ANOTHER ROMANCE
The 2010 New Wight Biennial
September 23-October 7, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 23 at 5-8pm
New Wight Gallery
1100 Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Including work by:
| Graham Anderson Wiels Belgium |
Stephen Decker Yale University USA |
Melodie Mousset California Institute of the Arts USA |
| Giorgio Andreotta Calò Rijkesakademie Netherlands |
Rebecca Digne Rijkesakademie Netherlands |
John Seal University of Southern California USA |
| Jamie Chan Bard College USA |
Lena Henke Staedelschule Germany |
Julia Tcharfas & Tim Ivison Slade School of Fine Art UK |
| Tyler Coburn University of Southern California USA |
Caitlin Keogh Bard College USA |
Jo-ey Tang New York University USA |
| Fiona Connor California Institute of the Arts USA |
Axel Linderholm de Ateliers Netherlands |
Siobhan Tattan de Ateliers Netherlands |
| Alisa Margolis Schloss Solitude Germany |
Organized by Laeh Glenn, Alexander Kantarovsky, and Rebecca Kolsrud
Without opposing any rational methodologies, our intention was to bring together a group of artists who produce work with a Romantic raison d’être: to suspend temporality, to transcend language, and to embrace the possibility for the sublime in a contemporary territory often marked by looping self-reflexivity and irony.
The work in this exhibition, which encompasses a wide range of approaches and media, is unified by a desire to translate authentic experience through affect and artistry. Rather than focusing on discrete gestures that rely on immediate art-historical or cultural context, the artists in Another Romance uncover a renewed interest in the universal.
Another Romance brings together the work of seventeen artists from Belgium, France, Ireland, Britain, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the US, many of whom have never previously exhibited in Los Angeles. In effect, the gallery space comes to serve as a site for a trans-national convergence of ambitious works, ideas and conversations, offering new potential for the authentic, the affective, the beautiful and, for lack of a better word, the Romantic. |
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| Stephen Decker, your drowsy fantasies, video | Julia Tcharfas & Tim Ivison, Abbau (unbuilding) II, mixed media | Melodie Mousset, La main de demain, cast polyurethane, fiberglass, and industrial paint |
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 Lena Henke, Untitled, inkjet prints, spraypaint, frames, each 27.5" x 43" |
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| John Seal, Despair, mixed media | Alisa Margolis, You Are One of A Thousand (Forest Nude 4), oil and resin on canvas, 63" x 47" | |
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 Rebecca Digne, Kino-peinture, 16mm film, color silent, 1 minute loop |
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| Jo-ey Tang, considering the climate, window screen, table runner with wine stain, fold-up stool | Siobhan Tattan, I was almost last to be chosen but then I was left behind; found and assembled furniture |
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:30pm
Admission is free
Daily parking in Lot 3: $10
Short term parking (payable at pay stations) in Lot 3 North: $3/hour
Directions to the Broad Art Center
For further information call (310) 825-0557
Founded in 1997 by professor and artist Mary Kelly, then chair of the UCLA Department of Art, the Wight Biennial is curated and produced by a committee of graduate students in the art department, often in collaboration with students from other departments. The objective of the show is to exhibit this specific group of emerging artists as well as foster an investigative exchange between graduate programs at UCLA and other institutions.
The exhibition program of the New Wight Gallery is made possible by the generous support of Dallas Price-Van Breda.