Paul Branca, Couch Crash, 2010. Installation view: Golden Parachutes, November 24-December 22, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Golden Parachutes.  A painting distribution project by Branca presented a series of text paintings that were given away to his friends in Berlin on a first come, first serve basis at the exhibition’s opening. The original nineteen paintings depicted a word or punctuation mark spelling out: HEY JUNGS KÖNNTE ICH ÜBER DER COUCH CRASH, ICH BIN WIRKLICH MÜDE UND KANN ES NICHT WEITERGEHEN (Hey guys could I crash over the couch, I am really tired and I can’t go on). Branca currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25. 
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Paul Branca, Couch Crash, 2010. Installation view: Golden Parachutes, November 24-December 22, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Golden Parachutes. 

A painting distribution project by Branca presented a series of text paintings that were given away to his friends in Berlin on a first come, first serve basis at the exhibition’s opening. The original nineteen paintings depicted a word or punctuation mark spelling out: HEY JUNGS KÖNNTE ICH ÜBER DER COUCH CRASH, ICH BIN WIRKLICH MÜDE UND KANN ES NICHT WEITERGEHEN (Hey guys could I crash over the couch, I am really tired and I can’t go on).

Branca currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25. 

Paul Branca, 20% Chance of Show, 2012. Installation view: Matter Out of Place, June 27-August 17, 2012. Performance at umbrella stand in Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Kitchen. Courtesy the artist and The Kitchen, NY. Branca currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life at SculptureCenter runs through March 25.
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Paul Branca, 20% Chance of Show, 2012. Installation view: Matter Out of Place, June 27-August 17, 2012. Performance at umbrella stand in Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Kitchen. Courtesy the artist and The Kitchen, NY.

Branca currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life at SculptureCenter runs through March 25.

A native of New York, Paul Branca received a BFA from Queens College and an MFA in painting from Bard College. His work exists between a private studio practice and the desire to perform within a socially engaged field. He employs paintings as objects that communicate ideas about distribution, process, communication and comedy. He lives and works in Queens. 

Branca currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.

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Paul Branca, 24 ore di gatti colorati, 2012. 24 paintings, oil on canvas, each 48 x 56 cm. Installation image: Let Us Keep Our Own Noon, Galerie West, The Hague, Holland, February 29-April 14, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Galerie West.

Shana Lutker, Untitled Objects, 2012. Installation view: Office of Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, June 2012. Courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects.  Lutker currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.
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Shana Lutker, Untitled Objects, 2012. Installation view: Office of Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, June 2012. Courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects. 

Lutker currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.

By borrowing from the archives of psychoanalysis and surrealism, Shana Lutker re-examines history through experience. Her artistic practice takes shape in a variety of mediums and materials and foregrounds the relationship between history, memory and interpretation. Recently she presented New Research Concerning the Fistfights of the Surrealists, the inaugural project at The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects in Columbus, Ohio. This spring, she will have a solo exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Lutker received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from UCLA. She lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Lutker currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.

 

Shana Lutker, New Research Concerning the Fistfights of the Surrealists, 2012. Installation view: The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects, October 20-November 3, 2012. Courtesy the artist and The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects.

David Berezin, Just The Beginning, 2011. Looped DVD, 01:11. Courtesy the artist and Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles.

As with his photographs, Berezin’s videos vacillate between the stock and the specific and often simulate part of an existing piece of media, such as a title sequence or a line of credits. While they appear to be found or stock footage, they are original videos shot by the artist. Whereas his collages imply narrative content by depicting key signifiers, his videos are bookends of the implied content.

Berezin currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.

David Berezin, David Berezin, 2012. Installation view: Jancar Jones Gallery, January 21-February 18, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles. Berezin currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.
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David Berezin, David Berezin, 2012. Installation view: Jancar Jones Gallery, January 21-February 18, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles.

Berezin currently participates in SculptureCenter’s 2012-2013 In Practice program, culminating in an exhibition of new work. Double Life opens at SculptureCenter on January 13, 5-7PM and runs through March 25.