Solo Exhibition

Janelle Borsberry

Ajit Chauhan

Deborah Hede

Cyrilla Mozenter

Anastasia Tokmakova

Eva O’Leary
Ajit Chauhan
Prajakti Jayavant
Rachel Marisa LaBine

Miguel Arzabe, Todd Bartel, Ajit Chauhan, Christina Conklin, Daisy Craddock, Sally Egbert, Sylvia Fein, Suzan Frecon, Colter Jacobsen, Jenny Kendler, Javier Manrique, Daniela Naomi Molnar, and Yulia Pinkusevich

A multi-disciplinary program for architects, visual artists, musicians, and writers.

In order to promote international exchange, the federal state of Lower Austria has initiated an artist-in-residence program, for which it has set up five studio apartments and a large common room within the Kunstmeile Krems.

Miguel Arzabe, Todd Bartel, Ajit Chauhan, Christina Conklin, Sylvia Fein, Suzan Frecon, Colter Jacobsen, Jenny Kendler, Gabriela Gonzalez Leal, Terri Loewenthal, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Nkiruka Oparah, Susan Smith, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Andy Vogt, David Wilson, Vanessa Woods 

Todd Anderson, Cécilia Andrews, Todd Bartel, Ajit Chauhan, Michelle Yi Martin, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Kennedy Morgan, & Dora Lisa Rosenbaum

Works on paper, approaches to cut and erased paper, and paper-expanded sculpture and weaving. Nonprofit art gallery benefiting climate crisis mitigation.

Minnesota Street Project presents a new group exhibition titled “Monument,” an exploration that considers monumentality in its various forms through visual art.

20 castanets is taken from Barbara Guest’s poem Sleep is 20—a poem about counting sheep or moving from a half consciousness to full. When insignificant things take on significance. The sky wasn’t blue it was September blue.

Dorothea Lasky said “To be a maker is to be down in the muck of making and not always to fly so high above the muck.”

To be down in The Muck of Making.

Much of the work resembles symmetrical inkblots. Tests of perception that were then analyzed and interpreted for meaning…

from some dim unformed sense into significance—September blue

--AC

a group exhibition curated by Ajit Chauhan

(dedicated to Jose Campos)

opening 6.25.20

Featured Artists

Mary Belknap, José Campos, Anne Connolly, Linda Davenport*, Samedi Djeimguero*, Walter Kresnik, Claus Groeger, Jay Herndon*, Makeya Kaiser, Melody Lima*, John Patrick McKenzie, James Miles, Paul Moshammer, James Nielsen, Yolanda Ramirez*, Evelyn Reyes, Lance Rivers, Douglas Sheran, Hung Kei Shiu, Peggy Spillane*, Ana Maria Vidalon

*Online exclusive

This is made possible by additional funding from a Discretionary Award from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and individual contributions from Roselyne Swig, Bryan Meehan, Justin Shaffer, John Sanger, Sue Kubley, Tina Conway, and Maurice Kanbar, we have raised a total of $30,000 which we will be distributing through thirty $1,000 grants direct to artists who meet the following qualifications.

Miguel Arzabe, Saif Azzuz, Liat Berdugo, Ajit Chauhan, James Chronister, Matthew Craven, Cannon Dill, Serena Elston, Joey Enos, Maria Gajardo, Casey Gray, Alexander Hernandez, Oliver Hawk Holden, Jeremiah Jenkins, Kyle Lypka, Martin Machado, Rachel Marine, Christopher Martin, Lenworth McIntosh, Masako Miki, Nasim Moghadam, Guy Overfelt, Meryl Pataky, Sofie Ramos, Alexander Rohrig, Joanna Ruckman-Gallegos, Jonathan Runcio, Miriam Stahl, Vanessa Woods, and Jan Wurm

group exhibition echoing the first decade of the gallery program

curators: Habima Fuchs and Jiří Kovanda

10.6. – 25.7. 2020

Tomáš Absolon, Michal Budny, Ajit Chauhan, Habima Fuchs, Václav Girsa, Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák, Lucy McKenzie and Laurent Dupont, Jiří Kovanda, Jan Merta, Joe Neave, Alice Nikitinová, Marek Meduna, Jimena Mendoza, Markus Proschek, Max Ruf, Markus Selg and Lenka Vítková

A multi-disciplinary program for architects, visual artists, musicians and writers.

International exchange with Djerassi alumni, exchange includes a private studio, a stipend of 1,300 euros per month, in all 3,900 euros, paid in cash, and curatorial support.

20 Castanets is taken from Barbara Guest’s poem Sleep is 20—a poem about counting sheep or moving from a half consciousness to full. When insignificant things take on significance. The sky wasn’t blue it was September blue.

Dorothea Lasky said “To be a maker is to be down in the muck of making and not always to fly so high above the muck.”

To be down in The Muck of Making.

Much of the work resembles symmetrical inkblots. Tests of perception that were then analyzed and interpreted for meaning…

from some dim unformed sense into significance—September blue

--AC

It has been a century since the Surrealist movement exploded across the global cultural scene. Surrealism championed the creative power of the unconscious and the value of irrational thoughts and imagery. It was a movement with enormous impact in the visual arts, film, performing arts, and literature; yet the spirit of Surrealism preceded the movement itself, and extraordinary antecedents can be found across many centuries and in cultures around the world. While the Surrealists sought out feelings of strangeness—of the improbable, uncanny, mysterious, and miraculous—the strange has always been a source of artistic inspiration, and continues to fascinate us today.

Ajit Chauhan has been named the recipient of the 2019-20 TOSA Studio Award. The year long Residency provides a private studio at Minnesota Street Project and a $10,000 stipend. The Tosa Studio Award was created to help talented emerging or under-recognized artists continue to work and advance productive arts careers in the increasingly expensive Bay Area. This year’s awarded artists were chosen from a highly competitive pool of 58 applicants from nominations made by knowledgeable artists, curators and arts professionals.

Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Body Count, a cross section of works on paper, including photograhs that all reference the body in one way or another. The works are all from a personal collection and approach the figure in often humorous or conceptual ways.

I'm sitting here looking at the sleeve for this record Bruce Springsteen made called The River. These guys look so good I can't even believe it. It's a double album. It is its own beauty. I don't think Bruce Springsteen knew what the hell he was going to do. Maybe he did but that takes all the mood out of it. It is better to be thrust into some kind of destiny. That is LIVING. I used to write my name a lot. When I asked myself who I was all I had to do was write my name. That was my fortune. Mary George. THE END. I still think this is all I need to know about destiny. Knowing is being. I'm in love with coming home. All the things that I do when I come home. The things that I want to do. I want to play guitar whenever I want. I want to make paintings with all kinds of soul. Black party lights make me feel good in my heart. I like materials that have secret forces that need to be revealed. I want to make art that is contagious like good rock n' roll. I want to make art so I can go to heaven.

The title of the show came from a discussion I had with the poet Robert Hass, when asked: What is the role of the artist/writer/poet in the current climate? He responded: “The famous saying is Robert Duncan’s: The responsibility of the artist is keeping the ability to respond. In the present climate that’s everyone’s responsibility. My wife says we should try to do something that takes us out of our comfort zone every day. For me that tax is too high, so I try three days a week.”

Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, California. His work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, White Columns NY, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Jack Hanley Gallery, Annarumma Gallery Naples, Italy, SVIT Prague, Czech Republic, and most recently the KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. His work is concurrently being shown at Fused Space in the exhibition Seven Places of the Mind curated by Margaret Tedesco.

Opening Thursday 11 October, 6-8p
1401 16th Street, San Francisco CA 94103

Rebeca Bollinger
Ajit Chauhan
Catherine Fairbanks & Dylan Crossman
Nicki Green
Léonie Guyer
Claudia La Rocco: I am trying to do the assignment [ limited edition chapbook

Maggie Preston
Billy White
David Zuttermeister

Curated by Margaret Tedesco

[ Freeways ]

“Make you feel they had some reason in mind when they built them—I mean, it makes you feel you might understand.” —Maria (Tuesday Weld), Play It As It Lays, 1972

Cracks.

It begins in what we remember. Subtraction. Names of streets. Venice. Los Feliz. Hollywood Blvd. Lincoln Blvd. Cahuenga and Lankershim. Santa Monica Blvd. Glendale. Whittier. Sepulveda. The 405, the 10, the 605, Pico. Paci c Coast Hwy. Sunset & Vine. Normandie. Topanga Canyon. Marina del Rey. Compton. Beverly. Imperial & Crenshaw. Gower. Centinela. So. Central. Western Ave. Laurel Canyon. Wilshire. Slauson. Inglewood Ave. Names of streets. Say them. Fairfax. Let them roll off your tongue. La Cienega. Equalizers. How to talk about landscape. Ground cover. Desert. Clay. Freeways. Freeways. Ice plant. Sun. The coast. Ethos. The Texas Hop. Minimal line. Tent revivals. Norton Simon Museum. Golden State. Vincent Thomas Bridge. Barstow. Strip malls. Horizon. Jacaranda trees. Shipwreck. Lawns. Orange Skies. The Source. Fields. Lake Shrine Temple. Port of Los Angeles. The Woman’s Building. The Valley. Paris, Texas. Grif th Park Observatory. Paramount lots. Red Rubber Ring Floating in a Swimming Pool. Bunker Hill. Paci c Ocean Park. Freeways. Ask the Dust, John Fante, John Fahey, John Baldessari. Octavia Butler, Curtis Harrington. Aimee Semple McPherson, David Hockney, Sister Corita Kent, Robert Irwin, Judy Baca, Joan Didion. Joan Didion. Kenneth Anger. And Vito’s Dancers.

Baby, baby don’t cry, baby, baby don’t cry,
Baby, baby here’s why,
Because love is here standing by,
Love is right here standing by. —Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

Seasons slip by. Los Angeles does stand still sometimes.

Way Bay is a sweeping exploration of the creative energies that have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two centuries. An innovatively organized exhibition of art and film, plus poetry, performance documentation, and archival materials, Way Bayfeatures nearly two hundred works that reveal the depth and diversity of artists’ engagement with the region’s geographic, social, and cultural landscape.

The exhibition takes a nonlinear form and is organized around diverse poetic themes that cut across time periods, media, styles, and artistic cultures, bringing together voices from a wide range of practices and representing diverse communities and sensibilities. Works by artists and filmmakers such as Bruce Baillie, Lutz Bacher, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Enrique...

In contrast to a conventional historical survey, Way Bay is organized to suggest poetic currents and connections among works from disparate cultures and communities, highlighting transhistorical affinities among artists, filmmakers, authors, and other creative practitioners who have contributed to—and drawn inspiration from—the region’s distinctive character.

Ajit Chauhan, Candela Bado, Dimitra Kousteridou Curated by Antonakis

Snehta Residency is pleased to present a show by current artists-in-residence, Ajit Chauhan from San Francisco, Candela Bado from Uruguay who is based in The Hague and Dimitra Kousteridou, who lives and works in Amsterdam. The exhibition is a map to decipher "materials" the three artists encountered during the period they stayed and worked in Athens. A handbook - in narrative form - for the deconstruction of objecthood.

Ajit Chauhan’s work is characterized by slow, minimalist, often repetitive gestures. He has a preference for working with modest materials. One body of work that will be shown was made by erasing selected portions of record album covers. They are housed inside crates that function as architectural models of the Art Deco apartment buildings in and around Kypseli. Another body of work is a series of textiles that are unwoven, a process of removing material to find an inner essence or structure within the material.

 

Snehta Residency

Χώρα: Ελλάδα

Συμμετέχοντες Καλλιτέχνες:

Ajit Chauhan, Candela Bado and Dimitra Kousteridou

Επιμελητής : Antonakis Christodoulou

Country: Greece

Participants Artists:

Ajit Chauhan, Candela Bado and Dimitra Kousteridou

Curator : Antonakis Christodoulou

Email:  info@snehtaresidency.org

Curated by Joey Yates

Spin: Turning Records Into Art is a show of artist made records and record covers, alongside recent projects by contemporary artists who make use of the record in their sculptures and installations, including Rutherford Chang, Ajit Chauhan, Jamal Cyrus, David Ellis, Terrence Hammonds, Jennie C. Jones and Cynthia Norton. A substantial portion of the show features records from the collection of Michael Lowe, a Cincinnati based art collector with over 2000 records that is international in scope and reflects the myriad historical relationships between the artist and the record, a range that extends from conceptual works by artists like Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, and Christian Marclay to albums with iconic images by Jean Michel-Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger and Yoko Ono. Artists from Kentucky are included, featuring album covers by Lexington based artist Robert Beatty, and Louisville artists Kathleen Lolley, Joanne Oldham, Letitia Quesenberry, Jason Noble, Jeff Mueller, and Michael O’Bannon.

Over the last century the record has become an effective tool for artists seeking new creative possibilities. Artists of the avant-garde in the early 1900’s, most notably the Dadaists and the Italian Futurists, used the record to document their radical ideas, and to disseminate their political and social experiments in sound, language, and music. Spin explores the current intersection of records and visual art, demonstrating the album’s remarkable position as art object and cultural artifact in contemporary artistic practice.