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Thanks to Marlene Picard for documenting the Barry Markowitz performance!

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Please join us for Barry Markowitz’s performance THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED! Saturday, August 30 at 7:00 pm.  Reception following 8:00 to 10:00 pm.

Mr. Markowitz was born and raised in Brooklyn NY. He received his MFA from California State University, Los Angeles. Additionally, he has studied at UCSB, CSUN, The Art Students League in New York City, Nassau College and the School of Art and Design in New York. His awards and honors include a General Motors Grant, two Rockefeller Honorariums and a artists fellowship from the California Community Foundation /J. Paul Getty Trust. His work has been shown in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in New York, The Regional Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico, J Paul Getty Museum, The Southwest Museum and The Museum of Santa Cruz County. In 2011 Mr. Markowitz’s Performance work was included in the J. Paul Getty PST initiative at L.A.C.E and HRLA. His work is in the collection of Balthazar and Rosetta Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Paramount Pictures and Leonardo Dicaprio.

The work I have made for this show covers many of my Performances from 1974 through 2012. I have fashioned a number of photographic montages, motifs and single images to represent this work. These photomontages are accompanied by sound montage and in some cases written notation, scripts and doodles have been added.

My Performances tread the line between Art and Theater. They are not linear in construction; on the contrary my work relies on physical actions and intertwining streams of memory and fiction. In this new work about memory and remembering, I have fashioned a loose framework of timed movements, sound augmentation, projections and live characterizations.

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We hope you join us for the closing reception of In House: Susan Joseph and Takeshi Kanemura this Saturday, July 19, 4 to 6 pm.

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Sharon Suhovy: Worlds Scoop Their Arcs

Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 pm.Closing Reception: Saturday, June 21. 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 31 – June 21, 2014

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm.
1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033
310 614-3351

Groundspace Project: Sharon Suhovy: Worlds Scoop Their Arcs.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 31. 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 31 – June 21, 2014

Groundspace Project is pleased to present a sculpture installation by Sharon Suhovy entitled “Worlds Scoop Their Arcs”.  Ms. Suhovy’s large scale sculpture makes large the intimate language of the hand held fan, transforming it into an experiential space and place.

Please join us for the opening reception Saturday, May 31, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Artist’s Statement:

Worlds Scoop Their Arcs.

Though the arc may have many names, it is ultimately a mathematical curve, an illusive circle.

I have used the fan vault structures as a presidium support to stage the subconscious language of repetitive symbolic images. The radial wooden spokes of the fan reference the radius/time, while the closing and unfolding of the fan refer to the containment and expansion of the spiral/energy.  The painted images are recurring hieroglyphics to decipher.

The nature of scale is an important factor in seeing the work as architecture. The viewer is engulfed in the center of the work, as a spoke in a fan vault, sustaining the weight and philosophy of the encoded voice.

Geometry presents formulas of pictorial diagrams which translate the sacred space of proportions.  This may be physical measurements, but the radius, the diameter, and the circumference register conceptual measurements of psychological space, calculating the illusive distance from the center, to the edge of the arc.

My work is about what is within that radius, and how it is interpreted by the peripheral circumference or frame.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm.
1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033
310 614-3351
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