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Installation view

 
 
 
 

Chad Attie

C O N T E M P T

December 14, 2013 - January 25, 2014

Opening Reception: December 14, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, January 11, 4pm

 

Klowden Mann is very pleased to present our first solo show by Los Angeles-based artist Chad Attie, Contempt. The exhibition features collage works presented on paper, canvas and light box, exploring themes of idealized love, alienation, mythologized beauty, and loss of innocence through the use of found imagery of figure and landscape. The exhibition will be on view from December 14th through January 25th, with a reception for the artist on Saturday, December 14th, from 6 to 8pm.

 

In Contempt, Attie uses a variety of found materials that speak to our investment in (potentially false) ideals, and in the objects we create to represent those ideals. Vintage paintings purchased at garage sales, imagery from cinema (the title Contempt is an homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s film of the same name), children’s book illustrations, fabric, and needlepoint all become fodder for re-examination, as Attie layers his imagery and then tears it away to reveal what lies beneath (which is more surface, more idealized representation). Attie’s found representational objects themselves have been vested with hope—of reconciliation and wholeness through love, of childhood imaginings, of land that has not yet been overrun with industrialization. Attie’s manipulation and composition of those objects acts to invest new hope through dialogue, while simultaneously ripping apart the very ideals to which they speak. Presenting the moment of recognition as taking place exactly where the ideal meets its own impossibility, Attie continually focuses in on the destructive potential of desire to override all other modes of seeing and being. In the surfaces of Attie’s works, he shows us the unconquerable distance between subject and object, and the struggle to find agency while an idealistic hope for unity still maintains narrative power.

 

Chad Attie was born in Los Angeles, and studied at UCLA and Boston University. He has exhibited at venues including Caro d’Offay in Chicago, Read Contemporary Art in Dallas, Andrew Shire Gallery, Frank Pictures, Carl Berg Projects and Newspace in Los Angeles, and Wooster Projects in New York. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

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  • Contempt Eden 7

    2013
    Mixed media
    32.25 by 40.25 by 2.5 inches

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  • Contempt Eden 7 (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    32.25 by 40.25 by 2.5 inches

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  • Contempt Camille

    2013
    Mixed media
    24 by 12 by 8 inches

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  • Contempt Penelope

    2013
    Mixed media
    12.5 by 16.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Ithaca

    2013
    Mixed media
    24.5 by 27 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Ithaca (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    24.5 by 27 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Contempt 2

    2013
    Mixed media
    48.5 by 120.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Contempt 2 (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    48.5 by 120.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Contempt 2 (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    48.5 by 120.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Ulysses Gaze

    2013
    Mixed media
    48.5 by 120.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Ulysses Gaze (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    48.5 by 120.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Penelope 2

    2013
    Mixed media
    24.5 by 26.5 by 4.25 inches

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  • Contempt 40 fires

    2013
    Mixed media
    48 by 64 inches

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  • Contempt The Matterhorn

    2013
    Mixed media
    58 by 37 by 24 inches

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  • Contempt The Matterhorn

    2013
    Mixed media
    58 by 37 by 24 inches

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  • Contempt The Matterhorn (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    58 by 37 by 24 inches

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  • Contempt The Matterhorn (detail)

    2013
    Mixed media
    58 by 37 by 24 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 3

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 2

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 6

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 4

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 5

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Capri 1

    2013
    Mixed media
    20.5 by 16.5 by 7.5 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 1

    2013
    Mixed media
    5.5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Slhouette 2

    2013
    Mixed media
    5.5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 3

    2013
    Mixed media
    5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 4

    2013
    Mixed media
    5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 5

    2013
    Mixed media
    5.5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 6

    2013
    Mixed media
    5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 7

    2013
    Mixed media
    6 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Silhouette 8

    2013
    Mixed media
    5 by 4 inches

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  • Contempt Camille's Sea

    2013
    Mixed media
    24.5 by 48.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt Viola

    2013
    Mixed media
    16.75 by 12.75 inches (framed)

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  • Contempt Clarissa

    2013
    Mixed media
    16.75 by 12.75 inches (framed)

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  • Contempt Tyrrhenian sea

    2013
    Mixed media
    24.5 by 60.5 by 5 inches

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  • Contempt The garden

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    Mixed media
    72.5 by 84.5 by 8 inches

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  • Contempt Miranda's woods

    2012
    Mixed media
    25 by 7 by 11 inches

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  • Contempt Kensington Falls

    2013
    Mixed media
    24 by 12 by 7.5 inches

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