January 26 – March 01, 2008
Opening reception: January 26, 6–8 pm
Artist Talk: 6:30 pm
+ GALLERY TALK
Lora Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of New York based artist Mads Lynnerup entitled If You See Anything Interesting Please Let Someone Know Immediately. The exhibition, in conjunction with a catalogue of same title, mark ten years of art making by Lynnerup.
Mads Lynnerup works in a variety of media often creating humorous and poignant works based on observations he makes of his immediate environment. ‘If You See Anything Interesting Please Let Someone Know Immediately’ posters are an altered text based on New York subway security posters that read ‘If You See Anything Suspicious Please Let Someone Know Immediately’. Lynnerup will be pasting his posters throughout Austin and when put in an art context the slogan references the common use of the prosaic word “interesting” in the art world, which is often used when a viewer does not know how to respond to an artwork.
Taking his inspiration from everyday life Lynnerup’s work comments on and draws attention to situations that might otherwise get overlooked in the day to day. In the video work ‘Fountain’ the dirty dishes stacked in the artist’s kitchen sink are converted into a cascading fountain. ‘Band-Aid’ is a work in which Lynnerup has used over a thousand of the familiar household bandages to create a large sculptural installation. The work is playful and also alludes to a need for a widespread healing.
By adding to or deducting from a familiar scenario the work of Mads Lynnerup transforms the situation to give it new meaning and perspective.
The artist will be doing a performance in the gallery on opening night at 6:30 pm.
Mads Lynnerup lives and works in New York City where he is currently completing his MFA work at Columbia University. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. Lynnerup has shown his work internationally at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), P.S. 1, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland) and is in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Miami Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.
Christopher Eamon is Director of the New Art Trust, San Francisco and Curator of the distinguished Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco. He was previously with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has made his name as an art historian and curator with exhibitions like Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2006/07), Art Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach (2005), Video Acts: Single Channel Video from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust (2002/2003) at the PS1/Museum of Modern Art, New York, and ICA London; In Sync: Cinema and Sound in the Work of Julie Becker and Christian Marclay (2001) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Bill Viola: The Crossing (1998) at the Aspen Art Museum.