What is Minimalism?

"Hello, I'm Professor Betty Brown, and the topic is minimalism. Minimalism is an avant-garde movement that peaked in the United States in the 1960s. It was dominated by sculptors and painters who sought to reduce art down to the essential form of art. Perhaps the best known minimalist painter is Frank Stella, who liked to say, "What you see is what you see." He created using stripes -- sometimes of the same color, sometimes of varied color -- totally self-referring icons. Paintings of stripes that did not have stories or feelings, that were just objects that he created for minimal...using minimal means. Minimalists were sculptors who created, like Donald Judd, series of cubes out of metal or wood that were repeated again and again across a gallery floor. You might see seven Donald Judd metallic cubes down a gallery wall or five Donald Judd plywood boxes across a gallery floor. So these significant forms were experienced physically by the viewer and were embodying a reduced, reduced, reduced statement by the artist, "What is the very minimal that you have to put to make it comprise an artwork?""

ROLU at Golden Age

In conjunction with the exhibition Thirty and Eight, ROLU will present new pieces designed to activate one's awareness of the physical actions related to sitting. Matt Olson and Mike Brady of ROLU studio will be present at the opening.

December 17, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Opening: Friday, December 17, 6-9pm

ALSO: Matt Olson was interviewed by our former intern Jabari Jordan-Walker for 01 Magazine!

PROBLEM SOLVERZ

You may have seen this floating around the blogosphere but if not, it's time to really sit back and enjoy some cartoons.

It's important to note this will be on Cartoon Network for 11 episodes so look forward to talking about knowing Paperrad "before they had their TV show" with your nieces and nephews. One item I wasn't aware of; Paperrad has shown at PaceWildenstein, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Deitch Projects...

And speaking of Deitch Projects, do you think this could episode could be an allegorical tale surrounding Jeffrey Deitch's takeover(directorship) of MOCA?  The world may never know...

Thirty and Eight - Derek Chan and Ayako Yamasaki

Golden Age is pleased to present Thirty and Eight, Derek Chan and Ayako Yamasaki featuring furniture from Minneapolis based design studio RO/LU.    

Thirty and Eight is a celebration of simplicity and of the basic, everyday rituals we use to compose our lives. Chan will be showing a series of thirty delicate ink drawings from his "Daily Drawings" project and Yamasaki will be presenting a curated selection of eight housewares culled from Tokyo's wholesale district on her most recent trip to Japan.  In keeping with these rituals, tea will be served each day at three o'clock.     

This is Chan's first exhibition with the gallery and directly follows a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and collaborations with Theaster Gates at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the Whitney Biennial.

December 17, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Opening: Friday, December 17, 6-9pm

Thirty and Eight project page