May 9 – June 6, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, May 9, 7–9
Steve Turner is pleased to present Ellipsis, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Pablo Rasgado that will feature five bodies of work from the last seven years. Rasgado’s works deal with such natural phenomena as gravity, light and energy along with their attendant results—time and ephemerality. He uses a variety of familiar materials—drywall, glass, tape, florescent bulbs, dirt, spiderwebs—to focus on that which is just beyond ordinary perception. In a sense, each work is a clock, recording decay and change over time. Deceptively simple, the works constitute a compendium of phenomena just beyond the grasp of material experience.
Pablo Rasgado (b. Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 1984) has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2011, 2012 & 2014); Arratia Beer, Berlin (2012 & 2014); OMR, Mexico City (2013); and Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2011). He has also had work in group exhibitions at CAM Raleigh (2014); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Art Collateral Events, 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Herzlya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel (2013); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2012); and Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (2010). His work is owned by public collections including Wattis Foundation, San Francisco; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives and works in Mexico City.
Born 1984, Zapopan, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Education
2010
Proyecciones y Superficies Workshop, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City
Ejercicio de Correspondencia Workshop, SOMA, Mexico City
2007
Diploma Course in Museology, Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City
2003
Diploma Course in Photography, Centro Morelense de las Artes, Mexico
2006
BFA, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Ellipsis, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2014
Afterlife, Arratia Beer, Berlin
2013
Vanishing Act, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Ojo por Diente, Galería OMR, Mexico City
2012
Monochromatic Muralism, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Fragmental, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Victoria Pírrica, ATEA, Mexico City
2011
Arquitectura Desdoblada, The Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
Wall to Wall, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2008
Eternity in an empty room, Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
2005
Baba, Casa Emergente Visual Lab and Gallery, Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico
2004
Sobre la certeza, Alberca artes Gallery, Mexico
Art Fair Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2015
ARCOmadrid (with Camilo Restrepo) Steve Turner, Madrid
2014
Art Basel Statements (with Arratia Beer, Berlin)
Solo Projects: Focus Latin America, ARCOmadrid
2013
artBO (with Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles), Bogotá
2012
Art Basel Miami Beach (with Arratia Beer, Berlin), Miami
Paint Study, Zona Maco Sur (with Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles), Mexico City (curated by Patrick Charpenel)
2011
Art Berlin Contemporary (with Arratia Beer, Berlin), Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Space Program, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Constructs (with Nathan Green and Laura Vandenburgh), Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland (curated by Rachel Adams)
2014
ArtBO (with Steve Turner Contemporary), Bogotá
Translation Movement, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
Limited Visibility, CAM, Raleigh, NC, USA
La voluntad de la piedra, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, USA
Pinta London (with Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles)
2013
Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Art Baja Tijuana, Casa GS, Tijuana, Mexico
Noise, Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Venice, Italy
Donde el Lenguaje es el Material, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Proyecto Basurto, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico City
2012
Los Irrespetuosos, Group Show, Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Donde el lenguaje es el material, Group Show, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Tiempo de Sospecha, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
Prorroga Recuperada, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
Bienal Tamayo, MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011
Transitio_ MX 04 – Festival of Electronic Arts and Video, Mexico City
Destello, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico (curated by Osvaldo Sanchez)
Cartography, ICOCULT, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
Interconnects, Contemporary Art in the FEMSA Collection, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Xalapa
2010
This is about…Plataforma arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico (curated by Ruben Mendez)
Cimbra: Formas especulativas y armados metafísicos, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Open Day, Stonehouse, Alakuko, Lagos, Nigeria
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Galería de Arte Moderno y Contemporáne Ángeles, Espinosa Iglesias, Casa de la Cultura de Puebla and San Pedro, Museo de Arte, Puebla, Mexico
Second Comino, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, (curated by Carlos Palacios, Andre Torreblanca, Gabi Ngocobo)
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Cecut, Tijuana
2009
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro de las Artes, Parque Fundidora Monterrey, Mexico
Open Art México, Open: International performance art festival, Collaboration with Kelly Kleinschrodt, Beijing
Diorama: la reinvención del paisaje, MUCA Roma Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City (curated by Gonzalo Ortega)
Staybite: Modes of Operation, The University of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building, Dallas (curated by Karla Diaz and Evelyn Serrano)
Needle in a Haystack, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (curated by Nate Garcia)
2008
Exchange Rate, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles
Exchange Rate, Remy’s on Temple, Los Angeles
Preservación de forma y equilibrio #2, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Orizaba 203-2, Mexico
2007
Principio de incertidumbre, Forum universal de las culturas, Centro de las Artes I y II, Parque
fundidora Monterrey, Mexico (curated by Fernando Delmar)
Montañas Fototeca de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (curated by Patricia Martín)
2006
Ejemplares: Libro Objeto, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico (curated by Albert Dilger)
Sueño de una Noche de Verano, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Centro Cultural
Muros, Cuernavaca, Mexico (curated by Andrea Torreblanca and Paulina Cornejo)
2005
Preservación de forma y equilibrio, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Casa Emergente, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2004
Lo que no explica la vida lo explica el fuego, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñeze, 21 Gallery, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Residencies and Awards
2014
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2013
Artist-in-residence, SE RENTA
International Residency Program, Laboratorio de Agentes del Arte Contemporáneo, Tijuana
2012
Bancomer MACG Program 2012 Fellow
Triangle Art Trust Artist’s Workshop, New York
2011
Artist-in-residence, La Chambre Blanche, Québec
International Residency Program at the École Superier d’ Art et Design, Saint Ettienne, France
2010
CCA Lagos – Triangle artist Workshop Nigeria, Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, Stonehouse Alakuko, Lagos, Nigeria
Young Creators Grant, Painting, National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico
2009
Honorific Mention at the IX Monterrey Femsa Biennale
1st place, Printed mediums, at the international Journalism Award Can Cun
International Residency Program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2007
Mexican American Fellowship, Mexican American Foundation
Residency Program at the Vermont Studio Center, Jonson, Vermont
2006
Young Creators Grant, New Mediums, National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico
2000
“Montalbán y los Zapotecas,” Pasajes de la historia Magazine, special edition, October 2000
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