Dana Clancy: Points of View

posted November 9, 2010 in events, residents

Dana is also showing paintings in Behind the Image, a traveling group show curated by James Hull with Marc Mitchell, Director of Georgia Southern University Gallery. It is currently on view in Savannah, Georgia, through November 30th: http://calendar.georgiasouthern.edu/event?id=12303.

Anna Mayer: Fireful of Fear

posted October 2, 2010 in news, residents  |  tags: anna mayer, residents

Anna Mayer's 2008 project, Fireful of Fear, recenlty marked its 2nd anniversary in the canyons in and around Malibou, CA.  Despite the wildfires of this past year, 12 ceramic pieces remain in the landscape, untouched by flames.  Anna completed a residency with threewalls as part of the collaborative, CamLab, in the summer of 2009.  

More images of the project can be found at http://firefuloffear.blogspot.com/.

This is What Gives Life to Our Living Culture (Rambla Las Flores), 2008-
wildfire-fired ceramic (forthcoming)
20" x 15.5" x 3"

SOLAR FLARE ARKESTRAL MARCHING BAND PROJECT: A March For Sun Ra.

posted September 18, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: cauleen smith, residents

On September 11th, Cauleen Smith's Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band descended on Chinatown square!  Our summer resident spent her time here working on producing the event, which involved collaborations with Chicago musicians and high school marching bands.  There's a slideshow of images on her blog, and an album and film are in the works.  Follow her blog for updates on the project! 

Interview with Adia Millett

posted September 11, 2010 in residents  |  tags: adia millett, interviews

Adia Millett The In Betweens #1

During her residency this summer, Adia Millett created a constantly changing installation.  The project was on view at threewalls and acted as the backdrop for a series of photographs.  Based in California, Adia Millett works in various media, including film, photography, and installation.  More information about her work can be found at www.adiamillett.com.

While at threewalls, you've been working on an installation that changes each week.  Can you tell us about that project?

The project that I began at threewalls is one that I will be working on for the next ten months. It’s entitled, The In Betweens. The structure I built at threewalls is being re-built in my studio, here in Oakland where I will continue producing temporary installations inside of an 8’x8’x4’ box. While the installations I build in museums or galleries are usually designed for viewers to enter and interact with, the temporary installations, like these, are primarily constructed for photographing.  The images of this series will take a few different forms. In the Spring I will start an on-line photo novel, in which a new image from the series will be added each week. Each image will help to expand an intricate story containing more than 30 characters.  There will also be a series of printed triptychs and eventually a book. And my hope is that this project will be the fountainhead for my next film.

Is there anything else you've been working on, or plan to work on during your residency? 

While in Chicago, I also built an installation which was the second of a series of three entitled, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, at SAIC. A photograph, documenting the installation will be part of a show there entitled Process in Product, in October.


There’s a strong visual presence in your work that comes both from a saturated palette as well as repeated forms – birds, paper planes, chairs and domestic objects, among other things.  Can you tell us more about your use of color and imagery?

I think I’m less concerned with color than I am with light. Directing the viewer’s eye towards a specific place within the frame is most successfully done through the use of shadows and focused light. More importantly the light or lack there of, influences the psychology of an image. My work is always attempting to develop a conversation between the allure of darkness,  fragility, innocence, and senescence.  I believe that my use of light and imagery help to convey those connections.

Your work has an accessibility to it that I appreciate, and it doesn’t always necessarily reflect a specific place or time.  Is having that flexibility to interpretation a primary concern of yours, or has it just naturally emerged?

Thanks!  Accessibility is an issue that keeps me up at night. My philosophy is that successful   work, figures out a way to be extremely simple yet somehow complex in a way that requires it’s viewers to question their own psyche. When  an idea I have for a piece becomes to locatable in any way, I’m likely to change it.

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CAROUSEL MICROCINEMA 4.2

posted September 4, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: carousel microcinema, cauleen smith

On August 26th, Cauleen Smith hosted a screening of her work as a part of her Carousel Mircocinema series.

All images © Jenny Ramos

Carousel Microcinema 4.2: August 26, 2010

posted August 22, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: carousel microcinema, cauleen smith, screenings

If you missed the last screening, stop by on Thursday at 6:30pm!

CAROUSEL MICROCINEMA #4

posted August 15, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: carousel microcinema, cauleen smith, kerry james marshall, screenings

On July 31st, threewalls' resident, Cauleen Smith, hosted Carousel Microcinema #4, the most recent in a series of screenings.  This screening included Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual by Barbara McCullough, Didn't We Ramble On: Black Marching Bands by Billy Jackson, and The Epic Crossing of an Ife Head by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, as well as a post-screening discussion with Kerry James Marshall. Program notes are available here.

More about Carousel Microcinema events can be found at http://carouselmicrocinema.wordpress.com/

All images © Jenny Ramos

Rena Leinberger: Piles of Sunshine

posted August 7, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: photos, rena leinberger, residents

During her tinkertank residency at threewalls, Rena Leinberger has been investigating the intersections of urban ruin, constructed notions of optimism, artifice and progress through stock photography and prefabricated materials. For this one-day culminating exhibition, she will show a reconstructed debris pile made of sandpaper, and documentation from her Optimism Pack, a portable studio fabricated to strategically deploy images and color in the urban landscape.

www.renaleinberger.com

If you missed it, click below for more images!

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An Interview with Pete Schulte

posted July 3, 2010 in residents  |  tags: not here not there, pete schulte, residents

Iowa City based artist, Pete Schulte, recently completed a residency at threewalls.  Pete's past and current work is number of projects, including drawings done in graphite and pastel, installation, and objects.  Towards the end of his stay, Pete opened his studio to the public, showing an installation of his own work and "Not Here Not There", a group show he organized within the studio space and back rooms of threewalls.  More of his work can be seen at schulteprojects.com.

Having already completed two other residencies this year, the studio seems to be an important part of your work.  Can you describe your process in making work? 

Drawing is the cornerstone of my practice.  It is my daily activity and the point of departure for all of my projects.  From there, a variety of activities commence, including sculptural, social, site-conditioned, time-based, and curatorial projects.  I don’t privilege any particular media or work from a specific position - theoretical or otherwise.  I simply try to move through the world with eyes, heart, and mind open. As experiences and ideas impress themselves upon me they often find tributaries into the work that I make. In so far as the studio is concerned, I’m less interested in the idea of The Studio (writ large), than I am in the idea of collapsing the distance that exists between where the work is made, and where and how it is presented. 

I’ve noticed that the studio space also comes into play in your documentation. Shadows cast on drawings are thoughtfully placed, and windowsills become backdrops.  How would you describe the role of the time and of the physical space around you in your work? 

The conditions of a given site are important to me regardless of whether they are in my studio, a traditional exhibition space, or perhaps something less rigorously defined.  In the contemporary artworld, site-specificity has become increasingly, and to my mind, rather narrowly articulated by mere responses to a given set of architectural conditions. While architectural conditions obviously inform one’s response to site, the potential field of inquiry is vastly larger.  It seems far more interesting to me when artists working in this realm expand their line of inquiry to include the potential psychological, historical, political, social, and/or spiritual implications involved in working with a particular site.

Can one frame a space and time the way one traditionally frames a drawing?  On some level it’s a very simple question, but it has continued to fuel my exploration and practice. My studio has generally been the arena where this process unfolds.  On a practical level, treating the space and time as the work helps me to keep anything and everything in play and worthy of consideration - be it the drawings, a sculpture, a windowpane, a pile of records, a stone given by my daughter, etc.    

What have you been working on during your stay at threewalls? 

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about a book called The Drop Edge Of Yonder, by Rudolph Wurlitzer. At the beginning of the novel, the main character is cursed to live between life and death, not being able to discern the difference between the two. Not Here Not There is the name of the character that places the curse, and it is also the name that I’ve adopted for the installation at threewalls.  Between leaving my home and losing someone very dear to me, I’ve been struggling with an inevitable sense of drift; questioning where I am, reflecting on what’s been lost, at what cost, taking one-step, then another, and, invariably, trying to move a little further up the road. An obvious metaphor for life is also a reality that’s being compressed into a very short period of time for me. While I may not have been completely conscious of it while making the work, this sense of drift, loss, reflection, and uncertainty seems to be coursing through everything that I’ve done over the last few months - sometimes more apparent, sometimes less. 

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Pete Schulte : Not Here Not There

posted June 19, 2010 in events, residents  |  tags: not here not there, openings, pete schulte

Resident artist, Pete Schulte, exhibited an installation of his work as well as a group show, Not Here Not There, in the residency space and back rooms of threewalls on June 4th.   Curated by Pete Schulte, the group show included the work of Mariah Dekkenga, Julia Schwadron, John Englebrecht, Sophia Toal-Schulte, John Dilg, Josh Anderson, David Dunlap, Stacie Wilson, Noel Allen, and Claire Pentecost’s Debris.

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Anna Mayer: THE PEOPLE CONCERNED

posted May 8, 2010 in events, news, residents  |  tags: anna mayer, openings, residents

If you're in LA, be sure to check out Anna Mayer's show, The People Concerned.  Anna completed a threewalls residency last summer as part of her ongoing collaborative, CamLab.  More information about the show is below.

THE PEOPLE CONCERNED 
Anna Mayer

4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042

May 8 - 30, 2010 
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 8, 7-10 pm
Closing Event: to be held at Tree and Space, Sunday, May 30 from 4-7 pm

For her solo exhibition, The People Concerned, Anna Mayer will present numerous works made for the gallery space as well as performance documents from events and moments occurring in the weeks leading up to the show. All works emanate from Mayer’s attempt to establish an “outcantatory” practice that uses language, fire, and intention to propose relationships encouraging embodiment and the rejection of discreet, linear modes of reception. Wavering between collectivity and introspection, the exhibition offers different access points for experiential discovery. The works included articulate a functional, insistently generative process taking place between people, elements, and hands touching objects. 

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Resident Update: Jemima Wyman

posted March 20, 2010 in news, residents

Jemima Wyman, one of our summer 2009 residents, has two shows coming up for any threewalls fans that find themselves in Australia this spring.  Her solo exhibition at Milani Gallery will include new pour paintings, photo-collages and video works.

Jemima also will have work included in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, curated by David Elliott.

 "The Will to Deceive"

March 25th - April 10th
Opening March 25th 6-8pm

Milani Gallery
54 Logan Rd
Woolloongabba, Qld 4102

www.milanigallery.com.au