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A shot of the opening night performance. Steven Kim on the left and Sharon Cheslow on the right.

"Time Writers From The Mirror Horizon"
7 July - 4 August, 2007

A group show curated by LA based artist Gabie Strong that featured the work of Andy Alexander, Kent Familton, Wendy Heldmann, Kathleen Johnson, Alice Konitz, Tracy Nakayama, Gina Osterloh, Sean Sullivan, Kristine Thompson and Jeremy Yoder

Opening eve performance by Sharon Cheslow and Steven Kim.
Closing eve performances by Helga Fassonaki and Tom Watson / Kent Familton.

Star Date 07/07/07: Speculative fictions in real time by Gabie Strong
When David Patton asked me to curate an exhibition in his gallery for July of 2007, I immediately wanted to create a show in which I could combine visual art and sound performance together. In working through different themes, it became clear that the shared element between the artists of interest was the element of Time and the construction of it through image and aural transmission.
My own art practice embodies a time-based theme, in which I use a non-linear historical timeline as a fluid structure for creating a speculative image of Southern California. I have also long been involved in making music and collaborating with other musicians on an improvisational level. A strong influence on my overall practice has been both the stories written by science fiction and near future writers, as well as the histories and legends of many of the writers themselves. I asked these artists to participate in this exhibition with the premise that I am positioning the works in the exhibition as examples of time travel, using the gallery as a starship for explorations of time and space. The gallery acts as a machine for synchronization between historical time and speculative fiction, in which the artists become writers; creating narratives of the past, present and future. Within the gallery, the artists and musicians have invented myths of the near future, depicted the collapse of human time within the force of geologic time, and resurrected histories past. Through sound and image, we are giving the viewer and listener the chance to step outside her current state and experience something else in the realm of the here and now. Read more.

Views of the installation (click for much larger images)
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Installation view with Thompson's photos, Heldmann's painting, Familton's drawings and Konitz's mobile with just a hint of Alexander's sculpture.
A slightly different view more clearly showing Alexander's sculpture with Johnson's drawing on the back wall.
 The west wall with Konitz's collages on the right, Sullivan's drawing in the white frame followed by Yoder's and Nakayama's pieces to the left.

Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
 Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden

A straight on shot from the entrance. Andy Alexander's "Point A", 2007. Plaster wraps, paper grocery bags, plastic grocery bags, LA Weekly, masking tape, Al Gore interview, meditation on time and space. Dimensions variable. Above and to the right is Alice Konitz's "Brown and Pearlescent Hexagon Chandelier", 2006. Luan, Chromolux paper. 24" x 36"

 Wendy Heldmann's "After you left I did just that", 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24" Wendy Heldmann's "If we met would you know me", 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24"
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Kathleen Johnson's "Maker 1 from Brainchild", 2007. Colored pencil on paper, 6' x 7' x 2"
 Gina Osterloh's "Press and Erase", 2007. C-print mounted to aluminum. 24" x 20" Kristine Thompson's "In Search of the Impossible (Re-siting the late Bas Jan Ader adn his former home at 4 possible locations: 519 S. Indian Hill Blvd., 520 S. Indian Hill Blvd., 550 S. Indian Hill Blvd., and 520 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont, CA), 2007. 4 C-prints - 14" x 11" and 11" x 14"
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Jeremy Yoder's "The Tourist", 2005. Collage on paper, 10" x 8 1/2" Jeremy Yoder's "Ill Caller", 2006. Collage on paper, 8" x 11 3/4" Tracy Nakayama and Jeremy Yoder's Untitled, 2006. Ink and collage on paper, 10" x 8"
Between The Clock and The Bed - a group show organized by Pamela Jorden
Tracy Nakayama and Jeremy Yoder's "Astral Lady", 2007. Collage on gatefold record sleeve, dimensions variable    
 

David Patton
Los Angeles

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