Liza Lou
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Group exhibitions
Advance/...Notice
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg welcomes you to 2012 with Advance/… Notice, an exhibition of new works by a dynamic group of contemporary artists from around the world. As we advance into a new calendar year, this exhibition gives notice of innovations from some of our artists who are already familiar to you, and of our new ventures into an intellectual exchange with artists with whom we are excited to work for the first time. This show will also give audiences a preview of what is to come, as many of the featured artists have solo shows planned for 2012 at Goodman Gallery spaces and other prestigious South African institutions.
Advance/… Notice introduces newly perfected techniques or processes for some of our well-known artists, such as platinum photographic prints by David Goldblatt, and a completely new turn of direction and field of interest for African American artist Hank Willis Thomas, who first exhibited with us on In Context in 2010, as well as for Sigalit Landau, the acclaimed Israeli artist we co-hosted at last year’s Venice Biennale. These international savants are joined by South African artists such as Hasan and Husain Essop, Moshekwa Langa, Mikhael Subotzky, Sue Williamson, William Kentridge, Rosenclaire, and Frances Goodman revealing either brand new works, or works not yet seen in Johannesburg. Also featured are works by Kendell Geers, whose retrospective exhibition will open at IZIKO South African National Gallery in late March 2012.
Our first show of the year seems an apt time to introduce the novel and the unexpected in the work of a number of artists and to also welcome prominent figures including Liza Lou, a world-renowned American now living and working in KwaZulu Natal; South African Candice Breitz, now resident in Berlin; Chilean-born New Yorker Alfredo Jaar; London-based Iranian Reza Aramesh, as well as Carla Busuttil – a young South African artist based in Berlin who is well-established in the United Kingdom, but has never before exhibited in her home country.
Liza Lou presents a work titled Gather Forty, one of a series of forty individual sculptures made from gold-plated beads that have been expertly threaded onto four hundred individual pieces of stainless steel wire and bound in a sheaf – continuing the shift of the beadwork medium from craft to conceptual art. Alfredo Jaar, internationally recognised artist, filmmaker and architect, celebrated for the public interventions he has created all over the world, shows From Time to Time, a panel of nine Time magazine covers focusing on Africa that either feature animals or malnourished Africans – revealing how the rest of the world often encapsulates its second largest continent. Breitz, who opens a major survey of her work titled Extra! at the Standard Bank Gallery this February, presents The Character, a video installation filmed in Mumbai that seeks to understand the role and influence of child characters in mainstream Indian cinema through interviews with a group of young moviegoers. In Action 78, Aramesh uses familiar scenes from news footage of the first Gulf War to restage, re-present and destabilise any easy readings of the conflicts we think we understand. Oil paintings by Busuttil offer a sinisterly-executed perusal of the exploitation of power and cruelty.
We are also very pleased to present for the first time the work of Nelisiwe Xaba, who will be presenting an interactive dance and video collaboration with Mocke J van Veuren at Goodman Gallery Projects in February. The crossover into visual art is exciting new territory for this renowned performer/dancer.
Goodman Gallery hopes you will join us to be inspired, challenged and excited by this exhibition and its promise of advances in the visual arts of South Africa. We trust you will find the exhibition gives notice of an innovative and exciting programme for 2012 in Johannesburg and Cape Town. -
Biography
Born New York City
Lives and works in KwaZulu-Natal and Los AngelesSolo Exhibitions
2011 Liza Lou: Let the Light In, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2011 Liza Lou, L&M Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles [catalogue]
2010 American Idol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris [catalogue]
2010 Liza Lou Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2008 Liza Lou, L&M Arts, New York [catalogue]
2008 Liza Lou, Maximum Security, Lever House, New York
2006 Liza Lou, White Cube, London, England [catalogue]
2004 The Damned, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2002 Testimony, Deitch Projects, New York
2002 Liza Lou, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002 Leaves of Glass, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]
2001 Liza Lou II, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
2001 Trailer, Southeastern Contemporary Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2000 American Presidents 1-43, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington, D.C.
2000 Liza Lou, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
1999 American Glamorama, Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall, New York
1999 Kitchen, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1999 American Presidents 1-42, Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
1998 Liza Lou, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
1998 Portrait Gallery, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
1998 Liza Lou, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
1998 Kitchen and Back Yard, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica [catalogue]
1998 Back Yard, Fundació Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Portrait Gallery, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
1997 American Presidents 1-42, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers
1997 American Presidents 1-42, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
1996 Kitchen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1996 Forty-two American Presidents, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, California
1996 Liza Lou, Capp Street Projects, San Francisco, California
1996 Liza Lou, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
1996 Liza Lou, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California
1995 Socks and Underwear, Franklin Furnace, New York, New York
1994 Kitchenette, California State University Art Gallery, Fullerton, CaliforniaGroup Exhibitions
2011 Memories of the Future, The Olbricht’s Collection, curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2011 Strange Beauty: Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art, I.D.E.A Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2011 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
2011 January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York [catalogue]
2010 Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2010 The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Make Craft, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2010 Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Curated by Jeff Koons, New Museum, New York, New York
2010 Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube Gallery, London, England
2010 19th Century and Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2010 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art
2010 Lust for Life, Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2009 Diana und Actaeon: Der Verbotene Blick Auf Die Nacktheit, Musuem Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf [catalogue]
2008 Bizarre Perfection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 In the Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
2008 Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
2007 The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2007 The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, NY
2007 Rockers Island-Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2007 The Death Instinct, The Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2006 Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, 2006 Purchase College, State University of New York, New York
2006 Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Metropolitan Kiba Park, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Translation, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005 Over + Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover
2004 Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [catalogue]
2004 Splat, Boom, Pow: Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; ICA, Boston and Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio [cat.]
2004 Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA [catalogue]
2003 Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Art Museum at the Brown Fine Arts Center, Northhampton [catalogue]
2003 Perpetual Bliss: Form, Symbol and Material in Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeaus Ropac, Paris, France
2003 Skulptur03, Max Gandolph-Bibliothek, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2003 Shine, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [cat.]
2002 Melodrama, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporàneo, Basque; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia/Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, and Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Spain [catalogue]
2002 Bingo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2002 Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2001 Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France [catalogue]
2001 Give and Take, organized by Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England [catalogue]
2001 ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland [cat.]
2001 _Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]
2000 Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY [catalogue]
2000 Sharing Exoticism, Biennale de Lyon d’art Contemporain, Lyon, France [cat.]
2000 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan [catalogue]
2000 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA [catalogue]1999 First Annual Post-Impeachment Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
*1998 Site Specific, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1996 A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, [catalogue]
1996 Art for the New Millenium, The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996 Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS [cat.]
1996 An Embarrassment of Riches, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington, California, [catalogue]Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (long-term loan)
Fondation Cartier Pour I’art Contemporain, Paris, France
François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Thomas Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens Greece
La Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Fundación Privada Sorigué, Lleida, Spain
Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran
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