2005 Advance Exhibition Schedule
January 4
Los Angeles—Among the Hammer Museum's 2005 exhibitions are several important presentations organized by the Museum's curatorial staff, including THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Patty Chang: Shangri-La, and three new Hammer Projects. One of the year's highlights is the extensive Masters of 20th-Century American Comics, an exhibition co-organized by — and simultaneously presented at — the Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles
February 6 – June 5, 2005
Patty Chang: Shangri-La
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Fiona Tan: Correction
June 26 – October 16, 2005
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Masters of 20th-Century American Comics
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006
HAMMER PROJECTS
Mark Grotjahn: Drawings
January 11 – April 17, 2005
Adam Cvijanovic
February 6 – August 7, 2005
Hiraki Sawa
February 22 – June 19, 2005
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTIONS
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles
February 6 – June 5, 2005
THING presents 20 Los Angeles-based artists whose innovative and provocative works reflect the vitality and influence of L.A.’s lively art scene. In a format that follows the Hammer Museum’s previous invitational exhibitions—Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles (2001) and International Paper: Drawings by Emerging Artists (2003)— THING uncovers the best new sculpture being produced by today’s generation of artists. Selected after hundreds of visits to studios and exhibitions conducted throughout Los Angeles County during the past year, the artists include recent graduates of the many local colleges and universities whose strong fine arts programs are a central component of the city’s rich cultural landscape.
The title, THING, was inspired by the exhibition’s emphasis on works of art that reflect a sculptural practice rooted in the production of objects—or things—rather than environmental installations. The works are often representational and referential, including occasional anthropomorphic qualities. THING is organized by a curatorial team led by James Elaine, curator of Hammer Projects, with co-curators Aimee Chang, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, and Christopher Miles, an independent curator, critic, and assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach.
The exhibition is sponsored by The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Additional support provided by the Murray and Ruth Gribin Foundation and The Fifth Floor Foundation.
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993
June 26 – October 16, 2005
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore is comprised of approximately 75 photographs from Stephen Shore’s key series, American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as his later landscape works. Presenting many works for the first time, the exhibition examines Shore’s articulate and groundbreaking use of large format photography in the late 20th-century. Shore’s body of work captures the aesthetic formalism and traditional genres of landscape and portrait. The Biographical Landscape illuminates the evolution of Shore’s influential oeuvre further by presenting original prints and objects from Shore’s early conceptual projects as well as his obsessive daily logs from 1973.
Stephen Shore is a pioneer of large format photography and was the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among other honors, Shore’s work has garnered awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. He is currently the director of the photography program at Bard College.
This exhibition is curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publications.
Patty Chang: Shangri-La
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Patty Chang’s video installation will examine the concept of Shangri-La, or Heaven-on-Earth, and is inspired by James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, and the artist’s personal experiences in China. Chang’s exhibition is organized by Russell Ferguson, chief curator at the Hammer Museum.
Patty Chang is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation.
Fiona Tan: Correction
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Fiona Tan’s installation, Correction, presents approximately 300 video portraits of inmates and guards from four U.S. prisons projected on six hanging screens. Tan’s exhibition is organized by Francesco Bonami, Manilow Senior Curator, with Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA).
Fiona Tan: Correction is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation. The exhibition also received support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
Masters of 20th-Century American Comics
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006
Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in the 20th-century. This exhibition examines 15 key American artists who helped define the form and who brought it to the highest level of artistic expression. It features an extensive selection of over 500 original drawings, progressive proofs, vintage-printed Sunday pages, and comic books by Winsor McCay ("Little Nemo"), Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman ("Krazy Kat"), E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"), Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Art Spiegelman.
Co-organized by Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Hammer Museum, the exhibition will be shared between the venues. Comic strips created during the first half of the century will be on display at the Hammer and comic books created from the 1950s to the present will be at MOCA. The exhibition is organized by independent scholar John Carlin in association with Brian Walker and coordinated by MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling and Hammer Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Senior Curator Cynthia Burlingham.
HAMMER PROJECTS
Mark Grotjahn: Drawings
January 11 – April 17, 2005
Known primarily for his bold geometric paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn presents hypnotic monochromatic and multi-colored drawings in his Hammer Project. Subverted by random spills and marks made by overdrawing from other works, Grotjahn’s drawings of elegantly formal lines use various one-point linear perspectives that radiate and converge, resembling fractured sunbursts or endless highways.
Adam Cvijanovic
February 6 – August 7, 2005
Adam Cvijanovic’s large-scale landscape painting spans the Hammer’s lobby walls, evoking the Hudson River School and 19-century cycloramas. His room-sized installations—made of smaller 20-inch Tyvek panels mounted side-by-side—portray beautiful, yet charged natural scenes while playing with the seemingly sacred divisions between the mass-produced and the unique, the decorative and the profound.
Hiraki Sawa
February 22 – June 19, 2005
In his 2002 film Dwelling, Hiraki Sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a bare and featureless apartment. Using crisscrossing toy jumbo jets, the work follows the dramatic slow and solemn flight patterns of roaring miniaturized planes. Using grainy black and white footage, Sawa creates chaotic air traffic is as unsettling as it is comical.
Hammer Projects are organized by James Elaine, and are made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and members of the Hammer Circle.
HAMMER MUSEUM INFORMATION
Location/Parking: The Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum validation; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m. Parking for people with disabilities is available on levels P1 and P3.
Museum Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 11am-7pm; Thursday, 11am–9pm; Sunday, 11am–5pm; closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association members; free for Museum members, students with ID, UCLA faculty/staff, and visitors 18 and under. Access for people with disabilities is provided. Admission is always free on Thursdays.
Museum Tours: For reservations and information, call 310-443-7041.
For additional information:
VOICE 310-443-7000, TTY 310-443-7094
WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.
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January 4
Los Angeles—Among the Hammer Museum's 2005 exhibitions are several important presentations organized by the Museum's curatorial staff, including THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Patty Chang: Shangri-La, and three new Hammer Projects. One of the year's highlights is the extensive Masters of 20th-Century American Comics, an exhibition co-organized by — and simultaneously presented at — the Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles
February 6 – June 5, 2005
Patty Chang: Shangri-La
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Fiona Tan: Correction
June 26 – October 16, 2005
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Masters of 20th-Century American Comics
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006
HAMMER PROJECTS
Mark Grotjahn: Drawings
January 11 – April 17, 2005
Adam Cvijanovic
February 6 – August 7, 2005
Hiraki Sawa
February 22 – June 19, 2005
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTIONS
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles
February 6 – June 5, 2005
THING presents 20 Los Angeles-based artists whose innovative and provocative works reflect the vitality and influence of L.A.’s lively art scene. In a format that follows the Hammer Museum’s previous invitational exhibitions—Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles (2001) and International Paper: Drawings by Emerging Artists (2003)— THING uncovers the best new sculpture being produced by today’s generation of artists. Selected after hundreds of visits to studios and exhibitions conducted throughout Los Angeles County during the past year, the artists include recent graduates of the many local colleges and universities whose strong fine arts programs are a central component of the city’s rich cultural landscape.
The title, THING, was inspired by the exhibition’s emphasis on works of art that reflect a sculptural practice rooted in the production of objects—or things—rather than environmental installations. The works are often representational and referential, including occasional anthropomorphic qualities. THING is organized by a curatorial team led by James Elaine, curator of Hammer Projects, with co-curators Aimee Chang, curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum, and Christopher Miles, an independent curator, critic, and assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach.
The exhibition is sponsored by The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Additional support provided by the Murray and Ruth Gribin Foundation and The Fifth Floor Foundation.
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993
June 26 – October 16, 2005
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore is comprised of approximately 75 photographs from Stephen Shore’s key series, American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as his later landscape works. Presenting many works for the first time, the exhibition examines Shore’s articulate and groundbreaking use of large format photography in the late 20th-century. Shore’s body of work captures the aesthetic formalism and traditional genres of landscape and portrait. The Biographical Landscape illuminates the evolution of Shore’s influential oeuvre further by presenting original prints and objects from Shore’s early conceptual projects as well as his obsessive daily logs from 1973.
Stephen Shore is a pioneer of large format photography and was the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among other honors, Shore’s work has garnered awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. He is currently the director of the photography program at Bard College.
This exhibition is curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publications.
Patty Chang: Shangri-La
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Patty Chang’s video installation will examine the concept of Shangri-La, or Heaven-on-Earth, and is inspired by James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, and the artist’s personal experiences in China. Chang’s exhibition is organized by Russell Ferguson, chief curator at the Hammer Museum.
Patty Chang is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation.
Fiona Tan: Correction
June 26 – October 16, 2005
Fiona Tan’s installation, Correction, presents approximately 300 video portraits of inmates and guards from four U.S. prisons projected on six hanging screens. Tan’s exhibition is organized by Francesco Bonami, Manilow Senior Curator, with Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA).
Fiona Tan: Correction is part of a series of commissioned works organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Generous support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the American Center Foundation. The exhibition also received support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
Masters of 20th-Century American Comics
November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006
Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in the 20th-century. This exhibition examines 15 key American artists who helped define the form and who brought it to the highest level of artistic expression. It features an extensive selection of over 500 original drawings, progressive proofs, vintage-printed Sunday pages, and comic books by Winsor McCay ("Little Nemo"), Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman ("Krazy Kat"), E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"), Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Art Spiegelman.
Co-organized by Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Hammer Museum, the exhibition will be shared between the venues. Comic strips created during the first half of the century will be on display at the Hammer and comic books created from the 1950s to the present will be at MOCA. The exhibition is organized by independent scholar John Carlin in association with Brian Walker and coordinated by MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling and Hammer Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Senior Curator Cynthia Burlingham.
HAMMER PROJECTS
Mark Grotjahn: Drawings
January 11 – April 17, 2005
Known primarily for his bold geometric paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn presents hypnotic monochromatic and multi-colored drawings in his Hammer Project. Subverted by random spills and marks made by overdrawing from other works, Grotjahn’s drawings of elegantly formal lines use various one-point linear perspectives that radiate and converge, resembling fractured sunbursts or endless highways.
Adam Cvijanovic
February 6 – August 7, 2005
Adam Cvijanovic’s large-scale landscape painting spans the Hammer’s lobby walls, evoking the Hudson River School and 19-century cycloramas. His room-sized installations—made of smaller 20-inch Tyvek panels mounted side-by-side—portray beautiful, yet charged natural scenes while playing with the seemingly sacred divisions between the mass-produced and the unique, the decorative and the profound.
Hiraki Sawa
February 22 – June 19, 2005
In his 2002 film Dwelling, Hiraki Sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a bare and featureless apartment. Using crisscrossing toy jumbo jets, the work follows the dramatic slow and solemn flight patterns of roaring miniaturized planes. Using grainy black and white footage, Sawa creates chaotic air traffic is as unsettling as it is comical.
Hammer Projects are organized by James Elaine, and are made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and members of the Hammer Circle.
HAMMER MUSEUM INFORMATION
Location/Parking: The Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum validation; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m. Parking for people with disabilities is available on levels P1 and P3.
Museum Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 11am-7pm; Thursday, 11am–9pm; Sunday, 11am–5pm; closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association members; free for Museum members, students with ID, UCLA faculty/staff, and visitors 18 and under. Access for people with disabilities is provided. Admission is always free on Thursdays.
Museum Tours: For reservations and information, call 310-443-7041.
For additional information:
VOICE 310-443-7000, TTY 310-443-7094
WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.
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