Exhibition
I Am Not This Body
12 Jun 2021 – 31 Jul 2021
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Tyler Park Presents is pleased to announce "I Am Not This Body", a group exhibition co-curated by artists Juliana Paciulli and Evan Whale. The exhibition will be on view from June 12th through July 31st with an opening reception on June 12th from 4-7pm.
About
"I AM NOT THIS BODY. But I am. Aching and full of longing. Take a picture of this meat, this husk. You don't have me. I am something that cannot be photographed, cannot be named, defined, translated. There's experience and that's all there is .... But there's also all this stuff. It gets in the way. I've always had trouble with stuff. I've fought my whole life to have control over stuff, over the appearance of stuff: my chaotic hair, learning to play the accordion, getting dressed, being on time, electric bills, the five ballet positions, getting money, spending money, even just putting one foot in front of the other. Clear the table. A place for everything and everything in its place. A battle for order, a battle for space." - Barbara Ess, excerpt from "I Am Not This Body", Aperture, 2005.
Tyler Park Presents is pleased to announce "I Am Not This Body", a group exhibition co-curated by artists Juliana Paciulli and Evan Whale. The exhibition will be on view from June 12th through July 31st with an opening reception on June 12th from 4-7pm.
"I Am Not This Body" reflects on the battle between the physical and indefinable; things that are at once us but aren’t. The bodies in the show have been collaged, painted, cast, printed, chemically altered, cut out, and dyed. Some cast shadows and some ripple in the wind. The works are rooted in reality, but they meander through beautiful, undulating reckonings with these realities. These figures emerge from their surroundings and reach into histories, presents, and futures revealing experiences that are exquisitely human.
Andrea Chung (b. 1978, Newark, NJ) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include the Addison Museum of American Art, Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, "You broke the ocean in half to be here". She has participated in national and international residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, The Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art among others. Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, NoVo Foundation, Cleveland Clinic Art & Medicine Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Davis Museum at Wesley College, Addison Museum of American Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Vanessa Conte (B. 1977 in Yonkers, New York) lives in Glendale, California. Most recently, she has exhibited in group shows at the Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, and WallRiss in Fribourg, Switzerland. Conte has had solo shows in Düsseldorf, NewYork, and Los Angeles, where she will show again at Commonwealth and Council in July 2022. She has published a book of erotic BDSM-themed short stories, "Cures for Pouting Girls" (HESTER, New York, 2016) and two comic zines "Heavy Penalties" (Random Man Editions, 2018) and "NEVER ENOUGH" (Random Man Editions, 2020).
Barbara Ess (1948 - 2021) received a BA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended the London School of Film Technique in London. Upon her return to New York City she became involved with music, performance, photography and the creation of artist books. Ess has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work throughout the United States and Europe, including retrospectives at the Queens Museum, NY, the Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Other selected solo exhibitions were held at 3A Gallery, New York, NY; Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY; Incident Report, Hudson, NY; Wallspace, New York, NY; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia PA; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY; Faggionato Fine Arts, London, UK; Frederick Giroux Gallery, Paris, France; Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Fundacion La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; Galeria Espanola La Maquina, Madrid, Spain; Interim Art, London, England; Ghilaine Hussenot, Paris, France and Johnen+Schöttle, Cologne, among others. Her photographs have been included in group exhibitions at institutions including the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. Barbara Ess has been the subject of cover stories in Artforum and Art in America and a monograph of her work, "I Am Not This Body", was published by Aperture in 2001. Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, Pompidou Center/Musée d’Art Moderne, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. Barbara Ess lived and worked in New York City. She was an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.
Daniel Gordon lives and works in New York, NY. He holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Yale School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include: "Night Pictures", James Fuentes, New York (2020), "Hue and Saturate", Houston Center for Photography (2019), "Blue Room", James Fuentes, New York (2018), "Selective Color", M+B, Los Angeles (2017), "New Canvas", James Fuentes, New York (2017), "Hand, Select & Invert Layer", Bolte Lang, Zürich (2016), Switzerland; "Shadows, Patterns, Pears", Foam Museum, Amsterdam, NL (2014); and "Screen Selections and Still Lifes", Wallspace, New York, NY (2014). He has participated in several museum group exhibitions, including "Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography", J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018), "Secondhand", Pier 24, San Francisco, CA (2016) "Greater New York", MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, NY (2010) "New Photography Series", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009).
He is the author of "Houseplants" (Aperture 2019), "Spaces, Faces, Tables and Legs" (OSP, 2018), Intermissions (OSP, 2017), "Still Life with Onions and Mackerel" (OSP, 2014), "Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts" (Mörel, 2013), "Flowers and Shadows" (Onestar Press, 2011) and "Flying Pictures" (powerHouse Books, 2009). Gordon’s work has also been highlighted in several international publications including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Review, Frieze, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, W Magazine, Art in America, Modern Painters, PHOTONEWS, Dazed & Confused, Art in America, and Flash Art. His work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Guggenheim, New York, Pier 24, San Francisco, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, and the VandenBroek Foundation, Lisse, NL.
Tommy Kha (b. 1988, Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is a Foam Talent, a finalist for the Jerome Hill Fellowship and the Hyères Photography Grand Prix, and a recipient of En Foco Photography Fellowship. He was named one of 47 artists in the inaugural Silver List in 2021. His work has been published in Foam, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Hyperallergic, BUTT Magazine, Buzzfeed, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and was the cover of Vice Magazine’s 2017 Photography Issue. He has collaborated with the Billboard Creative in Los Angeles, and exhibited at Launch F18 (NY), LMAKgallery (NY), PS122 Gallery (NY), Brooks Museum (TN), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Blue Sky (Portland), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), Teen Party (NY), Aperture (NY), Yongkang Lu Art (Shanghai), Hyères Festival (France), and Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Germany).
Young Joon Kwak (b. 1984, Queens, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles) received her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014, MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2010, and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. A multi-disciplinary artist, Kwak is the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for experimental performance collaborations with her community of queer, trans, femme, POC artists and performers, and the lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. She has had solo exhibitions at Cerritos College Art Gallery, CA (2020); Cloaca Projects, San Francisco (2019); Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada (2018); Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2018); Satellite, Seoul, South Korea (2014); and Happy Dog Gallery, Chicago (2012). Kwak has performed at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (2018); Art Museum of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); The Broad, Los Angeles (2016); Le Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain, Clichy, France (2016); and Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014). Selected group exhibitions have been held at deli gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2020); Gas, Los Angeles (2018); 47 Canal, New York (2018); Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2018); MANA Contemporary, Chicago (2017); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2017); Smack Mellon, New York (2016); Machine Project, Los Angeles (2015); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015). Kwak is the recipient of the KAFA Award (2019); the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant (2018), the Art Matter Grant (2016), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Artist Community Engagement Grant (2016), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Ox-Bow Scholarship for Sculptors (2011).
Juliana Paciulli (b. 1980, Virginia) is an artist living in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from the University of California, Davis in 2004 and her work in photography, video, drawing and sculpture has been exhibited widely since. Solo exhibitions include Uh-huh (2016) and Are You Talking to Me? (2013) both at Green Exhibitions, Los Angeles. Paciulli’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States including Well (2019) at Sunview Luncheonette in New York and The Crack Up at Take Care Gallery in Los Angeles scheduled for fall 2021. In 2018, her self-published calendar project, "Know Nonsense - 2017", chronicling the public lies of the first year of Trump’s presidency, was launched at Oof Books in Los Angeles and is now part of the permanent collection at The Getty. Her collaborative piece with writer Rebecca Bengal called The Best Witch Hunt Pageant Ever will be included in the upcoming issue of MATERIAL, a journal of writing by contemporary artists. Paciulli has also lectured extensively in Los Angeles and New York at Pitzer College, Chapman University, The International Center of Photography and Fashion Institute of Technology.
Kim Schoen (b. 1969, Princeton) is an artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. She received an MFA from CalArts in 2005, and a Master of Philosophy from the photography department at The Royal College of Art in London in 2008. Her work in photography and video installation has been shown at numerous institutions and galleries worldwide including LACMA, MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art), BAM, Brooklyn, NY; The South London Gallery, The Whitechapel Gallery, MOT International, London; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo, Spain; and The Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Germany. Her work has been written about in Art Forum, The Los Angeles Times, Mousse Magazine, and Art in America. Kim has lectured widely at Otis College of Art & Design, Goldsmiths, CCA, The Royal College of Art, The School of Visual Arts, and Transart Institute in Berlin, and her own writing on repetition and lens-based media—The Serial Attitude Redux, The Expansion of the Instant: Photography, Anxiety and Infinity and Cracking Walnuts: Nonsense and Repetition in Video Art —has been published in X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. She is also the co-founder of and co-editor of MATERIAL, a journal of writing by contemporary artists. Kim’s work will be featured in the upcoming 2022 exhibition "Objects of Desire" at LACMA in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Sullivan received her BFA from Pratt Institute and her MFA from Parsons School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Exiled Parts at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2019), Stretch Marks at Real Estate Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and the soft animal of your body at Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Sullivan has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at Peter Blum, Marinaro, Brennan and Griffin, Rod Barton, Marvin Gardens, Safe Gallery, Pablo's Birthday, 247365, Klaus Von Nichtsaggend, and the deCordova Museum. Awards include a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, and residencies at the Lighthouse Works, Skowhegan, Ox-Bow, and Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, Artforum, Art News, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers. She is represented by Five Car Garage in Los Angeles, CA. Sullivan lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens with her cat Queenie.
Evan Whale was born in Washington, D.C, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Whale holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2014) and a BA from Bard College (2009). Whale has exhibited in group shows throughout the United States at Regen Projects (LA), The Flag Arts Foundation (NY), and Jeff Bailey Gallery (NY), and internationally at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, in both the Paris Pantin and the Salzburg Villa Kast locations, and had a recent virtual booth at NADA FAIR for 321 Gallery (NY). Recent solo exhibitions include "In My Room" at Tyler Park Presents in 2020, "Come and See" at Actual Size, Los Angeles in 2017 and "I heard, as it were the noise of thunder", at 321 Gallery (NY) in 2016, which was also reviewed in The New Yorker magazine. In 2020 Whale was the recipient of the West Collection LIFTS prize and his work is part of numerous private collections around the world.
Jessica Wimbley is an artist and curator that lives and works in Sacramento, CA. She received a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, M.F.A in Visual Arts from the University of California, Davis in 2005, and her MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University in 2013. Wimbley has been included in exhibitions at a number of institutions including the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, California State University at Long Beach, Ripon College, and other galleries and institutions across the United States. Her work has been written about in The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Art and Cake, and LA Weekly. Her work can be found in the collections of University of California, Davis, University of La Verne, University of La Verne, School of Law, University of Rhode Island, Ripon College, and the College as Museum: Cerritos College Public Art Collection.