Five New Exhibitions Open in February
Image: Taylor Baldwin, The Interpreter
Hollywoodland by Amanda Church
Prodrome by Taylor Baldwin
A Colder Friday by Jacob Isenhour and Willard Tucker
My Pleasure by Lisa Walcott
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Works by Kamrooz Aram, Jimmy Baker, Sheila Pree Bright, Cheryl Dunn, David Ellis, Evan Hecox, Harmony Korine, Barry McGee, Aaron Morse, and Clare E. Rojas all Courtesy of Country Club Projects
On view at Land of Tomorrow, Louisville
February 3, 2012 – April 3, 2012
Opening Reception February 3 @ 7pm
Land of Tomorrow is pleased to present five new exhibitions that will open together on the 3rd of February at our Louisville location. The exhibitions will include: Hollywoodland by Amanda Church, Prodrome by Taylor Baldwin, and a selection of works by other artists chosen and brought to LOT by Country Club Projects, My Pleasure by Lisa Walcott, and A Colder Friday by Jacob Isenhour and Willard Tucker. The opening reception will be held on the 3rd of February at 7pm, and the exhibits will run through the 3rd of April.
For Hollywoodland, Amanda Church will be showing seven of her recent paintings in which she imbues geometry and architecture with an idiosyncratic Pop sensibility, combining landscape and the figure in reductive, large-scale works. The vibrant colors — hot pinks and oranges contrasted with cool yellows, grays, and deep purples — reflect the Los Angeles environs from which these scenarios are derived.
During frequent visits to the west coast, Church accumulated drawings of hotel exteriors and interiors, pool shapes, billboards, tree branches, and a variety of tropical foliage. In these settings are various permutations of the figure, including a headless woman in a green skirt and an inflated man wearing a t-shirt inscribed with a geometric painting that mirrors other interior spaces. Throughout these shifting spaces is an unfamiliar combination of balance and instability, ultimately “rebalanced” through their taut compositions. This precarious sense of teetering on the edge of chaos reflects the darker underpinning of these seemingly buoyant works.
Amanda Church is a New York-based artist, curator, and writer who has exhibited widely through New York, California, and Europe. She has also exhibited in various museums, including the Aldrich Museum of Art, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Islip Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art; her work is held in a number of significant collections, most notably the Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, the Deutsche Bank, New York, The Chambers Hotel, New York, and Bondardo Communications, Milan.
Taylor Baldwin will be installing Prodrome. The word, prodrome, comes from medical vocabulary, and it refers to the period of time in the progression of paranoid schizophrenia when the patient is starting to experience delusional fantasies but still retains enough insight to realize that those delusions are the symptoms of a disorder. As a stage of disease, the prodrome immediately precedes a full psychotic break. As an exhibition, Prodrome brings together a body of work that deals with anxiety and the specter of imminent catastrophe, be it environmental, economic, political, or violent. These sculptures cohere disparate images from recent news cycles into a series of singular unmoored icons.
Baldwin uses sculpture and drawing as tools to stitch together personal relationships and objects into a web of history and material, civilization and landscape, politics and knowledge. The artist seeks to make a unified whole out of disparate fragments, piecing together ideas and materials that may be rationally incongruent but that feel, by some mysterious criteria, to belong in the same narrative. He is interested in the deductive nature of how we extract meaning from the physical world through constructed narratives that knit together disparate points, fostering an experience that operates on the edge between mental and physical space.
In 2007, Baldwin completed his MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Since then, he has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at the Conner Contemporary Gallery in Washington DC and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown. Baldwin won best in show at New Waves Juried Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, along with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Artist residencies at Seven Below Arts Initiative, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont as well as The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska.
For My Pleasure, Lisa Walcott will install a combination of small gestures. For the artist, the things that slip through your fingers, flash before your eyes, or hover in the spaces between are captivating because they are impossible to hold onto. From these intangible places comes work that is lyrical, sensual, and uncanny – engaging with and poking at the space in which it exists. Walcott’s work is constantly moving but stuck in a single moment; it is isolated but full of room to guess; it is familiar but more vivid than before. This exhibition will include Smoking Cigarette, Bubbles Emerging from the Floor, Fly Cycling Around a Light Bulb, and Hyperventilating Brown Paper Bag installed as a new show.
Lisa Walcott is an installation artist and kinetic sculptor whose work explores our relationship to space and cycles of deterioration and growth, through various subtle, gestural objects. Walcott received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010 and has continued to create and exhibit nationally. Her work explores mundane, extracted moments from familiar spaces ultimately giving lyricism to the unseen and visual articulation to the unsaid.
Jacob Isenhour and Willard Tucker will be collaborating on a new installation entitled A Colder Friday. This site-specific work will use a bale of hay to trap cold air, circulated from an open window, into an interior room that the viewer can access by walking into an insulated chamber that begins as a series of curtains. This interior room will contain sculptural elements that the artists have encapsulated in ice.
Tucker is a Nashville-based sculptor who draws from surrounding materials to create works that explore themes of time, value, and the processes that bind the two. This will be Tucker’s third show with LOT having participated in joint shows in the Lexington and the Louisville spaces entitled Whippets and Overarchery, respectively. Tucker received his MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University where he participated in group exhibitions including Shift F7 and An Evening with Vivian. Tucker has also been involved in group and solo shows at the Seed Space in Nashville, The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, and Space 24 at Vanderbilt University.
Jacob Isenhour is a painter and sculptor based in Lexington, KY whose work often explores the links between nature and the body. He received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2009 and has exhibited at Backspace in Peoria, Ill, Ewing Gallery in Knoxville, TN, and Semantics in Cincinnati, OH, as well as Land of Tomorrow in 2009. Isenhour was a recipient of a summer residency in Prague, Czech Republic in 2008 and the University of Cincinnati 2009 Graduate Student Award.
Isenhour and Tucker have previously shown together at the Museum Gallery/ Gallery Museum, Cincinnati.
Country Club Projects will present a selection of works that have been previously unexhibited or on limited show. Included will be works by Kamrooz Aram, Jimmy Baker, Sheila Pree Bright, Cheryl Dunn, David Ellis, Evan Hecox, Harmony Korine, Barry McGee, Aaron Morse, and Clare E. Rojas.
