christopher west presents Contingent Process
First Friday:
June 3, 2011 5–9pm
christopher west presents: Contingent Process curated by Ben Valentine. The methods and materials of creation have been expanding rapidly since the 1960’s, incorporating works of art that are radically different from those of the past. This show examines a small facet of this expansion in contemporary art with works that incorporate ideas of a contingent process – art that hovers between the production and a final object. The artists here have relinquished aesthetic control to a situation which naturally grew their works.
Posted on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday
In the gallery: 7 Artists Pick 7 Artists
First Friday:
May 6, 2011 5–9pm
Dean Johnson Gallery and christopher west presents are proud to announce 7 Artists Pick 7 Artists – an exhibition presenting the work of seven new artists hand picked by seven current gallery artists. On view will be work by Jeff Beekman, Jared Cru Smith, Benjamin Sunderlin, Phil Tennant, Scott Grow and Chris Stewart. They have been picked respectively by Justin Lane, Cory Robinson, Stacey Holloway, Susan Tennant, Ted Ross, Danielle Riede and Nick Allman.
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday, Gallery
christopher west presents Contingent Process
First Friday:
May 6, 2011 5–9pm
christopher west presents: Contingent Process curated by Ben Valentine. The methods and materials of creation have been expanding rapidly since the 1960’s, incorporating works of art that are radically different from those of the past. This show examines a small facet of this expansion in contemporary art with works that incorporate ideas of a contingent process – art that hovers between the production and a final object. The artists here have relinquished aesthetic control to a situation which naturally grew their works.
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
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Tags: art, Ben Valentine, cwp, first friday
In the gallery: 7 Artists Pick 7 Artists
Dean Johnson Gallery and christopher west presents are proud to announce 7 Artists Pick 7 Artists – an exhibition presenting the work of seven new artists hand picked by seven current gallery artists. On view will be work by Jeff Beekman, Jared Cru Smith, Benjamin Sunderlin, Phil Tennant, Jill Marie Mason, Scott Grow and Chris Stewart. They have been picked respectively by Justin Lane, Cory Robinson, Stacey Holloway, Susan Tennant, Ted Ross, Danielle Riede and Nick Allman.
Posted on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday, Gallery
christopher west presents Patrick Alt
First Friday:
March 4, 2010 5-9 pm
christopher west presents is proud to announce Fan of a Fan, an exhibition of new paintings from Patrick Alt. Working predominantly in painting, performance, and text, Alt’s work addresses the recurring questions of self that we find in modern art and literature; specifically asking what constructs the self? Like the renowned Austrian author Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930-1942) or Woody Allen’s chameleon man mockumentary Zelig (1983), Alt’s work rejects the demand to be always repeating a definitive stance and instead embraces the polyvocalism of a learned poseur. For instance, the flâneuristic whimsy of his new raggedy abstract works has little in common with the isolation and introspection one finds in Alt’s ongoing bouquet works. With every new work Alt’s anti-oeuvre increases in fragmentation and perversion onto itself – partial objects that in their homelessness problematize contextualization and any exacting of process.
On view are three of Alt’s latest abstract works made on stretched found towels and other scraps of fabric.
Alt (b. 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, DE) lives and works in Berlin. Alt attends the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Prof. Michael Krebber. Select recent exhibitions include I Open Up The Gallery at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Berlin (2010), Error (2010) at Autocenter in Berlin, and Say Hello To The Palmtreeman (with Henning Straßburger and Adrian Buschmann)(2009). Since 2008, Alt frequently exhibits his work as part of VANDEL (with Henning Strassburger, Christian Rothmaler, Philip Schwalb, Jannis Marwitz). This past winter, the group made their seventh exhibition SOZIALGESTALTUNG: Liebe plus Friedhof at Hospitalhof in Stuttgart.
Posted on Monday, February 28th, 2011
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday, Patrick Alt
christopher west presents Henning Strassburger
First Friday:
February 4, 2010 5-9 pm
christopher west presents is proud to present an exhibition of new work by Berlin based artist Henning Strassburger. In Strassburger’s paintings we see energetic layers that create a lively depth to the image which reminds of the gestural-abstract painting. He is interested in the questions of painting and the positioning of his work inside the multitude of trends that have been developed and named in the course of the past few years.
Strassburger (b. 1983 in Miessen, DE) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Good Old Figuration (2010) at the Sammlung Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, A Kansas City Shuffle (2009) at Verein für Raum und Form in der Bildenden Kunst in Vienna, and Happy P. (2009) at Galerie Fiebach & Minniger in Cologne. Strassburger completed his Meister Schule at the Dusseldorf Kunstakademie under Prof. Albert Oehlen in 2009. Strassburger’s work was included in Informal Relations (2010) at the Indianapolis Museum Of Contemporary Art. This marks his first gallery exhibition in the United States.
Posted on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday, Henning Strassburger
In The Gallery: NFS
First Friday:
January 7, 2011 5-9 pm
An exhibition of internationally significant artists that come from private collections throughout the city, NFS demonstrates that young and budget-conscious collectors still have the ability to collect the work of artists that are in the collections of major museums across the country. Artists exhibited include Spencer Finch, Laura Owens, Elizabeth Peyton, The Starn Brothers, Brian Ulrich and many others.
Posted on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
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Tags: art, Brian Ulrich, cwp, Elizabeth Peyton, first friday, Gallery, Laura Owens, Spencer Finch, The Starn Brothers
christopher west presents On Other Planets by Justin Chase Lane
First Friday:
December 3, 2010 5-9 pm
Show extended through Dec. 11
Justin Chase Lane’s photographs explore fictional landscapes created in his basement. They explore the Cosmos with refashioned cereal boxes, toothpicks, blankets, light bulbs and other pedestrian stuff.
christopherwestpresents.com/exhibitions/on-other-planets
Posted on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
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Tags: art, cwp, first friday, Gallery, Justin Chase Lane
christopher west presents Weaving Through Walls
First Friday:
October 1, 2010 5–9pm
Weaving Through Walls is a new installation by Indianapolis-based Susan Tennant. Tennant’s sculptures and installations use the physical properties and characteristics of tension to represent a metaphorical connection between the physical and the psychological. The fiberglass rods and twine are lightweight and seemingly fragile, but possess great compressive and tensile strength for defining and holding together the intertwined circles and orbits of her sculptures.
Posted on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
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Tags: cwp, first friday, Gallery, susan tennant
christopher west presents White
First Friday:
August 6, 2010 5–9pm
christopher west presents is pleased to announce White, a two–part exhibition of works by Virginia–based artist J.T. Kirkland. Kirkland’s reductive work strives to find clarity and resolution in line, color, and form, while challenging viewers’ perceptions of surface and space through simple and precise gestures on wood.
Posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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