Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening!

Join us TOMORROW for the opening reception!

Saturday, March 2, 2013 5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Exhibition Dates:
March 2 - April 6, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day from Shoshana Wayne Gallery!

Please join us for the last few days of “The Other Side of Midnight”!

Zadok Ben-David in Antarctica!

A few days after attending the opening exhibition at our gallery, Zadok found himself adventuring through the temperamental polar weather. Enjoy the video here!

Edward Goldman on "The Other Side of Midnight"

Art critic Edward Goldman recently released a podcast on Zadok Ben-David’s new exhibition at the gallery! You can listen to it here!

ARTFORUM review on Yvonne Venegas

Mexico City

Yvonne Venegas
MUSEO DE ARTE CARRILLO GIL (MACG)
Av. Revolución 1608
September 20–January 13

Yvonne Venegas, Nirvana, 2006, C-print, dimensions variable. From the series “Maria Elvia de Hank,” 2006–2009.

Yvonne Venegas’ photography, possessing elements of portraiture and social documentation, tends toward individuals used to attention: adored actors, detested socialites, proud brides, or a famous twin sister. Her museum survey chronologically arranges six photographic series made from 1990 to 2012.

In 2006, Venegas photographed the production of Rebel, a hugely popular Mexican telenovela. Following the show’s third season, the cast became a pop group and performed to sold-out arenas. In Cumpleaños (Birthday), 2006, actress Anahí Puente sits primped between film takes at a hospital bedside as another actor lays connected to an IV line. With filming paused, Puente stares fixedly at Venegas’s camera with a comfort and seduction that suggest she may still be performing. Fans1, 2006, shows a group of girls outside a concert, decked out in white blouses and plaid pleated skirts styled as their adored performers. The girls’ slouchy postures and exposed skin, squeezed within ill-fitted clothing, differentiate them from their larger-than-life idols. Alongside piles of handwritten fan mail, scattered news clippings reveal Puente is romantically paired with an emerging Mexican politician—if past Mexican politics is also prologue, her enormous popularity on- and offscreen will manifest strong election chances for her beau. The series outlines a curious network in which reality and fiction overlap alongside private and public governance.

Another hall presents a collection of large photographs documenting the home life of Maria Elvia de Hank—wife to Tijuana’s billionaire ex-mayor, and famous as a socialite, philanthropist, and matriarch. Images reveal de Hank and her family in their elaborate domestic paradise, complete with pink flamingos, extravagant dollhouses, gold-plated dinners, and her husband’s pet bear. Bolsa (Handbag), 2009, shows de Hank flanked by female family members as a suited male arm gestures to receive her handbag. The women’s manicured sartorial elegance (lush pinks, gold sequins, white lace) and the routineness of the pass-off illustrate a contradiction between de Hank’s tireless self-fashioning and her concurrent desire to appear effortlessly at ease. The exhibition opened days after de Hank’s unexpected death, adding a note of raw fragility to Venegas’s aptitude for capturing individuals in their most tenuous moments, as both subjects in images and objects in life.

— Nicolas Linnert

Please join us this Saturday, 5-7 PM, for the opening of Zadok Ben-David’s The Other Side of Midnight!

Cheers to a great holiday season and a happy new year!

Please join us at the gallery for the last week of Kathy Butterly’s Lots of little love affairs!

A big thank you for everyone who visited us in Miami for PULSE 2012!

Be sure to join us TOMORROW, 5pm to 7pm, for Tony Banuelos’ closing reception of his exhibition “VIRTUALLY”! http://t.co/pCG4M9jK

PULSE Miami 2012
Booth A-100
December 6 - 9, 2012

The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL

Rachel Lachowicz & Jillian Hernandez: Artist and Art Historian in Dialogue

Wednesday, December 5th at 11:30am
PULSE Miami Lounge

Shoshana Wayne Gallery in collaboration with Moca Miami and Pulse Miami are pleased to present a conversation between Los Angeles based artist, Rachel Lachowicz and Miami based curator, Jillian Hernandez, celebrating the book launch of the artist’s self titled monograph.

 
Seating is limited.
Please RSVP to mail@shoshanawayne.com by Monday, December 3rd.

KATHY BUTTERLY: 2012 Winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Contemporary Artist Award

Kathy Butterly is the tenth annual winner of the museum’s contemporary artist award.

Butterly was recognized by an independent panel of jurors as an inventive and independent sculptor whose work reflects the fading boundary between craft and contemporary art.

The jurors wrote in their decision: “Butterly’s voluptuous ceramic objects explode traditional conceptions of earthenware art through careful manipulation of the medium, resulting in unconventional forms, colors, and surfaces. Her small, nuanced, labor-intensive sculptures are richly communicative and wildly imaginative. Each enigmatic work balances between humor and horror, seduction and repulsion, abstraction and figuration. Butterly masterfully harnesses these tensions to transform the familiar into something new and strange. She stands out as one of the most innovative artists of her generation.”

Butterly creates intimate ceramic sculptures that explore the physical and emotional potential of clay. Her exquisitely glazed objects, which range from three to ten inches high, resemble cartoonish forms based on the human body. The sculptures are often cast from mundane kitchen objects and then endowed with appendages such as bulging bellies, curvaceous bottoms, and painted toes. Butterly’s process is both painstaking and unorthodox. Often a single piece will be glazed and fired in the kiln as many as twenty times, resulting in a sensually colored surface that conveys as much as it conceals.

Her work has steadily gained recognition in the United States, with recent solo exhibitions at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, California, Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Butterly was a 2011 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Among other awards she has received are a Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2009) and the Ellen P. Speyer Award from the National Academy of Art in New York City (2006).

Butterly was born in 1963 in Amityville, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (1986) from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and earned a master’s degree in fine arts (1990) from the University of California, Davis. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery and the Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

Opening Reception for Group Show “Echo of Echo” and Sarah Vanderlip’s “drawings for sculptures of buildings”

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Gallery Closed

The gallery will be closed from Monday, August 27th through Monday, September 3rd.

Regular office hours will resume Tuesday, September 4th.

Group Exhibition “Echo of Echo” & Sarah Vanderlip’s “Drawings for Sculptures of Buildings” will open Saturday, September 8th. Opening reception will be held form 6-8 pm.

"CAPTCHA" 2012 Artists - Part II

Lucas Blalock is a photographer and writer living in Los Angeles. His photographs have been exhibited widely and written about in publications including Frieze, Mousse, Art In America and The New Yorker. Blalock is also a featured artist in Art 21’s documentary web series “New York Close-Up”.

Petra Cortright is an artist living in Santa Barbara. She explores new digital techniques by using software available online, often created by amateurs, and new hardware such as Wacom tablets. More info at www.PetraCortright.com and www.TheComposingRooms.com.

Leah Dieterich is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Her blog and book thxthxthx: thank goodness for everything were featured on The New Yorker blog as well as The Atlantic and Vogue. See her work at www.leahdieterich.com and www.thxthxthx.com.

Guthrie Lonergan is an artist/Internet surfer/programmer based in Hollywood. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, the Sundance Film Festival, and the first Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is a co-founder of Nasty Nets Internet surfing club. Visit www.theageofmammals.com for more information.

Eileen Maxson is a USA / Netherlands based artist working at the confluence of video, performance and installation. Her works humorously and critically lament the vanishing borders between imagination and consumer coercion; technology and true personality. With that in mind, Eileen reconstitutes cultural detritus into counter-spells of memory, merchandise and persona.

ELAINE REICHEK / Times Quotidian / "Double-Take, Whitney Biennial 2012"

“Elaine Reichek is perhaps the most unlikely artist to be included in this year’s Bien- nial, which is why stumbling upon her installation was one of the great and unex- pected experiences of the show…”

"CAPTCHA" 2012 Artists - Part I

Brian Droitcour is a contributing writer for Artforum, the poetry editor of Rhizome, a Russian-English translator and doctoral student in Comparative Literature at New York University. Twitter: @briandroitcour || www.tcour.com

Ariel Evans studies the history of art and photography at the University of Texas at Austin. She also founded an art magazine called Pastelegram (www.Pastelegram.org), which she currently edits.

Ed Schad is Assistant Curator at The Broad Art Foundation, where he has worked for the last 5 years. He is a frequent contributor to Art Slant and Art Review and has written for the L.A. Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, Flaunt, and Raw Vision. His blog is www.icallitORANGES.blogspot.com.

Kelly Sears is an animator living in Houston, Texas. She uses foraged and discarded images to reinterpret American history. www.kellysears.com

Adrian Williams, born in Portland, Oregon, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Kate Wolf is a writer living in Los Angeles.