OYG Flatfile 2021

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present Flat File 2021 Program, now in its second season. Flat File at OyG: 2021 Exhibition Program will be on view in the main gallery from January 9 to January 31, 2021, and after that in our Flat File until the end of 2021. The following artists were selected for inclusion in the Flat File by a panel of OyG co-directors:

Mike Ambron, Sammy Bennet, Aidan Boyle, Avital Burg, Bella Carlos, Eleanor Conover, Lisa di Donato, Loren Erdrich, Ian Etter, Devra Fox, Jackie Hoving, Brooklynn Johnson, Amanda Konishi, Mary Laube, Fei Li, Kate Jeanette Liebman, Alicia Little, Alex Lukas, Bryan McGinnis, Jamie Mirabella, Nicholas Moenich, Renana Neuman, Lucy Nordlinger, Clara Nulty, Daniela Gomez Paz, Quimetta Perle, Hilary Price, Claire Seidl, Gyan Shrosbree, Winnie Sidharta, Cory Emma Siegler, Christine Stiver and Claire Whitehurst

The Flat Files at OyG: 2021 will open with an exhibition on Saturday, January 9, 2021. The program will continue in our flat files through December 2021. Participating artists and individual works will be promoted and featured on OyG social media outlets, PR, weekly Flat File Friday emails focusing on one of the artists in the Flat File. All works will be available for viewing by visitors browsing at OyG and our website for purchase.

Dovetail Magazine

Check out my recent conversation with Ian Etter on Dovetail Magazine —> INTERVIEW

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Maake Magazine 11

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curated by Tanya Gayer

Featured Artists: Lina Agnes Buck, B Chehayeb, Adam de Boer, Nimisha Doongarwal, Katie Dorame, Sienna Freeman, Michelle Cortez Gonzales, Donté K. Hayes, Melissa Joseph, Mary Laube, Josephine Lee, Tiffany Lin, Eugene Macki, Juan José Castaño-Márquez, Alison Owen, Anna Ortiz, Erik Parra, Hae Won Sohn, Frank Wang Yefeng

Check out my interview —> INTERVIEW WITH MARY LAUBE

Archive 02 / Saint Mason

“ARCHIVE 00 IS A PUBLICATION (PAPER & DIGITAL) DESIGNED TO INDEX, ORGANIZE, SHOWCASE, AND DOCUMENT ARTISTS/ARTWORKS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD. UNLIKE MOST PUBLICATIONS, THE ARCHIVE 00 DOES NOT HAVE ANY LONG PARAGRAPHS, CONVERSATIONS, OR INTERVIEWS; INSTEAD, IT FOCUSES ON SOMETHING THAT IS MUCH MORE VISUAL AND RAW, INSPIRED BY SOME OF THE OLDEST ARCHIVING METHODS FROM THE EASTERN HISTORY. WE HAVE ADOPTED A UNIQUE APPROACH CALLED THE 'SELF INTERVIEW', TO COMMUNICATE THE MINDS OF THE ARTISTS.

BOOK 01 & 02 WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, ACTING AS A PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL RECORD OF ARTISTS STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE BLM.” —SAINT MASON

More information —> HERE

ON THE COVER:BASKET MARYLIN (2020)TEIJI HAYAMAOIL ON CANVAS90 x 83 cm — ON THE COVER:
*BASKET MARYLIN (2020)*
TEIJI HAYAMA
OIL ON CANVAS
90 x 83 cm

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Shadowbox is featured on page 163 alongside a handwritten interview

Home as Situation

“Many artists working today are addressing notions of home in unexpected ways, particularly challenging traditional definitions of home and proposing new approaches to understanding its complexity and fluidity. This exhibition seeks to examine where ideas of home intersect with themes of cultural identity/ies, colonization, access, refuge, politics of space, labor, community infrastructures, archiving/documenting presence, social (im)permanence, historicizing domestic spaces, diaspora, and many others. While this exhibition was conceived in 2019, our current era of stay at home orders, political unrest, and protests against racial injustice adds new layers to our collective experience of home as a varied situation.

Co-curators Rae Goodwin and Becky Alley would like to thank the artists for generously sharing their work and for adjusting to this digital iteration with us.”

View the exhibition —> HERE

Taking Shape

Mary Laube and Kevin Umaña

curated by Jacob Cartwright

Laurence Miller Gallery

521 West 26th Street 5th floor
New York, NY 10001

online exhibition

OPENS APRIL 17TH

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artists/taking-shape-mary-laube-kevin-umana

https://www.artsy.net/show/laurence-miller-gallery-taking-shape

Mary Laube Ox-bone, 2019, acrylic on panel, 11 x 14" — **Mary Laube**
Ox-bone, 2019, acrylic on panel, 11 x 14"

Kevin Umaña Midnight Voyage, 2019, acrylic and marble dust on canvas, 40 x 36" — **Kevin Umaña**
Midnight Voyage, 2019, acrylic and marble dust on canvas, 40 x 36"

These two artists explore the way that abstract form and pattern can create worlds that are both apart from ours and a part of it.

Mary Laube’s paintings occupy the place where memory and imagination meet. She’s mindful of the way that our individual histories are embodied by our belongings and preserved as idealized remembrances. She seeks to express this with depictions of personal objects that are pictorially flattened and reduced, suggesting the way that we all create remembered worlds that exist somewhere between the real and the fictive.

Kevin Umaña’s work evokes the way abstraction intersects with the everyday, found everywhere from the design of parks and playgrounds to clothing and textiles. His jazzy use of this visual language has an affable kinship with design and decoration. Umaña’s painting speak to the collective desire to find and share joy in the ways that the parts of our world can be arranged.

curated by Jacob Cartwright

Mary Laube (born in Seoul, South Korea) received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Kevin Umaña (born 1989 in Los Angeles, CA) received a B.F.A. from San Francisco State University with dual degrees in Studio Art and Surface Design He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Motherland

Mary Laube’s paintings address the relationship between material culture and memory using Korean imagery to represent memory within the context of personal and political narratives. She is interested in individual and collective narratives of cultural displacement, memory loss, diasporic identity, and the ubiquitous absence of ancestral knowledge. The objects represented in her paintings come from various sources including museum collections, personal artifacts, and other items related to the broader act of memorialization. Tables, boxes, braids of hair, and textiles are treated as portraits - vessels for the inscription of memory or surrogates for absent bodies. While physically inert, they possess an animated quality: performing as stand-ins for the human figure. Overtime, the recognizable forms become abstracted, representing the spaces in our memory where we imagine or invent something new.

Painting is a dynamic art form that sustains difference. Laube’s paintings appear flattened yet physically retain a tactile and layered surface. Compositionally, her work relies on the edge of the painting to both conceal information and to suggest the expansion of the paintings’ visible subjects. The representation of multiple perspectives within a static medium implies the concurrent reality of different viewing points. The compatibility of difference within the pictorial logic of painting parallels memory’s paradoxes: it signifies absence while generating new meaning. While memory points to the past, it is continually modified in the present as it collides with additional experiences and systemic forces. Her work represents loss not only as the distancing from an absent object, but also as a creative force that can forge new content. The stories preserved within memorial artifacts are not only vestiges of the past, but reservoirs that reflect the present in critical and pressing ways.

Mary Laube was born in Seoul, South Korea. She received an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa and a B.F.A. from Illinois State University. Recent exhibitions include the Spring Break Art Show (NYC), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NYC), and Monaco (St. Louis). Her work has been supported by several artist residencies including Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Stiwdeo Maelor (Wales), and the Fanoon Center for Print media Research in Doha, Qatar. She is the recent recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and an AHL Foundation Visual Art Award. She is also a co-founder of the Warp Whistle Project, a collaborative duo with composer Paul Schuette. Together, they make work that merges kinetic stage sets with music performance. Their latest work was performed with the Network for New Music in Philadelphia. Mary is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in Painting and Drawing.

Fanoon Center for Printmedia Research: Highlights 2012-2019

The exhibition is accompanied by a robust program of workshops, panels, and events as well as a catalog of the full collection.

“Highlights 2012-2019” is the first retrospective of Fanoon Center For Printmedia Research’s growing collection of international and regional artists including Bryan Graf, Bryan Jabs, Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, Diyan Achjadi, Fares Cachoux, Jenny Schmid, John D. Freyer, Katie Vida, Koichi Yamamoto, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Mary Laube, Michael Perrone, Ranjani Shettar, Sean Kuhnke, Shahzia Sikander, Shaurya Kumar, Sonya Clark, Susan Chrysler White and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Fanoon was launched in 2012 by the Painting and Printmaking Department at VCUarts Qatar, making it the first print publishing program of its kind in the Middle East. The program collaborates with local, regional, and international artists to explore the role of print in contemporary culture. The exhibition aims to expand the possibilities of print in the 21st century by selecting artists who can engage with printmaking from a variety of perspectives, disciplines and approaches. Each artist’s visit takes place within a learning environment where students assist the artists and Fanoon staff in the production of the work, and artists are able to engage with the university community through lectures, class visits, and student critiques.

A panel discussion moderated by co-curator Rhys Himsworth with artists Diyan Achjadi and Bouthayna AI--Muftah will take place at 6pm before the opening reception at 7pm.

The exhibition is curated by Fleming Jeffries, Rhys Himsworth and Zachary Stensen.

Opening hours: Saturday to Thursday - From 9am to 5pm / Friday - Closed

—VCU QATAR

*A smaller version fo the exhibition will be up until the fall of 2021 in Richmond at the VCU Qatar House

Photograph courtesy of Raviv Cohen

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Fanoon Center For Printmedia Research: Highlights 2012-2019

Art Maze Mag - Issue 14

I’m thrilled to be included in Issue 14 of ART MAZE Mag along with:

Alessandro Fogo, Alice Brasser, Alyss Estay, Claudia Keep, Dan Brenton, Freddie Greis, Jackson Casady, James Owens, Joel Brown, Johnny Izatt-Lowry, Julia Gil, Julie Severino, Justin Samson, Larysa Myers, Loren Erdrich, Marisa Adesman, Matthew Bainbridge, Miko Veldkamp, Miles Hendricks, Minyoung Choi, Nicasio Fernandez, Oda Iselin Sønderland, Robert Zehnder, Scott Laufer, Sebastian Burger, Soyeon Shin, Anthony Padilla, Aparna Sarkar, Brian Scott Campbell, Christopher Davison, Jonathan Lux, Mary Laube, Nettle Grellier, Nicholas William Johnson, Tom Prinsell

Domestic Affairs

Yaddo

September 27 - October 11

“Yaddo is a retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.”

Korea

With generous support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the University of Tennessee I spent 6 weeks in South Korea over the summer, conducting visual research for new work. Focused primarily in Seoul, I had the opportunity to work with Korean objects and artifacts from various museums, memorials, and landmarks symbolizing the preservation of Korea’s historic past. I visited numerous sites including The War Memorial of Korea, the Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, various folk villages, temples, and art museums. Most of my research was centered on the collection at the National Museum of Korea, where I worked very closely with a number of artifacts in private viewings. My focus began with objects from all time periods associated with adornment, such as textiles, jewelry, and other worn items, and also memorialization objects related to funerary and burial practices. However, in the end my observations spanned an array of objects, diverse in character. Through drawing, photography, and written notes, I compiled a reservoir of information for the development of future paintings.

detailed captions coming soon!

Wassaic Project

“The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. We nurture connections between our artists and our neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries. ”

— https://www.wassaicproject.org

Special thanks to the TN Arts Commission for their support through a Professional Development Grant

Contemporary Visual Art Bronze Award - AHL Foundation

Hitomi Iwasaki (Director of Exhibition / Curator of Queens Museum)

High-contrast, hard-edge graphic quality of Mary Laube‘s painting borders between representation and abstraction, material and immaterial. Her use of shadow suggests the real-life physicality of the image’s origin — even anthropomorphic in some cases — is about system and role of human memory. By doing so it points to the precarious relationship between experience and existence of memory in our increasingly material-oriented (alas while digitally processed) global culture.

Stamatina Gregory (Curator and art historian, and the Associate Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union)

Mary Laube reclaims the language of modernist painting, wresting it away from midcentury discourses on “flatness” and “medium specificity,” and creating a window into playful and contemplative spaces. Her paintings have both a bold formal strength and a deep intimacy, structured around the dense topography of braided hair, the pattern of a hanbok, the shallow recesses of a shelf—forms of deceptive simplicity that articulate themselves through uncannily prominent shadows. These are paintings that speak to the depths of individual memory; paintings that, over time, keep giving.

Keith Schweitzer (Owner/Director of SFA Projects, New York)

Mary Laube‘s paintings are portraits of objects that evoke domesticity and nostalgia. Laube compresses her subjects to the point where they seem like collages of cardboard cutouts, or miniaturized theatrical dioramas, to delightful effect. This flattening is disorienting against her convincing rendering of texture and materiality. We’re presented with an illogical, artificial reality that feels familiar. Laube seems to have fun in her handling of texture and surface, and in her use of color and pattern, yet there is a seriousness to it all – an invisible weight – which probably explains the flattening.

AHL FOUNDATION

The AHL Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in 2003 by Sook Nyu Lee Kim to support Korean artists living in the United States and to promote exposure of their work in today’s highly competitive contemporary art world.

In 2004, the AHL Foundation established an annual competition that is open to all artists of Korean ancestry living in the United States. AHL awards four monetary prizes each year and has been mounting bi-annual exhibitions to display the winning works. Since 2008, AHL has advanced to an annual exhibition, and this year, 2010, AHL has expanded its awards to honor five artists, thus broadening their scope of diversity and opportunity.

Lobster Dinner

Trestle Gallery

Timeshare

St. Louis, MO –Monaco is pleased to present two exhibitions curated by Jeff Robinson,Time Share and Warm Welcome, opening Friday, May 10, from 7:00 – 10:00 pm.

Time Share, features work by Tom Burtonwood, Mark Joshua Epstein, Kelly Kaczynski, Mary Laube, Melissa Leandro, Frances Lightbound, and SaraNoa Mark; and Warm Welcome, a companion to Time Share in the Monaco Project Gallery, features works and personal effects from St. Louis artist Sage Dawson.

Time Share makes reference to those dwellings with shared ownership as a lens for considering artist collectives like Monaco, and to engender a spirit of mutuality that is required in such communal spaces. The exhibition takes as its prompt the generosity of Sage Dawson, a member of Monaco, who has given her curatorial opportunity for this exhibition to take place. The artists featured in Time Sharemake work that parallel aspects of Dawson’s studio practice. Though each artist pursues divergent aspirations, common threads are seen throughout the work and include formal and material sensitivity, as well as reference to domesticity and architecture and an overall concern for the identity of space. Collectively, the works allude to a domestic-like setting that is necessary to instill a sense of community and reciprocity.

Contact

info@monacomonaco.us

Location:
2701 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63118

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Review by Rusty Freeman in the New Art Examiner —> http://newartexaminer.org/time-share.html

“Mary Laube establishes a different sensibility of home space with meticulous, sensual paintings. Hanbok may reference traditional Korean clothing, and Perfume figures as the latest little black dress, while the wildcard Urnrelates etymologically to the ballot box.”

Fermata / Troppus Projects

two-person exhibition with John C. Kelly

PORTALS / Spring Break Art Show

Opening March 5th from 4-8pm. Tickets available online.

866 United Nations Plaza

New York, NY 10017

IP FIRST LOOK

Tuesday, March 5th 11am - 4pm

VIP OPENING NIGHT

Tuesday, March 5th 4pm - 8pm

REGULAR SHOW DAYS

Wednesday - Monday, March 6th-11th, 11am - 7pm

Tickets: https://springbreakartshow.eventbrite.com

Photo courtesy of Samuel Morgan

Casting Shadows

CASTING SHADOWS

Mary Laube’s solo exhibition at California State University opens next week. The exhibition runs from March 4-30th 2019.

Art Space Gallery, 226 N. 1st St., Turlock

March 7th:

Opening Reception 6:00pm

Gallery Talk: 6:30pm

https://www.csustan.edu/event/art-gallery/mary-laube-art-exhibition

The exhibition catalog includes a Director’s Forward by Dean De Cocker and an essay by Ian Etter.

Catalog Images

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Closing

The Flat Files: Year Five
Closing reception and sale
Tuesday November 13, 2017, 6-8 PM

“Please join us for a closing reception and sale for our current flat file program. From 6-8 on Tuesday, November 13 we will feature works from our 2016-2017 flat file program. These pieces will be out and on display for easy perusal. Visitors who come during this time to this cash or card and carry event will receive a 10% discount on works in our flat file.

Our current flat file program features works by Paolo Arao, Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Caetlynn Booth,
Ellen Burchenal, Emily Burns, Eddie Chu, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Rhia Hurt, Raymie Iadevaia, Vanessa Irzyk, Chris Joy, Tricia Keightley, Songyi Kim, Rachel Klinghoffer, Alison Kudlow, Vanessa Larsen, Mary Laube, Amanda Lechner, Tonya Lee, Greg Lindquist, Elizabeth Livingston, Leeza Meksin, Bridget Mullen, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Erin Murray, Justin Plakas, Keisha Prioleau-Martin, Lauren Rice, Kristen Schiele, Jennifer Shepard, Niki Singleton, Sarah Slappey, Melinda Steffy, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Bettina Weiß, and James Woodfill.”