SCORES • CURATED BY VOLUME

5/12/09

May 7 - June 13

With work by:

Nayland Blake

Steven Hull

Lucky Dragons

Steve Roden

Fallen Fruit

Monique Jenkinson

Tomo Isoyama

David Schafer

Simon Leung

Nina Katchadourian

Eamon Ore-Giron

Julie Davidow

Lecia Dole-Recio

Laetitia Sonami

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The relationship between musical scores and conceptual art is well documented: from early Stockhausen scores and John Cage’s seminal work, to the conceptual art strategies of Sol LeWitt and Yoko Ono, artists have found the idea of the score as a useful tool to further artistic practices. Historically, visual artists have used the notion of the score to transmit a set of instructions for completing an artwork (LeWitt) or in other cases the score itself is the final piece (Ono).

For this exhibition, we have asked 14 artists to participate in this tradition by creating a new visual work that will also serve as a musical score for another artist or musician to interpret and perform.

The Scores exhibition is part 1 of a 2-part project curated by VOLUME (Robert Crouch and Ed Patuto). More information on the entire project will be forthcoming.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND WEBSITE LINKS

Nayland Blake (New York) - courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Steven Hull (San Francisco) - courtesy Rosamund Felsen Gallery

Lucky Dragons (Los Angeles) - collab. Luke Fischbeck + Sarah Rara

Fallen Fruit (LA) - collab. David Burns, Matias Viegener + Austin Young

Monique Jenkinson

Tomo Isoyama (Los Angeles)

David Schafer (New York)

Simon Leung (Los Angeles)

Nina Katchadourian (Brooklyn) - courtesy Sara Meltzer Gallery

Eamon Ore-Giron (Los Angeles) - courtesy Steve Turner Contemporary`

Steve Roden (Los Angeles) - courtesy Suzanne Vielmetter Gallery