2010 | SCULPTURE ROOF – Justin Beal
20 January – 17 April 2010
SCULPTURE ROOF commissions outdoor public sculpture on the gallery’s roof for extended periods.
Untitled (MONOLITH), 2010
Timber, shrink wrap, grapefruit
160 x 160 x 187 cm
Installation view, SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
Untitled (MONOLITH), 2010
Timber, shrink wrap, grapefruit
160 x 160 x 187 cm
Installation view, SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
Untitled (MONOLITH), 2010
Timber, shrink wrap, grapefruit
160 x 160 x 187 cm
Installation view, SCULPTURE ROOF, London, UK
Study for SCULPTURE ROOF (Monolith), 2010
JUSTIN BEAL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2005
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2003
BA (Architecture and Design), Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture Roof, CRISP, London, UK
2008
Melamine Everything , ACME., Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Orange County Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Records Played Backward, Glasgow, Scotland
Past-Forward, 176, London, England
Nina In Position , Artists Space, New York, NY
Boofthle Booth-Booth , Pauline, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon , Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
Wu-Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY
Tugboat, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Tasteful Guidance (with Mateo Tannatt), Pauline, Los Angeles, CA
Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Substance and Surface , Bortolami Gallery, New York , NY
project room, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Reality Disorder (with Mateo Tannatt), Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Warhol and…, Kantor-Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles , CA
Petroliana , Moscow Biennial, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York , NY
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Eleven, Twelve , Pilar Parra & Romero Gallery, Madrid , Spain
The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life, UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside , CA
2006
Pose & Sculpture, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York , NY
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and Q.E.D. Gallery, Los
Angeles , CA
Let’s Stay Alive Till Monday, Art Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory. Tbilisi, Georgia
Wight Biennial: The Anxiety of Influence , University of California, Los Angeles , CA
2005
Radiodays, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam , Holland
T raffic: Exit Art Biennial II, Exit Art, New York , NY
2004
C rude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York, NY
Tuesday is Gone , Art Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory. Tbilisi, Georgia
Emerging Artist Fellowship , Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Strange Animal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles , CA
High Desert Test Sites 4 , Joshua Tree , CA
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing Gallery, New York, NY
2003
S undown Salon , MAK Center at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA
High Desert Test Sites 2 , Joshua Tree , CA
PROJECTS
2007
Calendar LA><ART, Los Angeles
LA: A Geography of Modern Art (with Aleksandra Mir), Printed Matter, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gopnick, Blake, “Justin Beal,” Artforum.com, March 28, 2008
Holland Cotter, Nina In Position, The New York Times, Art Listings, February 15, 2008
Nelson, Arty, “The Never-ending Exploration,” LA Weekly, January 11-17, p. 42
Michael Ned Holte, On the Ground: Los Angeles , Artforum, December 2007
Holland Cotter, I Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon, The New York Times, Art Listings,
November 23, 2007
Roberta Smith, “Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups,” The New York Times, Critic’s
Notebook, July 28, 2006
Adam E. Mendelsohn, “Look Again: ‘Pose & Sculpture,” Spike Art Quarterly, September, 2006
Adam E. Mendelsohn, Review: “Pose & Sculpture,” Time Out New York, July 27-August 2, 2006
Amra Brooks, Must See Art, LA Weekly, August 16, 2007
Freeman, Tommy, “The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life,” Art Week, May 2007
James Trainor, “Anybody Home?,” Frieze, May 2006
Ken Johnson, “Sprawl,” The New York Times, Art in Review, January 23, 2004
Bill Wheelock, “Sprawl,” ArtUS, June-August, 2004
Wade Guyton, “Desert Storm,” V Magazine, September-October 2003