Performing Methods, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013
Artists
Amelie Chabannes
Joey Kotting
Marc Philip van Kempen
Pascual Sisto
Maria Walker
Joe Winter
Description
Performing Methods highlights the practices of six artists that use the performative within the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture and video. Oatey selected the artists by recognizing specific processes in each of their practices that overlap with ideas and processes in his own. Maria Walker’s sculptural canvases on and off the wall create tension using traditional painting support materials. Their shape is dependent on her combination of soft material and rigid supports. Marc Philip van Kempen’s work in the show is a collage that was physically constructed as a life-size set and then photographed. Joe Winter’s chalk drawings relate to a previous installation in which he creates a record of disintegrating chalk from a constructed system of water drips. Joey Kötting’s performance paintings are made with a gum- bichromate photographic process that is a record of the act of making his accompanying sound piece. Pascual Sisto’s spin on real and fake plants creates a chameleon-like installation that casts the plant in the role of performer. The layering and repetition of Amélie Chabannes’s work is scarred by being drilled into, defacing the surface of the drawing.