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The title of the show is a South American camelid widely used as a pack and meat animal by Andean cultures. It’s the third person conjugation of the Spanish verb to call, or, in its reflexive form, to be called. ¿Cómo se llama? Lisa. Lisa. Ana. Matt. Amy. The premise of this show is a dinner party. It’s someone else’s opening. It’s a bar. It’s where we get together and talk about things that may be related to art or may be related to love or gossip or things we heard on the radio. Another friend of ours described art as the thin membrane that surrounds everything. It’s the thing that brings all of us together in the same room but that we don’t have to talk about all the time. It’s a support and a context that exists both individually and in a group. Llama is a picture of the group, made up individual projects and practices. Lisa Tan is an American artist currently living in New York and Stockholm. She received an MFA from the University of Southern California (USC). Her work focuses on historical or personal narratives that speak to longing and loss as constant conditions of being. Utilizing photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and writing, she addresses how notions of the enigmatic and melancholy are formed against a history of representation in art, film, and literature. She is represented by Andreas Grimm - Munich and Galerie VidalCuglietta - Brussels. Lisa has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin. Lisa Oppenheim is an artist who lives and works in New York. Her work explores the underappreciated aspects of visual culture: the tell tale expressions of contemporary life which are often overlooked, exposing the erosion of information through the passage of time. Her work was recently included in group exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, The Musuem of Fine Art, Houston and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. She is represented by Harris Lieberman in New York, Klosterfelde in Berlin and Galerie Juliette Jongma in Amsterdam. Ana Cardoso's paintings evoke a dialogue with the historical, while remaining resistant to a fixed relationship to the past. Modernism, the monochrome, flags, patterns from street posters, politics, are all referenced but vaguely so, creating a conversation between works, an internal relationship of processes and references. Cardoso is an artist living in New York. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art, Lisbon and Reflexus Contemporary Art, Oporto; contributed work to Besides, With, Against and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made,The Kitchen, New York and Personal Freedom Portugal Arte 10 EDP: International Contemporary Art Biennale, Lisbon. Forthcoming exhibitions include Expanded Painting in the 2011 Prague Biennale. Matt Keegan is an artist based in New York. Recently, he has been thinking about the myriad possibilities of archives, language, social history projects, cities, and ways to map and record time. Keegan has had recent solo shows at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco and D'Amelio Terras in New York. He was recently included in Image Transfer at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and Younger than Jesus at the New Museum, New York. His work is included in various private and public collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Matt is the co-founder and publisher of North Drive Press. NDP#5, which was released in January, is the final issue of this annual art publication. Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations, though her practice is wide-ranging and also includes video, photography, text and sound. In Granat's photos she experiments with the elements of basic photography and employs a method that emphasizes the intrinsic quality of film, She allows herself to “draw” with light, a very physical and unphysical act at the same time. In all of her work this reveals her fascination with transparency and opacity, positive and negative space. LInear and cyclical time. She recently had a solo projects at the New Museum and the Kitchen in New York, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Galerie Eva Prensenhuber, Zurich and Carlos Cardenas Gallery, Paris. Her work has been included in many international gallery and institutional exhibitions including the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Conduits Viale Stelvio 66 20159 Milan Italy +39026883470 info@theconduits.com | theconduits.com |
12/12/10
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