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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Special Project: Mika Rottenberg
June 27, 2004 to September 27, 2004
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is proud to present new Special Projects on June 27, 2004, including works by Walead Beshty, Johnston Foster, Marepe, Mika Rottenberg, and Jenny Vogel. Special Projects are selected individually, without attention to a theme in order to reflect the extraordinary energy and variety of practices among young artists working in New York City and abroad.
Walead Beshty Floor 3, Archive Room. Selected by P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas.
Over the past three years, Los Angeles-based artist and critic Walead Beshty has been photographing "dead malls," malls which have been abandoned as larger retailers lured stores and shoppers away. The artist has described these spaces as possessing "an overwhelming uncanniness; devoid of people, stripped of most, if not all, of the fa�ade signage, they have the feeling of eerily deserted scenes from war torn countries or derelict inner cities." Beshty takes a conceptual/documentary approach to the pictorial essay, and sees the dead malls as "swiftly becoming our own modern ruins." Also on view is a series of photographs taken at active malls during regular business hours. Here, the artist appears with his head completely inserted into merchandise and store displays. These pictures offer a comic/absurd counterpoint to the dead malls.
Walead Beshty is an artist and writer currently based in Los Angeles. He received his BA from Bard College in Photography (1999), and his MFA from Yale School of Art (2002). In 2004 his work appeared in Self Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA; Buy American, Gallerie Chez Valentin, Paris; Cool Intentions, Sandroni Rey gallery, Los Angeles; Behind Closed Doors, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY; Upstream: Idea Drawings Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles; and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Wallspace Gallery in New York. He currently teaches in the Art Department of the California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
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