November 19 - January 21, 2005
Curators: Lauri Firstenberg
Harris Lieberman
New York, NY, US
Artists
Terry Chatkupt, Michael Queenland, Leslie Hewitt, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillan, Ruben Ochoa, Arthur Ou, Lisa Tan, Amir Zaki
Happenstance is an exhibition of works by nine artists based in Los Angeles and New York. It began two years ago in California with initial conversations involving the work of Michael Queenland, Ruben Ochoa and Amir Zaki. It did not happen as spontaneously and immediately as planned, while life got in the way.
The exhibition investigates subtle, absurd and fantastical spatial and temporal experiments, based on chance and construction, primarily in the mediums of photography, video and sculpture, in an effort to question translation, invention and perception. Many of the artists in the show engage in a process that Mark Godfrey has noted in an Artforum article entitled “Image Structures: Photography and Sculpture” (February 2005): “photography and sculpture have entered a more complex phase of their relationship, folding over each other, reversing positions, flipping back and forth, the one becoming the other.”