http://carterandcitizen.com/ Carter & Citizen is a contemporary art gallery located in Los Angeles, CA. We are committed to providing a forum for art that engages in the social, cultural and aesthetic conditions of our time. en Copyright 2012, carterandcitizen Sat, 19 May 2012 08:31:02 -0400 <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Hanging Fire</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">May 19 - June 23, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, May 19, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2315"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/47/47801.jpeg" alt="Michelle Blade &quot;Day 56&quot; 2012 12 x 9 inches watercolor on paper" height="670" width="500" /></a> <p><p>Michelle Blade<br /> "Day 56" 2012<br /> 12 &#215; 9 inches<br /> watercolor on paper</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2315 <div class="exhibition-subtitle">Curated by John Knuth</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">March 30 - May 12, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Friday, March 30, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2305"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/48/48493.jpeg" alt="installation detail" height="335" width="500" /></a> <p><p>installation detail</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Heather Cantrell<br /> Craig Doty<br /> Jesse Fleming<br /> Cameron Gainer<br /> Julian Hoeber<br /> Cody Hudson<br /> Dawn Kasper<br /> James Krone<br /> Karen Lofgren<br /> John Seal<br /> Aaron Spangler<br /> Greg Wilken</p> <p>"The Paranoia of Time" brings together works that deal with the element of time - encroaching, inevitable, inescapable.</p></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2305 <div class="exhibition-subtitle">The Way We Tell The Stories That Tell The Way</div> <div class="exhibition-dates">February 25 - March 24, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, February 25, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2278"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/45/45996.jpeg" alt="&quot;all that remains (installation detail)&quot; 2012" height="343" width="500" /></a> <p><p>"all that remains (installation detail)"<br /> 2012</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Carter &amp; Citizen is pleased to present Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky&#39;s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition, titled "The Way We Tell The Stories That Tell The Way" opens February 25th and closes March 24th, 2012. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Saturday, February 25th, from 6 to 9pm.<br /> <br /> Dmitry Strakovsky playfully engages with the mechanisms of branding. Within the art world, and in the world at large, these carefully calculated, crafted and compressed stories make up an increasingly prominent part of our cultural landscape. Corporate and personal brands flow together to present slick narratives that avoid questions. Strakovsky&#39;s works focus on the slippages that occur along the way. They dwell on the awkward moments that expose the logic of the system. Oscillating between instances of homage and satire, this exhibition highlights three works by the artist that ask the viewer to consider how public images of brands and the stories we create around ourselves are produced, controlled and disseminated.<br /> <br /> "target.target.target"<br /> 1955 - Jasper Johns creates his iconic work "Target with Plaster Casts"<br /> 2007 - Target Corporation sponsors a solo show of Johns&#39; work at the National Gallery. The "Target" corporate logo is prominently featured in the press release next to Johns&#39; "Target with Plaster Casts."<br /> 2012 - Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky completes the arc of signification by composing a set of targets<br /> from the Target corporate logo with text from the press release for the 2007 Johns show and shoots them up at a Kentucky gun range.<br /> <br /> "Contemplating Utopia"<br /> 1968 - Russian tanks enter Czechoslovakia, suppressing liberal reforms of the Prague Spring.<br /> 1969 - Rolan Bykov, a Russian director, begins filming a children&#39;s movie "Attention, Turtle!" USSR authorities nearly censored the film over the tank footage, which echoes the recent events. In the end, a clear choice to avoid a turtle that gets in their way, recasts the tanks in a "positive" light. They are seen as promoting an image of a humane and loving state. The film is released to the public the following year.<br /> 2011 - Strakovsky inserts a new character into the final scene of the film: a clay turtle (reminiscent of Rodin&#39;s Thinker). The intruder contemplates the fate of his comrade in his own anthropomorphized way. <br /> <br /> "all that remains"<br /> 1991 - Vija Celmins paints "Night Sky #2" The work is described as being "subtle and meditative."<br /> 2008 - A security guard at the 2008 Carnegie International, Timur Serebrykov, fails to have a transcendent moment with the work and keys it. The damage to the work is pronounced "irreparable". Museum staff members are forced to destroy the work in the presence of the underwriters&#39; agent in order to collect the insurance money.<br /> 2012 - Strakovsky pays homage to Celmins and to the destroyed piece by creating an illusion of the night sky composed of several hundred computer generated images, pinned to the wall with over a thousand dressmakers pins. <br /> <br /> Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1976. He received his <span class="caps">MFA </span>from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001). He has exhibited and performed internationally in venues such as the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, <span class="caps">CCA</span> Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland), <span class="caps">MASC</span> Foundation (Vienna, Austria), Grunt Gallery (Vancouver, Canada) and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan). This is his first exhibition in Los Angeles. Strakovsky lives and works in Lexington, <span class="caps">KY.</span></p></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2278 <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">January 7 - February 18, 2012</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, January 7, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2257"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/46/46801.jpeg" alt="installation view" height="373" width="500" /></a> <p><p>installation view</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"><p>Carter &amp; Citizen is proud to present "David McDonald: Self Portraits". The exhibition opens January 7th and closes February 18th, 2012. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 7th, from 6 to 9pm.</p> <p>David McDonald&#700;s newest body of work is his most personal to date. These mid-size abstract sculptures (all self portraits) sit grounded with a central cylindrical core, whose smooth and tactile quality stands in contrast to the roughness of the surrounding materials. McDonald has used unassuming materials such as cement, found wood and fencing for years. Here, they operate on a very personal albeit distinctly formal level. The elements in each piece are constant, like the subject itself.</p> <p>The "Self Portraits" are an apprehensive turn inward for the artist, who has been living and working in Los Angeles for nearly two decades. They are full of engaging contradictions and function as an aesthetic paradox. The odd support systems that stack in and on each other act as both protector and protected, aware and oblivious of the foundations they keep. The scale of the work is at once awkward and inviting. They are vulnerable and shy, solid and satisfying. For McDonald, these contradictions are candid, thoughtful and earnest. Each work carries with it a distinct personality, slowly revealing the artist and his labor.</p></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2257 <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">November 5 - December 22, 2011</div> <div class="exhibition-opening">Opens Saturday, November 5, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2236"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/45/45616.jpeg" alt="installation view" height="337" width="500" /></a> <p><p>installation view</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2236 <div class="exhibition-subtitle"></div> <div class="exhibition-dates">September 10 - October 22, 2011</div> <br/> <a href="/exhibition/view/2215"><img border="0" src="http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-images/44/44848.jpeg" alt="installation view" height="319" width="500" /></a> <p><p>installation view</p></p> <br /> <div class="exhibition-description"></div> http://carterandcitizen.com/exhibition/view/2215 <p class="press-added">May 2012</p> <p><a href="http://carterandcitizen.com//static/dyn-files/4/4659.pdf">download file</a></p> http://carterandcitizen.com/static/dyn-files/4/4659.pdf