Anna Ostoya
Works
2012. Acrylic and oil paint, archival print on paper, gesso board.
23.75 x 17.75 inches,
60.3 x 45.1 cm. |
2012. Acrylic and oil paint, archival print on paper, gesso board. 23.75 x 17.75 inches,
60.3 x 45.1 cm.
Inv# AO5389 |
2012. Acrylic and oil paint, archival print on paper, gesso board.
19.75 x 15.75 inches,
50.2 x 40 cm. |
2012. Acrylic and oil paint, archival print on paper, gesso board.
23.75 x 17.75 inches,
60.3 x 45.1 cm. |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Gold leaf, newspaper, and archival print on paper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, and 2009 newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché and gold leaf, on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic, archival print on paper and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, acrylic, archival print on paper and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Newspaper and acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf,acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Newspaper and papier maché on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm
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Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché, gold leaf, acrylic and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
Papier maché (from cardboard), gold leaf, and newspaper on canvas
24 x 20 inches
61 x 50.8 cm |
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Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil on canvas
31.5 x 31.5 in
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Collage on canvas
31.5 x 31.5
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Collage and oil on canvas
24 x 20 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Blood on canvas
24 x 20 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil and collage on canvas
20 x 24 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Albert Einstein, 'Why War?', print on paper
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
From the series: a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Cardboard and acrylic
31.5 x 31.5 x 51 in
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil and collage on canvas
24 x 20 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Oil on canvas
20 x 27 in.
From the series: From a to ∞, 2008-09 |
Press Release
Gallery I
Anna Ostoya
Exposures
Gallery II:
Tom Burr: Black Lab, 2002 & Oblong Box #2, 2002
Opening March 1st, 2011 6-8pm
Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of works by artist Anna Ostoya. The show will feature a series of new collages on canvas entitled Exposures that were all made during February 2011. For this series, Ostoya staged a durational performance. Each day, she began a new work with the aim of finishing 28 canvases-as many as there are days in February-by the time of the opening on March 1st.
Conceived in response to the Bortolami Gallery’s invitation, Exposures depends on pre-determined limits. They were realized not only through the temporal restrictions of her daily regimen, but also through the physical restrictions of the 20 x 24-inch canvases on which she worked. Other materials included newspaper and internet images, papier-mâché, gold leaf, and acrylic paint. Moving between her kitchen and studio, Ostoya made papier-mâché from unused papers creating compositions that operated somewhere between meticulous planning and improvisation. The scheduled time-too little for either lengthy reflection or extensive revision-became a test of her artistic efficiency and an experiment in creative manufacture. Performing like an udarnik (a super productive worker in Communist states), she attempted, in paradoxical fashion, to recapture enthusiasm and genuine spontaneity through disciplinary constraint. Exploring the tension between representation and abstraction, each canvas is marked by the day’s events and shaped by Ostoya’s creative responses. Through the combination of cheap paper and gold foil, she opened the work to questions about economic and ethical values, and through her accelerated timetable, she aligned her practice with industrial modes of cultural production.
Ostoya’s multi-media practice includes collage, painting, sculpture, and sound. Conceptually grounded, her work cuts through different art historical traditions and styles in order to elide prevailing fashion that endangers the critical and reflective potential of art. Rejecting the commonplace opposition of aestheticism and anti-art, Ostoya offers aesthetic objects that repeatedly direct the viewer towards the historical and institutional contexts of the work. Previous projects by the artist dealt with the subjects of violence and war, avant-garde histories, and the contemporary information glut.
Anna Ostoya was born in Krakow in 1978. In 2009, she graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Ostoya’s work has been exhibited at Tegenboschvanvreden in Amsterdam (2011); Galeria Foksal in Warsaw (2010); Center for Contemporary Art Kronika in Bytom (2010); the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2010); Lisson Gallery, London (2009); and Car Projects in Bologna (2009). She participated in Manifesta 7, Rovereto and the 2nd Athens Biennial. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Silberkuppe in Berlin and a group show, Rearview Mirror, at The Power Plant in Toronto. She lives and works in New York.
Tom Burr‘s work may currently be seen at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France. Recently, he has exhibited works in a two-person show (with Monica Bonvicini) at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; as a part of ‘Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster and other Stories’ at the Hessl Museum at Bard College; in ‘The World is Yours’, curated by Anders Kold at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark; ‘Moby Dick’, curated by Jens Hoffman,at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and in the exhibition ‘Saints and Sinners,’ curated by Laura Hoptman, at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. He has held solo exhibitions at The Sculpture Center in New York, Vienna Secession, and Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Burr lives and works in Norfolk, CT and New York.
For more information please contact info@bortolamigallery.com or 212 727 2050.
Biography
born 1978, Krakow, Poland
lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2008 –2009
Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York
2002 – 2006
Städelschule, Frankfurt/M, MFA
1997 – 2001
Parsons School of Art and Design, Paris, BFA
1997 –1997
Barbara Leoniak ZAR Atelier, Krakow
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2010 ‘Artists-in-Residence Laboratory’, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2009 ‘Mloda Polska’, Polish Ministry of Culture, scholarship award
2008 ‘Polish Culture’, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, scholarship award
’07-‘08 ‘Atelierstipendium’, Hesse Cultural Foundation, Wiesbaden, residency in London, scholarship and publication
’06-‘07 ‘Gastatelier’, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt/M, studio residency
’97-‘01 ‘Parsons School Scholarship’, Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris, scholarship award
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Disclosures, with Barbara Leoniak, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2011
‘Autopis III. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces’, Siberkuppe, Berlin
‘Exposures’, Bortolami Gallery, New York
‘Autopis II. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces’, curated by Michal Jachula, Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery, Amsterdam
2010
‘Autopsis. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces’, curated by Michal Jachula, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
‘From a to ∞’, CCA Kronika, Bytom
2009
‘More Real Than What We See’, curated by Antonio Grulli, Car Projects, Bologna
2008
‘The Object and the Non-Objective World’, curated by Dagmar Heppner, Vrits, Basel
2006
‘It Might Be a Truth or a Lie, or Just the Sound of a Kiss’, Schnittraum, Cologne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2012
“Collage”, Espace de l’art concret/ Centre d’art contemporain, Mouans-Sartoux
“Sex + Philosophy”, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, curated by Christopher Eamon and Beth Stryker
“Rearview Mirror”, curated by Christopher Eamon, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
2011
“Soft Machines”, at Pace Gallery, New York, curated by Sarvia Jasso and Harmony Murphy
“Footnote 6: As Model”, at Miguel Abreu gallery, New York, curated by Barbara Piwowarska
“Rearview Mirror”, curated by Christopher Eamon, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2010
‘Footnote 2. Correction’, Silberkuppe, Berlin, curated by Barbara Piwowarska
‘What a Difference a Day Makes’, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich, curated by Christopher Eamon
‘Cornered Rooms’, Waterside Project Space, London, curated by Annabelle von Girsewald
‘Derangement’, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Michal Jachula
2009
‘Lisson presents 6’, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Elena Crippa & Ryan Gander
‘Heaven’, 2nd Athens Biennale, curated by Zafos Xagoraris
‘Marginalia’, CCS Bulletin Board Project, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Michal Jachula
‘Whitney ISP Exhibition ‘09’, Art in General, New York
‘Financial District’, ISCP, New York, curated by Miguel Amado
2008
‘Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art’, Rovereto, curated by Adam Budak
‘Something Must Break!’, Myslowice, curated by Sebastian Cichocki
‘Hotel Kyjev: Time’s Up’, Hotel Kyjev, Bratislava, curated by Lilian Fellmann
2007
‘Malarstwo polskie XXI w.’ (Polish Painting of XXI), Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
‘Aufzeichnung/Zapis 1, 2, 3’ (Recording), Artpol, Krakow & Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt/M
2006
‘Me and My Rhythm Box’, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco,
2005
‘compulsive_handmades’, Exit Gallery, Skopje
‘Missing Identity’, Museum of Art, Pristhina, Portikus, Frankfurt/M
2004
‘Dream Universe’, Portikus, Frankfurt/M, (G)
WORKSHOPS, FESTIVALS AND LECTURES
‘04-’10 ‘Anna Ostoya, Artist Talk’ CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, ‘Knights Move’, curated by Fionn Meade, Sculpture Centre, New York ‘Pecha Kucha’, curated by Annais Lellouche, ISCP, New York, ‘Art Approaches’, lecture, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts, University of Oxford, ‘Saturday Afternoon, 1st of December, Leeds’, radio: Resonance FM (London), Radio Papesse & RAI FM (Italy), ‘When Kittens Become Cats’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Art and Communism’, symposium, co-organization, Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M , ‘herbstCamp’, workshop, Graz, ‘Politics of the Image’, symposium, co-organization, Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M, ‘Attention!’ Polish Art Festival, installation in public space, Weimar, ‘Missing Identity’, Relations Organization project in Kosovo, Pristina and Frankfurt/M
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
‘Spiegelen, maar dan letterlijk genomen’, Door Hans Den Hartog Jager, NRC Handelsblad, NRC Next, January 2011
2010
‘Wnuczka z Cabaret Voltaire’, Stach Szablowski, Przekroj, no. 47, November 2010
‘Sasnal usmarowany’, Zofia Smolinska, Dziennik, Gazeta Prawna Kulturano. 45, November 2010
‘Autopis. Notes, Copies and Masterpieces’, artist book, Foksal Gallery, 2010
‘Cornered Rooms’, Laura McClean-Ferris, Art Monthly no. 340, October 2010, Response by Anna Ostoya no. 342, December 2010
‘Porządkowanie znaczeń’, quarterly Opcje, no. 1 (78), April 2010
‘Flash Reviews. Anna Ostoya, Car Projects’, Flash Art Italian Edition no. 279, December- January 2010
2009
‘Anna Ostoya. Bologna, Car projects’, Exhibitart.com, October 22, 2009
‘Heaven’, 2nd Athens Biennial catalog, Athens, 2009
2008
‘Index Manifesta’, Manifesta 7 catalog, Rovereto, 2008
‘The Object and the Non-Objective World’, catalog, Vrits, Basel, 2008
‘Aufzeichnung/Zapis’ (Recording), catalog, Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M, 2008
2006
‘Sag mir deinen Namen und ich sag’ dir wie du heißt’, Vanessa Joan Mueller, Sophie Marceau catalog, F.A.I.T. Gallery, Krakow, 2006
