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>GROUP SHOW> Los Angeles// Nora Berman, Catalina Ouyang, Tobias Spichtig: August 19, 2016
GROUP SHOW
Los Angeles//
Nora Berman, Catalina Ouyang, Tobias Spichtig:
August 19, 2016
Ryan Good
RYAN GOOD: Blood Stains the Roots of the Palm Trees in Venice
Parapet Real Humans is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles based artist Ryan Good (*1979) The exhibition will open with an artist talk on Wednesday, August 24th at 6pm with Cole Root. The exhibition will remain on view until September 10th 2016.
Acting as a visual extension of his text based artist book “Sounds Good, 1,000 Ideas by Ryan Good”, the exhibition presents dense content rich collages made of drawings and found illustrations that are humorous, sexual, and grotesque. Violent scenes challenge the viewer to confront the absurdity of the self. By visualizing these ideas, Good’s drawings diagram and propose an open-source idea economy. Good provokes the audience to further investigate or actualize his concepts, and poses the question of what can be possible if our unrestrained thoughts are available for public consumption.
Born in Youngstown Ohio, Good lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in group exhibitions in New York and Berlin. His publications include the self published “Noa Noa Calfiornia" (2014) and the forthcoming “Sounds Good, 1,000 Ideas by Ryan Good”, From Three Star Books, Paris.
Benjamin Echeverria
Los Angeles-based artist Benjamin Echeverria (b. 1980) presents three environmental interventions accompanied by a selection of new paintings in which the roles of the materials are bent, reversed and consolidated. Prior to being stretched, the paintings are taken apart and reassembled, a process the artist began investigating in a series of sculptures in 2008. Oil paint’s plasticity and resistance to containment are key, as each painting is a context in which the will of the material asserts itself. This is the artist’s second exhibition with Parapet Real Humans.
Ann Craven: Pensée #59
Parapet Real Humans is pleased to announce
Ann Craven: Pensée #59
January 23-February 8, 2020
Artist Talk: Thursday January 23, 2020 at 1PM
In the French language, a pansy is called pensée, which means "a thought given." The name is supposedly derived from its likeness to a pensive human face.
It is a flower that possesses a litany of artistic usage throughout history. Pensée is also a “bouquet” of flowers, or “thoughts”, inescapable as a middle ground between the worldly and the ethereal as an extended portrait of the human spirit. Rendering a chronology of thoughts about life and death, the artist dedicated this pensée project to the life of her mother.
Craven's subjects are often of nature, fleeting things that shift and bloom in cycles of perpetual change, their representations as mercurial as their memories.
Ann Craven’s Pensée watercolors (all 23 x 15 inches) were exhibited first at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims France in 2008, then at Maccarone Gallery in New York City in 2011 as part of the show Ann Craven: Watercolors, and in 2016 at Galerie des Multiples in Paris in the show: 100%, 2015 + Flower Power.
In 2013 Karma Books published “PENSÉE.” This 98 page book gathers the entire series of ninety-two pensée watercolors that Ann Craven painted in 2007-08 while in residency at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France.
Ann Craven is renowned for her bold portraits of the moon, birds and flowers. Major solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, KARMA, Southard Reid, and Nina Johnson Gallery, among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Hammer Museum, among others. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Artist talk will take place on Thursday January 23, 2020 at 1pm.
Parapet Real Humans
2901 Sidney Street
Saint Louis, MO 63104
JPW3
The Sun Is Square
PW3 organized by Marie Heilich
Marco Barrera
AMERICAN AUTOBAHN — MARCO BARRERA — SEPT 10 TO OCT 23, 2019
Capital saturates the globe. It insists that its flows are the only flows. As if the human condition could be distilled into equivalences. Any flow becomes another material, to actualize its own mundane flux - affected by the aspirations of totality, but indifferent to the command to cede to totality’s logic. The singular effect of countless causes.
There is no relation that’s not a juxtaposition, no gathering that’s not an assemblage, no object that isn’t the result of bricolage. How do we endure persistent inversions of scale and orientation, as age-old confusions of map and territory become dull and obvious? Things still line up into visions of continuity, at least for some amount of time - as long as it takes for an identity to emerge.
— Nicholas Nauman
Israel Lund w/ litüus Performance October 13, 2018
Opening, Oct. 13th from 4-6pm
litüus performance at 5pm
litüus will be responding musically, in real time, to Lund's paintings that are hung within the space
Ana Cardoso April 8 - May 31, 2018
Ana Cardoso (b. 1978, Lisbon) is based in New York.
Cardoso's painting work is an ongoing performance that negotiates between historical referents, conceptual and structural concerns, and distribution modes.
Her solo and two-person exhibitions include: Memory Leak, Casa-Atelier Vieira da Silva, Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (2018); The Seed Can Be Initialized Randomly with Merike Estna, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn (2017); Grandpalazzo with Collicaligreggi, Rome (2017); Logic Operators Commute, Collicaligreggi, Catania (2016); The Seed Can Be Initialized Randomly with Merike Estna, Múrias Centeno, Porto (2016); Vacation with Tim Pierson, Four A.M., New York (2016); Folder, Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016); Progress, Chiado Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2015); The Hinge, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2015); Flat Files, Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2014); The Other Side and In Between with Christian Bonnefoi, Longhouse Projects, New York (2014); Program vs Program, Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2012); Picasso, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012).
Hannah Buonaguro & Ryan Foerster January 21 - March 28, 2018
Parapet Real Humans is excited to announce its next exhibition is a collaboration by artists Hannah Buonaguro and Ryan Foerster. The exhibition will open Sunday, January 21st at 11am. The exhibition will remain on view until March 8, 2018.
For this site specific project, the artists are emphasizing the nature of their relationship to one another as well as to the environment and world around them. Practices like writing, photographing, and drawing find their way into their sculptural work and artist books. Their sculptures consist of salvaged materials: things they find on a daily basis or in their travels, unfinished works and scraps from their studios. Themes of home/shelter, relationships, memory, and social and political concerns emerge in their work. By tracing one another’s bodies on yesterday’s newspapers is one example of the way they combine personal, intimate movements within the context of a bigger and more uncontrollable world and media landscape. In coincidence with the exhibit, the two have made a unique that includes recent drawings, photographs, paintings, text, and ephemera. For the performance that will take place, they will each read all text featured in the book.
Hannah Buonaguro was born in 1991 in New Jersey and lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include, Quarantine Show (Dubrovnik, Croatia), The Gardening of Forking Paths (Maganta Plains, New York) and The Museum of Love and Devotion (Fairview Museum of History and Art, Fairview, UT). Her recent publications of poetry include Time That Does Not Tick and In These Bones.
Ryan Foerster was born in 1983 in Newmarket, Canada. He has had solo exhibitions at Hannah Hoffman Gallery (Los Angeles), Clearing Gallery (New York/ Brussels), Printed Matter (New York) and Ribordy Contemporary (Geneva, Switzerland) among other. He also has curated many shows, founded RATSTAR press, and has been the recipient of many awards, including the Pollack Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Fabian Marti December 10, 2017 - January 15, 2018
Fabian Marti, (b. 1979) has been described as the spiritual leader of the Swiss art scene, though he currently divides his time between Europe and the Americas. His oeuvre ranges from individual production to the creation of an idyllic residency for fellow artists (his ‘TwoHotel, a simple shack that he created in situ in Brazil) or co-directing the Hacienda art space in Zurich. The many exhibitions he has taken part in include the central exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2011, or bringing the TwoHotel to Basel for the inaugural presentation at the TANK gallery of the Institut Kunst. Marti’s solo output is characterised by an interest in altered consciousness, as well as the meeting of the organic and the mechanical or virtual.
Robin Cameron October 14 - November 29, 2017
The Manifesto of No
When someone says: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. No photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. No Strings Attached. No Reservations. Dr. No. Nope. Nada. Nuh-uh. Phhhhht. No Age. No doubt. Plastic Ono Band. No dogs. No loud music. No ball playing. No bake. No Carbs. No-name slobs. No love. No woman, No cry. No problem. No idea. No regrets. Nope dope. No, no, no. No Exit. No Fixed Address. Going nowhere. No more pencils no more books no more teachers dirty looks. Stuck. Nixed. Negation. Negatory. Can't. Can not. No can do. Yeah Right. Never gonna get it. No way no how. Never good enough. Antithesis. Naysayers. Nada. Reject. Refuse. Recycled Non-something-non. Veto. You won't, you can't. Forget it. Just a low down, dirty no. You'll never, you couldn't.
Just say:
YES!
Benjamin Echeverria September 14 - October 12, 2017
Benjamin Echeverria was born in 1980 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include, Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, The University of Richmond Museums (2017-18); 57W57 Arts, New York (2015) and New Postures organized by N/A Oakland, Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014). Echeverria was a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship from the Yale School of Art and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA from the University of Southern California. In 2013 he founded Reserve Ames in Los Angeles.
Biba Bell w/ Audrey Johnson July 15 - August 15, 2017
Souci de soi: AUDREY JOHNSON is a collaboration between choreographer Biba Bell and dancer Audrey Johnson.
Nearing the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention toward the ethics of care as it relates to practices of freedom, subjectivity, and what he discusses as “technologies of the self.” A space for daily meditation, reflection, and physicality, the practice of cultivating the aesthetics and art of the self might counter forces of subjection and produce a movement to off-set the harsh political climate of the day. Here, the dancer is offered as a figure exemplar that critically navigates the spectrum between discipline, self-care, and experimentation.
Arrival
[24 – 27 January]
Flesh
[31 January – 3 February]
Discomfort
[7 – 10 February]
Pleasure
[14 – 17 February]
Question
[21 – 24 February]
Threshold
[28 February – 3 March]
Relation
[7 – 10 March]
Trust
[14 – 17 March]
Available
[21 – 24 March]
Ann Craven April 13 - May 30, 2017
Ann Craven is a painter based in New York City. The portrait and moon paintings record specific coordinates that the artist occupies at a given moment. They reflect back on the artist’s life, like a sky map. The painting Portrait of Amy (8-20-12), 2012 was painted in Cushing Maine on August 20, 2012. Craven’s oil paintings of the moon and portraits began in 1990’s as a way to explore variations on a theme or prolongation of “subject” or “subject matter” from an observation starting point.
In 2015, Craven began exhibiting her extensive series of Untitled (Palettes) – created from 1999 to present – in which she has been mixing color directly onto light-duty pre-stretched canvases. The palette in here at Parapet Real Humans titled Untitled (Robin, 2-21-11), 2011 was used to mix the colors for A Robin Singing, 2011.
Guided by minimalist tendencies, Craven’s Stripe Paintings contain the unused colors from her palettes. The simple gesture of striping or painting her unconscious color mixtures records the process as a “notation” or “transcription of logged time” like a tape recorder. This stripe painting titled Stripe (Portrait of a Robin, 2-23-11), 2011 was made after painting A Robin Singing, 2011.
Craven sees no differentiation from the four canvases in this exhibition – a portrait, a bird, a stripe or a palette and treats them as the same entity, thus taking the hierarchy out of “subject” - placing more emphasis on the unbridled process of “form”.
To be sure, Craven uses subject matter such as birds, birds, flowers and the moons in her multiple wet on wet paintings. Meanwhile, she neutralizes her storybook content through continual variations and repetitions, thus removing any sense of preciousness in the work whilst shifting the conversation about her work into a theoretical frame that considers the body as a whole, rather than its individual parts. By reworking, re-presenting and returning to the same stock subject matter, Craven engages questions of authenticity, collection, consumption and skill, thus examining the durability of a painted icon in a world that consumes mass imagery at record speeds.
About Ann Craven:
In addition to numerous group exhibitions, Ann Craven’s (American) major solo exhibitions include her current show: Animals 1999- 2017 at Southard Reid, London; Hello, Hello, Hello at Maccarone, NYC in 2015; I like Blue at Gallery DIET, Miami in 2015; Untitled (Palettes: Naked, Tagged), 2014-15, at Southard Reid Gallery, London in 2015, and Ann Craven at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles in 2014. She has three Artist Monologues of her work including Ann Craven: TIME (Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers France); Ann Craven: Shadows Moon and Abstract Lies (JRP Ringier and FRAC Champagne Ardenne); Ann Craven: Pensée, (Karma Books and Maccarone) which highlights ninety-two watercolors of the pansy flower painted by Craven between 2007-2008 while in residence at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne. Ann Craven lives and works in New York.
Van Hanos February 16 - March 27, 2017
Van Hanos (b. 1979) lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited widely in New York, including Gavin Brown's Enterprise, PPOW Gallery, Harris Lieberman and Mitchell Innes & Nash, as well as internationally at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Gall Galleria Pianissimo, Milan and Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen. Hanos has had solo exhibitions at West Street Gallery, New York and Retrospective, Hudson. His work has been written about in The New York Times, Flash Art and Artforum, among other publications. He teaches painting at Columbia University.
Kyle Thurman & Zak Kitnick December 15, 2016 - February 11, 2017
Kyle Thurman, born 1986 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, received his BA in Film Studies and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2009. He later studied as a guest-student at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf and completed his MFA at Bard College in 2015. Recent exhibitions include A Lonely Butcher at Off Vendome (New York) and A Change of Heart at Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles).
Zak Kitnick was born in Los Angeles, California in 1984. He lives and works in New York. He received his BA from Bard College and his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Rowhouse Project, Baltimore; CLEARING, Brussels; Off Vendome, Düsseldorf and Landings Project Space, Vestfossen. Recent group exhibitions include History of Nothing at White Cube (London); To Do As One Would at David Zwirner (New York) and Taster’s Choice at MoMA PS1 (New York). Upcoming solo projects include SCHLOSS, Oslo, and The Suburban, Milwaukee.
Karin Schneider October 11 - December 12, 2016
KARIN SCHNEIDER
Situation Diagram
Y as Yoga
ˈyōɡə/
Yoga is defined as “a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.”The spiritual, mental and physical well-being of a significant portion of the world population is conditional on the instability and destruction of others.The history of self-care has been the history of the disciplinary mechanisms of protection and control in the service of acquiring healthy and stable states of mind and body.The State invests and promotes another kind of protection.Attack in the service of defending our social body has become the quintessential method of promoting the ideology of freedom.
Parapet Real Humans is thrilled to announce the first solo exhibition in the midwest by the Brazilian-born, New York-based artist and filmmaker Karin Schneider. The exhibition will open with a conversation between Karin Schneider and Hannah Klemm on Friday, November 11 at 12pm. The exhibition will remain on view until December 12, 2016.
In 1997, Schneider founded Union Gaucha Productions (UGP) with Nicolás Guagnini, an artist-run, experimental film company designed to carry out interdisciplinary collaborations with practitioners from different fields. From 2005 to 2008, she was a founding member of Orchard, a cooperatively organized exhibition and social space in New York's Lower East Side. In 2010, Schneider co-founded Cage, a space that facilitated new kinds of social interactions. Her most recent projects have included Situational Diagram, first presented as a text at the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, France, in 2015 and an exhibition entitled Situational Diagram, presented at Dominque Lévy Gallery in New York Sept 7 - Oct 20, 2016. For her project at Parapet Real Humans the artist will make a site specific installation.
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