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LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON November 23 - December 22, 2022 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON. The gallery will present her most recent new media artworks with a selection of pieces from her 35-year career to complement her retrospective exhibition, Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson opening at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Hershman's touring exhibition's innovative web presence is accessible at www.henryart.org/hlandia/hershmanlandia.html. Both the gallery exhibition and the touring retrospective coincide with the release of a comprehensive critical study of Hershman's work, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I. (Published by UC Press, the monograph includes a DVD with excerpts from several of her works.) In regard to the release of this book, writer and curator Christiane Paul describes the artist's contribution: "The world that Hershman has created through her art is populated by doubles and clones, tele-robots, and artificial intelligences living on the Internet-- all of them engaged in the possibilities of constructing identitiy." Stanford University has recently acquired the artist's archive, documenting her career in film, video, performance, installation and photography. Hershman's work will also be featured in the upcoming exhibition, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art opening in 2007. The artist will speak and give a video presentation on December 6th at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. A reception for the artist and book signing for the release of The Art and Film of Lynn Hershman Leeson will be held Thursday, December 1st from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. Image: DiNA, 2001-2005, voice recognition, artificial intelligence bot with customized pulse 3d, veepers and java software BENJI WHALEN November 23 - December 22, 2022 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by BENJI WHALEN. The versatile San Francisco artist will present his most recent works in three formats: sewn cloth sculpture, oil painting and mixed media works on paper. By different means, the works describe relationships of cloth to the human body. His nearly abstract oil paintings are, in fact, drapery studies and can be read either as pattern or as 3-dimensional representation of the body under a sheet. Whalen's soft sculptures are sewn and embroidered stylizations of tattooed arms. The artist has evolved a form of portraiture addressing issues of identity, psychology and memory. The artist was raised by artists and learned a philosophy of "art as sustenance", still central to his witty creativity. Whalen studied English at Columbia University, has his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and maintains a studio in San Francisco. He is an early recipient of the Artadia (formerly Art Council) Award and was presented in 1999 with the Bay Area Award in the Visual Arts from New Langton Arts. His work has been well received in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Copenhagen. Image: Man of Sorrows, 2005, 25" long, Embroidery floss on stuffed cotton |
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