Exhibitions
NEW YORK, INTERRUPTED
The exhibition, New York, Interrupted, which inaugurates the new Beijing space for pkm gallery, brings together the work of seventeen New York-based artists, all of whom are showing in Beijing for the first time. Organized by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at Large for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and Curator of the 2006 Taipei Biennial, New …
SPECIAL THINGS/SCARY THINGS
solo exhibition For their first solo Los Angeles exhibition, the McCoys present two new works. Both pieces are inspired by the language and themes of childhood. In the upstairs gallery, their project Special Things explores a super-charged utopian childhood of cavorting lambs, romping youths, and chiffon rainbows. All of this is rendered sculpturally in fragments across sixteen small hanging sculptures. …
STOP MOTION
Five pieces are presented in the exhibition, which provides an overview of the artists' work. The Edith Russ Site for Media Art shows early pieces, which deal with the presentation of filmic material in specially programmed databases. Every Shot, Every Episode (2000) is based on the action-TV-series Starsky and Hutch from the 1970ies in which two American policemen chase criminals. …
THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE
The surrealistic sphere where the artistic imagination slides and seeps into reality is the tantalizing territory explored in this exhibition. Following the example of Lewis Carroll’s famous heroine, we fall into a dream and through a rabbit hole, entering a topsy-turvy world where logical expectations of scale are dramatically altered, and where fantastical elements—the inhabitants, architecture, or topography—invite us to …
360 – ART IN THE ROUND
The installations and photographs in this exhibition explore the notion of the cyclical in time and space, precluding the fixed moment or perspective. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present Our Second Date in which the artists recreate and film miniatures of themselves on a rotating set in real time as their characters watch Godard’s Weekend. At once humorous and disarmingly simple, …
A KISS ISN'T JUST A KISS
Group Exhibition (curated by Barry Rosenberg), The exhibition "When a Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss,'' gathers the work of 18 artists, among them, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol and such current names as Janine Antoni, Mark Chamberlain, Patty Chang, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nikki S. Lee, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Vik Muniz and Bruce Pearson. The show demonstrates the many ways …
BLUR OF THE OTHERWORLDLY, CONTEMPORARY ART, TECHNOLOGY AND THE PARANORMAL
Group ExhibitionBlur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal is a major traveling exhibition featuring twenty five contemporary artists whose work employs modern communication technologies (photography, film, video, computers, radio, internet, and digital media) to explore culturally inbred questions / superstitions concerning parallel worlds to our own. Including Spencer Finch, Susan Hiller, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Mariko Mori, …
CUT, FILM AS FOUND OBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEO
CUT/Film as Found Object is a fascinating installation consisting of 14 video works by some of today's most influential artists. CUT explores how contemporary artists use excerpts from pre-existing films and television to create new narratives, different emotional content and new musical scores. Artists featured include Christian Marclay, Pierre Huyghe and Douglas Gordon. The exhibition is organized by the Milwaukee …
DREAMING OF A MORE BETTER FUTURE
Group Exhibition (curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner)
IDENTITA & NOMADISMO
"Each of us - suggests Amin Maalouf, Identity, 1998 - should be encouraged to accept their diversity, to conceive their identity as the sum of its diverse membership, instead of confusing it with a single, upright and supreme for membership instrument of exclusion, sometimes an instrument of war. " The complexity of the issue of identity is addressed with tools …