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Artpace
May 13 – Sep 5, 2010
"On the Road," an exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann at Artpace San Antonio, revisits canonical representations of the road trip, the southwestern American landscape, and enduring possibilities for self-discovery. Inspired by a trip that Hoffmann, director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, undertook across Texas to conduct studio visits, the show aggregates depictions of the southwestern United States, revisiting these places in part out of anthropological interest.
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Walter Phillips at the Banff Centre
August 14 – 24, 2010
Popular Unrest, a new feature-length film by London- and New York-based artist Melanie Gilligan, taps into the collectively insatiable desire for crime dramas and tech fantasy, and Hollywood's management of our fears about free will and government. Like her TV counterparts, Gilligan uses professional actors and mixes taping strategies to yield documentary-styled fiction, and divides her gory, fast-paced narrative into a series of episodes that builds toward a surprise finish.
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Power Plant
Jun 19 – Sep 12, 2010
The relationship between humans and the natural world oscillates between tenderness, evident in intimate relationships such as those of pets and owners, gardeners and carefully cultivated plots, and the antagonism which characterizes industrial-scale cultivation of land, natural resources, and animals for consumption. "Adaptation: Between Species" is a group show featuring 21 artists, each of whom attempts to communicate with the animal world, discover the animals within themselves, or establish scenarios in which creatures become unwitting collaborators.
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The Kitchen
Amy Granat’s interest in making a silent film version of Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky seems to have been prompted by the visual atmosphere against which the three main characters’ turbulent psychologies commingle. The arid settings described in The Sheltering Sky inspired Granat to film her work in the Western U.S., in locations that evoke an air of desolation. Looped projections of Granat’s film, which borrows Bowles’s title, were the centerpiece of her recent exhibition.
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Gavin Brown's Enterprise
This was Nick Relph’s first solo show (after a decade collaborating with fellow British artist Oliver Payne), and he front-loaded it with his own six-page press release on the economic history of dyes. The exhibition, which encompassed works on paper and a three-channel video, made heavy use of the additive primary colors (red, green and blue), while focusing on a trio of themes: tartan plaids, Ellsworth Kelly and Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo. Many of the show’s pieces (all works 2010) re-present, with minor humorous alterations, the literal or metaphorical packaging—gift wrapping, exhibition posters, documentaries, corporate graphics—associated with these subjects.
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Mary Boone
Andrea Rosen
Miguel Abreu
D’Amelio Terras
In Conversation: Danica Dakic Takes Off Masks
09/03/09
When Danica Dakic (abandoned her architectural studies in Bosnia to focus on art, it wasn't the last t… Read More
600 Words With Michael Portnoy
08/28/09
In 2000 Momus was in a Chelsea gallery recording people singing, when an otherwise rather quiet man op… Read More
You Missed It: Ethan Shoshan
09/03/09
A group show of mixed media work organized by Ethan Shoshan "I'm always thinking of you even when I'm … Read More
