>Fall 2014 VSF, LACA, “Golden State”; Nuit Blanche Toronto w Kathryn Andrews
Inverted Capitol Spire: Programmatic Architecture Displacement #5, steel, cotton, 2014
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, through Nov. 8, 2014
http://www.vsf.la/scott-benzel/
Programmatic Architecture Displacements 6 and 7 at Los Angeles Contemporary Archives, architectural maquettes, 2014
“Golden State”, Samara Golden, Lucy Dodd, Kaari Upson, Lucy Raven, Amy Yao, Pentti Monkkonen, Liz Craft, Mungo Thomson, Scott Benzel, and Theodora Allen, curated by Drew Heitzler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
27 September 2014—7 December 2014
For Golden State, Heitzler has brought together ten artists from Los Angeles into the Great Hall. Individually and in aggregate their work playfully, cryptically and sometimes menacingly puts one in mind of the characteristic sprit and aesthetic linked with that geographical and political entity formerly known as the El Dorado State. Though where they hail from is undoubtedly important, what really matters, in Heitzler’s words, is that, “the artists make work that presents, in the best way possible, the arguments that make contemporary art interesting, not in terms of a relationship with other disciplines or concerns, but through a rigorous pursuit of the means through which art is meaningful on its own.”
Images by Christian Ramirez.
Nuit Blanche Toronto October 4, 2014, Toronto City Hall
Split Chorale for Viljo Revell, with Kathryn Andrews
Review: The Buffalo News
Preview: The Globe and Mail
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/