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FIVE ARTISTS: Curated by Matthew Schum,

June 25 - July 31, 2015

FIVE ARTISTS: Curated by Matthew Schum

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    FIVE ARTISTS, Curated by Matthew Schum

    David Nolan Gallery is pleased to present Five Artists, curated by Matthew Schum. On view from June 25 through August 1, the exhibition brings together an international group of artists - Ana Prvački, Clarissa Tossin, Vesna Pavlović, Steffani Jemison, and Pilvi Takala - whose art explores vernacular, political and art historical cultures across a variety of media.

    Two Los Angeles-based artists – Ana Prvački (b. 1976, Serbia) and Clarissa Tossin (b. 1973, Brazil) – retrace the legacies of key twentieth-century cultural figures. Selections from Prvački’s Stealing Shadows here alternate the gendered politics of appropriation art by borrowing the silhouettes of Koons, Degas, Duchamp, and Giacometti. Connected to Tossin’s Study for a Landscape (Brasilia) and the utopian plans architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lucio Costa made for a new capital (Brasilia), Study for a Landscape (Mars) imagines such aspirations preparing for a futuristic life beyond our hemisphere and on another planet.

    In The Fabrics of Socialism, Vesna Pavlović (b. 1970, Serbia) presents archival footage of former Yugoslavia’s President Josip Broz Tito in a suspended glowing sculptural photo installation. In the work, Cold War-era divisions are cast as cinematic apparitions. Brooklyn-based Steffani Jemison’s (b. 1981, California) art concerns the notion of progress, its assumptions and its narratives. Jemison’s text works are part of a larger project, "Same Time," which uses repetition to discover new ideas within expired cultural forms.

    In Players (2010) Pilvi Takala (b. 1981, Finland) integrates herself into a group of young men living as expats in Bangkok. Portraying each member of a community of six poker professionals, who make their living gambling online, Takala reveals their decadent behavior. According to the artist, these men “ignore their original [European] society” to build a new way of life, and in so doing, overlook their apparent sense of purposelessness.

    According to the curator: "Five Artists is loosely based on Robert Altman’s film 1977 3 Women. Set somewhere in the California desert, the sparse narrative depicts three characters who occupy, overturn and eventually abandon their male-dominated community. Taking inspiration from the eroded landscape and classical mythology, the appropriation of patriarchy in the film’s conclusion involves the characters becoming an amalgamation of archetypal roles. Myth-making within recent art became a consideration when selecting artworks for the present exhibition. The various works suggest a displacement of political orders predicated on male values. They resist gendered formulas of making and art’s market-driven desertification, just as Altman’s most experimental film, in its time, did.”

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    • David Hartt Carpet at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, 2011 archival pigment print 60 x 80 in (152.4 x 203.2 cm) Edition of 6, with 1 AP
      David Hartt
      Carpet at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, 2011
      archival pigment print
      60 x 80 in (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
      Edition of 6, with 1 AP
    • David Hartt Ebony Fashion Fair Archive at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois II, 2011 archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed 30 x 40 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm Edition of 6, with 1 AP
      David Hartt
      Ebony Fashion Fair Archive at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois II, 2011
      archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
      30 x 40 in
      76.2 x 101.6 cm
      Edition of 6, with 1 AP
    • David Hartt The Republic I, 2014 archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed 59 x 88 1/2 in (149.9 x 224.8 cm) Edition of 3, with 1 AP
      David Hartt
      The Republic I, 2014
      archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
      59 x 88 1/2 in (149.9 x 224.8 cm)
      Edition of 3, with 1 AP
    • David Hartt The Republic III, 2014 archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed 30 x 45 in (76.2 x 114.3 cm) Edition of 6, with 1 AP
      David Hartt
      The Republic III, 2014
      archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
      30 x 45 in (76.2 x 114.3 cm)
      Edition of 6, with 1 AP
    • Vesna Pavlović The Archive, 2013 endura metallic color print 30 x 38 in 76.2 x 96.5 cm
      Vesna Pavlović
      The Archive, 2013
      endura metallic color print
      30 x 38 in
      76.2 x 96.5 cm
    • Vesna Pavlović Years of War, Decades of Peace, 2013 endura metallic color print 30 x 38 in 76.2 x 96.5 cm
      Vesna Pavlović
      Years of War, Decades of Peace, 2013
      endura metallic color print
      30 x 38 in
      76.2 x 96.5 cm
    • Vesna Pavlović Belgrade Conference, 2013 endura metallic color print 30 x 38 in 76.2 x 96.5 cm
      Vesna Pavlović
      Belgrade Conference, 2013
      endura metallic color print
      30 x 38 in
      76.2 x 96.5 cm
    • Vesna Pavlović Fototeka"Fabrics of Socialism", 2013-2015 photographic installation: Kodak 35mm slide projector, eighty black and white photographic transparencies, and a grey curtain Size variable
      Vesna Pavlović
      Fototeka"Fabrics of Socialism", 2013-2015
      photographic installation: Kodak 35mm slide projector, eighty black and white photographic transparencies, and a grey curtain
      Size variable
    • Steffani Jemison Untitled (Same Time / Profile), 2015 oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax 96 x 12 x 3/4 in 243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
      Steffani Jemison
      Untitled (Same Time / Profile), 2015
      oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax
      96 x 12 x 3/4 in
      243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
    • Steffani Jemison Untitled (Same Time / Arrow), 2015 oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax 96 x 12 x 3/4 in 243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
      Steffani Jemison
      Untitled (Same Time / Arrow), 2015
      oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax
      96 x 12 x 3/4 in
      243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
    • Steffani Jemison Untitled (Same Time / And), 2015 oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax 96 x 12 x 3/4 in 243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
      Steffani Jemison
      Untitled (Same Time / And), 2015
      oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax
      96 x 12 x 3/4 in
      243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
    • Steffani Jemison Untitled (Same Time / Crouch), 2015 oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax 96 x 12 x 3/4 in 243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
      Steffani Jemison
      Untitled (Same Time / Crouch), 2015
      oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax
      96 x 12 x 3/4 in
      243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
    • Steffani Jemison Untitled (Same Time / EE), 2015 oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax 96 x 12 x 3/4 in 243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
      Steffani Jemison
      Untitled (Same Time / EE), 2015
      oak, gesso, acrylic, furniture wax
      96 x 12 x 3/4 in
      243.8 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm
    • Pilvi Takala Players, 2010 Video, 7:50 min (16:9) 2 AP
      Pilvi Takala
      Players, 2010
      Video, 7:50 min (16:9)
      2 AP
    • Clarissa Tossin Study for a Landscape (Mars), 2011-2014 archival inkjet print Framed Dimensions: 76.2 x 76.2 in 193.5 x 193.5 cm
      Clarissa Tossin
      Study for a Landscape (Mars), 2011-2014
      archival inkjet print
      Framed Dimensions:
      76.2 x 76.2 in
      193.5 x 193.5 cm
    • Ana Prvački Stealing Shadows Mix, 2008-2015 projection
      Ana Prvački
      Stealing Shadows Mix, 2008-2015
      projection
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