Needles in the Camel’s Eye is an examination of how images are intended to be read and further, how they are utilized and dispersed. Each of these artists employs external references that enable their work to be digested in a wide variety of manners. With the deployment of stylistic and pictorial tropes the artists convey meaning with simultaneous clarity and reticence, leaving their images as intentionally unresolved entities. While deftly navigating theoretical, technological and art historical discourses the artists create networks in which to situate nuanced approaches towards production.
Being that each artist is well attuned to the roles images play in our increasingly visualized world, the viewer is intended to extract not a single but rather a multitude of meanings within a given work. In this the works operate as sites of potentiality and, in the context of the group exhibition, call upon themselves, the surrounding works and the gallery space itself as a means of furthering this potentiality.
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Featured artists – Steven Baldi, Nina Beier, Andy Boot, Roe Ethridge, Sean Kennedy, Lucas Knipscher, Michael Krebber, Charles Mayton, Carter Mull, Pamela Rosenkranz, Anri Sala, Asha Schechter, Jesse Willenbring, Viola Yesiltac
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at Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
through 8 September 2012
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Charles Mayton, for the painter of unknown languages, 2012
Pamela Rosenkranz, Avoid Contact (Dim Glow), 2011
Jesse Willenbring, Living Room, 2012
Sean Kennedy, Untitled, 2012
Lucas Knipscher, Untitled, 2012
Carter Mull, Beat, 2011
Roe Ethridge, Self-Portrait, 2007
Michael Krebber, MCB to MBC (#7), 2010
Nina Beier, The Demonstrators (Hanging Receiver), 2011
Steven Baldi, Multi – Media Mock Up 1 (I) L’Esprit Nouveau, 2010
Steven Baldi, Multi – Media Mock Up 2 (I) L’Esprit Nouveau, 2010
Andy Boot, cere, 2012
Roe Ethridge, Untitled, 2005
Anri Sala, Airport, 2005
Viola Yesiltac, Untitled, 2011
