SHOWS & PROJECTS:
Current / Upcoming 2011:
September 13 - December 18, 2011: BAM Next Wave Art at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Dan Cameron.
Opening Reception: Tuesday Sept. 13th, 6-8. Artists Talk: Sat. Sept. 17th at 5pm.
May 20 - November 27: Nature Unframed at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL (outside Chicago)
Nov. 18 - Dec. 17, 2011: Composite Materialism: Ethan Greenbaum, Letha Wilson, Tamara Zahaykevitch. SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Nov. 16 - Dec. 21, 2011: ROY G BIV at Waterhouse and Dodd. Curated by Trong G. Nguyen.
Nov. 4 - Dec. 3, 2011: Project Space, Stene Projects, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sept. 27 - Dec. 17, 2011: So Different, So Appealing at Gramercy Park Hotel, Penthouse. NYC. Organized by Rachel Churner and Ryan Steadman.
Sept. 21 - Dec. 1, 2011: Imprecise Geometry: Niall McClelland, Jong Oh, Letha Wilson, organized by Wendy Olsoff (P.P.O.W.) at 308at156 project space, 156 5th Avenue, NYC.
Past exhibitions:
Oct. 28 - Nov. 20, 2011 J.J. Holdings and Friends, a J.J. Holdings Affair, 94 Prince Street, 2nd Floor, NYC.
November 5, 2011: Work Hard at Wildlife, organized by Jon Lutz / Daily Operation. A one night show of limited edition artworks, more info here.
Oct. 14 - 28, 2011: The Death of Affect at Art Blog Art Blog, 508 W. 26th Street, 11th Fl, NYC.
October 14 - 23, 2011: Cut/Paste at Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City.
August 27 - September 18, 2011: This is The Same as That: Dave Murray and Letha Wilson at LVL3, Chicago, IL.
May 19 - July 9: Always The Young Strangers at Higher Pictures, New York, NY
May 20 - November 27: Nature Unframed at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL (outside Chicago)
June 13 - August: Dawn Till Dusk at Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
June 23 - July 30: Matthew Brandt, Christine Nguyen, Letha Wilson: Every Photo Graph Is In Visible at Churner and Churner, New York, NY
June 23 - August 24: Summer at Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC July 22 - August 7, 2011: Late Summer Blues at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sara Reisman and Ian Daniel.
July 29 - August 19, 2011: Goodbye Space Shuttle at Curbs and Stoops, Brooklyn, NY.
April 13 - May 15: New Monuments at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
April 8 - May 12: Mountain Standard Time & Place at Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO.
March 25 - April 17: Groundwork at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
March 25 - April 29: The Working Title at Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY. Organized by Progress Report
March 16 - April 22: Paper A-Z at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
February 16 - March 22, 2011: Mirrored Thoughts/Spaces Between, Group exhibition curated by Stephanie Adamowicz, Spattered Columns, an Art Connects New York (ACNY) project, New York, NY
Spattered Columns, 491 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10012
This exhibition, curated by Stephanie Adamowicz, features the work of Letha Wilson, Carrie Pollack, Jamie Lund, and Jesse Hamerman. Through these artists' work, Adamowicz seeks to explore materiality and distance - specifically obstruction or reflection of surfaces, and physical or psychological barriers.
Letha Wilson's photo sculptures remind the viewer of the potential betrayal of photography as a replacement for an actual experience. On the other hand, Carrie Pollack's textured gold leaf canvases create a tension between exposed canvas and gilded surface that expose viewers' senses of vulnerability and loss. Similarly, Jamie Lund covers Polaroids documenting his last year in his 20s with gold leaf in an act of preservation, obscuring the image while creating an opportunity for viewers to construct their own narratives. Finally, Jesse Hamerman's "iwillhearyou@hotmail.com" creates an online forum for writers to seek emotional safety in writing to an anonymous listener separated by psychological and virtual distance.
Spattered Columns is a program of Art Connects New York, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to enrich the lives of all New Yorkers by making original visual artwork more readily available in non-traditional settings.
Punch the Sky, Solo exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibition dates: February 4 - 27th, 2011
For more images of the exhibition click here!
A review of Punch the Sky by Annette Monnier on onereviewamonth.com
Matinee, Group exhibition curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Patrick Brennan, St. Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition dates: February 5 and 6, 2011
The film and video works in Matinee consider or incorporate the environment in which they are viewed. They may physically involve the theater space, question the impact of the viewing conditions on one's experience of the work, or otherwise engage the space outside the screen. Taking inspiration from the often flawed and problematic conditions for watching and exhibiting film and video in a gallery setting, and the stark contrast of St. Cecilia's Gallery to such white cube spaces, these works activate their surroundings and are activated by their context. This premise is open to interpretation, so that each work and each gallery room has a distinctly different feel.
Running all afternoon and into the night, visitors are encouraged to meander through the exhibition at their leisure, theater-hopping as they go.
Artists Included:
Leah Beeferman, Alex da Corte, David Dunn, Antonello Faretta, John Giorno, Samara Golden, Jesse Greenberg, Ezra Johnson, Denise Kupferschmidt, Nick Lally, Jeanette Mundt, Nick Paparone, Ted Passon, Christian Sampson, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Jeffrey Tranchell, JD Walsh, and Letha Wilson.
Matinee is curated by Patrick Brennan and Lauren van Haaften-Schick.
For more information: matineetime.tumblr.com
A review of Matinee on Artnet: "Brooklyn Local" by Emily Nathan.
Off Camera, Group exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20
Exhibition Dates: January 20 - February 19, 2011
^ Image: Letha Wilson, "Concrete Snowbank", Unique c-print, museum board, wood, concrete, 29 x 16 1/2 x 10 inches.
Participating artists include: Sebastiaan Bremer, Anthony Campuzano, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Micah Danges, Lee Godie, Oliver Herring, Jessica Mein, Dan Murphy, Joe "40,000" Murphy, Brion Nuda Rosch, Virginia Poundstone, Martina Sauter, Miroslav Tichy, Isaac Tin Wei Lin, Letha Wilson, John Wood and Amelie von Wulffen.
Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present the group exhibition, Off Camera, a survey of photographic works which have been drawn or painted upon, animated, collaged or made into sculpture. Off Camera features a wide-range of work made by artists who set aside photography's conventions, cast off the limits of the medium and rely on invention when a straight representation of the physical world fails to meet their needs or expectations.
The photography featured in this exhibition is neither pristine nor conventional. In much of the work, the photos themselves are "wrong," taken with homemade cameras made from discarded objects, printed with dirty negatives, pulled from a common photo booth, torn or found. Some works "fix" the print, highlighting an area with line or hand-coloring that may be out of focus or need extra attention. Other pieces remove crucial details and focal points entirely or use mark-making across the surface of the print to obscure an event or reveal an imagined pattern or interior landscape.
Often times the constraints of the print are ignored and the artist takes a variety of liberties including extending the edges of the image by adding on paper, drawing or painting, collaging with other materials or creating a new, subtly transformed image by combining two or more photographs. Select works in Off Camera also free the photo from its two-dimensions by folding, cutting and shaping prints into sculptures, while others interrupt the image's stillness through animation.
In total, the works in Off Camera challenge our vision by making visible that which is not apparent, posit the impossible, confuse genres, subvert photography's traditions and factual claims, and manipulate reality and meaning.
A review of the show in Citypaper here...
Tide Pool Shop 2010
at Sara Meltzer Gallery / Projects, New York, NY
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: December 9, 2010 - January 15, 2011
^ Image: Letha Wilson, left: "Moon Drop (Flaming Gorge)" and right "Light Leak (Grand Tetons)" both 2010, Unique C-prints, cut and folded, 11" x 11" x 1". Edition of 12 each.
Sara Meltzer Gallery/Projects is pleased to present Tide Pool, a group show organized by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, with Sara Meltzer. Tide Pool is composed of three acts: an exhibition of works, a series of events, and a shop featuring artists editions and multiples. The artists and performers selected to participate in Tide Pool are friends, couples, and collaborators. A tide pool is a world within a world, a flouris...hing community of organisms within the larger ecosystem of the ocean. Tide Pool the exhibition is a window into a community of artists living and working in the larger system of New York, now.
Participating Artists:
Roland Allmeyer, Gina Beavers, Sarah Braman, Talia Chetrit, Ariel Dill, Ben Dowell, Carla Edwards, Esther Klas, Joshua Kolbo, Denise Kupferschmidt, Eric Palgon, Leigh Ruple, Christian Sampson, Joshua Smith, Kate Shepherd, Matthew Thurber, Mamie Tinkler.
Performances by (schedule to be determined):
Ambergris, Ben Sisto, The Crippler, Jason Martin, The Love Loves, Pablo Picasso and more.
Shop2010 will be open during regular gallery hours and evening events, featuring works for sale by:
Gina Beavers, Phil Birch, Colby Bird, Todd Bourret, Patrick Brennan, Sherri Caudell Brennan, Barry Canter, Ned Colclough, Bridget Donahue, Jeremy Everett, Carl Ferrero, Stacy Fisher, Amanda Friedman, Nathan Gwynne, Headtrippaz, George Herms, Elizabeth Hirsch, Melissa Hopson, Erik Lindman, Ryan Kitson, Denise Kupferschmidt, Eddie Martinez, Eamon Monaghan, Sam Moyer, Jeanette Mundt, Stephanie Otto, Claudia Pena, Courtney Puckett, Jory Rabinovitz, Christian Sampson, Denise Schatz/Miniature Garden, Gretchen Scherer, Ryan Schneider, Benjamin Sisto, Josh Slater, Kevin Stahl, Ryan Steadman, Matthew Thurber, Kyle Thurman, Jeffrey Tranchell, Ned Vena, Letha Wilson, and more...!
Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt are artists living and working in New York. Denise is also a co-organizer of Apartment Show, a series of roving group shows in different apartments begun in 2008.
Greening Green
at ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Exhibition Dates: 11.9 (Tue) - 11.28.2010 (Sun)
Location: All floors at Arko Art Center, Third floor seminar room, Daehak-ro Marronnier Park
^ Image: Letha Wilson, "Discarded Gallery Walls from ARKO Art Center and Art Sonje / Replica Artichoke Lamps and Benches", 2010, Reclaimed MDF walls and wood, Dimensions Variable.
Artists:
Vivan Sundaram (India), Florencia Levy (Argentina), Yao Lu (China), Ahmad Nadalian (Iran), James Balog (U.S.A.),
Roman Kirschner (Germany), Letha Wilson (U.S.A.), Juyeon Kim (Korea), Arakawa Ei + Mukai Mari (Japan),
Jaye Rhee (Korea), Niall Towl & Jason Attar (U.K.), Hye Won Kim (Korea), FF Seoul (Korea)
Science Fiction
in the Backroom Gallery at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
November 19 - December 19, 2010
A group exhibition featuring new work by Nancy Bowen, dNASAb, Ben Godward,
Meg Hitchcock, Jeff Hoppa, Linda Herritt, Marjorie Van Cura, and Letha Wilson.
EYTJ
at Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
November 11 - December 31, 2010
^ Image: Letha Wilson, "Angled Aspens", 2010, C-print, museum board, wood, 20" x 20" x 6"
Artists: Tyler Beard, Christine Buchsbaum, Brandon Bultman, Zach Burk, Sterling Crispin, Ian Fisher, Joshua Gambill,
Meredith James, Linda Lopez, Noah Manos, Matthew McConnell, Ryan Mrozowski, Derrick Velasquez and Letha Wilson.
MacDougal's Cave at Silvis Studio
338 Berry Street, 2nd Floor(between South 5th & South 4th)
Brooklyn, NY
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, October 20, 7 - 9pm
Dates:
Wed. Oct. 20 - Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5pm or by appointment.
Silvis Studio presents a show of new work by:
Matthew Capezzuto (www.matthewcapezzuto.com)
Sam McCune (samuelmccune.com)
Letha Wilson
Exhibition event on Facebook
Planes and lines seem to glide past one another
at Kunz,Viz,Gonzalez
The garage @ 2324 W Montana
Chicago, IL
Opening Reception:
Friday, October 1, 6 - 10pm
By appt. Weds. September 28 and 29th
The Collective Show New York 2010
at PARTICIPANT INC
253 East Houston St., New York, NY
Part of HKJB selection
Reception: Sunday, September 19, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday, September 15 - Sunday, September 26, 12:00 - 7:00pm
Download the press release as PDF
Vertical
Artists: Armin Hartenstein / Claudia Hinsch / Horst Jörsch / Claudia Schauerte / Heike Weber / Letha Wilson
at liason controverse, Düsseldorf, Germany
September 18th - October 17th, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 17th, 7pm
The exhibition "Vertical" unifies works, which under the topic of landscape share the same depiction of stones and rocks in the utmost varying form. Painting, photography and sculpture are standing vis-a-vis. A dialectic, in which a conceptually constructive approach in particular as well as the fragmental is of major importance. Fragments detached from their scenic context generate unique constructions of object/picture. With regards to content the emphasis is on rock mass. The mountain as an archaic, vertical element forms the connection between the earth and the sky. Through means of deconstruction, here instead it is stripped of its monumentality; the view of the pure structure, the layout of the lines or the metaphorical construct is released and reveals another reality. Liaison Controverse has invited artists, who master landscape in their works to a new order, in whose works the systematical transfer of territorial elements in to the image space and its reshaping is essential. The artist appropriates the stones, reduces, adds, rearranges. He treats the stone, he chisels, he breaks, and he abrades. Figuratively this applies to the work of the visual artists. With their tools they create new forms and surfaces, determine dimension and proportionality.
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Possible Press Issue 2
A quarterly publication of artists' writings
Release Party: Saturday, September 4th, 7pm
at Possible Projects NEW Location:
873 East Thompson Street, Philadelphia, PA
Corner of Norris Street
Contributions by:
*CENTERFOLD*
Barbara Probst
TEXTS
Colby Bird
Koning's Blauw
Alex DaCorte
Stephanie Diamond
Kara Hearn
Fawn Krieger
Jim Lee
Alison Owen
Ian Pedigo
Regina Rex
Letha Wilson
Amy Yao
to receive a free copy in the mail please email your address to press (at) possibleprojects (dot) com
www.possibleprojects.com
Day Glow
Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
August 7 - August 28
CLOSING RECEPTION: September 4, 6-8pm
An investigation into the stylistic variations and innovative processes of current contemporary photography
Curated by Andrew Laumann
Artists:
Coley Brown
Jessica Eaton
Sam Falls
Willa Nasatir
Peter Sutherland
Letha Wilson
Press for Day Glow:
Radar Redux, Baltimore Arts and Culture, August 12, 2010
The Photography Post, August 16, 2010
Belle of the Ball
Thursday July 22nd from 7-12
870 7th Avenue at 56th Street, New York City
One night of video and performance.
Featuring: Tom Forkin, Cooper Holoweski, Art Johnson, Kyoung Eun Kang, Avi Krispin, Mie Olise, Katelyn Szczesniak, Richard T. Walker, Letha Wilson, Jacob Gossett, Thomas Mullarney, Devin Kenny, Irvin Morazan, Jacolby Satterwhite
I Know What You Did Last Summer
July 9 - 14, 2010
St. Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, New York
A multimedia exhibition of diverse works created by an international group of artists who met one year ago at the summer artist residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in rural Maine. More info at iknowwhatyoudid.wordpress.com
Lauren F. Adams / Eduardo Tomas Basualdo / Keren Benbenisty / Ashley Blalock / Katherine Bradford / Heather Bursch / Maria Buyondo / Krista Caballero / Nayari Castillo / Caleb Charland / Colby Claycomb / Mary Coble / Brandon Cox / Rachel Fainter / Amy Feldman / Jose Joaquin Figueroa / The Friendly Falcons / Rosalinda Gonzalez / Jacob Gossett / Jane Fox Hipple / Cooper Holoweski / Janelle Iglesias / Nova Jiang / Art Johnson / Kyoung Eun Kang / Devin Kenny / Ji Eun Kim / Avi Krispin / Anna Kunz / Eva La Cour / Jenny Lee / Dan Levenson / Gregg Louis / Matthew Mazzotta / Nat Meade / Matthew Metzger / Irvin Morazan / Nyeema Morgan / Rosalind Murray / Tameka Norris / Brandon Norsted / Mie Olise / Ann Oren / Ester Partegas / Renata Poljak / Rit Premnath / Jaye Rhee / Blithe Riley / Christopher Robbins / Jacolby Satterwhite / Paul Stoelting / Clarissa Tossin / Niels Vis / Richard T. Walker / Ian Warren / Brindalyn Webster / Letha Wilson / Gregory Witt / Jayoung Yoon / Theodoros Zafeiropoulos
Magicality
Platform Gallery, Seattle, Washington
July 1 - August 5, 2010
Opening Reception: July 1, 6-8pm
Organized by William Powhida and Eric Trosko
Artists: Man Bartlett, Nick Fortunato, Johannah Herr, Baptiste Ibar, Kristen Jensen, Meghan LeBorious, Steve Pauley, William Powhida, Sarada Rauch, Garric Simonson, Jacqueline Skaggs, Jade Townsend, Eric Trosko and Letha Wilson
Above: Letha Wilson, Right Back At You, 2009, flashlight, rocks and digital print, dimensions variable
With this show, we desire to illuminate and challenge the parallels between the disciplines of art and magic(k). Both disciplines share belief systems that rely on a priori knowledge and metaphysics. In order to explore the parallels, we have sought out artifacts of practices rather than traditional art works. The difference between an artifact and an art work is dependent on our perception of an illusion or delusion. The distinction occurs through the acceptance of an idea, a value system that elevates common materials into works of art. In the art market, art achieves phenomenal values akin to precious metals and stones; the artist, the collector, the dealer, critics, and the auction houses transform ordinary materials with little intrinsic value into desirous objects. Creating the commonly agreed upon preciousness of art describes another form of magik, turning earth into gold, and in the art market, it is made possible. In the broader art world, artists can work in futility to achieve the desired transformation of their ideas, intentions into something of value, but that transformation is impossible without the belief of others.
This show, and it is indeed a show, not an exhibition, presents a range of operators seeking tangible results; materially, socially, or spiritually. The operators include skeptics and believers whose work acknowledges the gap between what is and what could be.
Through the use of associative thinking, non-scientific causal reasoning, symbolic expression, metaphor, metonym, and synchronicity the goal of artist and magician are the same seeking to affect change in the world. With this show we seek a synchronicity that will dissolve distinctions and help us to shed light on the dark and dark on the light. By looking at the production of art through much older means, we may discover new ways of experiencing and understanding its role.
- W.P. and E.T.
Born to Die
Secondhome Projects, Berlin, Germany
June 12 - 28, 2010
With Art and Artifacts from:
Aaron Johnson / Alexander Dawson / Alicia Escott / Amy Feldman / Austin Power / Benjamin King / Carol Bove / Chong Keun Chu / Dr. Nexus / Drew Beattie / Elisa Lendvay / Emily Roz / Ernesto Burgos / Eun Jin Kim / Fran Holstrom / Franklin Evans / Gareth Spor / Holly Zausner / Janna Luttrell / Jane Dickson / Jason Alejandro / Jeffrey Scott Matthews / Jim Lee / Jimmy Miracle / Jonathan Cowan / JR Larson / Kerry Hassler / Lauren Luloff / Letha Wilson / Lilla von Puttkamer / Lukas Geronimas / Martin G. Schmid / Maru Ituarte / Max Razdow / Melissa Hopson / Mirelle Borra / Nathan Gwynne / Nina Schmitz / Patrick Meagher / Ricardo Gonzalez / Stephan Weitzel / Susan Bricker / Tamara Zahaykevich / Tobias Trutwin / Tracy Thomason / Wayne Adams / Zachary Needler
as part of:
Secondhome Projects / Temp IX
Schererstrasse 11, 13347 Berlin
U 9 Nauener Platz