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Simon Leung, Andrea Fraser, Lincoln Tobier: 91 92 93
MAK Center
May 11, 2011
Looking Back documents the opening reception of 91 92 93, an exhibition that revisits and reworks aesthetic paradigms created by key projects from the early 1990s. Held at the MAK Center in Los Angeles, Andrea Fraser, Lincoln Tobier, and Simon Leung present new installations and performances based on seminal earlier pieces. Not only do the new works reflect contemporary critical positions, they also incorporate recent history and the modernist context created by the landmark Schindler House. The exhibition gives the artists and their audiences the opportunity to re-evaluate artistic methodologies and theories first posited two decades ago.
Similar to the way in which all three artists revisit particular works that they produced in the past such that the current works expand and recontextualize upon original concepts, this last episode of the Emerge Through Art video-web series draws upon ideas of looking back and learning from past experiences as a way to actively incorporate and involve one’s self and one’s art in contemporary issues and debates.
Andrea Fraser is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. She is currently a professor in New Genres at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lincoln Tobier was born in 1964 in New York, and currently works out of Los Angeles. His projects embrace a variety of media including sculpture and painting, as well as, video and radio. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Simon Leung was born in Hong Kong and studied at UCLA, Columbia University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has taught in the Studio Art Department at UC Irvine since 2001. Simon Leung’s work is project-based and very often collaborative.
Since its inception in 1994, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House has been making a unique contribution to the artistic and cultural landscape of Los Angeles. Offering a year-round schedule of exhibitions, lectures, symposia, and concerts, the MAK Center proudly presents programming that challenges conventional notions of architectural space and relationships between the creative arts.
