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October 28 to December 2, 2006
In Gallery 1
AMANDA ROSS-HO | gran-abertura| images
In Gallery 2
JOEY FAUERSO | It is easy, It is good |images
AMANDA ROSS-HO's statement for GRAN-ABERTURA
In an attempt to negotiate the slippery physicality of the present,
Gran-Abertura considers the economics of
experience and the currency of absence
Negative reinforcement and examinations of the peripheral underscore the notion that progress is a
subtractive endeavor, and navigation is only possible through a process of eliminations. In their vacancy,
or nothing creates openings through to directly access an invisible foundation.
WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH, BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH
Grandiose monuments to permanence areerected, and permanent
are
about the temporary. Through collapse, restructure, and basic inversion, spaces of expectation are constructed, filled, and
emptied. Perception is
regarded as a photographic metabolic structure, therefore introducing elements of resolution, fidelity and composition to
experiential apparatus. Reductive reasoning,
wild shifts in scale, overtures towards visual
intimacy create
apertures, continually opening onto themselves.
JOEY FAUERSO: It is easy, It is good
Joey Fauerso will show "It is easy, It is good", a projected animation and a series of drawings from the animation's construction. Fauerso's animations start with her filming a closely cropped human figure directed to perform a specific action (e.g. screaming or reading a poem). She then breaks down the video into individual frames, focusing on actions and movements that are involuntary. She paints these individual frames and films the paintings, thus slowing down the figures movements in the resulting projected animation. The individual paintings and the animation are exhibited together, juxtaposing two representations of a single event: one organized spatially in a grid, the other temporally in a real-time animation. Fauerso's paintings, animations and works on paper use the figure to provoke an awareness of space and the body in viewers. Fauerso uses representation, and the framework for that representation (whether it be white paper, a grid, a found landscape), as a way to present shifting or contradictory perspectives.
Joey Fauerso recently completed a yearlong residency in Roswell, New Mexico that culminated in the show "If Im Thinking Im Probably Feeling" at the Roswell Museum of Art. She has impending solo shows in 2007 at the Arlington Museum of Art and Finesilver Gallery in San Antonio and her work has been discussed in Flash Art, Art US and Art Papers. She lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
Through a constellation of new sculptures, collage, and architectural intervention in the form of a site-specific installation, Amanda Ross-Ho explores spaces of presentation and the materiality of vacancy. Raw canvas, sheetrock, and bond paper are critical surfaces, examined for their structure in order to locate the agency, and potential gendering of paintings, rooms, and books.
Ross-Ho looks at studio production (sculptures, collages, assemblages, photography) as a model creative system that allows for a broader understanding of intuitive philosophy and basic human psychology. References to the sites and forms of her production are elemental in her work, acting as a constant backdrop for the many variables that are depicted, represented, or enacted through images and objects. This strategy of inclusiveness destabilizes traditional hierarchies of presentation, maximizing contextual clues and maintaining an insistent connectivity to the complicated external world where the work originates.
This is Amanda Ross-Ho's second solo show at Western Exhibitions and her first since receiving her MFA from the University of Southern California this spring. Shes has shown recently at Cherry & Martin in Los Angeles, Bellwether in NYC, Platform China in Beijing as well as special project booth at the Art LA fair in 2005 courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Ross-Ho was an artist in residence at the stichting Kunst and Complex in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2003. Her work has been written about in Art Review, LA Weekly, Venus Magazine and artnet. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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