QiPO 01 CDMX Feb 7-9, 2019
“Zoul Zurvivor” by Jim Ovelmen
featuring work from Andrew West and David Kent Card
Zoul Zurvivor is an installation by Los Angeles-based artist, Jim Ovelmen. It was first shown during the Satellite Art Show in Miami Beach in 2017 and then at AWOL Los Angeles, CA in 2018. This reiteration will be on view at QiPO 01 CDMX Feb 7-9, 2019.
Zoul Zurvivor is a semi-enclosed, painted paper installation presenting a ritualistic space similar to the interior of a condensed stained-glass cathedral. The work will invite photography in impromptu communion-like configurations; imagery and cult genre blendings, to create live collective fiction. Visitors may participate in performing rituals with the artwork or the space by wearing colorful paper-robes and vestiges. The work borrows from several religious and belief-tropes, yet removes this into an experimental stage, isolated from the realities of our current hyper-politicized social world of hyper-division or agreement.
This installation uses entirely lightweight, colored, fireproof paper with the illusion of stain glass leading and structural patterns in nature. And this reiteration will include a selection from 65 photographs from those who participated in the 2017 Satellite Art Shows in Miami, and a new video piece by Ovelmen.
This exhibition will also present works from David Kent Card (Athens, GA) and Andrew West (Los Angeles, CA).
About the Artist
Jim Ovelmen is an internationally recognized artist living in Los Angeles. His mixed-media work has been shown all over the world including museums and galleries in United States, Europe and Asia. He has shown his work in QiPO 01 Mexico City, numerous times in Art Basel, and is work was featured in the 2010 Aichi Triennial in Japan and the 2016, 2017 Satellite Art Show in Miami Art Week. His drawings, paintings, videos, animations, and musical performance work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, FilmForum Los Angeles, Pacific Asia Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Kristi Engle Gallery, PØST Gallery, Kristine Koenig Gallery in Vienna, and Artist Space in New York. He is also a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles.
Andrew West was born in New York City, received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for the last ten years. He has participated in residencies in México and the Netherlands, and has work in private collections throughout Northern and Southern California, New York City, Boston, Ontario, Canada, Amsterdam, and Münster, Germany. Recently, he has had solo exhibitions at Santa Ana College, PØST in Los Angeles, and Long Beach City College. Group shows here and abroad include work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Centro Cultural Riviera, Ensenada, México, the Yokohama Triennial, and galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, New York, and Japan.
David Kent Card lives and works in Athens, GA. His work has been shown in Los Angeles, Miami, and Athens. His public sculpture projects have been shown in Athens, including his 2019 Wingspan, selected by Athens Cultural Affairs Commission. David spends most his time when not painting, frolicking in the backwoods of Georgia. His home is packed with thousands of artworks on paper, including paper-sculpture, and mixed media work, most of which remain un-shown to the art world.
Zoul Zurvivor is a semi-enclosed, painted paper installation presenting a ritualistic space similar to the interior of a condensed stained-glass cathedral. The work will invite photography in impromptu communion-like configurations; imagery and cult genre blendings, to create live collective fiction. Visitors may participate in performing rituals with the artwork or the space by wearing colorful paper-robes and vestiges. The work borrows from several religious and belief-tropes, yet removes this into an experimental stage, isolated from the realities of our current hyper-politicized social world of hyper-division or agreement.
This installation uses entirely lightweight, colored, fireproof paper with the illusion of stain glass leading and structural patterns in nature. And this reiteration will include a selection from 65 photographs from those who participated in the 2017 Satellite Art Shows in Miami, and a new video piece by Ovelmen.
This exhibition will also present works from David Kent Card (Athens, GA) and Andrew West (Los Angeles, CA).
About the Artist
Jim Ovelmen is an internationally recognized artist living in Los Angeles. His mixed-media work has been shown all over the world including museums and galleries in United States, Europe and Asia. He has shown his work in QiPO 01 Mexico City, numerous times in Art Basel, and is work was featured in the 2010 Aichi Triennial in Japan and the 2016, 2017 Satellite Art Show in Miami Art Week. His drawings, paintings, videos, animations, and musical performance work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, FilmForum Los Angeles, Pacific Asia Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Kristi Engle Gallery, PØST Gallery, Kristine Koenig Gallery in Vienna, and Artist Space in New York. He is also a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles.
Andrew West was born in New York City, received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for the last ten years. He has participated in residencies in México and the Netherlands, and has work in private collections throughout Northern and Southern California, New York City, Boston, Ontario, Canada, Amsterdam, and Münster, Germany. Recently, he has had solo exhibitions at Santa Ana College, PØST in Los Angeles, and Long Beach City College. Group shows here and abroad include work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Centro Cultural Riviera, Ensenada, México, the Yokohama Triennial, and galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, New York, and Japan.
David Kent Card lives and works in Athens, GA. His work has been shown in Los Angeles, Miami, and Athens. His public sculpture projects have been shown in Athens, including his 2019 Wingspan, selected by Athens Cultural Affairs Commission. David spends most his time when not painting, frolicking in the backwoods of Georgia. His home is packed with thousands of artworks on paper, including paper-sculpture, and mixed media work, most of which remain un-shown to the art world.