Artpace
Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti has invited Kelly Richardson to be the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas during the months of January-March. The residency will support the production of new work to be exhibited at Artpace from March 24-May 22, 2011.
Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti has invited Kelly Richardson to be the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas during the months of January-March. The residency will support the production of new work to be exhibited at Artpace from March 24-May 22, 2011.
The Erudition
Two new video installations are currently being produced entitled The Erudition and At War with the Mystics. A mock-up image of The Erudition, along with a brief synopsis has been added to the site.
The Erudition will premiere in three Canadian provinces simulatneously starting with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, followed by a solo exhibition at Birch Libralato in Toronto, Ontario and finally, the full triple channel installation will open at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta. The Erudion has been supported through the SAAG artist residency program.
Two new video installations are currently being produced entitled The Erudition and At War with the Mystics. A mock-up image of The Erudition, along with a brief synopsis has been added to the site.
The Erudition will premiere in three Canadian provinces simulatneously starting with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, followed by a solo exhibition at Birch Libralato in Toronto, Ontario and finally, the full triple channel installation will open at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta. The Erudion has been supported through the SAAG artist residency program.
IN THE MEDIA
Albright-Knox adds bold new work to its collection
The Buffalo News reports on changes to the Albright-Knox collection:
"With the recent purchases of work by Kelly Richardson, Phil Collins, Bruce Nauman, Jeremy Blake, Julian Opie and Matthew Barney, the gallery is also clearly making a concerted attempt to round out its scant collection of video and film works."
Click here for the full article.
The Buffalo News reports on changes to the Albright-Knox collection:
"With the recent purchases of work by Kelly Richardson, Phil Collins, Bruce Nauman, Jeremy Blake, Julian Opie and Matthew Barney, the gallery is also clearly making a concerted attempt to round out its scant collection of video and film works."
Click here for the full article.
Canadian Art Magazine
For the 25th anniversary fall issue, Canadian Art Magazine are featuring 10 artists they think are important to the future of the international art scene. As one of the top names in the next generation in Canadian art-making, "Ten Artists to Watch" offers an in-depth essay and profile of Kelly Richardson's practice, written by David Jager.
"Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger."
The feature is currently available online at Canadian Art, along with an extended profile of additional images/works.
For the 25th anniversary fall issue, Canadian Art Magazine are featuring 10 artists they think are important to the future of the international art scene. As one of the top names in the next generation in Canadian art-making, "Ten Artists to Watch" offers an in-depth essay and profile of Kelly Richardson's practice, written by David Jager.
"Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger."
The feature is currently available online at Canadian Art, along with an extended profile of additional images/works.
New York Times at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards 2009
The New York Times UrbanEye covers the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards with interviews and footage from the evening along with featuring Exiles of the Shattered Star throughout.
Follow this link to see the coverage
The New York Times UrbanEye covers the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards with interviews and footage from the evening along with featuring Exiles of the Shattered Star throughout.
Follow this link to see the coverage
CURRENT | FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Our ability to perceive time and our desire to define it is part of what makes us human. Time permeates how we think and talk about our daily lives: never enough time, being on time, family time, taking “time” for yourself, having the time of your life. This exhibition explores sculpture’s relationship with time, featuring recent acquisitions and major works from the AGO’s collection. These dynamic artworks do not just occupy space, but also time. They invite visitors to think of art as more than an inert image or object, but also as a personal experience lived through time. Just like no two people experience time in the same way, art also changes with each visitor who encounters it.
Featuring works by major Canadian and international artists such as Geoffrey Farmer, Joseph Beuys, On Kawara, Jonathan Monk, Rachel Harrison, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Micah Lexier, Kelly Richardson, Simon Starling, Kelly Mark and Tino Seghal.
Featuring works by major Canadian and international artists such as Geoffrey Farmer, Joseph Beuys, On Kawara, Jonathan Monk, Rachel Harrison, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Micah Lexier, Kelly Richardson, Simon Starling, Kelly Mark and Tino Seghal.
White Box
"THE WASTE LAND (I will show you fear in a handful of dust)"
July 8 - August 15, 2010
curated by Raul Zamudio
New York, NY
The Waste Land is the inaugural exhibition of the Birch Forest Project series to be presented at White Box throughout the summer. The first iteration culls its title from T.S. Eliot's poem by the same name. Considered to be a milestone of twentieth-century modernist poetry, Eliot’s magnum opus is written in extended verse and mines a myriad of sources creating an open-ended, literary work par excellence. The poem is used as touchstone for a topical exhibition consisting of an array of media including painting, sculpture, work-on-paper, photography, video, and installation. One of its well known stanzas, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” has different connotations altogether within the backdrop of ecological and cataclysmic disaster underscored in the BP oil spill, Icelandic volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. The Waste Land uses Eliot’s poem as a foil to dovetail on social and political issues endemic to our contemporary, globalized world.
"THE WASTE LAND (I will show you fear in a handful of dust)"
July 8 - August 15, 2010
curated by Raul Zamudio
New York, NY
The Waste Land is the inaugural exhibition of the Birch Forest Project series to be presented at White Box throughout the summer. The first iteration culls its title from T.S. Eliot's poem by the same name. Considered to be a milestone of twentieth-century modernist poetry, Eliot’s magnum opus is written in extended verse and mines a myriad of sources creating an open-ended, literary work par excellence. The poem is used as touchstone for a topical exhibition consisting of an array of media including painting, sculpture, work-on-paper, photography, video, and installation. One of its well known stanzas, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” has different connotations altogether within the backdrop of ecological and cataclysmic disaster underscored in the BP oil spill, Icelandic volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. The Waste Land uses Eliot’s poem as a foil to dovetail on social and political issues endemic to our contemporary, globalized world.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
"The Last Frontier"
December 2, 2010 - March, 2011
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Last Frontier brings together artists working with altered or mediated landscapes through a variety of media such as the work of Kelly Richardson, Vikki Alexander, Iain Baxter& and Sylvie Readman. The exhibition will feature a new work entitled The Erudition which will premiere at the AGNS, Birch Libralato and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery simultaneously.
"The Last Frontier"
December 2, 2010 - March, 2011
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Last Frontier brings together artists working with altered or mediated landscapes through a variety of media such as the work of Kelly Richardson, Vikki Alexander, Iain Baxter& and Sylvie Readman. The exhibition will feature a new work entitled The Erudition which will premiere at the AGNS, Birch Libralato and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery simultaneously.
Birch Libralato
"The Erudition"
December 8, 2010 - January 22, 2011
Toronto, Canada
Solo exhibition featuring a new video installation entitled The Erudition which will premiere in three Canadian provinces simultaneously: the single channel version will exhibit in Nova Scotia at the AGNS and Ontario at Birch Libralato and the full triple channel installation in Southen Alberta at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. This new work was supported by the SAAG as part of their residency program.
"The Erudition"
December 8, 2010 - January 22, 2011
Toronto, Canada
Solo exhibition featuring a new video installation entitled The Erudition which will premiere in three Canadian provinces simultaneously: the single channel version will exhibit in Nova Scotia at the AGNS and Ontario at Birch Libralato and the full triple channel installation in Southen Alberta at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. This new work was supported by the SAAG as part of their residency program.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
"The Erudition"
January 15, 2011
curated by Ryan Doherty
Lethbridge, Alberta
The SAAG will showcase the ultimate premiere of a new triple-channel video installation, The Erudition (with simultaneous premieres of the single channel version in two additional Canadian provinces, Ontario and Nova Scotia - see above).
This new work was supported in part through a residency with the SAAG in 2009. A solo catalogue will also be produced featuring numerous works made possible through the SAAG's support.
"The Erudition"
January 15, 2011
curated by Ryan Doherty
Lethbridge, Alberta
The SAAG will showcase the ultimate premiere of a new triple-channel video installation, The Erudition (with simultaneous premieres of the single channel version in two additional Canadian provinces, Ontario and Nova Scotia - see above).
This new work was supported in part through a residency with the SAAG in 2009. A solo catalogue will also be produced featuring numerous works made possible through the SAAG's support.
CaixaForum
"The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image"
Spring, 2011
curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordan for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Barcelona, Spain
CaixaForum Barcelona intensifies its cultural offerings for the 2010-2011 season by presenting the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's exhibition entitled "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" which offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable.
Artists include Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Kelly Richardson, among others. Catalogue available via: Amazon | Barnes and Noble
"The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image"
Spring, 2011
curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordan for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Barcelona, Spain
CaixaForum Barcelona intensifies its cultural offerings for the 2010-2011 season by presenting the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's exhibition entitled "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" which offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable.
Artists include Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Kelly Richardson, among others. Catalogue available via: Amazon | Barnes and Noble
Artpace
New Work
March 24 - May 22, 2011
San Antonio, Texas
Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti has invited Kelly Richardson to be the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas during the months of January-March. The residency will support the production of new work to be exhibited at Artpace from March 24-May 22, 2011.
New Work
March 24 - May 22, 2011
San Antonio, Texas
Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti has invited Kelly Richardson to be the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas during the months of January-March. The residency will support the production of new work to be exhibited at Artpace from March 24-May 22, 2011.
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
"Site Specifics '10"
June 5 - July 25, 2010
Long Island, New York
A group exhibition featuring Nancy Bowen, Lucile Bertrand, Ruth Hardinger, Suzan Shutan, Paul O'Keeffe, Kelly Richardson and Elizabeth Donsky. Curated by Karen Shaw.
"Twilight Avenger"
March 12 - April 17, 2010
Houston, Texas, USA
Twilight Avenger exhibits at DiverseWorks as part of Fotofest 2010 Biennial.
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show.
Beijing 798 Biennale
"Constellations: The Man Who Fell to Earth"
August 15 - September 12, 2009
curator: Raul Zamudio
Beijing, China
The Man Who Fell to Earth takes its cue from Walter Tevis' similarly titled novel. Tevis' science fiction tale concerns an interplanetary visitor who comes to Earth looking for H2O for his water-depleted planet. In order to deflect attention from his extraterrestrial nature, the intergalactic being disguises himself as a human generically named Thomas Jerome Newton. This reciprocal morphing between homo sapiens and space alien is metaphorically articulated in the exhibition in numerous ways not limited to canine/anthropomorphic graphing, humanoid/robotic interfacing, and transgender/racial shape-shifting. The Man Who Fell to Earth explores the metamorphosis of race, gender, flora and fauna within the backdrop of ecological apocalypse.
"Constellations: The Man Who Fell to Earth"
August 15 - September 12, 2009
curator: Raul Zamudio
Beijing, China
The Man Who Fell to Earth takes its cue from Walter Tevis' similarly titled novel. Tevis' science fiction tale concerns an interplanetary visitor who comes to Earth looking for H2O for his water-depleted planet. In order to deflect attention from his extraterrestrial nature, the intergalactic being disguises himself as a human generically named Thomas Jerome Newton. This reciprocal morphing between homo sapiens and space alien is metaphorically articulated in the exhibition in numerous ways not limited to canine/anthropomorphic graphing, humanoid/robotic interfacing, and transgender/racial shape-shifting. The Man Who Fell to Earth explores the metamorphosis of race, gender, flora and fauna within the backdrop of ecological apocalypse.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
"Kelly Richardson"
May 6 - June 28, 2009
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star, recently acquired by the Musée,was screened as a solo presentation. Exiles of the Shattered Star is a video lasting almost 30 minutes shown as an unending loop. In June 2006, Richardson filmed a sunrise in the Lake District, England, a region famous for the staggering beauty of its landscape. Into this fixed-sequence, almost unreal, footage the artist inserted a rain of fireballs, composing a surrealist picture that demonstrates her love of the eerie. The title, Exiles of the Shattered Star, suggests a distant catastrophe, the explosion of a star whose fragments have come to “find exile” in this corner of paradise. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, in 1972. Since 2003, she has lived and worked in England.
"Kelly Richardson"
May 6 - June 28, 2009
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star, recently acquired by the Musée,was screened as a solo presentation. Exiles of the Shattered Star is a video lasting almost 30 minutes shown as an unending loop. In June 2006, Richardson filmed a sunrise in the Lake District, England, a region famous for the staggering beauty of its landscape. Into this fixed-sequence, almost unreal, footage the artist inserted a rain of fireballs, composing a surrealist picture that demonstrates her love of the eerie. The title, Exiles of the Shattered Star, suggests a distant catastrophe, the explosion of a star whose fragments have come to “find exile” in this corner of paradise. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, in 1972. Since 2003, she has lived and worked in England.
Sundance Film Festival
"New Frontier on Main"
January 15 - 25, 2009
curated by Shari Frilot
Utah, USA
Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image, New Frontier celebrates the convergence of film, art and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. New Frontier presents feature films, media installations, multimedia performances, panel discussions and more.
This year, New Frontier will exhibit three of Kelly Richardson's works including Exiles of the Shattered Star, Wagons Roll and Twilight Avenger.
Click here for the Sundance Film Festival New Frontier press release
Click here to download the Sundance Film Festival Film Guide
"New Frontier on Main"
January 15 - 25, 2009
curated by Shari Frilot
Utah, USA
Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image, New Frontier celebrates the convergence of film, art and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. New Frontier presents feature films, media installations, multimedia performances, panel discussions and more.
This year, New Frontier will exhibit three of Kelly Richardson's works including Exiles of the Shattered Star, Wagons Roll and Twilight Avenger.
Click here for the Sundance Film Festival New Frontier press release
Click here to download the Sundance Film Festival Film Guide
