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Indepth Arts News:
"SET THEORY : Roland Reiss"
2010-05-01 until 2010-06-12
Torrance Art Museum
Torrance, CA,
USA United States of America
The Torrance Art Museum presents in the main gallery "SET THEORY : Roland Reiss", curated by Max Presneill from May 1 through June 12, 2010. This year's inaugural choice as the nexus point artist is Roland Reiss with artists: Margaret Adachi, Lisa Adams, Dawn Arrowsmith, Enid Baxter Blader, Dean DeCocker, Jacci Den Hartog, Brad Eberhard, Jason Eoff, Terri Friedman, Wendell Gladstone, Dion Johnson, Aitor Lajarin, Kristi Lippire, and Michael Salerno.
The Set Theory series of exhibitions deal with the overlapping personal dialogues between artists over a period of time and based around a central nexus-point artist, engaging with the intellectual and practical shared concerns and discussions held between them.
This year’s inaugural choice as the nexus-point artist is Roland Reiss. Reiss occupies a rare position in Los Angeles as both cutting-edge artist and academic visionary. In 2001 he launched the Painting’s Edge program at Idyllwild Arts – a critically acclaimed 2 week residency program in the San Jacinto Mountains, after three decades leading the MFA program at Claremont Graduate University. He has been awarded four NEA Visual Artists Fellowships and a Lifetime Achievement Award from LA Art Core. In 2009, Reiss received the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art Award.
Reiss has had an ongoing debate concerning both the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of art-making as well as the minutiae of the process and materials with many artists over this period. The artists selected for this exhibition were chosen by Reiss himself as evidence of the ongoing critical nature of artistic practice and debate across the generations. His willingness to engage with art across the board and to manage a constant attitude of enquiry has made Reiss a locus of this forever evolving discussion amongst many artists.
The artists presented here, to accompany Reiss, have all been instrumental in a mutual development through a dialogue with each other as artists. They have kept the intellectual and practical concerns for artists constructively being re-examined and have formed the basis for TAM to explore their interactive and supportive roles in mutual exploration them. .
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