Lee Ranaldo: A Random Collection of Cells

Moshe · 01.10.2010, 12:12 PM

The Hogar Collection

362 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
tel.718.388.5022
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Gallery Hours: Thursdays - Mondays 12:00 - 7 pm and by appointment

Lee Ranaldo
A Random Collection of Cells

January 15 – February 22
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 15 from 6 - 9 pm

The Hogar Collection is most pleased to announce, "A Random Collection of
Cells", the first solo exhibition at the gallery, of recent works on paper by Lee
Ranaldo. Known as co-founder of the seminal rock band Sonic Youth,
Ranaldo’s visual work weaves an intriguing poetic fabric that is at once a
reflective re-inspection of popular culture and media while simultaneously
containing a loose and indeterminate philosophy that is able to shrug it all
away and let it be as it is. His multi-disciplinary artistic practice includes
music, sound, painting, printmaking, video, sculpture, installation, writing and
poetry, which are at times represented in their singular forms and at others
integrated into a flawless body that fluidly combines the varied mediums into
one. His work relies on a straightforward kind of honesty that frequently
borrows and manipulates readymade imagery. In one series of ink paintings
on paper, imagery from newspaper clippings are magnified and subtly altered,
removed from their original journalistic context and re-presented as purely
visual images. Divorced from the stories surrounding them, the pictures begin
to describe a new, accumulative narrative, free of topical content. Found texts
in the form of spam are often used as a component in the free-form prose
used to juxtapose unrelated images, texts or sounds. All in all, Ranaldo’s
work navigates our media-saturated world, seeking to liberate pure graphic
images from their time-bound context, to complete some unknown puzzle,
which then blurs the boundaries of art with the overtones of a distorted,
melodic riff.
Lee Ranaldo was born in 1956 in Glen Cove, NY and lives and works in New
York City. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally at such
places as the Pompidou Center in Paris, P.S.1, New York, The Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London, MACBA, Barcelona
and Printed Matter, New York among others.

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Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,889	The Hogar Collection 362 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 tel.718.388.5022 info@hogarcollection.com www.hogarcollection.com Gallery Hours: Thursdays - Mondays 12:00 - 7 pm and by appointment Lee Ranaldo A Random Collection of Cells January 15 – February 22 Opening Reception: Friday, January 15 from 6 - 9 pm The Hogar Collection is most pleased to announce, "A Random Collection of Cells", the first solo exhibition at the gallery, of recent works on paper by Lee Ranaldo. Known as co-founder of the seminal rock band Sonic Youth, Ranaldo’s visual work weaves an intriguing poetic fabric that is at once a reflective re-inspection of popular culture and media while simultaneously containing a loose and indeterminate philosophy that is able to shrug it all away and let it be as it is. His multi-disciplinary artistic practice includes music, sound, painting, printmaking, video, sculpture, installation, writing and poetry, which are at times represented in their singular forms and at others integrated into a flawless body that fluidly combines the varied mediums into one. His work relies on a straightforward kind of honesty that frequently borrows and manipulates readymade imagery. In one series of ink paintings on paper, imagery from newspaper clippings are magnified and subtly altered, removed from their original journalistic context and re-presented as purely visual images. Divorced from the stories surrounding them, the pictures begin to describe a new, accumulative narrative, free of topical content. Found texts in the form of spam are often used as a component in the free-form prose used to juxtapose unrelated images, texts or sounds. All in all, Ranaldo’s work navigates our media-saturated world, seeking to liberate pure graphic images from their time-bound context, to complete some unknown puzzle, which then blurs the boundaries of art with the overtones of a distorted, melodic riff. Lee Ranaldo was born in 1956 in Glen Cove, NY and lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally at such places as the Pompidou Center in Paris, P.S.1, New York, The Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London, MACBA, Barcelona and Printed Matter, New York among others.
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