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September 4 – October 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday September 18, 6:00-8:30pm
CF01: Alan B. Callander
Single-channel video
Dusseldorf Paintings: Emi Winter
Paintings and works on paper
Curated by Patricia Maloney
Ampersand International Arts is pleased to present solo exhibitions of recent work by Washington DC-based artist Alan Callander and Oaxaca-based artist Emi Winter. Each artist utilizes formal strategies around color and shape to foreground the inherent nature of the media in which they work. In Düsseldorf Paintings, Winter’s playful and buoyant abstra ct watercolors, gouaches, and oils on canvas revel in the flexibility and sensuousness of painting. They convey an unfettered, masterful handling of gesture and line. Meanwhile, Callander’s single-channel video CF01 is an alluring and meditative animation that combines cinematic narrative structure with painterly abstraction. Translucent, colored quadrangles vibrate, shift, layer, and meld into a compositional crescendo. At times, both bodies of work suggest landscapes, the forms occupying and resembling the tangible world. At other moments, an actual and visual lyricism prevails. Collectively, Düsseldorf Paintings and CF01 inundate the senses, and remind one of the potential for surprise that art possesses.
Alan B. Callander received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from American University in 1996 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute, College o f Art in 2009. Screenings of his work have been shown at Conner Contemporary/Rubell Family Collection, Washington DC; Plateaux Festival, Torun, Poland; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Laptopia #4 Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel; the Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music, Art, and New Media, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, among others. Callander lives and works in Washington DC.
Emi Winter was a 2001 Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. She has had numerous international exhibitions, including solo shows at Hebel 121, Basel; Ateliers Hoherweg, Düsseldorf; Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA; Galería Quetzalli, Oaxaca; Patricia Faure Gallery, Project Room, Los Angeles; and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Instituto Cultural de México, Miami; Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba; Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo, Asunción, Paraguay; Instituto Cervantes, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museo Emilio Caraffa de Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; Texas Gallery, Houston; and James Kelly Contempor ary, Santa Fe, NM. She lives and works in Oaxaca.
Patricia Maloney is an Associate Curator for Ampersand International Arts, where she has previously curated Open Network: Brooklyn (2006) and Firmament (2008). Additionally, she is Managing Editor for shotgun-review.com, a commentator for the podcast Bad At Sports, and a contributing writer to artforum.com. Maloney, who lives and works in Berkeley, received her MA in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008.
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