Consuegra/Wintergarten Ltd.

Upcoming show at Actual Size!

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CONSUEGRA/ WINTERGARTEN LTD.
November 13, 2010 - November 27, 2010

Actual Size is pleased to announce “Consuegra/ Wintergarten Ltd.”, an exhibition of works by Eduardo Consuegra and Wintergarten Ltd.

November 13th, 2010 - November 27th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 13th 7:00-10:00pm
Image Swap: Saturday, November 20th 1:00-4:00pm

Using photographs, posters, and magazines Eduardo Consuegra and Wintergarten Ltd. isolate and recombine imagery, proposing new relations that both reveal and obscure meaning. For “Consuegra/ Wintergarten Ltd.” the artists have created an installation of new work that restricts and re-directs the viewers relation to the work.

Visually grounded in modernist color fields and geometry, Eduardo Consuegra’s works contain printed ephemera that present iconic ads and commercially seductive imagery. Consuegra combines Colombian and North American magazines and posters from the 1970’s and ‘80’s, creating works that simultaneously present and withhold. Intimating the residues of personal consumption, intellectual property and advertisement, his works reflect upon the complex interaction between people and materials. Consuegra’s body of work also includes automatic drawings and paintings that are informed and influenced by an ongoing interest in the life of objects and transference of action and accident into the creation of a completed work.

Wintergarten Ltd. is a Los Angeles-based art collective, which takes its name from the German word for a greenhouse. The group generates work from a growing collection of vernacular photography and printed ephemera acquired from storage unit auctions and estate sales. These deserted photographs are often the artifacts of their previous owners' financial hardship or death. A partial document of systemic economic and individual recession, Wintergarten Ltd. re-contextualizes found imagery into diptychs, installations, artist's books and multiples. Through the curatorial arrangement and physical transformation of images, the artist links photographs into a fictional narrative, mapping an abstract emotional portrait that feels concurrently tentative, immediate, and specific.

To commemorate the exhibition the artists will host a magazine and photograph swap on November 20th. Participants are invited to come to the gallery with old magazines and photographs to trade and exchange with other artists and collectors.

Eduardo Consuegra (B. Bogota, Colombia) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design and a BFA from Universidad De Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. He is represented by Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Consuegra’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Colombia, Italy, The UK, Canada, Mexico and the USA, including: The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Apexart, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.

Wintergarten Ltd. has published two books, “Women: Erotic & Vernacular Photography (Catalog 1, Volume 1)” and “Men: Erotic & Vernacular Photography (Catalog1, Volume 2)”. Exhibitions include; X-Initiative, New York; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Gallery Hours: Sat- Sun 12:00-5:00pm; Weekdays by Appointment.

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Sister Corita

A very rare early serigraph by Sister Mary Corita Kent

More Google

This goes out to Mr. Yellow Dart.

This particular Google was placed on a reproduction of the Capitoline Wolf.

see more googles at:

http://corriesiegel.blogspot.com/

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swirl

From a concert at an outdoor garden party in Pittsburgh at the home of Colin Baxter.

wearing shoes and drinkin' booze it goes against the bible...

I'm back in Pittsburgh this week, and have been uncovering some nifty bits of family history. Since it is somewhat related to something I posted earlier, about the Welcome Week Boat Race I figured I'd include it here, cause it's kind of interesting.

This photo is the only existing photo of my great grandfather Joel Davis. (Hint: He's the one with the arrow pointing at him...)



At the time he was a coal miner, in the Vesta mine, which was actually a series of mines in Washington County, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. (That link is to an amazing list of miners who were injured or killed in that mine, with lots of detail as to how it all happened.) The mine originally opened in 1898, but by 1907 was owned by Jones and Laughlin, one of the steel companies operating mills in Pittsburgh. At that time it was the largest mine in the world, as this article attests:



What I found pretty interesting was the fact that the coal powered steamboat my great uncle Buck was driving in the races I mentioned before was owned by Jones and Laughlin. Also, back in the day when my Dad worked in the steel mills for a few summers when he was in college, he worked in a Jones and Laughlin mill shoveling coke - coke that probably came from the Vesta Mine. Now certainly my great grandfather wasn't still in the mine when my Dad was working in the mill, and was actually working on the river boats when my great uncle was driving them, but it is still an interesting connection between all these different generations of the family.



That brings me back to the boat races - Dad was googlin' around and found this pretty sweet site, which includes photographs of the races, detailed accounts of what happened in the race in the lithograph (one of the boats' coal feeding mechanisms broke in the middle of the race and they had to manually shovel it) and a play-by-play style recording from a 78 record of the whole thing, with interviews afterward. Check that out here. I'ma probably have to write a song about it.

Oh this post is titled as it is because many of the details about my great grandfather were sandwiched between the pages of "The Family Bible" given to him and my great grandmother Emma Mae in 1908 when they were married.

Sidewalk exhibition

Found: Matthew Cummings work in LA

lookin through

To continue the trend of posting photos of looking through things (well now its a trend as there are two) - the maintenance guy in my building has this amazingly thick Italian accent - I pretty much squint the whole time he is talking to me trying to figure out what he's saying - and the other day I could hear him going off on the phone in the hallway, and it sounded like he was right outside the door. We have a peephole, which I've never had before anywhere I've lived, and I took a look through, but he was about halfway down the hall which made me realize just how crazily sound carries in my building. Anyways, I messed about trying to take a picture through the peephole and this is what I got.

pew pew pew

I was thinking of calling this "Tunnel Vision," but then I was worried that might give away what it is that this is a photo of, and I kind of like the mixture of flatness and depth that is going on. Any thoughts?

paper trail

This is - well, I suppose I'd call it a collaborative rotating installation piece between me and my roommate Emilie - but the "artful photo" credit would have to be all mine.

Catering to this crowd, I'm pretty sure you can all tell what it is.

omgeez

I just turned this up and thought most of you would appreciate it.

mobile post!

Hey anybody - sorry for the lengthy gap in posts, both Dan and I have been out of our respective towns and traveling around together with our parents in the (mostly rural) United Kingdon. Case in point, we are currently in Anglesey - the northernmost part of Wales, which is actually a 20 mile square island. Not a lot of time for a post, but thought I'd leave a quick shot of the coast here where we went for a hike. More images soon!

birdies

More nature. Dad bought this feeder, which is filled with thistle. It is supposed to attract goldfinch, and two days later, here they are, grubbing down. Thought the photo was too clear not to post up.

As my English grandma would say "You know in France there isn't any birdsong, because they eat all the birds." Mmm...delicious little birds.

Little spotted bug!

I caught this guy crawling on one of my paintings and he looked kinda nifty so I managed to get him under the loupe. Anyways, the camera did a bang up job of catching him in focus. Nice.

For best results click on the image for the giant version so you can bask in the glory of his spotted self.

(Title a reference to the famous: "Little yellow bug!" utterance of 2006. You had to be there.)