ArtPad SF 2013
May 16th - 19th, 2013
May 16, 2013
Please join us at ArtPad SF in the legendary rock & roll Hotel Phoenix. We'll be in Room 15...poolside.
We are excited to be presenting new works by Lita Albuquerque, David Kimball Anderson, C. Finley and Lia Halloran.
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The Miami Project
December 4th - 9th, 2012
December 4, 2012
Please join us at Miami Project 2012 December 4th - 9th in the Wynwood Art District at Booth 907.
We are honored to present works by Lita Albuquerque, Todd Gray and Nancy Baker Cahill.
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Leonardo Bravo on view in 'Hotel California'
May 18th-21st, 2012
May 18, 2012
Leonardo Bravo on view in 'Hotel California' at The Standard, East Village, 25 Cooper Square. Site Unseen presents a showcase of some of the brightest designers and artists hailing from the Golden State. Friday, May 18th - Monday, May 21st.
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Blythe Projects at Dallas Art Fair 2012
April 13-15, 2012
April 2, 2012
Please join us at the Dallas Art Fair 2012, April 13th - April 15th, in Booth G7. We will be featuring the works of David Kimball Anderson, Leonardo Bravo, Siri Kaur, Larry Mullins, Mark Schoening and Michael Salvatore Tierney.
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James Clar at Art Dubai 2012
March 21-24, 2012
February 16, 2012
James Clar was commissioned to produce new site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects. He will also exhibit with Carbon 12 at Art Dubai.
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James Clar at VOLTA NY
Thursday, March 8th - Sunday, March 11th, 2012
February 1, 2012
The next edition of VOLTA NY will take place from Thursday, March 8 - Sunday, March 11, 2012. Please visit us at Booth C5.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson to continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complementary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
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Ben White exhibiting in 'To Live and Paint in LA' at the Torrance Art Museum
January 21 - March 10, 2012
January 9, 2012
An exhibition curated by Max Presneill and Jason Ramos surveying emerging painting trends and talents from Los Angeles.
Opening reception Saturday, January 21 from 6 - 9pm.
Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, California 90503
Blythe Projects featuring Siri Kaur at Photo L.A.
January 12 -16, 2012
January 7, 2012
Blythe Projects is pleased to feature Siri Kaur at Photo L.A. 2012. Spanning three major bodies of work from 2007 to 2011, our presentation highlights Kaur's photographic investigations into longing, desire, memory, and perception, both public and private.
Opening Night Benefit Gala
Thursday, January 12 6 - 9pm
Fair Hours
Friday, January 13 - Sunday, January 15 11am to 7pm
Monday, January 16 11am to 6pm
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Mark Schoening in The Huffington Post
By Yasmine Mohseni
December 7, 2011
Each December, the art world heads to Miami for the international art fair Art Basel Miami Beach. The goal of this 4-day extravaganza is ostensibly to buy, look, talk and think about art. This year, the fair turned ten and cemented its reputation as the raucous and slightly inebriated younger sibling of the staid Art Basel in Switzerland. All week, fashion designers, glossy magazines and liquor companies sponsor events hosted by celebrities. When Friday hits, consumption of all kinds crescendos into a jet set feeding frenzy. But, the real fun comes before the champagne-soaked hangovers. And that's actually looking at the art. Mid-week VIP openings and previews allow collectors, curators and art world professionals to catch a glimpse of what's being offered this year. There are always the big-time artists like Matthew Barney, Tracey Emin and Yoshimoto Nara, creating impossibly expensive but nonetheless covetable work. But, there's also a wide selection of art by lesser-known names with work priced between $3000 to $40,000. Many are known among the arty circles but are still in the upward trajectory of their careers, with work available for purchase by burgeoning and seasoned collectors. These artists are creating strong work and, for those who have the budget, these are the ones to snap up before they command Barney, Emin or Nara price tags. Art Basel is not typically known for displaying emerging artists, but there are a few if you keep an eye out. Emerging art is mostly the domain of satellite fairs, such as NADA (New Art Dealer's Alliance) and PULSE. Here's a selection of work I found particularly compelling. Let me know if you agree, comments welcome!
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Blythe Projects at PULSE Miami 2011
December 1-4, 2011
November 13, 2011
Please visit us at PULSE Miami, Booth E-102! We will be featuring artists, James Clar, Lia Halloran, Mark Schoening, Siri Kaur and David Kimball Anderson.
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James Clar 'Turbulence' at Satellite in Dubai
by Christopher Lord
November 12, 2011
"Swinging light installation for James Clar 'Broadcast' series"
by Christopher Lord, The National
James Clar's latest light installation comes swinging wildly at us. A light bulb is suspended from an industrial fan that hangs from the ceiling. As the fan whirrs, the bulb is whipped around the room. To stop it from reaching a constant motion, the fan cuts out at random. We cannot help but take a cautionary step back.
This is the third in Clar's performance series, Broadcast. Previous events, in September and October, have seen him invite different Dubai-based artists into his Al Quoz studio space to enact a one-night-only installation piece, but this time he's presenting work of his own.
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Siri Kaur LA Times Review
by Leah Ollman
November 10, 2011
"Art review: Siri Kaur at Blythe Projects"
by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times
November 10, 2011 | 6:00 pm
Siri Kaur’s photographs at Blythe Projects are all nouns, no verbs: barn, man, boat, goat, tree, owl. This, then this, then this. They typify the most basic of photographic precepts — point and shoot — which is not to say they are hasty snapshots. Far from it. If anything, they err on the side of preciousness, each subject a carefully set gem of private poetry. Radishes in a plastic bag on the kitchen counter. A goat alone in a leaf-strewn grove.
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Siri Kaur in art ltd. Magazine
by Shana Nys Dambrot
November 3, 2011
art ltd.
November/December 2011
Critic's Picks: Los Angeles
Siri Kaur practices a kind of photography that searches for the timeless but often encounters the skeptical along the way. If her landscapes are domestic gardens of Eden, her solitary female figures are more Lillith then Eve. Her mystical, romantic, borderline Gothic taste in landscape and portraiture winks at the Old Masters and hints at the New Age, making stops at Homer, Wyeth, and Hopper to pick up some modern malaise and New England wistfulness along the way. But that's the thing about Kaur's images--all the most salient formal comparisons come from the world of painters; this despite the easy casual encounters, convincingly unstaged happenstance, and obvious fetish for slanting light that speak directly to the concerns of modern color photography. Her early work tended to pick one or the other thread, investigating the legacy of portraiture of and, in our post-Sontag world, by women, or else a nearly abstract staring contest with light-based natural phenomena. Her current work has found its stride in her fusion of these strands into a richer whole that both opens her eye and mind to observable miracles of experience, as well as inspires her narratives of personal memory. "Know Me For the First Time" opened in October at Blythe Projects in Culver City and continues through December 17.
Lia Halloran featured in Sculpture Magazine
by Helen Lessick
October 22, 2011
Lia Halloran's 'In All Disorder, A Secret Order' is featured in the November 2011 issue of Sculpture Magazine!
James Clar featured in The National
by Faisal AlYafai
October 18, 2011
"Dubai exhibition explores the dichotomy of the 'state'"
by Faisal AlYafai
Oct 14, 2011
All across the floor of the Traffic gallery in Dubai are strips of LEDs, forming lines and squares and rectangles. Seen up close, they look like a maze, but stepping back reveals the floorplan of a large house, in fact a scaled-down replica of the floorplan of the Pakistani mansion in which Osama bin Laden spent his final years.
This work by James Clar is part of The State: Social / Antisocial?, an exhibition curated by the Emirati artist Rami Farook and running across two Dubai galleries, Traffic and The Third Line, both in the Al Quoz area.
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Mark Schoening featured in FLAUNT Magazine
by Matthew Bedard
October 6, 2011
A CONTROLLED EXPLOSION OF ARCHITECTURE AND ROMANTICISM DOMINATE THE ARTIST’S MIND
by Matthew Bedard
When a park ranger sequestered los angeles-based artist Mark Schoening and his 10-foot-tall dodecahedron sculpture between some Joshua Tree monzogranite rectangular joints, inquiring on he and its business in the national park, Schoening could only think to say: We’re just waiting for some shit to land.
Indeed, Schoening was waiting for some shit to land, and it did a few weeks later during a Crosstown Rebels rave, where Schoening’s piece was fully installed (he’d adventured it out to Joshua Tree for a test install) on the balcony of Hollywood’s Music Box, this time with a dizzying network of fluorescent-hued, stringy innards, connecting the structure’s architecture in a kind of luring, psychedelic filament. (Your narrator can testify as such, as he lay on the floor in its center to “optimize” his experience.)
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Blythe Projects at PULSE Los Angeles 2011
September 30 - October 3, 2011
September 30, 2011
PULSE Los Angeles 2011: SEPT. 30 - OCT. 3, 2011
FEATURED ARTISTS: Mark Schoening, David Kimball Anderson, Larry Mullins and Michael Salvatore Tierney
BOOTH C-4
PULSE LOS ANGELES 2011
PULSE Los Angeles will take place September 30 through October 3, 2011, where it will feature an estimated 65 galleries. Modeled on the PULSE Miami fair, PULSE Los Angeles will offer a beautifully produced exhibition venue with soaring ceilings surrounded by an expansive outdoor area, across more than 100,000 square feet of space atop The Event Deck at L.A. LIVE, an AEG Worldwide venue.
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Gallery artist, Ben White--Recipient of 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and Exhibiting at Fountain Los Angeles
September 30 - October 2, 2011
September 20, 2011
Blythe Projects congratulates Ben White on being awarded at 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, individuals who demonstrate strong artistic merit and devotion to their art practice over a significant period of time.
The gallery will mount a solo presentation of works by Ben White at Fountain Los Angeles (fountainartfair.com). Please join the revelries!
Lot 613
613 Imperial Street
Los Angeles, California 90021
September 30 - October 2, 2011
Opening Night Reception - Friday, September 30 7pm - 12am
General Hours 12pm - 7pm (Saturday & Sunday)
Conversation with Tm Gratkowski and Howard Fox
September 18, 2011
September 18, 2011
Blythe Projects
Sunday, September 18, 2011
10:30 am - Noon
Please join us for a conversation with Tm Gratkowski and Howard Fox, Emeritus Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to celebrate WHITE OUT, Mr. Gratkowski’s first exhibition with Blythe Projects.
Light brunch and refreshments will be served.
Discussion begins at 11 am.
RSVP to hillary@blytheprojects.net.
Siri Kaur in art ltd. Magazine
by Shana Nys Dambrot
September 1, 2011
art ltd
September/October 2011
Review
LOS ANGELES
“Fuck Pretty” at Robert Berman Gallery
This optimistic depth-charge of a group exhibition is unexpectedly un-punk, given its title, and is in need of becoming a book—for its deft assembly of images (all photographs by women artists, almost entirely of women) and on the strength of its articulate narrative. In fact, the show already functions like a book, arranged in careful order, with a beginning and an end, dark moments, unexpected twists, recurring characters, and intrusive memories. But after seeing it once through, the joy comes in flipping around and discovering its endless supply of refractions and resonances, calls, responses, and subplots, both formal and symbolic, that flesh out the complex whole.
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GET LOST LA at the Music Box
August 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
GET LOST LA
August 27, 2011 | 10 pm - 6 am
Music Box at the Fonda Theater
6126 Hollywood Blvd
323.464.0808
For the last decade, international party-starter Damian Lazarus has been redefining the sound of the witching hour as an international DJ and label owner. In the past two years, his Crosstown Rebels label has emerged as the touching point for some of the best underground dance music in the world. The Rebels Get Lost party series has become notorious for its unbridled hedonism, coupled with familial intimacy. In conjunction with Flaunt Magazine, Get Lost touches down in LA for a special edition at the Music Box. Damian Lazarus and LA faves Droog man the decks, with performances by Art Department, Deniz Kurtel, and Detroit's newest poster boys, Visionquest. Art installations, like a 13-foot illuminated interactive sculpture by Mark Schoening and reflective, modular installation works by Meeson Pae Yang provide the perfect visual accompaniment to the aural pleasures.
For tickets, please visit www.themusicboxla.wantickets.com.
Siri Kaur: Field Trip
August 22, 2011 - September 8, 2011
August 22, 2011
Siri Kaur: Field Trip
August 22, 2011 - September 8, 2011
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3001 Gallery
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Reception: Monday, September 5, 8:30 pm
“Field Trip” is a selection of works from Siri Kaur's series “HALF OF THE WHOLE.”
“Starting in 2007, I began a photographic exploration of time and light, traveling on numerous occasions to Kitt Peak in Arizona to photograph outer space. With the help of planetary scientists, I captured pictures of distant galaxies on a digital sensor attached to a Meade solar telescope. After shooting, I returned to the traditional darkroom for a series of what I term ‘experiments.’
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'Beneath the Sea' by Troy Morgan
July 16 - September 2, 2011
August 10, 2011
Troy Morgan
'Beneath the Sea'
July 16 - September 2, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 16th, 6 to 8 PM
There once was a fisherman named, William, whose only friends in the world were the ocean and the creatures that lived in it....One day while William was exploring the ocean floor, he stumbled upon the most amazing sea creature he had ever seen in his life...
Blythe Projects is pleased to announce Beneath the Sea, our first exhibition with Los Angeles filmmaker and visual artist, Troy Morgan. Inspired largely by fairy tales, mythology and his childhood fascination with horror films, Morgan’s work explores universal human experiences – the 7 Deadly Sins and the unfolding of consciousness- and reflects how people orchestrate their own private worlds to make sense of relationships and life on the material plane.
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Blythe Projects in art ltd. Magazine
May/June 2011
May 14, 2011
artMRKT
...So what are the plans for artMRKT? "We want to be the premier contemporary and modern art fair," Fishko states succinctly. "We want the highest caliber material--the best show possible." Fishko's helping to ensure this with a strong vetting committee comprised of the esteemed San Francisco-based Catharine Clark and Hackett|Mill galleries, among others. And if early joiners and the engaging spectrum of work they represent are any indication, artMRKT's looking very solid. Established New York City contemporary art space Nancy Hoffman Gallery; young, hip Culver City-based BLYTHE PROJECTS and Brooklyn-based Like the Spice, which focus on emerging and early mid-career artists; black-and-white photography-focused Peter Fetterman Gallery; and Jerald Melberg Gallery, located in North Carolina and representing modern and established artists, are just a handful of those committed to the 65-gallery fair...
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Erika Wanenmacher at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
May 20 - August 14, 2011
May 7, 2011
Blythe Projects is pleased to support gallery artist, Erika Wanenmacher, in 'Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya'
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST. LOUIS ANNOUNCES SUMMER 2011 EXHIBITION
Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya
May 20 – August 14, 2011
Opening Night Reception: Friday, May 20, 2010 / 7 – 9 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 21, 2010 / 11 AM
February 15, 2011 (St. Louis, MO) — The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition called Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya. This exhibition will feature the work of six contemporary artists – Folkert de Jong, Hiraki Sawa, Allison Schulnik, Dana Schutz, Javier Tellez, and Erika Wanenmacher – paired with works by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Organized by CAM and curated by Santa Fe‐based independent curator Laura Steward, the exhibition will run from May 20 through August 14, 2011, and be accompanied by a CAM‐produced publication and series of diverse public programs.
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Blythe Projects at artMRKT San Francisco 2011
May 19 - May 22, 2011
May 7, 2011
artMRKT San Fransico 2011
Concourse Exhibition Center in downtown San Francisco
Thursday, May 19th - Sunday, May 22nd
Booth 517
FEATURED ARTISTS: Michael Salvatore Tierney, Mark Schoening, Tm Gratkowski, and Dias Sardenberg
'Permeate' by Meeson Pae Yang
May 21 - July 9, 2011
May 1, 2011
MEESON PAE YANG
'Permeate'
May 21 - July 9, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 21, 6 - 8 PM
The revolutionary discovery that some life forms can exist without oxygen or light significantly increases the chance of there being life elsewhere in the universe. This possibility—the wonders of what might exist in the bleakest, harshest environments above, below and between our known spheres--deeply informs the recent work of Meeson Pae Yang.
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Blythe Projects at NEXT Chicago 2011
April 29 - May 2, 2011
April 15, 2011
Blythe Projects is pleased to announce our participation at NEXT 2011. NEXT will take place on the 12th floor of Chicago’s iconic Merchandise Mart, coinciding with Art Chicago, from Friday, April 29th - Monday, May 2nd.
We look forward in seeing you at Booth 11B with a presentation of works by Larry Mullins, Mark Schoening, Michael Salvatore Tierney, Tm Gratkowski, and Dias Sardenberg.
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Michael Salvatore Tierney- Artillery, March/April 2011
by Eve Wood
March 12, 2011
MICHAEL SALVATORE TIERNEY is not afraid of the law (even at the peril of having his equipment seized after military police confiscated his film while taking photographs on a bombing range in the Mojave Desert) or the government, or martians, or any other en masse group that might oppose him in his endless search through space and time, memory and the endlessly brutal yet inspiring desert utopia that is the California landscape in search of an unquantifiable image that may or may not exist.
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Michael Salvatore Tierney- ArtScene, February 2011
by Michael Shaw
March 9, 2011
On many occasions, being granted permission to photograph high-security locations is the most challenging part of the battle. For Michael Salvatore Tierney and his "Aerospace" series, it entailed nearly a year of requests to the aerospace industry's gatekeepers, but ultimately he was well rewarded. He was provided access to various legendary So-Cal facilities, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA's Dryden Research Center.
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The resulting images, glowing white-outs of cockpits, sterile labs and military plane interiors, are more fetishistic than eerie. A space suit, in all its space-age material shininess, is a document of both a clichéd kid's dream and total inaccessibility at once, and one of the best photos of the series.
Tierney brings out an unexpected array of saturated, neon colors from his cold, clinical subjects to the point of overkill, especially when they go a bit blurry. But the consistent quality of the visceral inner glow achieved is irresistible, and at the same time there's an almost untraceable aftertaste for his immortalizing relics of our tax dollars superfluously at work (Blythe Projects, Culver City).
Ben White in Sacred Fire Magazine
by Chris Schlake
March 3, 2011
"Santa’s Gone Wild"
The venerable Christmas visitor carries an ancient shamanic lineage along with his bag.
While Christians celebrate the birth of their Savior and consumers seek salvation by cash, check or credit, the icon of the season undoubtedly remains that hoary old elf Santa Claus himself. For the faith- ful, Jesus never goes out of style, but because Christmas is the only time of the year for him to appear, it’s Santa’s time to shine.
Peel the wrapping paper from the veneer of Santa’s image, however, and you’ll find yourself on a sleigh ride back through time witnessing the twists and turns of a fascinating figure with a colorful— and surprising—personality.
Image: "The Last of Wild Men" by Ben White
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Blythe Projects California Homes Magazine Profile
by Alexandria Sivak
February 19, 2011
Focusing On Young And Emerging Painters, Hillary Metz Is Establishing A New Prototype For California Galleries
by Alexandria Sivak
Blythe Projects is a new breed of gallery that not only embraces the regional arts community—but also has such fresh appeal and serious young artists that it is attracting the attention of important collectors throughout California.
“The desire to bring exciting, soulful artists for collectors and arts enthusiasts is why we relocated to Culver City, one of California’s most respected arts districts,” says owner Hillary Metz. The building provides 3,000 square feet of exhibition space.
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Blythe Projects at PULSE New York 2011
March 3-6, 2011
January 26, 2011
PULSE New York 2011: MAR. 3-6, 2011
FEATURED ARTIST: Mark Schoening
BOOTH I – 12
PULSE NEW YORK 2011
PULSE New York will take place from March 3-6, 2011. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, and presenting over 50 of the world’s premier contemporary art galleries and a dynamic cultural program, PULSE New York 2011 connects art enthusiasts to works by leading and emerging contemporary artists.
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Michael Salvatory Tierney 'Aerospace'
Los Angeles Times Ask Chris Pick for January, 2011
January 10, 2011
Los Angeles
LAmag.com
Ask Chris Pick:
[Photography]
Michael Salvatore Tierney's photos of Southern California's most cutting-edge air- and spacecraft are dreamy, overexposed, and white hot. The images in Aerospace were shot at JPL, CalTech, and the Edwards and Dryden air force bases and capture collections of tangled wire and mysterious shapes that are truly otherworldly. You can tour them without security clearance today.
art ltd. magazine: Larry Mullins Profile
by A. Moret
January 7, 2011
art ltd
Jan 2011 artist profile
Larry Mullins
The works of Larry Mullins signal a rare moment where the fragility of language is met with an equally rigorous and meticulous handling of painting. When presented with Mullins' pieces, a viewer cannot help but sense that she is seeing words that were once familiar for the very first time, as they are re-imagined, twisted, contorted, and fully realized anew. A true devil for detail, Mullins spent between two and three years crafting his newest body of work, "New Baggage," which marks his first solo show in six years. While the works are handled with a calculated precision, the artist's hand seems invisible as the words run on an optical treadmill fading and returning to the forefront, which makes viewing the artist's work a beautiful game of optics.
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Los Angeles Times: Larry Mullins Art Review
by Leah Ollman
December 21, 2010
Art review: Larry Mullins at Blythe Projects
Larry Mullins’ first L.A. show, at Blythe Projects, has memorable energy and absorbing, street-smart beauty. The artist, now living locally, floats a fragment of verse within each of his pale pinkish, scumbled, sanded, spray-painted panels. The words come from his own song lyrics, and they read as both simple music and homespun poetry, brief evocations of character. One pays homage to “radiant child” Jean-Michel Basquiat, another tells of a woman “with a tough guy stance” meeting up with a man who was “sucking chaw in the back of his jaw/been riding 5 days his butt was rubbed raw.”
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In All Disorder, A Secret Order
Lia Halloran/Collider Projects
December 21, 2010
LIA HALLORAN & COLLIDER PROJECTS
In All Disorder, A Secret Order
February 19 – March 26, 2011
Opening Reception:
February 19, 6 to 8 PM
COLLIDER is the collaborative team of LA-based artist, Lia Halloran and Sarah Strauss of BigProtype Architecture in Brooklyn. Both artists use this opportunity to push beyond the normal parameters of their practices and challenge each other to play and experiment. Introduced in graduate school at Yale University in 1999, (Folding Unfolding) is the result of their conversations exploring energy and gravity, form and order, lesbians and skateboarding and, most recently, the Cave of the Crystal Giants in Mexico and the molecular organization of crystals.
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Aerospace
Michael Salvatore Tierney
December 21, 2010
Michael Salvatore Tierney
'Aerospace'
January 8, 2011 – February 26, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 8, 6 – 8 PM
After Military Police confiscated his film while taking photographs on a bombing range in the Mojave Desert, LA-based artist, Michael Salvatore Tierney’s Aerospace series formally and conceptually took form. His new body of work explores the Futurist promise held by the aerospace industries of southern California. Blythe Projects is pleased to present Aerospace alongside formative images from Tierney’s preceding body of work, Incidence and Reflection.
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John Andolsek Art in America Review
by Kirsten Swenson
November 24, 2010
Painting rarely gets more darkly political -- or more fun and devastating at once -- than in John Andolsek's recent exhibition "Black Tie, White Noise." Comprising works from the last eight years, the show carried visual echoes of the early days of Pop -- when Warhol's painted signs, dollar bills and Coke bottles were first exhibted at New York's Stable Gallery in 1962, and James Rosenquist's F-111 debuted at Leo Castelli in 1965. Andolsek, born in Nuremburg in 1961, knowingly adapts not only early Pop styles but also the themes and devices of David Salle, David Hockney and other observers of the vernacular American scene. Andolsek came of age in the East Village of the early 1980s, exhibiting there and studying at the School of Visual Arts. Although he left for New Mexico in the 1990s, his work retains some of the irreverent ethos of that seminal New York moment.
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Larry Mullins Q & A
with Hillary Metz
November 11, 2010
On the eve of his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Hillary Metz, owner and director of Blythe Projects in Culver City, sat down for a song, dance and chat with Larry Mullins…
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John Andolsek in Whitehot Magazine
by A. Moret
October 28, 2010
In his first Los Angeles solo show, Black Tie, White Noise, John Andolsek presents an unconventional manner of viewing the kind of imagery that has long allured Western culture, including currency, corporate logos, American flags, and John F. Kennedy. While the acquisition of wealth, power, and political gain lie at the crux of the American ethos, Andolsek's lucid works of oil on linen present the viewer with a kaleidoscopic lens with which to dissect the power structures at play. The keystone work, Black Dollar Bill, is the first instance of Andolsek's kaleidoscopic mode of viewing. The piece is instantly familiar because of its shape - an oversized dollar bill that we would nearly feel comfortable removing from the gallery wall. As currency is a part of our culture, and the acronym BEP (Bureau Engraving of Print) is present throughout the show, we can immediately assign a use value to the object represented. Andolsek plays with the interchangeable relationship of art and commerce, and with the irony that several handfulls of bills can be used to purchase a painting about currency. The intentionally rough hand of the artist makes the currency appear decrepit and antiquated, while the blurred white paint makes it ambiguous, its value uncertain. Black Dollar Bill points to an ongoing dialogue present in Black Tie, White Noise, around how the images that have shaped our culture are contingent on perception.
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Blythe Projects at PULSE Miami 2010
December 2-5, 2010
October 16, 2010
PULSE Miami 2010: DEC. 2 - 5, 2010
FEATURED ARTISTS: John Andolsek, Larry Mullins, Lia Hallorin/Collider Projects, Mark Schoening and Michael Salvatore Tierney
BOOTH E – 306
PULSE MIAMI 2010
PULSE Miami will return to the Ice Palace December 2 – 5, 2010, for its sixth edition, the first with new Director Cornell DeWitt. Presenting over 80 of the world’s premier contemporary art galleries and a dynamic cultural program, PULSE Miami 2010 connects art enthusiasts to works by leading and emerging contemporary artists.
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Black Tie, White Noise
John Andolsek
August 30, 2010
John Andolsek
'Black Tie, White Noise'
September 18 - October 23, 2010
Artist Reception
September 18, 6 - 9 PM
Blythe Projects is pleased to present 'Black Tie, White Noise', the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of work by John Andolsek. Hinging on the charged energy and aesthetic of punk culture from the late 1970s and early 1980s (a culture where Andolsek first cut his working- artist teeth in New York’s Lower East Side), Andolsek re-contextualizes that spirit into large-scale paintings, sculpture, sound-works and found objects re-interpreted into musing objects. Drawing on the legacies of Pop and Abstract Expressionism, Andolsek tackles the symbiotic relationships between consumerism, politics, patriotism and high society in the early 21st century.
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Blythe Projects at ARTSD10
September 2-5, 2010
August 3, 2010
Blythe Projects invites you to visit us at
ART SAN DIEGO 2010: SEPT. 2-5, 2010
We're in BOOTH #31
FEATURED ARTISTS: John Andolsek, Larry Mullins, Mark Schoening, Michael Salvatore Tierney and Ben White
ART SAN DIEGO 2010: The Forum for Art
A marketplace for the world’s leading contemporary galleries. A creative space for artistic exhibitions. A forum for dialog on current topics in the art world. A cultural and social highlight in San Diego.
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Michael Salvatore Tierney in FLAUNT Magazine
by A. Moret
July 12, 2010
MICHAEL SALVATORE TIERNEY
"The Artist Gains Photographic Access to Unexplored Military Bases"
Memory and perception play an integral role in the practice of Los Angeles-based photographer Michael Salvatore Tierney, whose current Aerospace series is inspired by fleeting visions from his childhood. In 1978, Tierney's father accepted a job as an aerospace engineer, uprooting his family from their home in New York to the South Bay of Southern California. At that impressionable age, aerospace was shrouded in mystery for Tierney. The jobs of his parents were further abstracted by the government clearance that was required to gain entry to the Air Force bases. For young Tierney, like many other children of aerospace workers in the South Bay, aerospace was a part of life no matter how elusive it seemed.
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