Commencing January 22nd Five Car Garage is pleased to present SIREN – a group show featuring 9 LA-based artists (and 1 from Queens, NY): Adrienne Adar, Alison O’Daniel, David Hendren, David Schafer, Jesse Fleming, Jennifer Sullivan, Kelly Kleinschrodt, Pascual Sisto, Scoli Acosta and Stephanie Taylor all of whom utilize or reference sound in their work, encompassing a wide range of disciplines and materials. A Siren exists as both a warning signal and an alluring mythological sea creature. In our case, the Siren presents an urgent entreaty to the audience to focus and listen. Two soundbaths in the new meditation space above Five Car Garage will accompany the show as well as several talks and performances (details updated regularly).
Due to the experiential nature of the work, the gallery will not have a public opening, but smaller RSVP only by appointments/groupings. Siren runs for 2 months: Jan 22- March 18th 2016.
We will be open:
Friday Jan 22nd 10-2pm
Saturday Jan 23rd 12 – 2pm and 3-5pm for appointments
TUES Jan 26th 11-1pm
Friday Jan 29th 11-1pm
Sat Jan 30th 5-7pm – Jennifer Sullivan RSVP nec
Sat Feb 20th Adrienne Adar plants interaction RSVP nec
Sat Feb 27th Artist talk David Schafer “A brief history of sound” 4pm RSVP nec
The first performance at Five Car Garage is with Jennifer Sullivan from Queens, NY to perform her Cathartic Karaoke cover songs in the exhibition at 6pm on Jan 30th. OPEN 5-7 Limited space rsvp for all necessary info@emmagrayhq.com
and then by appt thru March.
The first performance at Five Car Garage is with Jennifer Sullivan from Queens, NY to perform her Cathartic Karaoke cover songs in the exhibition at 6pm on Jan 30th. OPEN 5-7 Limited space rsvp for all necessary info@emmagrayhq.com Please email for address and parking.
David Schafer’s sculpture “Two one of a Kind” is based on cassette tape recording of Umberto Eco lecturing at Stanford University in 1987 about Fakes and Originals. David Hendren’s “Varision 1” draws from John Cage’s “Variation” scores. The work’s loose approach to the idea of musical scores, coupled with elements of chance, tie in Cage’s methodologies. Kelly Kleinschrodt’s video ‘vvater cut’ series, speaks to the artist’s desire to catch and filet a fish alongside her father while simultaneously disrupting and destabilizing information that has been passed down for generations within her own family.
In “Pink Constellation”, Scoli Acosta reveals the third in a series of Pentagonal Monochrome (tambourine) arrangements that draw upon the ancient idea of the Music of the Spheres.
David Schafer (USA, b. 1955) received his MFA from the University of Texas, Austin (1983). He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, including The Sculpture Center, New York (2004), Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA. His works on paper have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York and Mass MOCA, North Adams, Mass, among others. Schafer performs as “DSE”, a platform for the production of and dissemination of electronic noise and live signal manipulation. This includes live improvisational and composed sound performances, collaborations, events, and sound transmission sculptures and installations. He is a published writer and recent publications include “Separated United Forms” by Charta Press, Milan, and “Site of Sound #2: Of Architecture and the Ear” edited by Brandon LaBelle, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin. His sound performance in conjunction with the 2010 Whitney Biennial was recently included in “Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture”, by Peter Krapp, Minnesota Press. A recent project includes “The Schoenberg Soundways,” at USC in March of 2015. Mr. Schafer is on the faculty of Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA and the Roski School of Fine Arts, USC, Los Angeles, CA. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
