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Signal to Noise : Curated by Michael Slenske

Past exhibition
January 13 - February 17, 2024
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Michael John Kelly, 'Doucement,' 2022-2023, Oil, acrylic, pigment print collage on canvas
Michael John Kelly, 'Doucement,' 2022-2023, Oil, acrylic, pigment print collage on canvas

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth."

'Signal To Noise' is a group exhibition that centers on "finding form through abstraction in an undefinable Era."  

 

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce Signal To Noise, a group exhibition curated by Michael Slenske. The presentation will include paintings, sculpture, and drawings by twenty-two contemporary artists who explore the language of abstraction: Yevgeniya Baras, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Pui Tiffany Chow, Kenwyn Crichlow, David-Jeremiah, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, JPW3, Michael John Kelly, Kyle Kilty, Seffa Klein, Erica Mahinay, Sean McGaughey, Jean Nagai, Maximus Oppenheimer, Vanessa Prager, Wilfredo Prieto, Cassidy Putnam, Edgar Ramirez, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Richard Tinkler, and Naama Tsabar.  

 

The exhibition is on view January 13 – February 17, 2024.

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Works
  • Michael John Kelly Doucement, 2022-23
    Michael John Kelly
    Doucement, 2022-23
  • Strauss Bourque-LaFrance Moon Clown, 2023
    Strauss Bourque-LaFrance
    Moon Clown, 2023
  • Pui Tiffany Chow Hush Puppy, 2022
    Pui Tiffany Chow
    Hush Puppy, 2022
  • Pui Tiffany Chow Fantasy Portrait #3, 2023
    Pui Tiffany Chow
    Fantasy Portrait #3, 2023
  • Strauss Bourque-LaFrance Curtain Club, 2023
    Strauss Bourque-LaFrance
    Curtain Club, 2023
  • Kenwyn Crichlow The Inner Drama of Redness, 2022
    Kenwyn Crichlow
    The Inner Drama of Redness, 2022
  • Wilfredo Prieto La desescalada cultural, sector por sector, 2020
    Wilfredo Prieto
    La desescalada cultural, sector por sector, 2020
  • Wilfredo Prieto Si cumple estas condiciones puede acceder a la ayuda extraordinaria por la crisis, 2020
    Wilfredo Prieto
    Si cumple estas condiciones puede acceder a la ayuda extraordinaria por la crisis, 2020
  • Seffa Klein Mission In, 2022
    Seffa Klein
    Mission In, 2022
  • Edgar Ramirez Paraiso, 2023
    Edgar Ramirez
    Paraiso, 2023
  • Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia Papel tejido 40 (Él derrama lluvia sobre la tierra y envía agua sobre los campos), 2013
    Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
    Papel tejido 40 (Él derrama lluvia sobre la tierra y envía agua sobre los campos), 2013
  • Kyle Kilty Sound Stage, 2023
    Kyle Kilty
    Sound Stage, 2023
  • Kyle Kilty Hold Onto Your Breath, Hold Onto Your Heart, Hold Onto Your Hope, 2020
    Kyle Kilty
    Hold Onto Your Breath, Hold Onto Your Heart, Hold Onto Your Hope, 2020
  • Jean Nagai Aoshima, 2023
    Jean Nagai
    Aoshima, 2023
  • David-Jeremiah I.A.H.Y.F.F.A.W.D./N.F.D.B.J.W.B.D. S-7 (Internalized), 2021
    David-Jeremiah
    I.A.H.Y.F.F.A.W.D./N.F.D.B.J.W.B.D. S-7 (Internalized), 2021
  • Vanessa Prager Looking Glass, 2022
    Vanessa Prager
    Looking Glass, 2022
  • JPW3 Growhouse 4, 2023
    JPW3
    Growhouse 4, 2023
  • Richard Tinkler L5FA 14.1, 2023
    Richard Tinkler
    L5FA 14.1, 2023
  • Richard Tinkler F4A1.2, 2023
    Richard Tinkler
    F4A1.2, 2023
  • Erica Mahinay Deep Bright, 2023
    Erica Mahinay
    Deep Bright, 2023
  • Erica Mahinay Parallel and Entangled, 2022
    Erica Mahinay
    Parallel and Entangled, 2022
  • Erica Mahinay Self-Reflection Station (Held), 2023
    Erica Mahinay
    Self-Reflection Station (Held), 2023
  • Sean McGaughey Transforming Poison Into Medicine (June 28-29, 2023), 2023
    Sean McGaughey
    Transforming Poison Into Medicine (June 28-29, 2023), 2023
  • Sean McGaughey Transforming Poison Into Medicine (June 22, 2023), 2023
    Sean McGaughey
    Transforming Poison Into Medicine (June 22, 2023), 2023
  • Sean McGaughey Transforming Poison Into Medicine (April 28, 2023), 2023
    Sean McGaughey
    Transforming Poison Into Medicine (April 28, 2023), 2023
  • Kyle Kilty Sun Study, 2017-2019
    Kyle Kilty
    Sun Study, 2017-2019
  • Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack Dodge The System (Behind The Fence), 4EVER
    Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack
    Dodge The System (Behind The Fence), 4EVER
  • Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack Dodge The System, 4EVER
    Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack
    Dodge The System, 4EVER
  • Cassidy Putnam Screamo, 2023
    Cassidy Putnam
    Screamo, 2023
  • Naama Tsabar Transition, 2020
    Naama Tsabar
    Transition, 2020
  • Yevgeniya Baras Untitled, 2021-2022
    Yevgeniya Baras
    Untitled, 2021-2022
  • Seffa Klein Mission Light, 2023
    Seffa Klein
    Mission Light, 2023
  • Sean McGaughey Transforming Poison Into Medicine (May 10, 2023), 2023
    Sean McGaughey
    Transforming Poison Into Medicine (May 10, 2023), 2023
  • Seffa Klein Mission Night, 2023
    Seffa Klein
    Mission Night, 2023
  • David-Jeremiah I.A.H.Y.F.F.A.W.D./N.F.D.B.J.W.B.D. S-7 (Externalized), 2021
    David-Jeremiah
    I.A.H.Y.F.F.A.W.D./N.F.D.B.J.W.B.D. S-7 (Externalized), 2021
  • JPW3 Growhouse 5, 2023
    JPW3
    Growhouse 5, 2023
Installation Views
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 1
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 4
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 5
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 7
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 9
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 11
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 12 1
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 13
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 14
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 15 1
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 17
  • Signal To Noise 2024 Diane Rosenstein Gallery Photo By Robert Wedemeyer Installation View 19
News
  • EVENT: Curator Dialogues + Closing Party – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    EVENT: Curator Dialogues + Closing Party – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    Saturday, February 17th from 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm February 15, 2024
    EVENT: Curator Dialogues + Exhibition Closing Party A Conversation with Michael Slenske Saturday, February 17th , 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Exhibition Closing Party, 3:30...
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  • EVENT: Curator Dialogues II – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    EVENT: Curator Dialogues II – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    Saturday, February 10th from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm February 5, 2024
    Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce a conversation between curator Michael Slenske and Signal To Noise artists Pui Tiffany Chow, Sean McGaughey and Jean...
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  • EVENT: Curator Dialogues – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    EVENT: Curator Dialogues – A Conversation with Michael Slenske

    Saturday, January 27th from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm January 22, 2024
    Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce a conversation between curator Michael Slenske and Signal To Noise artists Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Vanessa...
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Press release

Signal To Noise | Curated by Michael Slenske

January 13 – February 17, 2024

 

Opening reception: Saturday, January 13th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce Signal To Noise, a group exhibition curated by Michael Slenske. The presentation will include paintings, sculpture, and drawings by twenty-two contemporary artists who explore the language of abstraction. Signal To Noise opens Saturday, January 13, 2024, with a reception for the artists from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

 

In his seminal text, "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," the synesthetic painter Wassily Kandinsky delved deep into the transformative power of abstraction, noting the further we distance organic forms from the forefront of a composition, the more pronounced the attenuated abstraction becomes. In this process, any remaining representational elements are compelled to reach their "own inner tone and harmony." Another way to think of this is through the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which is employed in music recording, data analysis, and image-making. In music, the signal is the intended meaningful information, while the noise comprises any unwanted disturbances or random fluctuations that can degrade signal quality. A higher SNR indicates a stronger, clearer sound. When dealing in analytics, signal represents actual data, whereas noise encompasses any informational errors. And in fields like photography or remote sensing, signal is the object of interest; noise, the imperfections or distortions that reduce an image's fidelity.

 

From Kandinsky's Composition VII (1913) and Frank Bowling’s aqueous Palimpsest I - Mothers House DarkRedGreen (1966) to Helen Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea (1952) and Charline von Heyl’s moving line (to create patterns and figures), the SNR lies somewhere between the coded signal elements (or what critics might call "the hidden object") to pure expressionistic noise gestures that meld the emotionally charged context to the grounding content. While discourse around this tension has been alive throughout the history of abstraction, the current moment finds many contemporary artists reaching more for this "inner tone and harmony" perhaps as a response (or phrase, to borrow a musical term) to the instability of the outside world.

 

Prompts include everything from articles of clothing, coded alphabets, the remnants of street games and hidden landscapes to wildlife migrations and self-portraiture, or even embedded instruments. These utterly synesthetic paintings created at one of the noisiest points in human history are being freighted with some of the most loaded signals to boldly comment on identity, gentrification, displacement, and the end of civilization as we know it. They are improvising the end times, teasing out meaningful information as a way to map the anthropocenic.

 

The question is: How does an abstract painting validate its mark-making in this era of social media tribalism, climate insecurity, racial and economic injustice, and war. “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth," writes political forecaster Nate Silver in his book The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't. In it, Silver observes, “One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.”

 

The key to SNR—in music, analytics or abstraction—is to find the right balance. One could argue that when compared with the Ab-Exers, the geometric abstraction of the Seventies, or the process-based works of the early Aughts (which one critic once jokingly argued, "was a movement that could have only happened under the relative calm of no-drama Obama") the works of this new generation of abstract painters might contain the most clarity-driven SNR of all. Perhaps because these artists are competing with so much distorting information before they even make it out their door on a daily basis, their signal simply has to be stronger in order to survive.

 

Artists: Yevgeniya Baras, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Pui Tiffany Chow, Kenwyn Crichlow, David-Jeremiah, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack, JPW3, Michael John Kelly, Kyle Kilty, Seffa Klein, Erica Mahinay, Sean McGaughey, Jean Nagai, Maximus Oppenheimer, Vanessa Prager, Wilfredo Prieto, Cassidy Putnam, Edgar Ramirez, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Richard Tinkler, and Naama Tsabar.

 

Signal To Noise includes work by artists based in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Trinidad and Tobago, Havana, and Sedona, Arizona. A centerpiece of the exhibition is Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia’s Papel Tejido 40 (2013), a two-sided woven paper painting, which is suspended from the gallery ceiling displaying each side of this monumental work. Born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Hurtado Segovia, now a Los Angeles-based artist, employs a craft tradition incorporating thin strips of painted paper that he weaves together into textiles that recall native blankets, ceremonial robes, and tapestries.  

 

Kyle Kilty and Erica Mahinay, two artists featured in Made In L.A.: Acts of Living, The Hammer’s recent biennial, will each show new paintings and sculpture in the exhibition. Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack debuts an assemblage painting/sculpture from his new series, “Dodge the System,” derived from a 2023 performance with Frieze Los Angeles. 

 

Dallas-based Conceptual artist David-Jeremiah, who will open a solo exhibition at The Clark Museum in Massachusetts in February, is showing a mixed media diptych; and Naama Tsabar will show an electronic Transition sculpture. In March, Tsabar will have a solo exhibition in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. On view are a pair of Fake News paintings by Wilfredo Prieto, who will represent Cuba at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024 in April. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, who are showing a copper and ceramic wall work, have a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth this fall.

 

About the Curator:

Michael Slenske is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor and curator. He has curated the group show L.A. On Fire at Wilding Cran Gallery; Object Lessons with The Landing Gallery; All Tomorrow’s Parties at domicile (n.) gallery and Storm Before the Calm at Praz-Delavallade as well as solo shows for Aryo Toh Djojo, Charles Arnoldi, Emily Marchand, Fawn Rogers, Hely Omar Gonzalez, and Martín Nuñez. Slenske is also the founder of The Street & The Shop, an artist-driven pop-up, which has been staged at various galleries, studios, and architecturally significant spaces including the Paramount Backlot as part of Frieze LA, Tin Flats, and the Bradbury Building.

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Publications
  • Vanessa Prager: Paintings 2020-2024

    Vanessa Prager: Paintings 2020-2024

    2024
    Softcover 168 pages
    Publisher: Diane Rosenstein Gallery
    ISBN: 979-8-9892909-2-5
    Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
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