JOSH PODOLL AND TAKEHITO KOGANEZAWA
2008 PRESS RELEASE

May 24, 2008 - July 5, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of new abstract paintings
by Joshua Podoll. Meditation plays an important role in the making of his work and becomes
evident in the way he plays with perspective and space. The experience of meditating and the act
of painting become indistinguishable to Podoll and he encourages the viewer to engage the work
in this contemplative fashion. He also strives to slow down the way the painting is absorbed by
rupturing the various spatial planes within the composition.

Joshua Podoll was born in Seattle in 1972. He currently lives and works in San Francisco. He has
exhibited at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (2002); Close Calls, Headlands
Center For The Arts, Fort Barry, CA, curated by Linda Samuels (2003); Retreat, Peres Projects,
Los Angeles (2003); Abstractions, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY, curated
by Linda Horn and Nancy Van Deren (2006); Feature Gallery, New York, NY (2003, 2006) as well
as Without Sun, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Carole Ann Klondarides
(2007).

The South Gallery will feature new sculptural, video and paper works done by Takehito
Koganezawa, during his residency at the Villa Aurora. This prestigious residency is awarded to
German based artists in a variety of disciplines. Known for his performances turned into
multimedia installations, his neon works and silent videos inspired by an oriental approach to the
moving image, Koganezawa’s drawings and collages find their roots in surrealism’s automatic
writing as well as in the 1980s new figuration in painting. They are characterized by an
unconventional use of space, coupling representational elements (human figures, animals) with
abstract motifs and shapes, and playing with discrepancies in scale and geometries.

Koganezawa was born in Tokyo in 1974 and has lived in Berlin since 1998. He has shown his work
internationally at institutions such as the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Institute of Visual Art,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Tokyo Opera
City Art Gallery; Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Internationales Filmfest, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands; La Biennale de Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Queens Museum, New York; the Mori Art
Center, Tokyo; and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

For biographical information and additional images, please visit our website at www.cgrimes.com,
or contact Christopher Grimes Gallery at 310.587.3373.


For biographical information and a selection of additional images please visit our website at www.cgrimes.com or contact CHRISTOPHER GRIMES GALLERY 310-587-3373.

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