Misappropriation Exhibition Opens During the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair

 

 Sarah 04.11.10, archival pigment print on paper, mounted on aluminum 48" x 48"

Artists Ray Beldner, Brendan Lott, Sonja Schenk, and Annie Seaton are pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition, Misappropriation. The pop-up show, which takes place during the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, includes paintings, mixed media, digital prints, and small-scale installation all using and misusing found photo-based imagery. The exhibition will be on display at Studio Orange in Culver City, California from January 23-30, 2011.

Since the early collages of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp’s use of found object for his series of “ready-mades,” artists have felt free to use, reproduce, appropriate and incorporate materials found within popular culture and society. These raw materials reflect and embrace the world around us: snippets of newspapers and magazines, film and TV excerpts, snapshots, advertisements, news headlines, bits of text, characters, fragments of song, and so on. Artists used this source material just as artists have used raw material for thousands of years. 

Now with the ubiquity of computers, digital cameras and the Internet, artists have access to the world’s greatest libraries, image databases, and interactive tools at their fingertips. As a result, traditional artistic practice is changing once again as artists explore the potential of these new technologies and incorporate them into their working methodologies. For each of these artists, the Internet and digital technology play a vital role in their creative processes.

Appropriation as an artistic practice and visual strategy is not new to contemporary artists, but the case that this exhibition makes is that the Internet enables a new kind of appropriation or borrowing, a “mis-appropriation” which is the intentional—sometimes humorous, sometimes dark—misuse of someone else's material. In this case, their images or their likenesses.

Each artist in the show collages images they have taken or found on the Internet or elsewhere, and they re-purpose and re-contextualize them in a way that reflects on their origins. They are in a sense “meta-images” misappropriated for the purpose, in part, to reflect on the picture’s original purpose and meaning.

Studio Orange, January 23 to January 30, 2011

Reception: Saturday, January 29 2011, 6-9pm

Studio Orange is located at:
8526 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232  
Gallery Hours : By Appointment Only

Contact:

Annie Seaton   p: 310.621.5847   e: annie@annieseatonart.com

Ray Beldner   p: 415.297.2319   e: ray@raybeldner.com

New Work at the San Francisco Fine Art Fair

Please come to the San Francisco Fine Art Fair and see some of my new portraits. I'll have work at Catharine Clark Gallery, Booth #68.

Opening Preview Party, Thursday, May 20, 7pm - 9pm

Regular fair hours:

Friday, May 21, noon - 8pm
Saturday, May 22, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 23, 11am - 6pm

For more info:
http://www.sffineartfair.com/

Benedict (drawn by the hand of a young boy) 2010

Ink on paper

40" x 30"

Group Exhibition, New York

 

Ray Beldner, Hot Huge, 2004, pigment print, 48” x 45”

Catharine Clark Gallery has opened a new exhibition space in New York and they are inaugurating it with a group show called, The Drawing Room.

Coinciding with The Armory Show and PULSE New York, The Drawing Room will include works on paper by Ray Beldner, Adam Chapman, Anthony Discenza, Kara Maria, Jonathan Solo, Josephine Taylor, and Masami Teraoka. There will be additional sculptural projects by Ray Beldner, Walter Robinson and Packard Jennings.

There will also be several public and private events taking place from March 4 - 7, 2010:

Thursday, March 4
VIP: 6–10pm
Cocktail Preview

Friday, March 5
Public: 12–6pm
VIP: 8–10pm
Opening night cocktail party

Saturday, March 6
VIP Brunch: 10am–12pm
Public: 12–6pm

Sunday, March 7
Public: 10am–2pm

For more information, or to schedule an appointment outside of exhibition hours:
e: cc@cclarkgallery
p: (415) 399-1439 or (415) 519-1439.

www.cclarkgallery.com