Park View is pleased to announce A New Rhythm, a four-person exhibition with Charles Atlas, Benjamin Carlson, Nancy Lupo, and Silke Otto-Knapp. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, 1 March from 2-5pm, and it will run at 836 South Park View Street, Unit 8, through 5 April.
The exhibition includes film by Charles Atlas, painting by Benjamin Carlson, sculpture by Nancy Lupo, and painting by Silke Otto-Knapp. Distinctive strategies of abstraction highlight multiple areas of life and relate them back to a bodily awareness. The works may be interpreted as representations of dancing bodies, shopping bodies, screaming bodies, seeing bodies, imbibing bodies, caretaking bodies, and styled bodies.
Dance functions as a metaphor, with each work trapping arrhythmic experiences of reality with a paradoxical lightness into forms and images that capture the moment. Overall, the exhibition proposes a new rhythm that is grounded by a discipline that seeks to defy gravity, “an exactitude of vertigo.” (1) (2) (3)
(1) Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics, Chapter 6, “Dance as a Metaphor for Thought,” p. 71.
(2) Ben Lerner, 10:04
(3) Michael Sanchez, “The Seasons in Retrospect,” lecture delivered at Art Center College of Design, 18 March 2014
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Silke Otto-Knapp (b. 1970) was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Fogo Island Arts, Fogo, Canada; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Camden Arts Centre, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Kunstverein Munich; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Modern Art Oxford; and Tate Britain, London. She is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of California, Los Angles.
Nancy Lupo (b. 1983) was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, and she lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2007, and she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Wallspace, New York; MoMA P.S.1, New York; LAXART, Los Angeles; Laurel Gitlen, New York; C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, New York; Michael Thibault, Los Angeles; Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles; and Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, among others. She has received numerous awards, including most recently The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant in January 2015.
Benjamin Carlson (b. 1982) is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2011. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Overduin and Kite, 356 Mission, Greene Naftali Gallery among others. His writing has appeared inArtforum, Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, Dossier, and Time Out New York.
Charles Atlas (b. 1949) was born in St. Louis, MO, and has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in such institutions as Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the New Museum, New York; the De Hallen, Haarlem; and Bloomberg SPACE, London. Upcoming exhibitions include Strange Pilgrims at The Contemporary Austin in Fall 2015, as well as a survey of Leigh Bowery’s work at the Manchester International in 2016. In January 2015, Prestel Publishing released Charles Atlas, the first major publication on Atlas’ work, featuring writings by Stuart Comer, Douglas Crimp, Douglas Dunn, Johanna Fateman, and Lia Gangitano.
