Fallen Lander, 2010

Klutch Stanaway: Altaira opens Saturday, July 3rd, with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm.  The exhibition continues through August 8, 2010.

NASA explorations, ‘50s science fiction films, and household electronics are springboards for Altaira. The sculptures resemble lunar probes, modernist sculptures, and Exquisite Corpses with faux marble bodies on spindly legs. These forms stem from a landing pod that safely transported the Mars Exploration Rovers to the Martian surface.  Altaira refers to a character in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, who grew up surrounded by astounding futuristic appliances and her wild animal friends. The references in Forbidden Planet are multi-faceted, captivating, and yet ridiculous.  Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Freud, Greek mythology, popular science, the American military, and an amazing electronic score all blur to create a fascinating slippage of time.  Like the science fiction films of the ‘50s, the sculptures are layered with faux surface treatments, futuristic efficiency, and simulation.  Klutch Stanaway’s Altaira celebrates the objects we use to explore.

In the artist’s own words, “ I’ve made a fake boulder and some freestanding structures to transform the floor of the gallery into an unknown landscape. Wall units with colored lights transform the walls of the gallery into an interior of an unknown vessel. The boulder can roll through the space via remote control, flipping the notion of which objects are static and which objects are dynamic.  I’ve tried to embody a slight sense of anachronism in the space, and I used 1950s science fiction films as a model.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyca45lLx7I


Los Angeles based artist Klutch Stanaway received his M.F.A in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004, and is currently a sculpture professor at Fullerton College.  Stanaway has had recent solo exhibitions at Haus Gallery in Pasadena and Spacecraft Gallery in San Diego, and in the group exhibition Sound & Motion in 2007 at SolwayJones.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Solway or Angela Jones

solwayjones@sbcglobal.net

http://www.solwayjonesgallery.com/

Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show

To be exhibited at SolwayJones, Los Angeles

May 22 – June 26, 2010

Naked Coke III, 2010,  polished coke cans, dimensions variable

Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show opens Saturday May 22nd, with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm.  The exhibition continues through June 26, 2010.

Continuing the artist’s use of musical scales for exhibition titles and as his archive of past solo shows since 2001, Koh Byoung Ok: G Sculpture Show brings together a group of new and recent sculptures by this Korean born Los Angeles based artist.  G Sculpture Show, his first solo presentation with SolwayJones, will include several works that explore issues of duration, gravity, balance, and volume.  Koh’s ephemeral sculptures float and dance back in forth somewhere between performance, conceptual and minimal art humorously bridging with twists of absurdity and disbelief.

In the artist’s own words, “I approach art as the articulation and encounter of the unexpected, the mundane, and the temporal.  I contemplate the processes and objects of daily life that surround us and define our lives, but that often are seen as small and insignificant due to their commonplace—a snail inching its way along the ground, a person drinking water, a clock ticking, the wrinkles on your fingers after a bath, strands of hair lifted by a breeze.  I isolate these actions and objects, strip them down to their inner energy, put into conversation seemingly unrelated forces, and leave them for viewers to do as they will.  I see my practice as a type of performance art that captures a moment in an encounter, one that I transform and that takes on other articulations in my absence.  I am interested in the meaningless.“

Koh Byoung Ok works were included in the group exhibition Instruments at SolwayJones in 2009.

Recent exhibitions include Near West, Makii Masaru Fine Art, Tokyo, 2008, Humor Us, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008, E Sculpture Show, The Substation, Singapore 2007, Exquisite Crisis And Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute of New York University, New York, 2006, 2002 Gwangju Biennial, Korea.

Channa Horwitz: Sequences and Systems to be exhibited at SolwayJones and kunsthalle L.A., Chinatown March 13 – April 25, 2010


64 Variations on the Canon Series, 1982

Channa Horwitz: Sequences and Systems will be presented in two exhibitions in both the SolwayJones gallery space located at 990 North Hill Street, #180, and in the kunsthalle L.A. exhibition space located at 932 Chung King Road in Chinatown.  Channa Horwitz: Sequences and Systems will include new works and selected early works from the 1960s to 1980s.  Both exhibitions open Saturday March 13th, with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm. The exhibitions continue through April 25, 2010.  The gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday 11 – 6 pm, Sundays Noon – 5 pm.

Matt Mullican: Works from the 1980s and 90s to be exhibited at kunsthalle L.A.

932 Chung King Road, Chinatown

January 23 – February 27, 2010

Opening reception Saturday, January 23, 6-9 pm

SolwayJones and François Ghebaly / Chung King Project are collaborating on a solo exhibition of painting, sculpture, and prints from the 1980s and 1990s by Matt Mullican. Matt Mullican: Works from the 1980s and 90s will be presented at the Chinatown exhibition space, kunsthalle L.A. located at 932 Chung King Road, Los Angeles. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 23, 6-9 pm.

Matt Mullican: Works from the 1980s and 90s will include painting, etched granite sculptures and etchings and screen prints from two portfolio sets published in 1988, and 1993.  The exhibition will include Untitled, 1993, a portfolio of ten silkscreen prints and 64 etchings based on twenty years of Matt Mullican’s notebooks.

For more information, please contact:

Michael Solway or Angela Jones

SolwayJones
990 North Hill Street, #180
Los Angeles, Ca 90012
323.223.0224
solwayjones@sbcglobal.net

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François Ghebaly

510 Bernard Street
Los Angeles Ca 90012
323 221 2300
info@chungkingproject.com