Collaborations
The phrase “cartography of places” best captures the essence of what makes this show so special. As the viewer moves from piece to piece, they become aware that a story is being mapped out. The sea, as a physical entity and as a romantic notion, is the connective thread that weaves throughout the storyline.
-Patrick Quinn
In the stillness between two waves of the sea
Shape of Us
Curated by Mayuka Kato Doja
A collaboration with Karolina Pernar
and Alison Woods
Luxembourg 2020
In the present situation of the global spread of Coronavirus, what turned out to be particularly vulnerable is the condition of sociality and the moments of being together. The title of the exhibition points out the pronoun “us” can thus be understood as a reflection about the delicate constitution of the public space, in which the relationship with others is no longer innocent (if it has ever been!), but is, at the moment, profoundly contested due to the possibility that the other can be the carrier of the virus. Departing from this ambiguous “us” – as a conceptual framework that connects the works despite their differences – I am prone to think about the exhibition as embodying fragile geography of a jeopardized togetherness.
– Andrej Miraz
Personal Contacts
Alison Woods in dialog
with Maria Agureeva
Los Angeles and Moscow 2020
Featuring four curatorial artists inviting four artists to join them. Each artist invited one artist each to participate for whatever reasons: shared aims, joint interests or hopes to provide support and a platform during the pandemic. The exhibition featured a virtual exhibition in addition to a Zoom artist talk where the guest artist was interviewed by the inviting artist.
We Are Here / Here We Are
Curated by Sean Noyce
in collaboration with Alison Woods
and Curtis Stage, Dani Dodge, Jennifer Celio, Joe Davidson, Roni Feldman, Jenny Hager, Valerie Wilcox, Steven Wolkoff
Los Angeles, CA 2020
A Los Angeles County - wide exhibition of 100 artists that explores our innate desire for connectivity through sensation. Due to the constraints of the COVID -19 lockdown, the artists in this exhibition has chosen public spaces to display their work – from Santa Monica to the East Side and from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.
100 Exhibiting artists throughout the greater Los Angeles Area. Curatorial selections included Luciana Abait, Chenhung Chen, Helen Chung, Cia Foreman, Mark Steven Greenfield, Kio Griffith, Pete Hickok, Nancy Ivanhoe, Brenna Ivanhoe, Duane Paul, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Dimitra Skandali, and Paul Osiecki Woods.
The Happy House
A collaboration between Alison Woods
Sean Noyce and Joe Davidson
Los Angeles, 2020
An interdisciplinary exhibition at SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA that explored Americans’ obsession with self-help, amateur psychiatry, and the excessive search to self-optimize.
Exhibiting artists: Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Joe Davidson, Sean Noyce, Max Presneill, Curtis Stage, Steve Wolkoff, and Alison Woods,
The Happy House, ©SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Image by Samuel Morgan Photography
Parallax
A collaborative invitation between
Alison Woods and Alke Brinkmann
Berlin, 2019
Part of the B-LA exchange between Los Angeles and Berlin. An invitational from Axil Obiger artist Akle Brinkmann to create a two person exhibition focusing on the mutually shared interest in quantum physics. The exhibition was created as a full immersive installation with all of the surfaces of the gallery modified to become a part of the whole.
Figura: Micro Macro
Curated by Alison Woods
and David Leapman with Ivana Cekovic.
Los Angeles 2019
A cultural exchange exhibition between Los Angeles California, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a tiny state surrounded by Europe, while the United States is one of the largest countries in the world. In a way, it is a David and Goliath relationship.
Exhibiting artists: EC, Ivana Cekovic, Joe Davidson, Ian Dawson, Jeff Desome, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Tom Dunn, Brian Thomas Jones, Katarzyna Kot-Bach ,David Leapman, Bertrand Ney, Karolina Pernar, and Alison Woods
Figura: Micro Macro
Curated by Ivana Cekovic
with Alison Woods and David Leapman
Luxembourg 2019
A cultural exchange exhibition between Los Angeles California, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a tiny state surrounded by Europe, while the United States is one of the largest countries in the world. In a way, it is a David and Goliath relationship.
Exhibiting artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, EC, Ivana Cekovic, Joe Davidson, Ian Dawson, Tom Dunn, Brian Thomas Jones, Katarzyna Kot-Bach, David Leapman, Bertrand Ney, Karolina Pernar, Gay Summer Rick and Alison Woods
Almost Sparkling
B–LA Connect
Curated by Alison Woods in collaboration with Matthias Moravek and Gabriele Künne
Berlin, 2019
Part of the B-LA exchange between Los Angeles and Berlin. An international, emerging artists collaborative project which presents 20 artist-run gallery spaces in LA partnering with 20 artist-run spaces in Berlin.
Exhibiting Artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga · Dani Dodge · Thilo Droste · Ed Gomez · Harriet Groß · Gabriele Künne · Matthias Moravek · Enrico Niemann · Max Presneill · Maja Rohwetter · Alison Woods
In the stillness between
two waves of the sea
Curated by Alison Woods
and Dimitra Skandali
Los Angeles, CA 2018
An exchange between artists from Greece and California, creating a dialogue between these seemingly disparate cultures. Like a cartography of places and approaches, this exhibition maps points of coexistence among chaotic global politics.
Exibiting artists: Natasa Biza, Kio Griffith, Nancy Ivanhoe, Dimitris Katsoudas, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Ty Pownall, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, Valerie Wilcox, and Alison Woods.
A heap of broken images
where the sun beats
Curated by Alison Woods
and Dimitra Skandali
Paros, Greece 2018
The second half of an exchange between artists from Greece and California at the Aegean Center for the Arts in Paros Greece. Organized as an ongoing exhibition and residency, the exhibition evolved over the coarse of the month long project.
Exhibiting artists: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Anastasios Babatzias, Natasa Biza, Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Jennifer Celio, Dani Dodge, Kio Griffith, Jenny Hager, Dimitris Katsoudas, David Leapman, Alanna Marcelletti, Max Presneill, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, David Spanbock, Eleni Tziortzi, and Alison Woods.
Colab III at the Torrance Art Museum
Torrance, CA 2018
Exhibiting Artists: Juan Arata, Nina Lehtonen-Braun, Gul Cagin, Ellen DeElaine, Dani Dodge, Andy Holtin, Ben Jackel, Mike MacKeldey, Ty Pownell, Samantha Sethi, Hannah Van Ginkel, Daniel Wiesenfeld, Valerie Wilcox and Alison Woods
Futopia
Curated by Alison Woods
and Kio Griffith
Los Angeles, CA 2017
How do we know when a new world paradigm is in the works. What marks the transition, and how do we know when it is time to fight or to take flight?
With the election of Donald Trump, Brexit, mass immigration of Syrian refugees, and impending climate change the world seems to be on the brink of sudden and transformative change. The rising global power of the 1% at the expense of the 99% leaves the world’s populations feeling helpless to redirect the course of a world perceived as spinning out of control.
What is possible within this context? We have posed this question to the artists participating in this exhibition. The offspring is Futopia, a crude hybridization of possible futures, both utopic and dystopic.
Exhibiting Artists: Gul Cagin, Helen Chung, Eben Goff, Pete Hickok, Bryan Ida, Ma Li , Alanna Marcelletti, Alex Schaefer, and Lena Kazakova Wolek