installation view with works by (left to right) Mitzi Pedersen, Thomas Helbig, Tony Matelli
- Installation view with Tony Matelli (left to right)
Jew Town, 2011 and Nina, 2011
Enamel on mirror, 60 x 36 inches each
- Installation view with Tony Matelli (left to right)
- Installation view with works by (left to right) Thomas Helbig, John McAllister, Lin May, Scott Olson
- Installation view with works by (left to right) John McAllister and Lin May
- Installation view with works by (left to right) Mitzi Pedersen, Thomas Helbig, John McCallister, Lin May, Scott Olson, Virginia Overton (foreground)
- Installation view of Virginia Overton
Untitled, 2011
Poplar, 176 x 191 x 14 inches
- Installation view of Virginia Overton
- Tommy Hartung
Still from The Ascent of Man, 2009
Color video with sound, 15.36 minutes
- Tommy Hartung
- Lin May
Slow Bird, 2011
Steel, jute, coated and painted styrofoam mounted on board, 21.4 x 16.1 x 5.9 inches
- Lin May
- Scott Olson
Untitled, 2010
Oil on linen, 15 x 16 inches
- Scott Olson
- John McAllister
Dusk Deserted Field Lights, 2010
Oil on canvas, 19 x 16 inches
- John McAllister
- Mitzi Pedersen
Untitled, 2010
Velvet, felt, and silver reflective paper, 22 x 13 inches
- Mitzi Pedersen
- Tony Matelli (left to right)
Jew Town, 2011 and Nina, 2011
Enamel on mirror, 60 x 36 inches each
- Tony Matelli (left to right)
- Thomas Helbig
Liegende, 2008
Wood, 9.45 x 12.99 x 22.83 inches
- Thomas Helbig
- Thomas Helbig
Liegende, 2008
Wood, 9.45 x 12.99 x 22.83 inches
On MDF base, 45 x 83 x 12 inches
- Thomas Helbig
- Virginia Overton
Untitled (Upended), 2011
Digital print on vinyl, 154 x 154 inches
- Virginia Overton
