Life Drawings

Life Drawings features the works of three contemporary artists ˇ Beth Campbell, Danica Phelps and Eric Schnell - in individual exhibitions which foreground drawing, observation, note-taking and diaristic activity as vital means of investigating one's place in the world. This exhibition also examines how these particular artists utilize drawing and/or note-taking as the source and foundation for their works in other media.

Beth Campbell, based in New York, has defined much of her work through a specific form of notation which charts her plausible life choices ˇ ranging from pathetic compromises to the overly ambitious leaps of faith. This series, entitled Potential Futures, also serves as a point of departure for her first video work entitled Same As Me. These works, along with never before exhibited production drawings for the video will be on view. Campbell has participated in various museum shows including Hello My Name Is.... at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn! at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida and Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. She was the featured artist in Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery's Art Statements 2004 at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Since the mid-nineties, New York-based artist Danica Phelps has tracked every dollar she has spent and received through a visually drawn, color-coded counting system. Both lyrically drawn and conceptually rigorous, the drawings encapsulate banal transactions together with some of the artist's most personal experiences and revelations. Arthouse will show three bodies of work that evolved from this series, including one of Phelps' earliest and largest works, Providence. Phelps has exhibited in numerous museum shows including Contemporary Erotic Drawing at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Open House at the Brooklyn Museum of Art , Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and Brooklyn! at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida. Phelps has produced special projects in cities such as Istanbul, Amsterdam, Vienna and Barcelona.

Eric Schnell, currently based in Galveston, develops cumulative sculptural installations that weave between drawings, found objects and images. As a form of self-reckoning, Schnell collects, builds, destroys and transforms personal motifs and narratives that populate his inner and outer world. For Life Drawings, Schnell will present a new, sprawling wall-to-floor installation realized especially for this exhibition. Schnell has had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, UCLA, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Galveston Arts Center and Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. Schnell received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 1999.

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Life Drawings
Kurator: Regine Basha

mit Beth Campbell, Danica Phelps, Eric Schnell