MILLIE WILSON: Some People

Millie Wilson “Untitled” 2013, 4 unique transparencies, light boxes, 11.5” X 14.5” each

Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present Some People, a solo exhibition of new work by Millie Wilson.

Millie Wilson has used the frame of the museum to propose a secret history of modernity, informed by queer subjectivity.  She employs humor, parody and combined media to engage stereotypes of difference, and to question received ideas.  The work presumes a place in the canon of modernist art, with the intention of revealing some of what is overlooked in the historicizing of the artist as subject and citizen.

“Some People” presents a possible set of relations, suggested through telling details of vernacular color photographs, presented in small format light boxes.  The pictures here are the third proposal in an ongoing series, which are selected from her large archive of over 20,000 found images.  The grouping allows for a number of possible readings.  These might arise from formal qualities, gestures and normative relations, and the friction among pictures of manufactured objects, gendered situations, anomalies and the everyday.

She describes her installations as unfinished inventories of fragments, improvisational sites where the constructed and the readymade are used to question our making of the world through systems of language, knowledge, things and information.

Select exhibition venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Matthew Marks Gallery, New Museum of Contemporary Art, White Columns, Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

The artist has received numerous grants, including an NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Artist Grant, California Arts Council Fellowship, Art Matters, Inc. Grant, and a LACE Artists Projects Grant, has been published in a variety of contexts, and has taught and lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Millie has been a member of the Regular Faculty in the Program in Art at the California Institute of the Arts since 1985.

Millie Wilson lives and works in Los Angeles

GEORGE STOLL: beads, gravity, prime numbers and catenary curves

    

Continuing his investigation of the catenary curve, George is presenting  a group of new, small-scaled works in shadow box frames as well as a large-scale work pinned directly to the wall.

“Early in the summer of 2011, I was at a bead show in Santa Monica, CA, where I found and then bought some colored glass beads. I was drawn to the richness of the solid colors and to the character of the individual beads. Although I wasn’t sure what I would do with them, I returned the next day and bought the rest. A month later, in New York, I found some more beads that had a similar richness.

My first impulse was to wear them, but after stringing and restringing, I ultimately hung the beads on the wall. Not only did this change their function but it also opened up the scale. All through that fall I experimented with the beads, finally organizing them into equal lengths of color in prime number sequences. I hung the strands 1 1/8 inches from the wall on steel pins, draping them into catenary curves.

Four of these pieces were shown at Maloney Fine Arts during the winter of 2011- 2012 and others were shown with some of my wax Tupperware pieces at Winston Wachter Fine Art in Seattle that spring.

I continue exploring the visual possibilities of beads, gravity, prime numbers and catenary curves. For this show, symmetry is consistent within the group and visual tension is created by the interaction of the colors swooping together. Most of the pieces are hung inside shadow box frames. The frames not only define the negative space surrounding the pieces but they also allude to curio cabinets, like butterflies pinned behind glass”

                                                                                    George Stoll    February 9, 2013

A recipient of the Rome Prize, George's work has been exhibited extensively and he has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Baldwin Gallery, Aspen; Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles; Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York; Gallery Seomi, Seoul; Windows Gallery, Brussels; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston; and The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.

Stoll’s works have appeared in group exhibitions internationally, including Cheim & Read, New York; American Academy in Rome, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Drawing Center, New York.

Public collections include La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Seattle; the Norton Family Collection as well as other institutions.

George Stoll lives and works in Los Angeles

TRAVIS COLLINSON, SCATTER, 2013, Oil on canvas, 48" X 48"

TRAVIS COLLINSON: Paintings and Drawings
January 12 – February 16

Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Travis Collinson, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Drawing from the influences of both classical painting and minimal abstraction, Travis Collinson’s work creates a framework for people, nature and space to exist in an anxious state of entropy.  With a skewed perspective and distortion of unassuming subjects, objects and environments, the artist’s compositions are at once familiar and enigmatic.  Collinson’s painting and drawing style, influence by the early work of Lucien Freud, juxtaposes near-photographic rendering, subtle exaggeration and a pallet of muted tones to create remarkably quiet scenes inhabited by sublime, psychological subjects.

Collinson has shown throughout California, most recently at the Berkeley Art Museum exhibition ‘Hauntology’ and Eli Ridgeway Gallery in San Francisco.  His work is in the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum as well as numerous private collections.  Collinson holds a BFA in painting from California State University at Fullerton.

Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Travis Collinson lives and works in San Francisco.

     TRAVIS COLLINSON, UNTITLED (MARCY WITH PLANT), 2013, Oil on canvas, 43" X 40"

    TRAVIS COLLINSON, ORCHID BEHIND, 2011, Oil on LINEN, 10" X 8"

     TRAVIS COLLINSON, NESTING, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 60" X 40"

    TRAVIS COLLINSON, PINK WESTERN, 2012, Graphite and white chalk on colored paper, 19.75" X 22"

  TRAVIS COLLINSON, UNTITLED (TREE), 2011, Graphite on paper, 30" X 22"

 TRAVIS COLLINSON, UNTITLED (Marcy), 2011-2012, Graphite on paper, 30" X 22"

  TRAVIS COLLINSON, BASIL, 2008-2011, Graphite, colored pencil and collage on paper, 25" X 19.75"

GRETA WALLER

November 3 – December 15, 2012

              Greta Waller "Objects from Venice" 2012, oil on canvas, 73 X 48 inches

Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by GRETA WALLER, the artist’s second one-person exhibition with the gallery.

Artist statement:
“I believe all my brushstrokes are correct and exactly where they should go in these paintings. Every mark laid down affects the entire illusion. I am at the point where I am re-teaching myself to trust my sight. Dissecting the situation of when to impose myself is difficult. I never want to p*ss off what fuels the creativity.
The Trajan column and Rome in general, have had a profound influence upon this body of work. I have always responded to Romans and their art. Roman art contains a balance.
My hope in doing this body of work is that by the opening I will be left in confusion. Attempting to understand the confusion will leave me with a challenge when dealing with post-show depression.
The only thing I have faith in anymore is Art. Many view its history as traditional or old- fashioned, but it is the history behind us that if we recognize and learn from, we will not live in fear of repeating our mistakes.
Last, but not least, my art is meaningless if there is no one to look at it.”

For the past two years, following a trip to Rome, Greta has focused her attention on the depiction of objects contained in a closet. Accumulated over the past several years, these personal treasures have been central to the artist’s practice of exploring still life painting as a tool for expression. In large-format canvases, with painterly confidence, Greta has focused intense scrutiny on dozens of objects of affection, which are arranged in tableaus reflecting the artist’s interest in painting that which inspires her; thrift store finds, religious iconography, travel souvenirs, holiday decorations, family heirlooms and personal effects.

Following the artist’s first one-person show of “Ice Paintings” at Maloney Fine Art, Greta Waller has participated in group shows in Los Angeles and New York. The artist holds a BFA from Cooper Hewitt, New York City and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles. 

     Greta Waller "Buca di Beppo" 2012, oil on canvas, 96 X 72 inches

JOEL OTTERSON

JOEL OTTERSON

September 8 through October 18

For the past 3 decades, Joel Otterson has made sculpture, which combines aspects of domestic handicraft with traditional sculptural materials. Copper pipe, woodworking, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware, concrete, marble, stained glass, quilting and lacemaking are the raw materials of Joel’s sculpture.  Utilizing practices such as sewing, and quilting, traditionally associated with feminine craft making, Joel turns these humble materials into muscular art.  The artist blurs the line between high and low culture, art and craft to create poignant sculptures, which are both utilitarian and de-constructivist sculptural objects.  Through this endeavor, exploring Rock N Roll, Baseball, and what it means to be an American.

Otterson, who was born in Los Angeles in 1959, spent most of his childhood in Oregon, attended Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he remained for two decades.  Joel was one of the youngest artists ever selected for a one-person exhibition in the Projects Room of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987).  The artist’s work is included in the permanent collections of Cincinnati Art Museum, The Broad Foundation, The Israel Museum and many others.

Joel Otterson’s work was included in the 1993 Venice Biennale and will be included in “Made in L.A” the first California Biennial to be held at the Hammer Museum, summer 2012.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.

Installation: MALONEY FINE ART: September/October 2012

Installation: HAMMER MUSEUM: "MADE IN LA" Summer 2012