Elizabeth Withstandley, “The Symphony of Names: No Man is an Island,” at Winslow Garage. In a collaboration with Icelandic composer Gunnar Másson, Withstandley has created a video installation that dwells on the nature of place and names: A boy travels through the Icelandic countryside as an audio track comprising all 4,129 names from the government names list serves as melodic backdrop.
Opens Sunday at 2 p.m. 3540 Winslow Dr., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, winslowgarage.com.
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Between a view and a milestone
Dates: April 28 – July 8, 2018
Opening reception: May 10, 2018, 7-9pm
Participating artists: Adler Guerrier, Alba Triana, Anastasia Samoylova, Elite Kedan, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Jamilah Sabur, Jillian Mayer, Joshua Veasey, Juan Pablo Garza, Laura Marsh, Leo Castaneda, Morel Doucet, Terence Price II and Tom Scicluna.
Between a view and a milestone, curated by Angelica Arbelaez, presents works by ArtCenter/South Florida’s studio residents that offer contemplative meditations on place. While place can imply a certain level of geographic specificity, determining placehood can be difficult and requires certain physical and intangible elements to make it so. The exhibition’s title refers to a visual device used in landscape painting, in which the painter includes an object in the foreground as a means of framing the view of the landscape. Places call for this sort of demarcation, but they also call for a more emotive connection that is highly dependent upon the individual occupying it. Places are felt as much as they are physically constructed.
In this exhibition, perspective– both spatial and interpretive– plays an important role in framing the places these works address. A video game finds its protagonist navigating through an amorphous landscape that simultaneously inspires awe and dread. A set of sculptures comprised of materials native to Miami’s urban topography are used to further investigate ideas of mobility and labor. A lone figure in a grassy field desperately bobbing for apples to the sound of a mournful poem considers how recent events and contentious histories can oftentimes define the places we live in. The works in this exhibition attempt to understand the evocative nature of place and invite more nuanced explorations of time, memory and identity.
Potrc?, Two Essays on Built Disasters, 1998.
An empty city: attraction of a built disaster.
A planned city: when a man-made disaster happens.
Centre Gallery
Miami Dade Community College
March, 1999
Untitled(Et in Arcadia Ego) 2017
Acrylic, enamel paint, gesso and xerography on paper, wood, artist frames, map pins and wallpaint.
Re-installed in Hétéronomonde, an exhibition in Tout-Monde Festival, includes works by various artists. On IG.
Greed, laziness and luxury vanquished by Saint Michael, in gold-accented slippers.
Unknown artist, Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil and Defender of the Immaculate Conception (San Miguel vencedor del demonio y defensor de la Inmaculada Concepcion) c. 1760
Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici
Resnick Pavilion
November 19, 2017–March 18, 2018
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SMOKE & MIRRORS
On view through March 10, 2018, at Torrance Art Museum. The exhibition organized by Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley. Works by Gordon Winiemko, Elizabeth Withstandley, Gioj De Marco, Barry Markowitz, Dorsey Dunn, Thomas Muller, Alejandra Urresti, Josephine Wister Faure, Lewis Colburn, Clifton Childree, Heta Kuchka, Bettina Khano, and Adler Guerrier
