Gathered in a Clearing
EXHIBITION DATES: 5 – 25 FEBRUARY 2011
OPENING: FRIDAY 4 FEBRUARY 6pm
Curated by CamLab
ANDREA BOWERS, LESLIE DICK, ALEXIS DISSELKOEN, CANDICE LIN, ELANA MANN, WENDY MASON, GINA OSTERLOH and LOUISA VAN LEER
Gathered in a Clearing opening night
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
As a celebration of their fifth year of collaboration, CamLab has gathered in a clearing eight Los Angles-based artists: Andrea Bowers, Leslie Dick, Alexis Disselkoen, Candice Lin, Elana Mann, Wendy Mason, Gina Osterloh, and Louisa Van Leer for an exhibition at LEVEL gallery. The curatorial focus stems from CamLab’s collective interest in plurality, alterity and pleasure. Enacting a diversity of voices, the works in the exhibition cover topics such as contemporary art world economics, visibility of protest language, the painful joy of living in Los Angeles, the excesses of visual culture, and garment as social lubricant.
CamLab is a collaboration between Jemima Wyman and Anna Mayer begun at CalArts in 2005. CamLab has had solo shows at Sea and Space Explorations (LA), 40000 (Chicago), and Dan Graham/Leslie Dick (LA), in conjunction with which they performed a guerilla-style feminist tour of MOCA’s First Thirty Years at the museum. Group exhibitions include Fellows for Contemporary Art (LA), Track 16 (LA), Galerie Califia (CZ), and Ben Russell (Chicago). CamLab has performed in LA at The Lounge at REDCAT, Wildness at the Silver Platter, and PØST. They attended residencies at ThreeWalls in Chicago (curated around the theme of female artists working performatively) and Ox-Bow School of Art in Michigan.
L to R: Wendy Mason Sweat Box 2010, Andrea Bowers Workers’ Rights Posters 2009, Alexis Disselkoen Lab coats 2010
Andrea Bowers Workers’ Rights Posters 2009
Wendy Mason Sweat Box 2010
Gathered in a Clearing opening night
Elana Mann Real Money Piece 1969/ 2009.
Lee Lozano/ Elana Mann
Print of a scan of a photocopy from Lee Lozano’s notebooks and transcription from a performance by Elana Mann of Real Money Piece on December 9 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
L to R: Louisa van Leer Threads: Into the Forest 2006, Candice Lin Inside Out 2010, Gina Osterloh Wide Group Dynamic (Copy Flat) 2010, Louisa van Leer Digital Age Cyclops (Portrait of the Artist) 2006, Wendy Mason 200 Smiling Suns 2010
Louisa van Leer Threads: Into the Forest 2 2006
Gina Osterloh Wide Group Dynamic (Copy Flat) unlimited edition offset posters 2010. Courtesy the artist, Francois Ghebaly Los Angeles & Silverlens Gallery Philippines.
Leslie Dick The Mirror Stage: A Multimedia Performance with Valerie Green and Das Racist 2010