Culver, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
In Chambers
Ms BarbersSarah Bostwick Malisa Humphrey Gina Osterloh Rachel Roske Katie Shapiro Organized by Greg Curtis The perception of photographic space is produced by two interiors: that of the camera and that of the interior mind of the Cartesian subject. These interiors form a totalizing set of relations between the observer and the external world, separating the act of seeing from the physical body in order to create images as objective document. The ability of photography to articulate fixed, common, and authoritative knowledge fulfills the Enlightenment dream of a universal language, but even as it tries to represent our material encounters as fixed shots of reality, the photograph leaves itself vulnerable to creative manipulations, editorial captions, and aesthetic engagements. The works in this exhibition address visual perception as a phenomena that is dominated by photographic space, knowing that vision is both a historical product and a site of subjectification. By using photography to recode other practices (painting, sculpture, collage, performance), these works undermine the prerogative of photography to veraciously depict the outside world, allowing the photographic object to be recoded in turn. Sarah Bostwick received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her solo exhibitions include Heights Where the Light Still Lingers, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2015; Mayes Lumber, Art Brussels, Brussels, 2013; and Sarah Bostwick, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, 2012;. Recent group exhibitions include Black is the New Black, Foley Gallery, New York, NY, 2016; Life Transmissions, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 2014; and All Things Give Way, PØST, Los Angeles, CA, 2014. Bostwick’s work is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, The Progressive Art Collection, and Microsoft Art Collection. She has been featured in Artforum, Flash Art, San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times and has participated as a fellow at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, and the MacDowel Colony. In 2014 to 2015 she curated exhibitions for the artist run gallery space, The Property, in downtown Los Angeles. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Malisa Humphrey lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exhibited and screened at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, the Armory Center for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Hammer Museum and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work focuses on historical narrative and cultural representation and, in particular, how history is illustrated in seemingly apolitical spaces. She received her M.F.A. from U.C. San Diego in Visual Arts and her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Studio Art and English. Gina Osterloh earned her BA from DePaul University in 1996 and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include Gina Osterloh at Higher Pictures, New York (2015), Nothing To See Here There Never Was (2015) at Silverlens Gallery in Manila, Philippines, Press Erase Outline Slice Strike Make An X Prick! (2014) at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, Anonymous Front (2012) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Group Dynamics and Improper Light (2012) at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Osterloh’s work was also included in Fragments of an Unknowable Whole (2014) at the Urban Arts Space, the Ohio State University; and This Is Not America: Resistance, Protest and Poetics (2014) at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Group Dynamic, Osterloh’s first book publication, was produced by LACE and published by RAM in 2013. Recent reviews include The New Yorker Magazine and Artforum. Osterloh’s work is represented by Higher Pictures (New York), François Ghebaly (Los Angeles) and Silverlens (Manila, Philippines). Rachel Roske is a Los Angeles-based artist. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, she first learned how to paint in the mountains of Sedona, Arizona under the tutelage of “cowboy-artist” Buck McCain. She went on to study painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a BFA in 1999. She attended graduate school at the Yale University School of Art where she received an MFA in 2004. She has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Vermont Studio Center and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at various venues nationally. Katie Shapiro was born in Los Angeles where she currently lives and works. She received her MFA from UC Irvine and her BFA from CalArts. Her work has been shown at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, The Woodstock Center for Photography in New York, Gallery 295 in Vancouver, LTD in Los Angeles, and the Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work is housed in private collections as well as at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.