BE THERE
placesPresented by Jim Kempner Fine Art May 22, 2008- July 3, 2008Reception: May 22, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmBrandon Ballengée, Christiane Baumgartner, Chris Becker, Robert Beckmann, Vija Celmins, Rebecca Chamberlain, Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez, Kim Dorland, Angela Dufresne, Fredericka Foster, Steve Giovinco, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Jane Hammond, Tanja Alexia, Hollander, Mark Inglis, Alex Katz, Ligorano/Reese, Maya Lin, Laura Newman, Ed Ruscha, Paula Scher, Danny Singer, Pal Svensson, Mayumi Terada, Tim TrompeterJim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to present Places, the second exhibition in the series, People, Places, Things. Opening on May 22nd and continuing through July 3rd, the show will feature work in a variety of media exploring the notion of place. Going beyond a purely literal scope, the exhibition presents a dialog about place as a vague impression, a fictive creation, and as a boundary between present and memory. There will be an opening reception on May 22nd from 6-8 pm. Highlighted artists will include Brandon Ballengée, Christiane Baumgartner, Robert Beckmann, Vija Celmins, Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez, Kim Dorland, Steve Giovinco, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Jane Hammond, Tanja Alexia Hollander, Ligorano/Reese, Maya Lin, Ed Ruscha, Paula Scher, Mayumi Terada, and others. In their series Sections of Time, husband and wife team Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gomez document the metamorphosis of the vernacular domestic architecture in Yucatan, Mexico. Instead of being nostalgic about the past, the work celebrates the indigenous architecture and captures the process of its transformation over time. Both serene and frightening, Robert Beckmann’s ominous monochrome paintings depict empty houses and desolate landscapes that invite the viewer to ponder the consequences of the most destructive of human creations – that of the atomic apocalypse. The vulnerability of the house, which serves as an extension of the individual, speaks to the precariousness of the social contract. Using reworked graphics appropriated from contemporary real estate internet ads, artists Ligorano/Reese advertise apartment complexes and condos on the moon in their new series, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now. Toying with the commonly held notion of place, Ligorano/Reese propose that luxury living in outer space is a less far-fetched reality than ever before, especially as one can barely afford to live in Brooklyn. Though composed of brightly colored boundary lines, scrawled names of locations, and site-specific statistics and cultural data, Paula Scher's maps do not merely illustrate a literal place. Scher's image of place is charted through the hum of information overload. A composite of remembered visits, secondhand experiences, and vague but insistent feelings, the maps convey atmosphere through visual rhythm.
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