The Contemporary Arts Center Announces 10-11 Season
THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES
2010-11 EXHIBITION SEASON
Cincinnati, OH– The Contemporary Arts Center announces an exciting lineup for the 2010-11 exhibition season. The ambitious schedule builds on momentum from the previous year, which saw record-breaking attendance and strong community support for Contemporary Arts Center programming. Distinguished by the number of internationally-renowned figures starring in the season, the CAC calendar lists back-to-back shows of the highest quality and of incredible breadth. Raphaela Platow, Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator, explains “The extraordinary shows slated for this year are testimony to this institution’s esteem in the international art world, and this community’s support for what we do and the unique role we play in the region.”
Reflecting the CAC’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost contemporary art presenters, the 2010-11 exhibition season offers new ways for the public to engage with artists, scholars, and each other around contemporary issues. Cincinnati will have access to the largest private collection of contemporary art in Latin America, host a groundbreaking show of a legendary icon, experience a titillating immersive environment of large-scale paintings and customized motorcycles, and explore the boundaries of painting, sculpture and digital media.
With this exhibition season, the CAC remains an ardent supporter of emerging artists and those creating new work. Platow asserts “It is important that the CAC ensures space for artists to experiment and grow. Scheduling them among more traditional shows offers the public a revolving and diverse menu of contemporary art and greater insight into the artistic process.”
Continuing her support of the local art community, Platow has tapped two Cincinnati-based artists to appear in the lineup this season: Jimmy Baker and Denise Burge. Showcasing select pieces from local private collections, Selections from Cincinnati vignettes also continue throughout the year.
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Co-curated by Raphaela Platow, Sylvia Karman Cubina, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Bass Museum of Art, and Victor Zamudio Taylor, Curator, Jumex Collection
September 18, 2010 – January 2011
Levels 4 and 5
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumexis the first US show of this remarkable collection based in Mexico City. This select assembly of works from the collection examines art as a cultural index and opened at Art Basel Miami to great fanfare. Where Do We Go From Here? is structured around four concepts in dialogue with one another: art about art; art and urban anthropology; text in art; and a series of succinct artist profiles. These conceptual clusters entertain issues posed by artists revisiting key moments in modernism, examining the city as a laboratory, and reflecting on the Pop legacy of text in art, as well as spotlighting artists whose contributions to the contemporary art scene have been significant.
The Contemporary Arts Center co-organized this exhibition with the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and Fundación/Colección Jumex in Mexico City. Artists in the exhibition include: Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Louise Lawler, Richard Pettibone, Jenny Holzer, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Minerva Cuevas, Daniel Guzmán, Damian Ortega, On Kawara, Jorge Mendez Blake, ‘Moris’ Israel Meza Moreno, Jack Pierson, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Gabriel Orozco, and Ugo Rondinone. A new catalogue has been published in celebration of the exhibition.
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto: Disappearances
September 18, 2010 – January 2011
Level 2 (Lower)
For this installation, Turner-Yamamoto will use elements such as plaster and paint chips to create sculptural works and a series of paintings which together are meant to comment on fragility and transience in the human world. The painting series, Pentimenti, also utilizes agilding technique inspired by icons from the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt. The sculptural works placed throughout the gallery will be reflected in the gilded surfaces of the paintings, which will be hung on the walls in a constellation-like pattern.
Disappearancesis part of a larger regional project. Concurrent to this show, Turner-Yamamoto will install Hanging Garden at Holy Cross Church—the abandoned chapel located in the Monastery in Mount Adams. Hanging Garden is a sculpture consisting of two trees—a live tree perched atop a dead one—with roots intertwined. While surveying the grounds of the chapel, Turner-Yamamoto found the pieces of plaster and paint chips integral to the creation of Disappearances.
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto was born in 1965 in Osaka, Japan and studied fresco painting in Kyoto. He has exhibited around the world, from India to Ireland, and is committed to using historic and natural elements in his work as meditations on the environment.
Motorcycles/Rosson Crow
Curated by Justine Ludwig
November 2010 – April 2011
Level 2 (Upper)
This exhibition will introduce an exciting mixture of painting and design through customized motorcycles paired with new paintings by Crow. For this experimental show, Crow will create a new body of work informed by American motorcycle culture. The paintings will draw attention to the bikes’ aesthetic qualities and their role in the mythology of America. Executed as a dramatic set design, Crow will meld the two elements into a single immersive environment.
Crow’s work often addresses traditional masculine spaces—such as the Wild West, the bad boy art scene of New York, seedy sex clubs, and smoky lounges—which she tailors to make her own. Inspired by an early interest in theatre, her massive paintings become like stage sets and the viewers become actors.
Rosson Crow was born in Dallas, Texas in 1982. She studied at the School of Visual arts in New York and Yale University. In 2006 Crow had a residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. She has exhibited her work at Deitch Projects in New York and had a solo exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.
Jimmy Baker: Remote Viewing
February – April 2011
Level 2 (Lower)
This exhibition will work through the strengths and shortcomings of filtering signal from noise in a time of ever-increasing media saturation. Using painting, audio and video, Remote Viewing will explore the relationship between military psychic exploration and the ability to access infinite information through digital media.
Baker alters appropriated digital imagery to create ethereal works ranging from post-apocalyptic landscapes to portraits of heavy metal musicians. Working primarily in oil and resin on canvas, he also makes use of photography, video, and sculpture. Utilizing a soft focus and hyper-realized details in his paintings, Baker creates the impression of archival images of a parallel universe that is both familiar and foreign.
Born in 1980, Jimmy Baker is based in Cincinnati. He received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati and is an Adjunct Professor at the Art Academy. Past exhibitions include Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles, New Galerie de France in Paris, and Foxy Production in New York.
Keith Haring: 1978-1982
Curated by Raphaela Platow
February – August 2011
Levels 4 and 5
The Contemporary Arts Center and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna have co-organized Keith Haring: 1978-1982,the first exhibition to focus on the early years of Haring’s short, but groundbreaking, career. During those years, Haring attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, started a diligent and vibrant studio practice, participated in artistic activities on the streets of New York, and maintained an extremely active social life in the limelight.
The performative character of his work provides the tenor for the exhibition. It traces the development of Haring’s visual vocabulary—from his rhythmic, interlocking geometric shapes to his comic-inspired figures and symbols. In addition, the exhibition sheds light on Haring’s role as an untiring facilitator of group exhibitions, performances, and other artistic initiatives.
Showcasing many works rarely seen, or never before exhibited, alongside signature pieces from the artist’s oeuvre, Keith Haring: 1978-1982 serves to further the understanding of Haring’s contribution to the art world. The exhibition will open in Vienna May 27, 2010 before traveling to Cincinnati. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Denise Burge
Curated by Raphaela Platow
May – August 2011
Level 2 (Lower)
For this show, Burge will apply her quiltmaking techniques to the medium of video—cutting, stacking, shredding, compressing and piecing—just as she has done with fabric in the past. Burge will utilize the hypnotic qualities of viewing video, and the artificiality of the medium, to create an installation of semi-sculptural works of projected video.
Denise Burge was born in North Carolina in 1963. She holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) and she has exhibited extensively throughout the Midwest.
Matthew Monahan
Curated by Raphaela Platow
May – November 2011
Level 2 (Upper)
Assembling pedestrian materials into dynamic sculptures, Monahan’s work pays homage to ancient and contemporary cultures. In conjunction with his sculptural pieces, he creates detailed ink drawings which often appear as blueprints for his assemblages. For this show, the artist will create new sculptural works embracing Zaha Hadid’s architecture and responding to the unique volumes and angles of the gallery.
Born in 1972, Matthew Monahan is based in Los Angeles and studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He has shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the 2008 Carnegie International, the 2006 Whitney Biennale, and the New Museum.
Selections from Cincinnati
Ongoing Series
Level 2 (Upper)
Selections from Cincinnatioffers CAC visitors a new way to experience contemporary art—through the eyes of local collectors. This is an ongoing series of rotating vignettes, illustrating the diverse array of people in this community who collect and the role contemporary art plays in their lives. Selections from Cincinnati collections will be announced throughout the season.
*All information is tentative and subject to change.
About the Contemporary Arts Center
Founded in November 1939 as the Modern Art Society by three visionary women in Cincinnati, the Contemporary Arts Center was one of the first institutions in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting the art of our time. In May 2003, the CAC relocated to its first free-standing home, the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, designed by Zaha Hadid. Throughout its distinguished history, the CAC has earned a reputation for stimulating thought and introducing new ideas by presenting the work of diverse artists from around the world, including hundreds of now-famous artists such as Laurie Anderson, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Nam June Paik, I.M. Pei, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol. The CAC focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media, presenting six to 12 exhibitions and over 20 performances annually. The CAC receives ongoing support from: Fine Arts Fund; Ohio Arts Council; The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. /U.S. Bank Foundation, City of Cincinnati Arts Grant Recipient; The National Endowment for the Arts; the generous contributions and grants of individuals, corporations and other foundations; CAC memberships, facility rentals, special events and sales from the CAC Store. UnMuseum programs and artists are sponsored in part by the Charles H. Dater Foundation, Josephine Schell Russell Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee, and The Ladislas and Vilma Segoe Foundation.
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