Imposter interviews and gallery hours this Saturday

RAID Projects will be open this Saturday, Oct 29th from 12-5.  Come say hi to RAID Projects Assistant Director Carrie McILwain, and take a look at TILT Export: Imposter, on view one more week!

Check out these interviews by RAID Director Jason Ramos with the curators of Imposter and one of the exhibited artists, courtesy of Russell Ryan and LA Videostudio

Current exhibition: TILT Export: Imposter

TILT Export: Imposter
A three-person exhibition featuring the work of Portland-based artists
Oct.15-Nov.5, 2011

RAID Projects  602 Moulton Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90031.

Opening reception with the artists Saturday Oct.15 from 6-10pm. Regular gallery hours are by appointment.

Gallery hours Saturday Oct 29th, 12-5 pm

(Portland,OR-) Partnering with RAID Projects in Los Angeles, Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith are pleased to announce the opening of TILT Export: Imposter, featuring work by Ben Buswell, Paula Rebsom, and Heidi Schwegler. Paul Valéry wrote in The Art of Poetry “Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.” By tying the word “imposter” to this exhibition we implicate art and its cohorts, truth and beauty, as being complicit in an ancient conspiracy. TILT Export: Imposter seeks to explore the contemporary human condition with regard to content, material, and bias.

Ben Buswell is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work has been shown nationally at venues including Tilt Gallery and Project Space and IGLOO in Portland, and Fivepoints Arthouse in San Francisco, among others. In 2006 his work was included in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum curated by Jennifer Gately. Buswell’s work for this exhibition has been funded in part by the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.

Paula Rebsom was born and raised in Dickinson, North Dakota where she spent a great deal of time exploring the diverse landscape and historical sites throughout the state with her family. She divided her time equally between her mother who taught her how to sew and rummage, her father who taught her how to hunt and become an excellent markswoman, and her older sister who tried desperately to use Paula’s small fingers as a key to open up the locked cupboard doors with chocolate behind them to no avail. As a maker of images and objects, Rebsom’s work has been represented by Tilt Gallery and Project Space where she has had two solo exhibitions. Most recently Rebsom has exhibited at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University and Samson Projects in Boston. In 2008 she was a recipient of the prestigious Individual Artist Fellowship offered through the Oregon Arts Commission.

Heidi Schwegler explores a wide range of materials in the service of very depressing subject matter. Schwegler constructs artifacts and objects from resin, metal, wood, wax, found objects and digital media. She has participated in numerous group and solo shows, including exhibitions at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum and at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center where her exhibition Wrest was reviewed in Art In America. Schwegler is a recent recipient of a Hallie Ford Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and several RACC Individual Project Grants.

TILT Export: is an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues for its exhibitions. Founded by Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith, former curators of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, TILT Export: serves as a catalyst for opportunity, awareness, and the challenging of ideas through art making.

http://www.tiltpdx.com/

RAID Projects at Co/Lab, Art Platform LA

Eylem Aladogan (Netherlands)
Jowan Van Barneveld (Netherlands)
James Marshall (Australia)
Irina Novarese (Germany)
Reynold Reynolds (Germany)
Aili Schmeltz (US)

Next Exhibition: Adrift In A Glass Bottom Boat – Katherine Gray and Eric Huebsch

RAID Projects presents

Katherine Gray and Eric Huebsch 
Adrift In A Glass Bottom Boat

September 17th, 7-10 pm

Huebsch and Gray offer both a glib and grim environment of lost paradises and burst bubbles, an ended world at the bottom of the sea. Adrift In A Glass Bottom Boat is a group of shared visions and responses to the gap between man and nature, and an attempt at preserving the illusion of the latter.

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New AIRs

RAID Projects is proud to have with 2 new artists-in-residence with us,

Zoè Gruni (Italy)

and

Emma Gasson (UK)

Upcoming Exhibition – Shorn From the Black Tusk of the Great Destroyer – Aug 6th

Shorn From the Black Tusk of the Great Destroyer

Opening reception Saturday, August 6th, 7-10 pm

Shorn From the Black Tusk of the Great Destroyer is a group exhibition curated by Adam D Miller in tribute to, and inspired by the Godzilla film franchise. In 1954, Ishiro Honda’s film Gojira spawned a new wave of Japanese Science Fiction, and introduced the world to a monster that would eventually become synonymous with Japanese culture. Godzilla was the first in a long series of daikaijū monsters, or giant creatures known for Toho’s rubber suit aesthetic. In all of these films the monster plays a dual role. In the early movies he was both the destroyer of society, and also man’s greatest technological achievement; in these early films Godzilla is the antagonist fighting against the Japanese government.

As the franchise progressed new monsters were brought in for Godzilla to battle, and the creature’s role shifted; he became both the protector of Japan and also its annihilator. The role of destruction is almost as important as the monster himself in these films. Toho studios became famous for their use of miniatures in creating scenes where in whole villages and even the city of Tokyo are decimated by the violence and chaos brought on from Godzilla’s wrestling and radioactive breath. In each of the 29 films, the viewer is treated to scene upon scene of Japan being stomped into the ground, and torn apart by giant writhing beasts, and yet the film ends on a positive note. These are not natural disaster films where the destruction is devastating, instead the Godzilla pictures end happily as Godzilla defeats another monster that threatened to destroy the Earth and he swims back to his isolated sanctuary on Monster Island; in the next movie Japan is rebuilt with no mention of its previous downfall.

In these films destruction, chaos, and negation become a catalyst for rebirth, for celebration, and for creativity. As we watch Godzilla tear a sky scraper in half we cheer and hope that he’ll burn another down to ground. The artists chosen for the exhibition Shorn From the Black Tusk of the Great Destroyer all have a stake in the chaotic, the confused, the violent, or destructive, and use them as a ground for production.

Featuring:
Greta Svalberg
Steven Hull
David Snyder
Michael Decker
Austin McCormick
Adam D Miller

*A zine style publication has been made in a limited quantity of 400 to accompany the exhibition

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Adulterated Landscapes: Video and Pics

Devon Tsuno’s Flickr set of pics from the show

And Russell Ryan‘s video below -

MUC: Self-Help Yourself mini-documentary by LA videostudio

Courtesy of LA videostudio!

Current RAID AIRs

RAID Projects is proud to present our current artists-in-residence:

Eylem Aladogan(Netherlands)

James Marshall (Australia)

California: Adulterated Landscapes and Deflated Icons – Sat, June 18th 7-10 pm