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Feb/Mar New Work Gordon Cheung Interview, Artworld Magazine

10 Oct 2008 London's Frieze Prepares for Big Chill
Wall Street Journal - image featured

4 October 2008 Gordon Cheung: Borsenkolumnen als moderne Landschaftsbilder, Die Welt, Uwe Wittstock - image featured

6 Sept 2008 Stelzen, Trophaen und ein Exvoto
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Kunstmarkt - image featured, Konstanze Cruwell

5 Sept 2008 Ausstellungen in Frankfurt
Frankfurter Allgemeine - image featured

Aug 14-20 2008 In the Studio, Time Out interview with Helen Sumpter - image featured

21 Jul 2008 Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art, by Blanche Craig - Black Dog Publishing London UK

March 2008 Gordon Cheung curated by Kohei Nawa, Dazed and Confused Japan

Feb 2008 From Modern Economy to Ancient Mythology, Aesthetica Magazine, Shona Fairweather profile

25 Jan 2008 City Life, Channel M, Robert Hudson - TV interview

Jan 2008 Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Helen Waters - Alan Cristea solo show Catalogue

Sept 2007 Gordon Cheung, Unosunove Gallery solo show catalogue

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Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture

ALEXANDER APÓSTOL, DANIEL ARSHAM, GORDON CHEUNG, DAVID CLAERBOUT, ANGELA DUFRESNE, MARK DZIEWULSKI, CHRISTINE ERHARD, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, TERENCE GOWER, ANGELINA GUALDONI, NATASHA KISSELL, LUISA LAMBRI, DORIT MARGREITER, RUSSELL NACHMAN, ENOC PEREZ, AND LUCY WILLIAMS

Curated by Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut

MILLS COLLEGE ART MUSEUM
JANUARY 21–MARCH 22, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 21, 5:30–7:30PM
Join us at 6:00pm for a walk-through with the curators.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 3:00PM
Aaron Betsky, Blob Utopia: Digital Destiny or Aesthetic Escape?
For centuries, architects have promised to build us a better world. In their visions, new technologies ironically bring us closer to a return to nature without artificial forms. Is this really our destiny, or is it just one more mirage?
Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:30PM
Angela Dufresne, Imitation of Life, or why Queen Jane Should be Approximately
In her paintings, New York-based Angela Dufresne irreverently concocts imaginary communities that satisfy her vision for the world. She describes her paintings, which bring together disparate sources from film, music, architecture, and the history of painting, as "mashups" or hybrids.

All lectures are in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 144-page book entitled, Revisiting the Glass House: Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture, co-published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Mills College Art Museum, and Yale University Press. The book includes essays by David Auburn, Jessica Hough, Mónica Ramírez–Montagut, and Joseph Rosa.

Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture has been organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Joan Danforth Art Museum Endowment, and the Agnes Cowles Bourne Fund for Special Exhibitions.
Mills College Art Museum
Directions: 510.430.3250
Museum Information: 510.430.2164
www.mills.edu/museum

Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 1:00–4:00pm
Wednesday: 11:00–7:30pm
Monday: Closed
Admission is free

Fresh out of the box

This is the first chance to see new art works acquired by The New Art Gallery. Displayed within Garman Ryan Collection, the contemporary works give a new twist to the thematic display. Their presence enables us to make sometimes surprising connections between past and current artistic interests.

Exhibiting artists include:
Artists Anonymous, Gillian Ayres, Peter Callesen, Gordon Cheung, Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, Richard Hamilton, Gunther Herbst, Andrew Jackson, Christopher Le Brun, Hew Locke, Sarah Lucas, Tim Maguire, Matt and Ross, Cildo Meireles, Eduardo Paolozzi, Marc Quinn, George Shaw, Gavin Turk, David Ward, Wood and Harrison, Richard Wentworth, Catherine Yass.

Walsall Art Museum
Gallery Square
Walsall WS2 8LG
United Kingdom

New London School

Angela Bartram / Emma Bennett / Kiera Bennett / Gordon Cheung / Gayle Chong Kwan / Simon Cunningham / Helen Dowling / Tim Ellis / Andrea Gregson / Neil Hamon / Aisling Hedgecock / Luke Jackson / Sam Jackson / Monica Ursina Jäger / James Jessop / Kate MccGwire / Sarah McGinity / Hugh Mendes / Alexis Milne / Richard Moon / Alex Gene Morrison / Gavin Nolan / Margaret O'Brien / Dominic Shepherd / John Stark / Erik Tidemann / Gavin Tremlett / James Unsworth / Miranda Whall

Curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley

Opening friday 27.02.2009 6 pm - 9 pm
in Heidestraße 46 as well as Gartenstraße 7.
There will be a shuttle service

Open
27 Feb - 24 April 2009
Tues-Sat 11am-6pm

Galerie Schuster
Heidestr.46-10557 Berlin
Phone +49 30 32 30 42 00
info@galerie-schuster.de
www.galerie-schuster.de

The Gallery Schuster is located directly behind the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof. Next Subway station is Hauptbahnhof

40 Artists - 80 Drawings

Exhibition Dates; Private View - Saturday 28th February ’09 2 - 6pm
Opening Times - 4th March - 9th May ’09 (10 weeks)
Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat 11am - 5pm

EDWARD ALLINGTON / BATESON & YOUNG / SIAN BOWEN / MARTIN BREWSTER / JASON BROOKS / GORDON CHEUNG/ PAUL COLDWELL / STEPHEN COX / MICHAEL CRAIG - MARTIN / ADAM DANT/ KATE DAVIS / MARK FAIRNINGTON / STEPHEN FARTHING / REBECCA FORTNUM / NICK FOX / ALISON GILL / NIGEL HALL / JULIET HAYSOM / TIM HEAD / CLAUDE HEATH / CHARLOTTE HODES / SIMON LEAHY-CLARK / DAVID LEAPMAN / SIMON LEWTY / JULIETTE LOSQ / BARRY MARTIN / ROBERT MASON / SAM MESSENGER / NINA OGDEN / DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE / PETER RANDALL-PAGE / PAUL RYAN / REBECCA SALTER / MICHAEL SANDLE / BENJMIN SENIOR / ANITA TAYLOR / PAUL THOMAS / ALISON WILDING / SARAH WOODFINE / BILL WOODROW

The Old Chapel
Walford
Leinwardine
Shrophire SY7 0JT
01547 540454
ycrosley@thedrawinggallery.com
www.thedrawinggallery.com

Lure and Seducer

Opening: Friday 13 March from 4pm to 7pm
13 March - 18 April 2009

Gallery Christoffer Egelund is proud to present the group exhibition The Lure and the Seducer. The exhibition was curated in cooperation with the Danish artist René Holm (DK), and thanks to an international line-up of progressive young artists it focuses on figurative paintings, here and now. Hence, visitors can experience exciting works by such artists as: Gordon Cheung (UK), Andy Denzler (CH), Julian Lee (UK), David Hancock (UK), Richard Meaghan (UK) and René Holm.
The six artists all work on the border between utopian and dystopian landscape sceneries where the human presence is either manifested in an obvious form or through its absence. Hence, the works seem to take a distorted perception of reality as their starting point, where the spontaneously beautiful is in constant danger of breaking up, and where insecurity and discomfort are constantly lurking behind the facade. A duplicity that is easily put into our everyday perspective where financial crisis, shootings and the fear of terror are constantly smouldering beneath our bright smiles. The artists are apocalyptic at times, sometimes led by the narrative and sometimes not; but they all use the luring force of beauty to seduce and capture the spectator, whereupon the content of the work is revealed in its perfection.

Gordon Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art (1999-2001). He has exhibited at Volta NY, amongst others, where he gave a solo presentation, and Art Basel 38. He is represented at Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Art Museum, UBS Collection etc. Andy Denzler graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design (2006). He has had solo exhibitions at Kashya Hildebrand (New York) and Gana Art Center (Seoul). Julian Lee, BA in Fine Arts, Newcastle University (1996-2000), has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt), amongst others, and participated in SCOPE Basel. David Hancock, BA of Fine Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University (1993-96), has participated in the exhibition “The New London School”, amongst others, curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley at Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles), and “Young Masters”, curated by Flora Fairburn at Art Fortnight (London). Richard Meaghan, MA Liverpool School of Art, has participated in the Liverpool Biennal, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre (2008), amongst others, and is nominated for Liverpool Art Prize (2009). René Holm graduated from Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts (2001-06) and has exhibited at Vejle Museum of Fine Arts and the Trapholt Museum in Kolding.

Gallery Christoffer Egelund cordially invites you to a private view of the group exibition The Lure and the Seducer, on Friday 13 March from 4pm to 7pm. The exhibition will subsequently be shown during the period 14 March – 18 April.

Opening hours:
Monday–Friday from 11am to 6pm
Saturdays from 11am to 3pm.

For further information about the exhibition and press photos, please contact Rasmus Lindquist on: rasmus@egelund.dk

Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.gce.nu

THE PROMISED LAND

19 March to 18 April 2009
Opening reception Thurs 19 March 6-8pm

Promised Land
–noun
1. Heaven.
2. Canaan, the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants. Gen. 12:7.
3. (often lowercase) a place or situation believed to hold ultimate happiness.
Dictionary.com

Jack Shainman is pleased to present British Born Chinese artist Gordon Cheung’s first solo gallery show in the USA. His dual background has fuelled his interest in paradoxically belonging and not to both cultures, a condition that led him to focus his work on existence in the artificial landscape of globalization. For Cheung we are all in an in-between state.

Using Financial Times stock listings as a ground in his multi-media paintings Cheung depicts spaces inspired by 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings and Science Fiction. The listings are a metaphor for the dominant global economic ideology that maps the torrential streams of capital around the world. Cheung’s paintings are ‘virtual-reality environments’ where ‘faith’ in the numbers of the stock exchange to deliver a ‘Promised Land’ dictates our lives. An overarching theme of his work is of the ‘techno-sublime’; instead of an overwhelming experience of nature bringing us closer to God, the visual rhetoric of the sublime has exchanged to omnipotent information which overwhelms us with an artificial landscape.

Cheung based the show around the romantic myth of the pioneering spirit and the ideas of manifest destiny. He is fascinated by the landscape genre where there is an undercurrent of propaganda of taking what God has ‘given’ you, never mind the blood soaking along the way - Beauty, Shock and Awe; War on Terror and political gain. Paintings of Rodeo riders become both Romantic icons of conquest and allegories for man’s relationship with the environment. Bull riders, contemporary versions of the Minotaur, combine man and bull to serve as an analogy for the financial bull market and extreme corporate being.

Cheung’s Technicolor palette scorches the sentimental sepia and flesh tones of the stock listings and creates luminosity within the work. His colors are toxic with a psychedelic and hallucinatory vision referencing the counter-cultural movement, a neon glare, a nuclear sunset, a drug induced vision or even a religious heavenly light. They are artificially luminous, a metaphor perhaps for a techno-utopian vision; when the Internet and mobile phones became readily available it fuelled the digital and communications revolution that gave rise to such terms as Information Superhighways, digital frontiers and global villages. All of which fell into dystopia after the millennium bug, the dotcom crash, collapse of Enron, destruction of the twin towers – and all before the current recession. Yet despite the post-apocalyptic mood the paintings offer glimmers of hope, their multi-layered spaces encourage perception beyond what is at first visible.

Gordon Cheung lives and works in London. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2001 and has exhibited his work in both solo and group exhibitions internationally at such venues as the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washinton, DC; the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Arizona State Univeristy Art Museum, Arizona; and the BALTIC, Gateshead. He has a forthcoming major museum solo show at the New Art Gallery, Walsall UK 2009

For further information and press photography please contact Jack Shainman Gallery at (212) 645-1701.

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-645-1701 Tel
212-645-8316 Fax
info@jackshainman.com
www.jackshainman.com

R O O M Collaborators

Limited editions and unique works available from £5 - £1000

Engaging the work of some 36 artists, Collaborators represents a unique survey of the most innovative contemporary practice.

Artist Collaborators...
SALVATORE ARANCIO/ PHYLLIDA BARLOW/ RICHARD BEVAN & TAMSIN CLARK
TIM BRENNAN/ KIERAN BROWN/ CAROLYN BUNT/ YUJUNG CHANG
GORDON CHEUNG/ ELISABETH S. CLARK/ NATHAN EDMUNDS/ SIMON FAITHFULL
ROBERT FEARNS/ CHRIS GRYGIEL / ALEX HOLLWEG/ CASSIE HOWARD
TAKAHIRO IWASAKI/ TINA KEANE/ JOHN LAWRENCE/ PETER LIVERSIDGE
ANNA LUCAS/ HEIDI MORSTANG/ MARIELE NEUDECKER/ EAMONN O’KANE
RAUL ORTEGA AYALA/ JAYNE PARKER/ PHILOMENE PIRECKI/ JANE PROPHET
LESLEY PUNTON/ LOIS ROWE/ KENNETH SACHAR/ EMMA STIBBON
ROY VOSS/ SHELAGH WAKELY/ IAN WHITTLESEA/ TOM WOLSELEY/ AISHAN YU

26 March – 19 April 2009

Works are for sale during the exhibition and will have an ongoing presence in the Editions section of the gallery website www.roomartspace.co.uk

R O O M
31 Waterson Street
London E2 8HT
0207 613 2636
07870 191 663
info@roomartspace.co.uk
www.roomartspace.co.uk

Reconstructing the Old House

The Nunnery Gallery, London
4th – 26th April 2009
pv: Friday, 3rd April, 6-9pm

Touring to:
The Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
9th - 31st Oct 2009
pv: Thurs, 8th Oct, 5-8pm

Exhibiting Artists are: Jo Addison, Gordon Cheung , Adam Gillam, Julian Hughes-Watts, Kounosuke Kawakami, Max Mosscrop, Steven Rendall, Danny Rolph and Benet Spencer

Curated by Benet Spencer

Reconstructing the Old House is as a touring exhibition, featuring artist’s who take architecture or the urban environment as a starting point. The approaches are multiple, some directly referencing architecture as an iconographic form, others sitting on the edge of fully adopting architecture as a theme, yet freely and willfully plundering the territory for inspiration. The utopian pipe dreams of fantasy landscapes sit next to near-unclassifiable experiments in playful construction; mixed-media collages of synthetic ephemera alongside a purity and elegance that echoes modernist ideals.
 
In essence, the architectural reference can be seen as a starting point for a broader investigation of process, material and ideas - highlighting the highly subjective nature of the relationship between the artist-maker as an individual and a broader urban context that is, in itself, a fascinating subject. The emphasis is on the making of things - objects or images - and the relationship between two separate areas of construction: the artist’s studio or the man-made world outside.
 
Reconstructing the Old House is curated by Benet Spencer, and funded by Anglia Ruskin University. Generous support has been given by both the  Nunnery Gallery and the Ruskin Gallery.