"SATURN RETURN" Exhibition
Wallspace
This event has ended.
SATURN RETURN features artists who employ self-reflexive, often hermetic, modes of creation and whose resultant works are marked by an internally-focused, saturnine character. In astrological circles, when the planet Saturn "returns" to the degree relative to the Sun it
occupied at the time of one's birth—approximately every 29.5 years—the individual enters a period of intense personal contemplation; re-evaluating their past trajectory and present state of being with the soft-daydreamer's gaze of the myopic.
The image of the artist working in isolation, retreat or withdrawal is hardly new. However, as collectivity and participation are, as of late, often used synonymously with social engagement and public value, the artists featured in "Saturn Return side-step the formalism of discursivity and sociability to pursue a visual language of personal reflections and private acts.
For Koka Ramishvili, Jen DeNike, and Damien Echols, the artist is employed as both subject and medium in direct response to an external socio-political constraint that heightens both the symbolic value and literal exercise of artist's agency. Conversely, Gloria Maximo's paintings and Daniel Turner's sculptures trade in spectral residue of anonymous, solitary figures. Their depictions of the individual are especially salient as each maintains a concurrent practice as a member of a larger art collaborative—Maximo with the interdisciplinary performative collective Yemenwed and Turner with the group Cornrow Rider. Finally, Dan Miller and Kate Costello approach the personal through obsessive, diaristic drawing practices wherein each has developed a deeply personal iconography characterized by repetitive cosmologies of text and pattern.
SATURN RETURN is organized by Elizabeth Lovero and is made possible through the generous collaboration of the participating artists and Fabian Lang, Mitterand + Sanz, Zurich; Anat Egbi, The Company, Los Angeles, and Amy Smith-Stewart, New York. With special thanks to Lorri Davis.
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Schedule
from June 04, 2010 to July 23, 2010
Wallspace will begin summer hours after July 4th, when the gallery will open Monday - Fridays through the month of July.
Opening Reception on 2010-06-04 from 18:00 to 20:00