Everything Else
FPG's summer show entitled
Everything Else has won rave reviews from bloggers and critics alike; Walter Robinson of Artnet.com wrote: "Franklin Parrasch Gallery has another good group show, organized by Chris Churchill. It's a colorful and festive installation." Over 2,000 blogs have referenced, discussed or reviewed the show;
artcal.com,
nyartbeat.com, and
Kanyeuniversecity.com (the site of musician and entertainer Kanye West) are a few examples of the diverse publicity
Everything Else has received.
Ken Price
Ken Price's early "egg" sculpture
S.L. Green, 1964, is on view currently through November 30, 2008 at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the exhibition entitled
Progress. The show features works in a variety of media (from the museum's permanent collection) that simultaneously represent and critique the social and aesthetic goals of modernism. In addition to the Price sculpture, works by Jeff Koons, Georgia O'Keefe, Max Weber, Jo Baer, and Sol LeWitt, among others are included. This fall FPG will be exhibiting
Ken Price: Works From the Late 80's, the first survey show of the body of work Price produced between 1987 and 1989. A fully illustrated catalogue with essay by critic/writer Tom Collins will accompany the exhibition.
Nick Cave
FPG's May 2008 exhibition
Everything vs. Nothing included a major new work by Chicago based performance artist/sculptor Nick Cave,
Untitled Soundsuit, 2008. Bay Area art patrons George and Dorothy Saxe purchased the work for the permanent collection of the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco. Cave's fiber art unites sculpture and performance into an amalgamation of movement, sound and material. The use of recycled fabrics and found objects challenge our definition of beauty, nature and the human condition. Cave has been quoted as saying "I encourage individuals to think less of the materials as what they are, and more of what they might signify."* Cave's provocative "Soundsuits" have been exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, and will be the focus of a major solo exhibition at the Yerba Buena Museum, San Francisco, in 2009.
*
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation 2006 Individual Artist Award, recipient statement www.Driehausfoundation.com
John Cederquist
The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh is holding an exhibition through September 2008 entitled
5 Contemporary Masters; displaying the recent work of five artists who were represented by founder Elizabeth Rockwell Raphael during the formative years of the Society. Cederquist is featured among these five artists in addition to being part of the Society's permanent collection. Cederquist is a 2008 nominee for the prestigious
United States Artist Fellowship grant. The results will be announced in November 2008.
Alexis Rockman
Also included in
Everything vs. Nothing was Alexis Rockman's
Tropical Glacier, 2007. This work is reproduced in the catalogue for the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University's current solo exhibition of Rockman's work entitled
The Weight of Air. Rockman's 30-foot wide iceberg vista
South is included in Mass MOCA's current exhibition
Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, a reexamination of the tradition of landscape painting. This major work, inspired by the artist's recent visit to Antarctica, uses surreal imagery to depict the precarious relationship between nature and the impact of human culture. In an interview Rockman offers an enlightening explanation on the theory behind his work: "I started to think about the tradition of tropical travel iconography and set up a series of expectations that I could then play around with for various reasons having to do with ideas about conservation and about fears--some founded some unfounded--about the animals and plants that live there, and how our culture perceives them."* These ideas have been a constant source of inspiration for Rockman's work. The cover of the June issue of
ArtNews magazine features a watercolor by Rockman from the same Antarctica series.
*
Interview with Alexis Rockman. www.columbia.edu/cu/museo