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The Blue of Distance

Apr 10, 2015-Jun 28, 2015

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Curator Talk:
Courtenay Finn
Borrowing its title from writer and historian Rebecca Solnit, The Blue of Distance explores the color’s role as a metaphor of longing. Weaving together a larger narrative about the distance between us and the object of our desire, the exhibition explores the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, the color of the horizon, of the ocean, and of the immaterial. Employing photography, drawing, sculpture, and sound to reflect on blue’s uncanny relationship to absence, the exhibition includes works by Vija Celmins, Jason Dodge, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Marie Jager, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Catherine Opie, Cy Twombly, Sara VanDerBeek, and Cerith Wyn-Evans.

AAM exhibitions are made possible by the Marx Exhibition Fund. General exhibition support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Visiting Artist Fund.

The Blue of Distance is supported by the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation for Latin American Art, and funded in part by the AAM National Council.

Works from the Exhibition

Roni Horn, Untitled (“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers.”). Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces on all sides (fire-polished top).
Courtesy Roni Horn and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich/London. © Roni Horn
Cerith Wyn Evans, Things are conspicuous in their absence…, 2012. Neon.
© Cerith Wyn Evans. Courtesy White Cube. Photo: Ben Westoby
Paul Ramírez Jonas, Paper Moon (I create as I speak), 2008. 165 sheets of office inkjet ink, music stand, amp, microphone, incantation “I Create As I Speak”.
Courtesy the artist and Koenig & Clinton, New York. Photo: Tony Prikryl
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Blue Mirror), 1990. Print on paper.
© The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Catherine Opie, Blue of Distance (#1-#8) from the Alaska series. Eight C-Prints.
© Catherine Opie. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Cy Twombly, Untitled (Roman Note), 1970. Oil paint, wax crayon, pencil.
Courtesy Larry & Susan Marx
Sara VanDerBeek, Turned Stairs/Stars (Detail), 2014. Digital C-Print, blue glass.
Courtesy the artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and Metro Pictures, New York
Jason Dodge, In Transylvania Zsuzsanna Sipos wove woolen yarn and hemp the color of a storm at night, and the length from the earth to above the weather.
Vija Celmins, Untitled: Sky, 1975.
©Vija Celmins. Courtesy Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles
Marie Jager, L’heure bleue, 2011. Sound (twenty-four-hour loop).
Courtesy the artist
Roni Horn, Untitled (“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers.”). Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces on all sides (fire-polished top).
Courtesy Roni Horn and Hauser & Wirth, Zürich/London. © Roni Horn
Cerith Wyn Evans, Things are conspicuous in their absence…, 2012. Neon.
© Cerith Wyn Evans. Courtesy White Cube. Photo: Ben Westoby
Paul Ramírez Jonas, Paper Moon (I create as I speak), 2008. 165 sheets of office inkjet ink, music stand, amp, microphone, incantation “I Create As I Speak”.
Courtesy the artist and Koenig & Clinton, New York. Photo: Tony Prikryl
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Blue Mirror), 1990. Print on paper.
© The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Catherine Opie, Blue of Distance (#1-#8) from the Alaska series. Eight C-Prints.
© Catherine Opie. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Cy Twombly, Untitled (Roman Note), 1970. Oil paint, wax crayon, pencil.
Courtesy Larry & Susan Marx
Sara VanDerBeek, Turned Stairs/Stars (Detail), 2014. Digital C-Print, blue glass.
Courtesy the artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and Metro Pictures, New York
Jason Dodge, In Transylvania Zsuzsanna Sipos wove woolen yarn and hemp the color of a storm at night, and the length from the earth to above the weather.
Vija Celmins, Untitled: Sky, 1975.
©Vija Celmins. Courtesy Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles
Marie Jager, L’heure bleue, 2011. Sound (twenty-four-hour loop).
Courtesy the artist

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