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  • ThirtyNineHotel New Exhibit: Los Angeles, California to Manila, Philippines: You Are My Blindspot (Part 1)

  • Type: Art Exhibition
    Date: Friday - 9/3/2010
    Time: 6-9pm
    Location:
    thirtyninehotel
    39 North Hotel St, 2nd Flr
    Honolulu, HI 96817
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    Cost: FREE
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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