Banks Violette has made melting black drum kits and small stages; he paints horrific skulls, mournful faces, and galloping white horses too. He performs a strange kind of alchemy on the heavy metal aesthetic, so that it's not quite kitsch, and not quite willfully ugly like the original, but more entrancing and always accusatory. A star of last year's Whitney Biennial, Violette has been invited back for a solo show. I visited his studio to watch him at work.
Banks Violette's Biography and Exhibitions
1973 Born in Ithaca, New York Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Team Gallery, New York, NY Maureen Paley, London
2005 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003 LISTE, Basel, Switzerland, (under the auspices of Team Gallery)
2002 Team Gallery, New York City
2000 Team Gallery, New York City
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
2004 MW Projects, London (with Nigel Shafran) Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Penteholocaust/The Sixty-Sided Stone of the Androgyne (with Matt Greene)
2003 Team Gallery, New York, NY, An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite Agreeable Sensations (1773): Slater Bradley & Banks Violette
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 YerbaBuenaCenter for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Cosmic Wonder Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Youth of Today
2005 Spruth Magers Projekte, Munich, Thank You for the Music Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, Bridge Freezes Before Road Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, La Beaute de l'Enfer: works on paper P.S.1, New York, NY, Greater New York Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria, Suburbia
2004 Team Gallery, New York, NY, The Ice Age Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, The Black Album Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Beginning Here: 101 Ways Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Roth Horowitz, New York, NY, Power, Corruption and Lies alternative space, Paris, Noctambule The WhitneyMuseum of American Art, New York, NY, The Whitney Biennial Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, Scream
Article Theme :- Banks Violette: There were a series of events that took place in Norway in the early 90s within the subculture of black metal. It happened in a place that is ethnically homogenous, with an elevated average income, and where Christianity has a large function in day-to-day life.
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Dan Walsh's large scale paintings exude a quirky brand of minimalism. In Red Diptych II Walsh presents two canvases of grid patterns contrived of the same palette: the left panel comprised of solid blocks, the right of concentric tiles. Using the multiplicity of this geometric form, Walsh's paintings construct a phantasmal architecture: their componentised repetition suggests infinite expansion, each square mesmerising with the hypnotising glow of electric transmission. Creating optical illusions of gravity and weightlessness, Walsh's paired canvases alternate in their perspectival deception as their flat surfaces appear to advance and recede simultaneously.
Dan Walsh's Biography and Exhibitions
1960 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1997
Petra Bungert Gallery, New York Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
1996
Galerie B'la Jarzyk, Cologne, Germany
1995
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1994
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany
1992
Rubenstein / Diacono, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Minimalpop, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France The Painted World, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
2004
La lettre vol'e, F. R. A. C. Franche Comt?, Mus'e des Beaux Arts, Dole, France
2003/04
It happened tomorrow, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, Lyon, France
2003
Contra / Post, JG Contemporary, New York
2002
7 Grays, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Paul Morrison, Dan Walsh, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Oliver Mosset, Dan Walsh, Sol Lewitt, CCNOA (art x architecture), Brussels, Belgium New York, New Work, Now, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester Hungry Eyes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Article Theme :- Dan Walsh's work resounds with an understated authority. Painted with a pristine delicacy, Walsh's Arrangement uses the solidity of the chequered composition to create an abstracted sense of space. Divided by a liminal grid of translucent dark lines, his squares are bordered with concentrated bands of intense warm colour, weighted at their bases with striations of steely blue.
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