February 9 – March 9, 2013
Featuring: Artie Vierkant, Body by Body, Israel Lund and Skye Chamberlain
Sometime ago I stumbled across a quote by Martin Kippenberger in which he linked painting to pasta. “Simply to hang a painting on the wall and say that it’s art is dreadful. The whole network is important! Even spaghettini . . . When you say art, then everything possible belongs to it. In a gallery that is also the floor, the architecture, the color of the walls.”* Inspired by this, I decided to use the Wikipedia entry on spaghetti as the title of my show. During the latter months of 2012, I created a series of paintings and sculptures where the content of the work was the documentation of the works themselves. I did this to reveal the way contemporary art objects exist in networks. I used 3M reflective material and blah blah blah. In seeing the works installed in a gallery, I realized that the works were actually just props to achieve a certain effect, that is, they were placeholders for the experience of an artwork that transverses networks. For See Also: Lai Fun, List of Pasta, Soba I decided to extend this idea by treating the actual gallery walls as a prop. To achieve this, I will install a group of standard 8 x 4 feet sheets of drywall that will have flip-flop automotive paints applied to them. Flip-flop, or chameleon paints, change color depending upon the lighting and the angle from which they are viewed. The drywall sheets will hang from the ceiling; nothing will actually be on the gallery’s permanent walls except the overspray outline of the drywall which will be painted while leaning there. Atop each sheet will be the work of the four collaborators whom I have invited to participate- Artie Vierkant, Body by Body, Israel Lund and Skye Chamberlain. Each drywall piece exists as an artistic collaboration, an individual installation, and a dynamic sculpture by Parker Ito.
In the second gallery, I will present four new abstract paintings and four new ceramic sculptures created with the same automotive paints. Each painting, covered in thick modeling paste, was created in tandem with a twin so that there will be two sets of two paintings that match each other stroke for stroke. As they were created simultaneously, each being the model for the other, they call into question the notion of “original” and “copy.” The ceramic sculptures were created in similar fashion.
In doing all of these things I hope to present a more comprehensive view of the things I make as well as my identity as an artist. Both exist in networks.
Parker Ito
January 2013
Born in 1986, Parker Ito earned a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2010. He has had solo exhibitions at the Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2013); IMO Projects, Copenhagen (2013); Stadium, New York (2012); and a two-person exhibition with Brad Troemel at Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto (2012). He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
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*One Has to Be Able to Take It! Excerpts from an interview with Martin Kippenberger by Jutta Koether, November 1990 – May 1991, in Martin Kippenberger, The Problem Perspective. Ann Goldstein. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008, p. 316.
Parker Ito creates paintings, sculpture and video that draw upon his extensive experience as a 24/7 web surfer. In using materials not typically associated with art production (highly reflective 3M Scotch-lite fabric, automotive flip flop paint and a top layer of vinyl over some paintings), he makes works that have varying appearances both when viewed in person and when photographed. He has described some of his works as stand-ins for paintings claiming that the real artwork is the iPhone pic posted by someone else. Ito’s practice is one of high activity and high volume: “I heard that Picasso made around 250,000 works in his lifetime. I could make that many jpegs in 5 years. And when I say 5 years, I mean 5 minutes.”
Born in 1986, Parker Ito earned a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2010. He has had solo exhibitions at the Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2013); IMO Projects, Copenhagen (2013); Stadium, New York (2012); and a two-person exhibition with Brad Troemel at Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto (2012). He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
Born 1986
Lives and works in Los Angeles and New York
Education
2010
BFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2013
Parker Ito, Luce Gallery, Turin (upcoming)
America Online Made me Hardcore, IMO Gallery, Copenhagen (upcoming)
See Also: Lai Fun, List of Pasta, Soba, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stadium, New York
Vice Versa, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto
Anime Betty Page Fucked by Steampunk Horse Warrior, Headquarters, Zurich (with Body by Body)
2011
Opening Ceremony, People’s Gallery, San Francisco (as Olivia Calix)
Parker Ito Does Parker Ito, Pyramidd.biz, Online
Creative Suite, Antena Pilsen, Chicago (with Paint FX)
2010
RGB Forever, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco
About: Blank, Paradise Hills Gallery, Sydney
Parker Ito Presents: Impressions Of Parker Ito By Brad Troemel, Firefox Add-Art, Add-Art.org, Online
New Age Default, New Gallery, London (with Paint FX)
Paint FX Live, The Future Gallery, Berlin (with Paint FX)
Paint FX, Firefox Add-Art, add-art.org, Online (with Paint FX)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
TECTONIC, The Moving Museum, Dubai (January)
Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan (January)
Proyecto Basurto, Edificio Basurto, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico City
2012
Untitled, Miami Beach (Steve Turner Contemporary)
Mythology Online, Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
Wet Paint 4, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Higher Pictures, New York
[Internet Art Future] – Reality of Post Internet Era, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
Ghost in the Puka Shell, CourtneyBlades, Chicago
Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
BYOB MOCA LA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Point Éphémére, Nouveau Document, Paris
Public Access, Living Space Internet Café, London
Grunge Texture, XPace, Toronto
2011
*new jpegs*, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
Random Rotations, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (as Olivia Calix)
Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City
Shine A Light, South Portland Art Museum, Portland
Black Hoes Black Holes, Encuentro Internacional de Medellin, Mexico City (as Olivia Calix)
Read / Write, 319 Scholes, New York
Il Labirinto di Cristallo, Bubblebyte.org, Online
BYOB Tokyo, Daikanyama M, Tokyo
Offline, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
The Invisible Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennale, TheInvisiblePavilion.com, Online
BYOB Venezia, Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Venezia, Venice
Face Time Continuum, The Future Gallery, Berlin
Hang In There, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (with Paint FX)
An Important Project, Important Projects, Oakland
2010
BYOB LA, USC Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery, Los Angeles
Perfect Vacuum, Galleri Pictura, Lund, Sweden
Something Is Coming, Something Is Coming, Richmond
Tokyo Internet Club, Soft, Tokyo
Private Investigation, Pacific Design Center, Mastadon Mesa, Los Angeles
Speed Show: Traces, Extremis Internet Café, Bucharest
We Are World, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago
An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers, SAIC Sullivan Gallery, Chicago
Multi Occulti, 4707 Telegraph, Oakland
Bad Boys CCA, Bruce Galleries, San Francisco
The Dawn Fisher Collection, FishSpace Gallery, San Francsico
Cartune Xprez: 2010 Future Television, LoBot Gallery, Oakland
2009
New Wave, The Internet Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Padiglioneinternet.com, Online
The Pleasure Is Mine – Cali Style, Spacekraft Pompadour, Lyon
The 10th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
No Promo, Reference Art Gallery, Richmond
Empty Signifiers, Firefox Add-Art, Add-Art.org, Online
Free Willy, PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco
Markers: MyMementoVid, ScalaMata Gallery, Venice
New Media Meeting 2009, Norrkoping, Sweden
Selected Mastheads, Art Fag City, ArtFagCity.com, Online
Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley
Bad Moon Rising Email Exhibition, notalwaysinlocation.blogspot.com, Online
2008
Banal Strangeness, 1325 Jackson Street, San Francisco
Alternative Requirements, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Dotmov 2008, Shift Online Magazine, selected locations worldwide
Triangulation, City Hall, San Francisco
Everything, Everyone, Everywhere…..Forever, FishSpace Storefront Gallery, San Francisco
Individualized Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, Oakland
Bathroom Show, Tricycle Gallery, San Francisco
Creativeminds SF Art and Music, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
Pacific Overtures, Oliver Art Center, Oakland & Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
Curatorial Projects
2011
*new jpegs*, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
Read / Write, 319 Scholes, New York
Random Rotations, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2010
Avatar 4D, Noma and Reference Galleries, San Francisco & Richmond, Virginia
2009
Serial Chillers in Paradise, JstChillin.org, Online
The Pleasure Is Mine – Cali Style, Spacekraft Pompadour, Lyon
Awards and Residencies
2012
Fountainhead Residency, Miami
2011
People’s Gallery Summer Residency, San Francisco
2010
Levi’s Pop Up Shop 48 Hour Residency, San Francisco
2010
Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Award, California College of the Arts
2009
All College Honors, California College of the Arts
2007 – 2009
Jerrold B. Whitney Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2007 – 2009
Trustees’ Scholarship, California College of the Arts
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2012
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2011
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2010
Karen Archey, “Internet Art In the Present Tense”, Map Magazine, Winter
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