Analia Saban, Aaron Spangler and Marianne Vitale
Zach Feuer
Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Analia Saban, Aaron
Spangler and Marianne Vitale in addition to a new installation, This is
Laced, by Kate Levant in Gallery
2.
Analia Saban
plays with the creative process by deconstructing and exposing how work is
made. This exhibition will feature a new series of work in
which Saban takes photographs that are still developing and scrapes off strips
of emulsion from the paper, which she then transfers to canvas, creating
compositions of photographs and paintings where she is painting with
photography. Analia Saban (b. 1980,
Buenos Aires, Argentina) received a MFA from the University of California, Los
Angeles in 2005 and lives and works in Santa Monica, CA. Her work is currently
featured in How Soon Now at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Art
Foundation (Miami,
FL).
Aaron Spangler
will present a group of large-scale rubbings that relate to his carved and painted bas-relief panels
and sculptures. Laying linen over wood panels he has carved with motifs ranging from
the violent to the nostalgic, Spangler transfers different images and textures
to the linen by burnishing the surface of the linen with hard and melted
wax. Sampling different impressions, Spangler creates complex
collages of multilayered compositions that blur myth and reality. Aaron Spangler (b. 1971, Minneapolis, MN) received a BFA from the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design and lives and works in Two Inlets, MN.
Awarded a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in 2009,
Spangler's work is currently on view in The Spectacular of the
Vernacular at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis,
MN).
Marianne
Vitale's work is concerned with narrative as well as the idea of nature and the
process of transforming that which is discarded into something anew.
In this exhibition, Vitale will present a series of weathered wood
markers or headstones constructed from reclaimed lumber devoid of inscriptions
or epitaphs. Similar to Vitale's False Front facades, barns, and outhouses, the
markers are like decaying monuments one might see littered throughout America's
ghost towns that did not necessarily survive the passage of time due to the
natural decomposition of the material. Marianne Vitale (b. 1973, East Rockaway, NY)
graduated in 1995 from the School of Visual Arts in New York where she currently
lives and works. In addition to the work currently featured
in How Soon Now at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary
Art Foundation (Miami, FL), Vitale
was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial as well as in exhibitions at
White Columns (New York, NY), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm) and the
SculptureCenter (New York,
NY).
Exhibition dates: April 1 - 30,
2011
Opening reception: Friday,
April 1, 6-8PM
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