Month: August 2020

  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Whitney Bedford, Vedute, Art : Concept, Paris, 2022. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Whitney Bedford, Vedute, Art : Concept, Paris, 2022. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
  • Whitney Bedford, Veduta (Degas Field), 2022. Encre et huile sur toile tendue sur bois / Ink and oil on wood on hybrid panel. 15 × 20 × 2 inches (38,10 × 50,80 × 5,08 cm). Photo Evan Bedford
  • Whitney Bedford, Veduta (Van Gogh Flowers), 2022. Encre et huile sur toile tendue sur bois / Ink and oil on wood on hybrid panel. 32 ½ × 40,1 × 2 inches (82,55 × 101,85 × 5,08 cm). Photo Evan Bedford
  • Veduta (Munch Field), 2021, Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel, 66 x 88.9 cm (26 x 35 inches). Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Veduta (Rothko), 2021, Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel, 149.9 x 116.8 cm (59 x 46 inches). Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Broken Hand 09, 2009. Ink and oil on canvas, 84 5/8 x 59 in.
  • Veduta (Gainsborough), 2020. Ink and oil on panel, 18 x 24 x 2 in.
  • Jane Fonda, 2020. Graphite on Arches hot press paper, 30 x 22 in.
  • Installation View, West of Eden, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
  • The Good do Bad, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 28 x 37 x 1 1/2 in.
  • The Night Ahead, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in.
  • Diabolique, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 30 x 42 x 1,75 in. Private collection
  • Installation View, The Left Coast, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 2017. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
  • The Light Night, 2016. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 62 in. Private collection
  • The Soft Day, 2016. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 62 in. Private collection
  • Installation View, West of Eden, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
  • Book (Avery), 2012. Ink and oil on panel, 18 x 22 in.
  • Book (DeKooning), 2012. Ink and oil on panel, 18 x 22 in.
  • Tesla (Blue/Yellow), 2008. Ink and oil on panel, 18 1/8 x 15 in.
  • Untitled (Minha Luta Tropical), 2006. Ink and oil on panel, 22 x 26 in.
  • Untitled (The Longest Time), 2006. Ink and oil on panel, 31 1/8 x 48 7/8 in.
  • Untitled (Stolen/Faked : Munch : Madonna), 2006. Ink on panel, 35 7/8 x 27 3/4 in. Private collection Paris
  • Cast. 11, 2004. Mixed technique on canvas, 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. Private collection Paris

Biography

Born in 1976, Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles.

“The artist’s latest series brings together what she calls Vedute, a series of landscape paintings inspired by late nineteenth and early twentieth century masters – from Degas to Sérusier, Klimt or Van Gogh. As with her paintings of shipwrecks, icebergs, and rainforests, the California-based artist reappropriates this historical legacy and uses it as references for her autobiographical landscapes, which work as contemporary allegories of social and environmental experiences.” *

Her last works are also the result of a new working process. In the earlier paintings, drawing was used to create an architecture of gesture. From now on, although the drawing is still at the origin of her paintings from a technical point of view, she invents a meticulous process of masking and unmasking that puts the drawn flowers in the foreground. The pastoral scenes, pushed behind or outside the drawing space, seem more distant. The distance thus created between the painting and the drawing underlines the artist’s search for archives and the rigorous selection of images that seem to belong to a lost or even disappearing world.

On top of her painting practice, she pursues since 2020 an encyclopedic work that consists in drawing a female figure every day, chosen for her determination to make the world a better place. This tirelessly repeated gesture is a sign of solidarity and relentless support for the women who raise their voices. She considers these portraits, systematically posted on Instagram, as votive images, part of the proceeds of which will be donated to the Emily’s List action committee, which helps to elect progressive, anti-racist Democratic candidates.

* Extract of the press release of her latest show at Art : Concept, 2022.

Her work is present in several international collections such as: Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, FR; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, FR; Hammer Museum, Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, US; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, MX; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, US; and The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Awards: UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennal, Los Angeles (2001); Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Venice (1997).

Selected solo exhibitions include: Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2021); Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2020, 2021 and 2023); Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago (2018); Saatchi Gallery, London (2018); Starkwhite, Auckland (2016); Taymour Grahne, New York (2015); Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2011), Houdini: Art and Magic, Jewish Museum, New York (2010).

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  • Julien Audebert, Premier feu, 2021
    Ektachrome. 19 × 23,2 cm (7 ½ × 9 ⅛ inches) ; 35 × 40 cm (13 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches) (framed). Edition of 3. Photo Romain Darnaud. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris/FR. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris/FR. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
  • Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde (Anaïs), 2023. Tirs au pistolet, huile sur cuivre, encadré / Shooting, oil on copper, framed. 40 × 40 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde (Anaïs), 2023. Tirs au pistolet, huile sur cuivre, encadré / Shooting, oil on copper, framed. 40 × 40 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “In this world, I’m a stranger”, 17.11.22 – 31.01.23, HiFlow, Genève. Courtesy the Artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Thomas Cerato
  • Eden 12, Oil on copper, 36 × 55 × 1 cm (14 ⅛ × 21 ⅝ × ⅜ inches). Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris
  • Installation view Julien Audebert, another green world, Art: Concept, 2020
  • Obsidionales (Doradille des fontaines), 2019. Oil on copper, 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.
  • Obsidionales (Panicaud géant), 2019. Oil on copper, 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.
  • Obsidionales (Anacycle de Valence), 2019-2020. Oil on copper, 18 x 15 cm (7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
  • Eden 1 (Danien), 2019-2020. Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 48 7/8 in.
  • Inclusion (1798), 2020. Contact printing on barytine paper, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in., edition of 5
  • Le chariot de Mars, 2017-2018. Black and white pigment print, laminated on aluminum under diasec, 47 1/4 x 127 1/2 in.(image), 59 x 139 3/8 in. (framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Mars & Vénus, phases d’opposition, 2016. 35 mm digital film (4K) movie, color, sound, 10’30, edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Danse américaine, 2015, lambda print under diasec,13 3/4 x 85 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP, detail
  • Danse américaine, 2015, lambda print under diasec,13 3/4 x 85 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP, detail
  • Sommet de l’OTAN, 2015 lambda print on mate paper
    44 x 78 cm (17 3/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
    46,3 x 80,4 x 4 cm (18 1/4 x 31 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.) framed
    ed of 5+ 2 AP
  • Sommet de l’OTAN, 2015 detail
  • Tutto sta in un pugno, 2014, Digigraphie print on barytine paper pasted on dibond under diasec 60.96 x 114.8 cm (24 x 45,2 in) edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Installation view L’atelier fermé, public artwork commemorating 50 years of Georges Braque’s death, Varengeville/FR 2013.
  • detail of the installation view L’atelier fermé, public artwork commemorating 50 years of Georges Braque’s death, Varengeville/FR 2013.
  • Livres, 2012. Contretype on photosensitive paper, 22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Livres, 2012. Detail
  • EST/OUEST, 2012. Lambda print pasted on dibond under diasec, 111 x 396 cm, édition de 5 + 2 EA. Installation view J’aimes les Panoramas, Mucem Marseille, 2016. Photo Yves Ichierman
  • The Searchers,detail 2009-2010. Digigraphie printing on traditional photo paper pasted on dibond under diasec 32 1/4 x 118 1/8 in. (image), 33 7/8 x 119 5/8 in.(framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • The Searchers,detail 2009-2010. Digigraphie printing on traditional photo paper pasted on dibond under diasec 32 1/4 x 118 1/8 in. (image), 33 7/8 x 119 5/8 in.(framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • 1925-1964, 2008. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Campagne Première, 2006. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 30 3/8 x 47 5/8 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Royal Albert Hall, 2005. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 22 1/2 x 78 3/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP

Biography

Born in 1977 in Brive La Gaillarde, Julien Audebert lives and works in Paris. Whether it be cinema or photography, History is a central subject in his work. It is dialecticized, reconstructed or exhumed, through processes from which emerges the ideology underlying the dominant cultural forms (cinema, media, literature, pictorial genres…). His works often materialize a point of tension or climax of a political or military nature where geographical variables play a particular role.

Since 2019, Julien Audebert has been painting and working on a a series of small works with oil on copper. His most recent series, Obsidionales, consists of small oil paintings on copper following his large-scale battlefield “Nocturnes” (and his recent film Mars and Venus…). These exogenous “flowers of war” moved by the soles of soldiers, railroad or horses, are painted, centred in the middle of the frame, as a child would do, done alla prima (a technique imposed by the adhesion on the copper). These works, such as his recent aquarium paintings (Eden…), create conflagration between the subject and an often invisible historical underpinning.

His work is present, among others, in the following collections: FRAC Aquitaine; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Auvergne; FRAC Haute-Normandie; FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon; FRAC Pays de La Loire; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Solo exhibitions include: Et omnia vasistas, Galerie vasistas, Montpellier ( 2020); L’atelier fermé, commande publique de la commune de Varengeville, dans le cadre du cinquantenaire de la mort de Georges Braque, Varengeville/FR (2012); Les Jeux funéraires, Art:Concept, Paris (2011); Fort du Taureau, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (2009).

Selected group exhibitions/festivals: Acta est fabula, École des beaux-arts de Nîmes/FR (2019); Pool Internationales, TanzFilmFestival Berlin, Dock 11, Berlin/DE (2019); The LA Dance, Film Festival, Los Angeles/US (2018); Mars et Venus, Phases d’Oppositions, le Portland Danse Film Fest 2017, Portland/US (2017).

His first monograph was published by Mousse Publishing in 2022, with texts by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Corinne Rondeau.

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