FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ZOE CROSHER
OUT THE WINDOW (LAX)
May 5 - May 27, 2006
Opening Reception First Friday, May 5, 6-9 pm
Artist’s talk, 8 pm
Small A Projects is pleased to present OUT THE WINDOW (LAX)
a solo exhibition of photographs by Zoe Crosher in conjunction
with the release of a monograph published by LA FORUM.
The question of how to photograph Los Angeles — a place
that moves in shifts and perpetual motion with no real center—
is central to Crosher’s recent work. In her words, “movement in
LA is not a walking-motion; it breathes in anonymous transit, spread
and wide, seen through passing cars or from airplane windows.
This project investigates LAX and its surrounding infrastructure as
a point of non-center, a metaphor for Los Angeles, captured from
surrounding satellite positions. “ OUT THE WINDOW (LAX) consists
of 31 images of planes coming in to land shot from the motels
surrounding LAX. An unsettling tension between peripheral details
of interiors and focused images of descending planes animates
potential narratives about the room or the world beyond the window.
The exhibition also marks the release of a monograph, OUT THE
WINDOW (LAX) published by LA FORUM and featuring essays by
Norman Klein, Pico Iyer and Julian Myers.
Zoe Crosher’s work has been exhibited widely in the US, including
solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, Black Dragon Society and
LIzabeth Olivera gallery and in groups shows at D’Amelio Terras,
Artist’s Space and cherrydelosreyes. She has been interviewed
on NPR’s studio 360 and was recently featured in Modern Painter’s
issue on emerging artists.
Please call or email the gallery for more information or images.
The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6 PM
Out the Window(LAX), photographs by Zoe Crosher 2006
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RECEPTION: Saturday, October 23, 2004 from 6-8 p.m.
with a performance by Mads Lynnerup @ 8pm
LOCATION: 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd. A map is on the website.
HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am – 6pm
October 23 - December 5, 2004
Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery is delighted to present Zoe Crosher
in her second solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Out the Window(LAX).
Each image is twenty-seven inches square, taken through windows,
of planes coming in to land from the hotels and motels surrounding
Los Angeles International Airport. As Julian Myers writes, “Crosher’s
method works through thE difficulty of taking pictures of Los Angeles,
and what she understands as its resistance to being pictured.
Photography has typically been understood to be an indexical practice,
one bound to recording a certain place and time; LA, however, is best
characterized by constant motion, and by the duration of transit. It is
a place seen through windows of cars, or airplane windows, always
while in motion. How should we approach, in the artist’s words, “a
place that moves in shifts and perpetual motion, with no real center,
no point of concentration”? Her response is to take a sidelong glance
at one of its most transitional spaces, a conduit through which people
are constantly in motion: the airport. Her look is not direct or
documentary, but is figured through an array of photographic feints,
reflection, and circumstantial filters. The silver airplanes, when they
appear in the field of these photo-maneuvers, are an image of a
technological promise flashing into view, a myth of motion with
bright steel skin. What they promise is a way out of the self,
and a passive immersion in the endless flow of travel, promises
as powerful as those made by the hotel interiors, and bound to
the most powerful dreams of modernity: anonymity, frictionless
travel, luxury, and freedom from the passing of time.”
Zoe Crosher’s Out the Window(LAX) has been shown at the
Western Front Gallery in Vancouver, in Holland at Bruce,
Rotterdam and at DCKT Contemporary in New York City.
Recently included in the September Artists’ Space show,
Based on a True Story, Crosher is preparing for a December
show at DCKT Contemporary. She is also in production for a
book-version of the LAX work, including texts by Norman Klein
and Julian Myers, to be published by Printed Matter, Inc. in 2006.
She completed her MFA at Calarts in the Photography and
Integrated Media Programs in 2001 and graduated from the
UCSC with honors in 1997 as an Art and Politics double major.
She recently edited NTNTNT (2004), a book on the convoluted
history of net.art and activisim on the web, and is the U.S.
Editorial Assistant for Afterall, A Journal of Art Context & Inquiry.
The daughter of a diplomat, growing up in Frankfurt, Moscow,
Athens, Seoul & DC, she is for the moment settled in Los Angeles.
lizabeth oliveria gallery
2712 s. la cienega blvd.
los angeles, ca 90034
310*837*1073 (t)
310*837*1740 (f)
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