Please join us for the opening reception of our new exhibition at thirtyninehotel:
Los Angeles based artist delivers an
immersive experience that proposes new ground between a body politic, identity
formation, and abstraction.
ART EXHIBITION: Los Angeles,
California to Manila, Philippines:
You
Are My Blindspot (Part 1)
ARTIST
TALK: Thursday, September 2, 6-8
p.m.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday,
September 3, 5-9 p.m.
EXHIBITION
DATES: September 3-November 27, 2010
HONOLULU, HAWAI’I- thirtyninehotel
announces the fourth installment of its 39 Chambers Artist Residency Program
(39 CARP). Each year, thirtyninehotel invites artists from outside of
Hawai`i to create art installations that consider and respond to the
mixed-use aspects of the site as a gallery, bar, lounge, and event
space.
At the root of thirtyninehotel’s mission
is art and music. Founded by creative visionaries and actively directed by
21st-century bohemians, thirtyninehotel continues to support the arts by
offering preeminent DJs and visual artists the opportunity to experiment with
their craft and providing the local arts community with the chance to connect
with artists who are practicing and exhibiting their work internationally. The
39 Chambers Artist Residency Program—the only one of its kind that
is part of a commercial enterprise—offers recipients airfare,
accommodations, transportation, per diem, and stipend for art materials. This
fourth residency exhibition, Los Angeles, California to Manila, Philippines:
You Are My Blindspot (Part 1) showcases the artwork of Gina Osterloh.
Los Angeles,
California to Manila, Philippines:
You
Are My Blindspot (Part 1)
For thirtyninehotel, Gina Osterloh presents
photographic works and a new light installation that question how we as
individuals define ourselves in relationship to the physical and psychological
room that surrounds us, groups of individuals, and larger forces such as
landscape and nationhood.
Through still performances with anonymous
sitters, cast papier-mâché mannequins, and cardboard cutouts in
room-size constructed paper sets, Gina Osterloh’s photographs present an
inherent focus problem in the structure of seeing. In each photograph, the
structure of the thin paper room acts as a stand-in for perception and language.
In many photographs, the masking of a face and the body itself, acts as a point
of rupture, or blank, in the picture plane.
In her most recent photographic works titled
Copy Flat and Body Prop, life-size collage and an applied crude
pattern confuses perception and offers a code for an unstable viewing ground.
In Copy Flat, a repeated gray dot pattern – loose in some areas and
concentrated in others – collapses foreground, background, the individual
and groups of bodies. In Body Prop, a masked figure mimics the red oval
pattern of the room, or perhaps the pattern or visual language of the room
mimics the figure. Throughout all of Osterloh’s works, mimicry and the
blank, play an important role in resisting where the delineation of an
individual begins. In attempt at camouflage, slippage occurs and the impotence
of this attempt, the failure of language and the process of naming, is laid
bare.
Los Angeles, California to Manila,
Philippines : You Are My Blindspot (Part 1) is both the title of the
exhibition and Osterloh’s new light installation for thirtyninehotel that
takes the form of two opposing colored lights that meet on a photographic print
of the sunset. Hanging in flag formation in the middle of the gallery, the view
of the sunset – from the coast of California facing the Philippines - is
both illuminated and obscured, blinded by the act of looking at one
another.
Osterloh has carefully considered the space and
culture of thirtyninehotel, as well as the geographic location of Hawai’i
(between California and the Philippines) to deliver an immersive experience that
proposes new ground between a body politic, identity formation, and
abstraction.
This is Osterloh’s debut Hawai`i
exhibition. In 2011, components of Los Angeles, California to Manila,
Philippines : You Are My Blindspot (Part 1) will travel to exhibitions
at Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines and François Ghebaly Gallery,
Los Angeles, California.
Gina Osterloh is an artist and educator
currently based in Los Angeles. Her practice is both studio and research based,
focusing on conceptual and political art practices of the Pacific Rim. In 2008,
she completed a Fulbright in the Philippines - researching contemporary art
practices in Manila and producing works for a solo exhibition at Green Papaya
Art Projects, Quezon City. Other awards include a Completion Grant by
Silverlens Foundation, Philippines. She has exhibited widely including Hong
Kong, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York
City. Reviews of her work include Art in America, Hyphen Magazine, Art Asia
Pacific, Asian Art News, Art Monthly Australia, Art on Paper, Giant Robot, the
LA Times, and Art Forum Online. In February of 2010, she curated the exhibit
Minimum Yields Maximum that presented conceptual and political works from
the Philippines, Vietnam, and California. Osterloh received her BA in Media
Studies from DePaul University and a MFA in Studio Art from University of
California, Irvine. Gina Osterloh’s work is represented by Silverlens
Gallery, Manila and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California to Manila,
Philippines: You Are My Blindspot (Part 1) was organized by thirtyninehotel
owner and gallery curator, Gelareh Khoie.
General Information:
Location: 39 North Hotel
Street, Chinatown, 2nd
Floor
Hours: Tuesday-Friday
4pm-2am; Saturdays 8pm-2am; Closed Sunday and
Monday
Phone: 808.599.2552;
www.thirtyninehotel.com
thirtyninehotel's mission and
purpose is to create a two-way bridge between
Hawai`i
and the world through
interdisciplinary and mixed-media contemporary art and
music
projects. thirtyninehotel is
dedicated to finding new ways of building local
networks
with diverse communities
in Hawai`i.
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