From April 10, 2014 through June 7, 2014
Solo exhibition by New York-based artist first with the gallery
Alejandra von Hartz Gallery is pleased to announce the installation of new work by New York-based artist Russell Maltz. This is Maltz’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Russell Maltz’s most recent works are the product of an ongoing project begun in January 2004. These works chart the element of time and duration, exploring issues of fabrication, transportation, painting, assembly, disassembly and the integration of the work’s elements into the public realm. The newest works of the S.P. series consist of plywood plates painted and suspended from steel posts attached to the wall of the gallery. Onto these structures, Day-Glo paint and industrial enamels are applied as “material on material,” defining areas or zones on the raw plywood surfaces generating layers of information. The altering of manufactured material such as steel plates and beams, glass, metal stud, lumber, drywall and CMU etc.; for the purposes of making art becomes an act of ventriloquism by the artist. In addition to the S.P. works, Russell Maltz will engage the gallery space with a new installation work that will examine the phenomena of conveyance as an event.
Russell Maltz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally at venues in Australia, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Israel, Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, Japan and New Zealand. His work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and The Village Voice. His work is held in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Kunstraum-Alexander Burkle (Freiburg, Germany), San Jose Museum of Art (California), Arkansas Art Center, Saarland Museum (Saarbrucken, Germany), and the Gallery of Western Australia (Perth). He has also been working with Critical Practices Incorporated since its inception and serves on its advisory board (Critical Practices is currently participating in the 2014 Whitney Biennial as a think tank for intellectual participation and critical theory). Maltz lives and works in New York City.
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11:00am to 6:00pm and Saturday, 12:00pm to 5:00pm
CONVEYANCE
Semblance / Dissemblance – Assembly / Disassembly
Time and Duration
Notes on Entropy and the Invisible
Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery
2630 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Fl 33127
305.438.0220
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www.alejandravonhartz.net
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