Canan Tolon: Sidesteps15 January - 16 March 2014 | Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art

Canan Tolon, ‘Glitch II’, 2007.
Oil on canvas, 140 x 180 cm.
Tim and Nancy Howes, private collection.
Photo: Eli Ridgway.

Preview: 14 January 2014, 6.30 – 9 p.m.

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Turkish-born artist Canan Tolon. This, her first major exhibition in a London institution, provides in-depth insight into her works from 1986 to the present day. It includes Futur imparfait, 1986–1999, a series of 33 ink-wash and crayon figurative drawings that were recently acquired by the British Museum. At Parasol unit they will be on show all together for the first time in the UK.

Canan Tolon was born in Istanbul and grew up in various European countries. After earning her baccalauréat from the École Française d’Istanbul in Turkey, in 1975, she studied design in Edinburgh and London. In 1980, she received a BA from Middlesex Polytechnic / Architectural Association, London, and that same year moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco to study for a Masters in Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. After graduating in 1983 she worked for about ten years in several architecture offices while continuing her work in the visual arts. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally. She has works in a number of major public collections, including the British Museum, London; Istanbul Modern; IKSV (Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts); the Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul, Turkey; and the di Rosa Collection, Napa, USA.

Canan Tolon lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and in Istanbul, Turkey.
This exhibition is curated by Ziba Ardalan, Founder/Director of Parasol unit.

Canan Tolon: Sidesteps is accompanied by a comprehensive book, including an artist interview by Ziba Ardalan and essays by Bill Berkson and John Yau, published by Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art. A related programme of educational events at the gallery will include lectures, poetry readings, animation and storytelling workshops.

Read the full press release.

Parasol unit is grateful for the generous support of Berna and Tolga Tuglular, Mehves-Dalinc Ariburnu, Isik Kececi Asur, Mine - H.Cem Bahadir, Aylin Benardete Sarihan, Şeli Elvaşvili, Nesrin Esirtgen, Öner Kocabeyoglu, Caroline Landin, Derin Mermerci, Ebru Ozdemir, Aysegul - Ömer Özyürek, Yosun Reza, Edwina Sponza, Billur-Atilla Tacir, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and those who wish to remain anonymous.

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CALIFORNIA DREAMING | Opening photos

CALIFORNIA DREAMING | Opening Reception Thurs Dec 12, 6—8 PM

Melanie Willhide Trick #2 and Trick #4, Palm Springs, June, 2011
archival pigment print
30 x 28 inches
edition of 5

CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Dec 12 — 21, 2013
Opening Reception Thurs Dec 12, 6—8 PM

VON LINTEL GALLERY is Relocating to Los Angeles in 2014

Drawn by the promise of sunshine and wide-open spaces, we're moving west. In early 2014, Von Lintel Gallery will open our doors in Los Angeles. We are in the process of securing a location and will announce a specific date very soon.

Initially founded in Munich, Germany in 1993, Von Lintel Gallery opened in the Chelsea gallery district in 1999. After two decades in business and fourteen wonderful and successful years in New York, we are excited to become part of the burgeoning, vibrant Los Angeles art world. Drawn by the growing community of artists living in LA and the opportunity to be part of a developing art center, the move to California will allow us to expand our vision and scope. The contemporary art scene in LA, presents greater opportunities and flexibility for us, and we are excited both to exhibit new artists and to introduce the gallery program to new audiences. And importantly, Thomas von Lintel can't wait to have a lemon tree in his backyard.

We are leaving our current space in January 2014 to open a Manhattan office under the stewardship of gallery director Amy Sande-Friedman. This will ensure a smooth transition and allow us to continue working with our New York clients and artists

Our last show in Chelsea, California Dreaming, opening December 12, will be a celebration of our terrific years in New York and the exciting new chapter about to begin in LA.

PARIS PHOTO | Installation views

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Top Five Art Fairs to Visit in Miami + Art Basel Miami Beach | gallery Intell

Art Miami (3101 NE 1st Ave, Miami, FL) — This is where it all started. The first art fair to anchor itself in Miami, Art Miami is still the week’s strongest venue. Everyone we talked to last year agreed that high-priced masterpieces aside, this was the more interesting fair to attend. This year’s line up includes 125 galleries, with some returning for their 5th, 10th and 15th year. See some of our interviews from last year’s fair. One of the galleries participating this year is a Washington D.C. based CONNERSMITH, previously profiled on galleryIntell during The Armory Show. Download the Art Miami floor plan.

Art Basel Miami Beach (1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida) — The biggest, the flashiest and the most expensive of all venues, look at it as the Bergdorf’s of the art world. The mothership. Multi-million-dollar sales are closed here, so take your Black Amex from the freezer and we’ll see you and your Celine Phantom at the Convention Center! Watch our interviews from ABMB 2012. Click here to download the venue access map.

Context Art Miami (3201 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL) — The sister fair to Art Miami made its debut last year. It was very well-received, and so this year we are looking forward to seeing how it’s grown.

Pulse Art Fair (The Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Avenues, Miami, FL) — This is a fair organized by the same amazing people who run the Affordable Art Fair in New York. With Cristina Salmastrelli at the helm, the venue is featuring some of the strongest art galleries from New York and around the world. Our favorites include the Von Lintel gallery, that recently relocated from NY to LA, Yancey Richardson, Bryce Wolkowitz gallery and taubert Contemporary. Download the floor plan here.

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Epic: Joseph Stashkevetch Drawings @ Denver Art Museum

 

Joseph Stashkevetch, Ask the Dust (detail), 2011
Conte crayon on watercolor paper
Courtesy the artist and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Photo courtesy Christopher Burke

 Epic: Joseph Stashkevetch
Drawings November 17, 2013 – July 13, 2014

Installation photos by Jeff Wells

Epic: Joseph Stashkevetch Drawings | Denver Art Museum

Joseph Stashkevetch, Memory Palace (detail). 2011
Conte crayon on watercolor paper
Courtesy the artist and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
Photo courtesy Christopher Burke.

Epic in size, epic in content, Joseph Stashkevetch’s drawings assault one’s senses by their obsessive detail, incredible size, and links to civilizations past and present. The disintegrating towers in Memory Palace might poke our recognition of a past life where civilization thrived, but look again and we might see it as an imaginary place influenced by an amalgamation of former cultures. In the seven lifelike drawings that comprise this exhibition, the artist critiques the questionable conclusion that modern times are an improvement from the past.

View @ Denver Art Museum

 

Wall Street International, Agenda | California Dreaming, Dec 12 — 21

Roland Fischer, Untitled (LA Portrait #01), 1990,
C-Print mounted on fibreboard with Plexiglass,
55.5 x 63.8 inches (141 x 162 cm).
Edition of 5. 

AGENDA - United States, Arts 

California Dreaming

From the 12th to the 21st of December 2013 at Von Lintel Gallery.

Drawn by the promise of sunshine and wide-open spaces, we're moving west. In early 2014, Von Lintel Gallery will open our doors in Los Angeles. We are in the process of securing a location and will announce a specific date very soon.

Initially founded in Munich, Germany in 1993, Von Lintel Gallery opened in the Chelsea gallery district in 1999. After two decades in business and fourteen wonderful and successful years in New York, we are excited to become part of the burgeoning, vibrant Los Angeles art world. Drawn by the growing community of artists living in LA and the opportunity to be part of a developing art center, the move to California will allow us to expand our vision and scope. The contemporary art scene in LA, presents greater opportunities and flexibility for us, and we are excited both to exhibit new artists and to introduce the gallery program to new audiences. And importantly, Thomas von Lintel can't wait to have a lemon tree in his backyard.

We are leaving our current space in January 2014 to open a Manhattan office under the stewardship of gallery director Amy Sande-Friedman. This will ensure a smooth transition and allow us to continue working with our New York clients and artists.

Our last show in Chelsea, California Dreaming, opening December 12, will be a celebration of our terrific years in New York and the exciting new chapter about to begin in LA. 

Read original post @ Wall Street International

Longtime Chelsea Gallery Moving to Los Angeles | DNAinfo New York

By Matthew Katz

CHELSEA — A pioneering art gallery that was among the first to move to West Chelsea 14 years ago is leaving New York for Los Angeles.

The Von Lintel Gallery, a mainstay of the Chelsea art scene since 1999, will pack up and move 

west in January, the gallery announced.

The Von Lintel Gallery hosted a multitude of artists
over the years, including Joseph Stashkevetch
in February.

"After two decades in business and fourteen wonderful and successful years in New York, we are excited to become part of the burgeoning, vibrant Los Angeles art world," the gallery wrote in an email.

"Drawn by the growing community of artists living in LA and the opportunity to be part of a developing art center, the move to California will allow us to expand our vision and scope."

The gallery, which has featured a range of work including photography, paintings and sculptures, will leave its longtime home at 520 W. 23rd St., though it will still maintain a separate Manhattan office to deal with New York-based clients and artists.

While a final space and opening date for the new West Coast gallery has not been finalized yet, the gallery hopes to announce details soon.

This is not the first time the Von Lintel Gallery made a substantial move. It was originally founded by Thomas von Lintel in Munich, Germany, in 1993 before coming stateside. The gallery was one of the first to make its home in West Chelsea, heralding a wave of galleries that soon followed.

To celebrate the gallery's time in New York — along with its upcoming tenure in Los Angeles — the Manhattan location will show one last exhibition, called "California Dreaming," from Dec. 12 to 21. The show will feature a variety of artists who have worked with the gallery over the years, including Catherine Howe, Stephen Ellis and Yvonne Estrada.

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New York’s Von Lintel Gallery Moving to L.A. | BLOUIN ARTINFO

This week Von Lintel Gallery quietly announced in a press release that its Chelsea location will be closing after fourteen years and relocating to the sun and surf of Los Angeles. This will be the second move for Von Lintel, which first came to New York in 1999 from Munich, where the gallery was first established in 1993.

“Drawn by the growing community of artists living in L.A. and the opportunity to be part of a developing art center, the move to California will allow us to expand our vision and scope,” the relocation announcement explained. “The contemporary art scene in L.A., presents greater opportunities and flexibility for us, and we are excited both to exhibit new artists and to introduce the gallery program to new audiences.”

Though the gallery hasn’t found a location yet, it is eying an L.A. opening in early 2014, and will keep an office in Manhattan that gallery director Amy Sande-Friedman will be overseeing in order to accommodate clients during the transition.

The gallery’s farewell show in its Chelsea space, “California Dreaming,” opens on December 12 and promises to “be a celebration of our terrific years in New York and the exciting new chapter about to begin in L.A. “

The most telling and charming reason for the gallery’s move comes a little later in the announcement: “Thomas von Lintel can’t wait to have a lemon tree in his backyard.”

— Meredith Caraher

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Von Lintel Gallery Paris Photo 2013 | L'Oeil de la Photographie

Der Weg in die Bilder, 1982. photogram, unique (in two parts)
108 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (276 x 106 cm) each
108 3/4 x 83 1/2 inches (276 x 212 cm) overall.
© Floris Neusüs

Von Lintel Gallery's selection @ PARIS PHOTO
By Juliette Deschodt

. John Chiara John Chiara travels the California coastline with a room-size camera obscura of his own creation hitched to his car, capturing landscapes and urban vistas directly on photographic paper. The large size of his hand-built camera allows him to create monumental work without the use of an enlarger. Chiara’s elimination of a negative makes his process immediate and unique, but also time intensive with exposures lasting many hours. He incorporates deliberate strategies of chance into his work to invite exposure and processing anomalies. He also experiments with auto-reversal paper, creating images in which light and dark are reversed and colors are transformed into their complements. His revisionist and surreal landscapes include skewed perspective, tilted horizons, radical over and under exposure, and jarring color shifts that produce refreshing and unexpected imagery. Immediate, intuitive, and experimental, Chiara’s work is unique among Contemporary photographers. Chiara’s photography has been reviewed in the Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Artforum. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently purchased his work, and, in 2011, the Pilara Foundation commissioned his Bridge Project for their permanent collection. 

. Klea McKennaKlea McKenna uses light sensitive paper to reveal something unexpected about the natural world, transforming familiar elements into abstractions of light and form. She experiments with a number of strategies, including hand-made cameras and outdoor photograms to create images that convey a sense of place that is both visual and emotional. Her rain study photograms are composed outdoors at night in her native Hawaii and her current home in Northern California.McKenna has exhibited over the past decade across the United States, including group shows at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, the Woodstock Center for Photography, and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Her work has appeared in Esquire, the San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic, and Art News.

. Floris NeusüssThe German photographer Floris Neusüss has been a pioneer in camera-less photography since 1954.  He has explored the technical and visual possibilities of the photogram, pushing the technique to create a groundbreaking body of innovative work. He initially came into the public eye in the 1960s with his Körperfotogramms or “nudograms,” photograms of nude women. These images of ethereal silhouettes in graceful poses were created by laying models on photographic paper.  More recent work includes his Nachtstücke (Night Pieces) created outside at night, often in a garden, by exposing photographic paper to lightning or to an electric flash. The resulting images of ghostly leaves and shrubbery are wind tossed and speckled with dew, reflecting the outdoor conditions of their production. Hovering between abstraction and representation, these pieces are portraits of the mysterious natural world at night.Neusüss has shown internationally over the past fifty years, including exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Several monographs on Neusüss’s work have been published, and he was a subject of an expansive illustrated volume produced in conjunction with a 2010-11 Victoria and Albert exhibition on the work of five camera-less photographers.

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VON LINTEL GALLERY @ PARIS PHOTO 2013

VON LINTEL GALLERY @ PARIS PHOTO 2013