ACP @ the home of Anna Sew Hoy and Giles Miller

March 1-28 2009

Seven artists are brought together under the roof of a creaky old house built in 1923. They are invited to explore the nooks and crannies of the place, and install artwork where they see fit. Artworks may or may not have made in response to a particular spot in the house, but they are all welcomed houseguests.

KATE COSTELLO lives and works in Los Angeles and enjoys hunting and reading. She has recently mounted solo shows at Wallspace, New York and Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles and group shows at Guild & Greyshkul, New York. “I’m seeing a not-symmetry which enhances the connection, if it were symmetrical, this could be identified easily but not-symmetry requires more thought about what the other half is.”

LECIA DOLE-RECIO lives and works in Los Angeles. In addition to The Whitney Biennial in 2004, Dole-Recio was recently included in “Zuordnungsprobleme”, Johann Koenig, Berlin and “Cohabitaion: 13 artists and Collage”, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy. Recent solo exhibitions include a Moca Focus, 2006, Richard Telles, Los Angeles, 2009 and Casey Kaplan, New York, 2009.

CARLSON HATTON was born in San Diego, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has exhibited at the Palais des Beaux Artes, Brussels, at the Bonnefanten Museum Comic book reading room at the Neo Rauch Retrospective in the Netherlands, and at Gallery 98Ten, Irvine, CA. “…I'm interested in the visual overabundance we're surrounded by; the psychotic reality of a visual culture that has lost all coherence... Piles of speakers, car parts, mattresses, lumber, coffins, vegetables, etc. sprawl out and compete with deteriorating architecture and mountain-scapes.”

MARIAH ANNE JOHNSON is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas.  She began studying art as a child at the Arkansas Arts Center museum school and loved it so much that she eventually earned an MFA from the University of Illinois.  While there, she learned to make ephemeral bed sheet sculptures and to motivate art majors to try new things. Mariah currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where she makes drawings and installations in a tiny red barn in her garden.  Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at Transformer Gallery in Washington, DC, The LAB in San Francisco, and Phantom Galleries in Long Beach.

MIRJAM KORT was born in Konstanz, Germany, and now lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exhibited at the Palais des Beaux Artes, Brussels, and at the Bonnefanten Museum Comic book reading room at the Neo Rauch Retrospective in the Netherlands. “I am fascinated with the effects that skin takes on after suffering through generations of reproduced media. Faces become pockmarked and expressions change through pixelation. Black skin is nothing but a mix of brown and pink paint tubes and all photographed figures become products that gaze back at you…These unknown figures represent the depths of our despair and can be conjured through searches like "depressed women, crying women, singing women". They are generic symbols that float out there in the world and possibly attempt to touch on the emotion they strive to convey.”

JENNIFER ROCHLIN lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibitions include Institute of Visual Arts(INOVA) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts; Black Dragon Society, Karyn Lovegrove and Kantor Feuer in Los Angeles; Shane Campbell Gallery and The Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and studied at Hoschule Der Kunst in Berlin. She is the recipient of the Durfee Foundation Artist Resource Completion Grant.

AMY YAO lives and works in New York. She is the author of slippery, stubborn work. Yao recently had a show at W/_____ in New York, and received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. An artist and musician, Yao has participated in countless collaborative projects throughout her career, as well as creating her own body of work. She has shown work at Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY, and at Rowley Kennerk in Chicago. Her collaborative projects include: B'L'ing, China Art Objects, Art Swapmeet at High Desert Test Sites and Wishing Well Cinema Club.

JUDITH MORRIS YOUNG (b. 1944) has been making ceramics for over 40 years. Young received her BA at Smith College (1966) and studied Ceramics at The Penland School of Crafts (1980). She has also studied with Wayne Higby; George Weltner, Rob Parrot and Mary Law and has exhibited in exhibitions juried by Lloyd E. Herman (Director, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) and Toshiko Takeazu (Princeton University). Young has taught both privately and at The Creative Arts Workshop (New Haven, CT) and is a key member of The Wesleyan Potters (Wesleyan, CT).  The pieces included in this exhibition were made during the late 1970/ early 80s. Young lives and works in Madison, CT.

Kate Costello  Lecia Dole-Recio  Carlson Hatton  Mariah Anne Johnson Mirjam Kort  Jennifer Rochlin  Amy Yao  Judith Young

Curated by Anna Sew Hoy