Current Show    |     Future Shows    |     Past Shows    |     Box Sets Current Exhibition: Art News Contemporary Artists Who Work With Newspaper Opening: Saturday, September 3, 7 - 10 Exhibitions Runs: September 3 - September 24, 2005 Alex Hamilton Hugh Mendes Kim Rugg Gordon Cheung Works by Gordon Cheung, Chris Cook, Martin Creed, Alex Hamilton, Hugh Mendes, Kim Rugg, Gillian Wearing and Eva Weinmayr Newspaper has been an important material in the artist's studio ever since Picasso collaged 'JOU' onto a cubist painting almost a century ago, transforming a throwaway scrap of paper into art. In the mid-century, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg both used newspaper, sometimes investigating political significance in their choices. Many contemporary artists are rediscovering this ubiquitous daily object as a site of beauty, political opposition, formal device, or just a convenient medium for their art. Art News brings together a group of artists who explore the possibilities of this most ephemeral of media. Featuring works by both established art world figures and their emerging successors, Art News is curated by Hugh Mendes and supported by the British Council USA, http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa-arts. Artists In Residence Heimir Bjõrgúlfsson: Great Places Kristine Hymøller: Dating Makeover Heimir Bjõrgúlfsson: Originally from Iceland - where nature remains largely unaltered by humans - Bjõrgúlfsson now lives and works in the Netherlands, which - like LA - is largely a human-made place. Employing diverse media to consider the relationship between humans and our surroundings, the artist has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik and Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; as well as in numerous group shows throughout Europe, including at STORE in London; Schipper & Krome in Berlin; and Studio Manuela Klerkx in Milan. This exhibition is made possible with the support of The Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and The Center for Icelandic Art. Kristine Hymøller: Usually resident in Berlin and Amsterdam, Danish artist Kristine Hymøller creates large-scale site-specific drawings of airy complexity. This exhibition of work created during her Raid residency marks the artist’s first showing in the United States, Hymøller’s work has previously been exhibited at, among other venues, Weissfaktor Gallery in Germany, Fons Welters, De Parel, and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam; the Centraal Museum in Utrecht; and the Rotterdam Art Fair. Kristine Hymøller is currently represented by Motive Gallery in Amsterdam. To be added to our email list, please click here.