KIEL JOHNSON Publish or Perish 10/17/2009 - 11/14/2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 17th, 5 - 7pm Mark Moore Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, A-1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Telephone 310 453 3031 Fax 310 453 3831 info@markmooregallery.com www.markmooregallery.com Following up his 2008 inaugural solo show with Mark Moore Gallery, Kiel Johnson invites us to step inside his compellingly prolific imagination with several new drawings and a large-scale sculptural installation. Deviating from his trademark cardboard medium, Johnson presents an altogether different exhibition born of obsessive personal inventory and astute social commentary. Publish or Perish illustrates the rapid expansion of globalized communication and the subsequent dichotomy of a retracted sense of interaction despite a heightened sense of interconnectivity. Using the printing press as the overarching figure of information's evolution, Johnson constructs a type of archival environment that denotes the transformation of our personal relationships to the tangible, the local and the sentimental. Johnson's distinctive fascination with mechanization and fine intricacies is embodied in both his construction of an "autobiographical" printing press, and his meticulous ink renderings, which demonstrate the compulsive human need to produce, document, proliferate and authenticate histories – much like the artist himself. A 2008 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Kiel Johnson received his BFA from the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) before earning his MFA at California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA). Johnson is in a number of public collections, including the Creative Artist Agency (Beverly Hills, CA) and Todd Oldham (New York, NY), and has exhibited in venues throughout the United States, such as the Architecture and Design Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Johnson will be featured in PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair this December with Davidson Contemporary (NY), with whom he will also exhibit with in the Fall of 2010. For more information on Kiel Johnson, the opening event or additional press materials, please visit www.markmooregallery.com or contact: Catlin Moore, Gallery Manager, 310.453.3031, catlin@markmooregallery.com Upcoming Exhibitions at Mark Moore Gallery: Cordy Ryman, November 21 – December 19, 2009 Allison Schulnik, January 9 – February 13, 2010 You are listed in our mailing list or you opted-in to receive this email by joining our mailing list at http://www.markmooregallery.com/. If you received this email in error or no longer wish to receive these mailings, please go to http://www.markmooregallery.com/.php?email=artsnews%40absolutearts.com&check=ed3979d6 or contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com. if the above address doesn't work. Note that this may take up to 3 days to process. If you would like to learn more about how we received your email address, please contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com