February 25 – March 24, 1984
Larry Johnson, Annette Lemieux, and Jolie Stahl
Artists Space
3 Artists Select 3 Artists
As part of the celebration of Artists Space's 10th anniversary season, Artists Space has revived its original selection process of artists choosing artists. Six artists who first showed at Artists Space and are now well known have each selected a lesser known artist for a solo exhibition. Rebecca Howland, Richard Prince and David Salle selected artists for this exhibition. Scott Burton, Hermine Ford and Judy Pfaff each selected artists who showed in November at Artists Space. Artists Space's long-standing commitment to presenting artist-selected exhibitions was the sole basis of the exhibition program in its early years and continues to be an important aspect of Artists Space activities.
Larry Johnson
Selected by Richard Prince
Larry Johnson is exhibition six untitled 8" x 10" color photographs of movie stars. The photos will be arranged on one wall in a specific yet seemingly arbitrary order. Johnson says about his work "the photograph is a catalyst - exciting mental activity which exceeds that which the photo itself provides."
Annette Lemieux
Selected by David Salle
Annette Lemieux’s hard-edged paintings find their references in the work of earlier postwar painters, retooling those practices in the context of the earliest period of so-called “international culture.” At Artists Space, she exhibited two large paintings – one of a flag with a smaller painting of a cross appended at the top left corner, the other featuring a giant letter “M” with the word “MANNA” written across the top and bottom – as well as a series of smaller gouache drawings. The work revisits a conversation about representation and surface initiated by Jasper Johns’ flag and target paintings of the 1950s, while carrying it in a new direction by eliminating tactility and proposing the sign itself as a surface. The signs in her paintings are recognizable yet ambiguous, confluences of religious, nationalistic, and corporate idioms.
Jolie Stahl
Selected by Rebecca Howland
According to Jolie Stahl her paintings are primarily of women. These paintings are women caught in a dramatic moment. These dramatic moments are an exploration of the female psyche. The pictures of the female psyche are locked in symbolic gesture, into an exloration of the rituals of painting. The idea of ritual in painting leads to the inevitable question: 'How much or ow little artillery can be loaded into any given image?' The paintings begin to decifer that Rosetta Stone.
Larry Johnson is 24 years old and lives in Los Angeles. This is his first exhibition.
Annette Lemieux had received her B.F.A. in painting at Hartford Arts School four years earlier in 1980, before moving to New York. At the time of her show, she was working as an assistant for David Salle, who selected her. She had recently been in an accident in which she was struck by a car, an event that necessitated a turning point in her practice: “[The accident] forced me to make smaller, more manageable work. I had to come up with other ways of expressing my ideas. That’s when I realized I could use photographs, found objects, and painting.” She has exhibited work in a number of group shows recently: "Symbol & Cliche" A & M Gallery, New York: "Artists Call Group Benefit," Metro Pictures, New York; "Image Letante," Alain Bilhaud Gallery, New York; "Connecticut 7+7+7" Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Ct.; "The Monument Redefined" Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of a 1983 National Endowment for the Arts grant. This is her first one person exhibition.
Jolie Stahl lives in New York and is an officer of Colab (Collaborative Projects) an artist group which has organized a number of exhibitions and artist projects in New York and elsewhere. She recently organized the "A More Store" at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York and was included in the "Colab Benefit for Artists Call" at Brooke Alexander Gallery. She has shown in group exhibitions at ABC NO RIO, New York and in Colab exhibitions at SUNY at Purchase; Hallwalls, Buffalo; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago and Barbara Galdstone Gallery, New York. In New York Stahl's work has also been included in group shows at Stefanotti Gallery, Joseph Gallery, Alternative Museum, the Drawing Center, Alan Stone Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and the Kitchen. This is her first one person exhibition in New York.