Garry Neill Kennedy: Printed Matter: Selections from 1971 to Present

as is
past exhibition

 

March 4 – April 8, 2018
Opening reception: Sunday, March 4, 2018
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

 

Garry Kennedy served as president of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1967 to 1990, a period when the school was closely associated with the emergence of conceptual art. Then and in the years since, the artist produced an extensive body of work that developed and amplified some of the initial insights of conceptualism in ways that can be fully appreciated perhaps only now.

Takako Yamaguchi: New Paintings

as is
past exhibition

 

January 21 – February 24, 2018
Opening reception: Sunday, January 21, 2018
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

 

Photorealism emerged in the early 1970s alongside photo-conceptualism, both employing the camera as a tool for making art. Photography has since developed from an economy of scarcity, dependent on specialized equipment and technical expertise that imposed some minimal limits on image production, to a condition of surplus or even glut, with “more pictures taken in the last year than in the prior history of photography,” as was claimed sometime after the introduction of the camera phone. In her first one-person exhibition at As Is, Takako Yamaguchi presents a body of photorealist paintings that accepts these new conditions and proceeds accordingly.

Tow Truck Towing a Tow Truck

as is
past exhibition

 

December 10, 2017 – January 13, 2018
Opening reception: Sunday, December 10, 2017
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

 

“You have to smile when you see a tow truck towing a tow truck.” Such was the off-handed response of a prominent Los Angles art critic to the highly self-referential work of photographer Matthew Brandt, one of the artists included in Tow Truck Towing a Tow Truck at As Is.

Merwin Belin: Frontpages

as is
past exhibition

 

October 29 - December 3, 2017
Artist’s reception: Sunday, October 29, 2017
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

 

Ronald Reagan served as President of the United States from January 1981 until January 1989. Sometime in 1984, when the so-called “Reagan Era” was coming to be recognized as the political and cultural sea-change it was, Merwin Belin embarked on his Frontpages (1984 and ongoing), an artwork about that era and what has come since, and about the journalistic enterprise that defines the news and delivers it to us.