Old work, but still cool and very nice works.

New works from Marc looking very nice.

V1 Gallery have got a new website, it looks very nice! It showes a lot of good old shows, I nearly have forgot!

The Old man back @ V1::::::::

Statue (Flora) 2003
Mixed Media
190 x 40 x 40 cm

Chromed Vespa 2004
Chromed burned-out scooter
170 x 100 x 65 cm

Throw away 2005
Alabaster, 2 parts
10 x 7 x 7 cm
Unique

Buy 1 get 1 free 2007
Silkscreen
150 x 90 cm approx. each
Series of 5

Heroes and Heroines of Performance Art (collector’s series) 2002
Bronze
25 x 15 x 20 cm ea.
The Bible 1997
Printed paper

Arm 2007
Marble and jesmonite
130 x 20 x 15 cm
Ed.3

Untitled (Fly soup light) 2006
Mixed media
Dims. variable

STEPHEN SHORE
Andy Warhol, the Factory, NYC
1965-1967
black and white photograph
32.4 x 48.3 cm
© Stephen Shore

‘One May afternoon when we were filming in L’Avventura, a young kid named Stephen Shore came by to take pictures of us. He’d made a short film that was shown at the Film-Makers’ Coop the same night in February as my ‘The Life of Juanita Castro’ and afterward he’d come over to me and asked if he could come by the Factory – he was taking still photographs and had heard there was a lot going on there.’ (Andy Warhol in ‘POPism: The Warhol Sixties,’ Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett).

Celebrated for his groundbreaking work with colour photography in such seminal series as American Surfaces (1972) and Uncommon Places (1973-1979), Stephen Shore is rightly considered one of the most influential photographers to have emerged from the last half of the twentieth century. This exhibition focuses on the period 1965-67 which Shore spent at Warhol’s Factory, a time which was to have a great influence on his own work. As somewhat of a child prodigy, Shore had developed an interest in photography from the age of six and by the age of fourteen had already famously sold three of his prints to Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1965, shortly after an initial request, Shore was invited to take photographs at the restaurant L’Avventura where Warhol was shooting what was to become the film Restaurant. From that time on, Shore spent almost every day at the Factory observing and photographing the many goings-on of a now famous cast of characters – amongst others Warhol himself, Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, Billy Name, International Velvet and Paul Morrissey.

The photographs taken at this time not only document the ‘golden days’ of the Factory before the attempt on Warhol’s life by Valerie Solanas in 1968. This was a time when Warhol was making films almost on a weekly basis and Shore was clearly influenced by the laconic nature of these films, Warhol’s use of serial imagery and his obsession with recording everything around him, aspects which would take Shore’s own documentary photography to a new level. ‘I think I learned by observing, not observing him in order to learn, just by being exposed to the decisions and actions he was making. By the end of my stay at the Factory, I found that just my contact with, and observation of, Andy led me to think differently about my function as as an artist. I became more aware of what I was doing.’ (Stephen Shore in ‘The Velvet Years. Warhol’s Factory, 1965-67.’ Text by Lynne Tillman).

In a distinguished career that stretches back to his first solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971 (the first to be given to a living photographer), Shore has exhibited widely and is currently Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts; Director, Photography Program at Bard College, New York. His retrospective ‘Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79’ is currently on view at New York’s International Center of Photography until 9th September, 2007. Phaidon will publish a monograph on Shore this autumn and ‘A Road Trip Journal’ in Spring of 2008. Concurrent with this exhibition, ‘Warhol Part 1’ a season of Warhol films at the British Film Institute runs from 7th August to 30th September.

Hey Everyone! Come on out to the Closing Reception to an Mesmerizing Exhibition by Spandau Parks…RECEPTION is on JULY 19TH at 8PM at THE BOX…977 CHUNG KING ROAD IN CHINATOWN, Los Angeles, CA….read more below….

A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THE EXHIBITION….

The Box gallery opened on June 9, 2007 with an inaugural installation by Spandau Parks. This installation is a project that began on the evening of June 9th with four projections, three onto the walls of the gallery and one out the front window onto the building across the street. The video projections are moving images that closely examine a painting triptych Spandau began in 1975.
It was decided by the artist and the gallery that the piece would not be publicly announced but would run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night through July 21st. The work was only visible by those who happen to pass by, this included those who live and work in the neighborhood and occasional visitors to the arts scene surrounding the gallery. Spandau uses the gallery space as a working space, allowing him to change and develop the project throughout the course of the exhibition; the exhibition is art in flux. One of the changes that Spandau made was to project a video he made on June 9th of the video installation. This video includes people inside and outside the gallery, which create shadows and reflections throughout the space. The video is a video, of a video installation, of a painting triptych come alive through movement on structure walls.
Along with the videos, the artist began photographing the video installation; there are now over 1,000 images. He began printing the photographs of the video installation and placing on the walls of the rear gallery, out of public view. By placing still images of a three-dimensional video installation, Spandau has brought the work back to its original two-dimensional form.

On July 19th, the gallery is hosting a PUBLIC Closing Reception. What you will see at the closing event on July 19th, is a piece that began on June 9th and has continued to develop into an amazingly complex and cyclical group of pieces that has yet to be seen in its entirety by the public.

JULY 19TH 2007
8PM
977 CHUNG KING ROAD
CHINATOWN, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
CA, 90012
213 625 1747
mara@theboxla.com

The Box is an alternative gallery, incorporating the voice of the artist and the public.
The Box aims to push the concept of an art gallery, viewing it as a place of thought and education.

Mara McCarthy-Gallery Director

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