Taking into consideration the spacial dynamics of the Bank of America building, curator Janet Levy carefully selected the works to connect the multi levels, Parking level A, concourse and plaza as well as the outdoor stairwell. Each area was then matched with an artist and project:

Project 1, Karen Lofgren’s Gold Flood
Project 2, Matthew Greene Come Together
Project 3, Simmons & Burke Clouds Wallpaper
Project 4, Diana Thater OZ
Project 5, Ryan Perez The Escalator to Nowhere

On the lowest level Karen Lofgren’s Gold Flood seeps out from underneath the edges of the wall, playing with the relationship between liquid and solid states. Matthew Greene intertwines the physical and metaphysical in Come Together using an undulating mass of bodies along outdoor stairwell. They form a seductively charged passageway between the material world and a collective subconscious. Simmons & Burke navigate between darkness and light with Clouds Wallpaper, connecting the backdrops of interior and exterior environments. In OZ Diana Thater investigates the gap that separates and connects earth and sky. California poppies bloom downwards into clouds floating upwards in an inverted landscape between floors. Juxtaposed with their utilitarian counterparts on the bottom floor, Ryan Perez’s The Escalator to Nowhere renders moving objects motionless, a duo of heavy monolithic forms held in place by gravity.

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• Nathan Bell,
• Jesse Benson,
• Scott Benzel,
• Michael Coleman,
• Chris Eichenseer,
• Corey Fogel,
• Katherine Gray,
• Matthew Greene,
• Edgar Heap of Birds,
• Wendy Heldman,
• Matthew Hoffman,
• Chad Kouri,
• Jow,
• Karen Lofgren,
• Christian Morin,
• Thomas Müller,
• Eamon O’Kane,
• Zack Stadel,
• Michael Worthington.

Janet X Janet Shop hours:
Friday, August 24, 11am – 6pm
Opening Reception 6-9pm, Music by NATHANETICS

Saturday, August 25,11am – 7pm
Decidu #1 Performance by Corey Fogel, 5pm
Corey Fogel’s performance for Janet X Janet will comprise percussion, organic materials, and fabric in a spontaneous improvisation. Using musical trajectory as a map, Corey’s performances blur distinctions between sound, gesture, and sculpture, appropriating both familiar and unfamiliar tropes into something of an abstract ritual.

Saturday, August 25 & Sunday, August 26
Poster Workshop with Michael Coleman, 2 – 5pm
Michael Coleman will produce a diptych poster series for Janet X Janet exhibition, Based on notions of temporary, these limited edition silkscreen posters, Sorry It’s Temporary will be hand printed onsite. Poster A printed on Saturday and Poster B on Sunday.

Sunday, August 26, 5pm
Michael Worthington Just a Band
Michael Worthington’s Just A Band, prompted from Scroobius Pip’s “Thou Shalt Always Kill” is indicative of the shift in the cultural importance of bands from his youth. The text “Just A Band” is made up of 440 hand made buttons, available to take Sunday at 5pm.

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The Mythology of Interiors is a performance about interior design spaces, using art world actors/ performers, using their bodies as screens, where they wear white clothes and are video projected onto their actual clothes and follows them with their movements.

The short acts were written to describe historical interior spaces as they also are inspired and relate to mythology. There will be a detailed program, which will be online shortly for more specific information about the script.

The short acts are The Pomegranate Seeds, The Golden Fleece, The Seduction of Lo, Atlas, Mount Olympus, and The Underworld. These scenes all describe interior design in relation to mythology. In other words, the myth will be acted out and there will be an emphasis on the space and the interior design where they are and how they relate to the environment.  In all acts, there will be humor and a twist of a myth about how historical spaces can relate to contemporary design and space.

In the acts all of the 13 special guest performers represent the international art world. The performers are artists; curators, actors and museum professionals acting on a small outdoor white stage at the Sky Bar with white theater curtains.

This project is a site-specific performance made for the Hotel Mondrian. Based on the Sky Bar and the Mondrian being well known for its exquisite interiors, this project was formed and created to reference the sky (mythology) and the interiors. The short plays show an energetic and lighthearted way of physically expressing design + space + and references myths. Although, they are made with a contemporary twist. They are understandable and entertaining for an uplifting evening with intelligent writing and connections with how the body with new digital media describes interior design.

Janet Levy is a curator and gallery founder/director, born in Los Angeles CA. She presented her first curatorial project in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1990. She brings years of curatorial, gallery and marketing experience to her success in producing and promoting significant projects by prominent contemporary artists. Demonstrating an extraordinary intuitive ability for selecting talented visual artists.  In 2006 Levy founded See Line Gallery, an exhibition space dedicated to supporting the work of exceptional contemporary artists.

Nicole Cohen, (b. 1970) in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, lives and works in New York and in Berlin, Germany. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at different venues in Berlin, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Paris, France; Shanghai, China and Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan. From 2007 – 2009 she had a commissioned video solo exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. In January 2011, she had her third solo museum exhibition called Driving in Circles at the American University Museum Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C

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Lesley Moon’s The Golden Veil (Et in Arcadia…) is a large-scale photographic work depicting a  shimmering gold curtain. Representing a threshold between public and private, exterior and interior spaces, the veil invites the viewer to consider exchanges and intersections of everyday life and symbolic structures, raising questions of the act of viewing itself and the imaginative possibilities for reflection within the urban environment.

October 2 – 31, 2010
Lesley Moon
The Golden Veil (Et in Arcadia…)
Opening reception and artist talk: October 14, 5pm – 9pm

Christopher Haun’s Arctic Wave: Big Breakwater, a mosaic wave composed of precisely  cut tiles from surf magazines, addresses our vital connection  with water, always moving, tides ebbing and flowing with waves breaking and receding. This project encapsulates a specific moment in time when water has been rendered motionless, frozen in time, reflecting tranquility, calm and stillness.

November 11 – December 17, 2010
Christopher Haun
Arctic wave: Big Breakwater
Opening reception and artist talk: November 11, 2010, 5 – 8pm

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Todd Gray’s installation The Gray Room is included in the From My Universe: Objects of Desire, Part II exhibition at See Line Gallery. In collaboration with the curator, the artist creates a photo/sculpture installation combining Gray’s images of Michael Jackson taken when he worked as his personal photographer in the 80′s, with turn of the century African masks and Ghost Clouds, an investigation of Gray’s neo-primitive wonderings engaging Jungian principles of the Id and African animism. The atmosphere of ritual and mysticism is palpable in the gallery space.

Gray began using his Jackson images as an art source while studying with photographer and writer Allan Sekula at Cal Arts twenty years ago. The Gray Room is a ritual space, an intersection of concerns common in his various works with the inner dialogues swirling in his head while working in Africa, and thinking about America.

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