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Searchin': Los Angeles and the Quest for the Sublime

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:37:14 -0800

January 27 - April 19, 2013

Thomas Altheimer, Kevin Cooley, Zoe Crosher, Aaron Gisel, Mara de Luca, Cody Trepte, Erika Yoemans

Angels Gate Cultural Center

3601 South Gaffey Street

San Pedro, California

LAMENT: for altered, erased, and lost histories

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:37:00 -0700

September 7th - October 20th
Opening reception: Friday, September 7th at 7pm

PLATFORM

121-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Evergon (Montreal, PQ), Chris Curreri (Toronto, ON), Shawna Dempsey + Lorri Millan (Winnipeg, MB), Jenna Edwards (Toronto, ON), Tess Hurrell (London, UK), Jason Lazarus (Chicago, IL), and Cody Trepte (Los Angeles, CA)

GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: Turing Tests, Parlor Games, & Chatterbots

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:44:18 -0700

September 11 - December 20
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University

Picturing Paradoxes: An Interview With Cody Trepte

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:52:09 -0700

Picturing Paradoxes: An Interview With Cody Trepte

Echo of Echo

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:49:24 -0700

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, B1, Santa Monica, CA

September 8 - October 13, 2012
Opening September 8, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Curated by Shirley Tse and Marichris Ty

Erich Bollmann, Dawn Clements, Ivan Iannoli, Jason Bailer Losh, Michael John Kelley, Keaton Macon, Julie Orser, Damaris Rivera, Rachelle Rojany, Samantha Roth, and Cody Trepte.

KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:05:23 -0700

June 23rd & 24th, 2012

Lita Albuquerque, James Benning, Jennifer Boysen, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Cloud Eye Control (Anna Oxygen, Miwa Matreyek, Chi-wang Yang), Zoe Crosher, Russell Crotty, Ben Evans, Charles Gaines, Katie Grinnan, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, Harmonica Rascals (David Bunn, Heather Bennett, Donnie Stroud), Dave Jurasevich, Norman Klein, Emily Lacy, Marilyn Lowey, Miwa Matreyek, Tony Misch, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Christina Ondrus, Laura Riboli, Kim Schoen, Elleni Sclavenitis, Sneaky Snake (Ian James & George Jensen), Gabie Strong, Kara Tanaka, Mungo Thomson, April Totten & Donnie Stroud, Cody Trepte, Kerry Tribe, Dani Tull, Louisa Van Leer, Viralnet.net (Kadet Kuhne, Tom Leeser, Gregory Lenczycki, Andrea Polli, Gardner Post & Brian Kane, Lea Rekow)

Directions and info

Its Endless Undoing

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:54:25 -0700

Sebastian Black, Richard Evans, Alex Kwartler, Dominic Nurre, Martin Oppel, Jonathan Peck, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Lauren Seiden, Colin Snapp, Cody Trepte.

June 10 - July 15, 2012

Thierry Goldberg Gallery
103 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002

Contemporary Absences

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:09:00 -0700

Contemporary Absences:

By Atli Bollason

Made in L.A.

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:18:00 -0700

Hammer Museum / LAXART
June 2, 2012 - September 2, 2012

Dualities, Omissions, Loops, and Ruptures

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:15:00 -0800

Chris Engman, Cody Trepte, Samantha Roth, and John Houck

March 3 - April 7, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3rd, 6-9 PM

at Luis de Jesus
2685 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles

Quadrature Ghost

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:48:18 -0700

I made a new print and wrote an accompanying text for Material Press.

Language & Uncertainty: Artist talk with Kim Schoen and Cody Trepte

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:53:00 -0700

Saturday, July 23rd 1-3pm

LM Projects
125 W. 4th St. No. 103
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Kim Schoen and Cody Trepte will discuss the links between their practices in a conversation organized around a series of paired works, shared in a diptych slide show. The pairs were selected to outline some of the threads that run between their practices — covering process, themes of science, language, and the pleasure in uncertainty.

New multiple produced with LM Projects

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:36:00 -0700

LM Projects is pleased to announce its newest invitational; a multiple from Los Angeles based artist Cody Trepte. This project continues Trepte’s interest in language and appropriated imagery yet serves as a precursor to a new body of work that investigates meaning through omission.

Trepte pairs a found silver gelatin photograph with a text based silkscreen to be displayed either as a diptych or in disparate locations within a single space. Unique to the silkscreen is a UV sensitive ink that reveals the phrase So This Is upon direct exposure to sunlight. Absent of light, the print returns to a state of invisibility, or a mere ghost of itself. Over the course of its lifespan (an unknown point in time) the phrase will eventually fix in a gradation of warm tone ink. The photograph is curious and comical with a clown like character at its center bathed in hard sunlight in a nondescript location. Its meaning and provenance remain a mystery. Like the silkscreen, it pulls the viewer in to decipher meaning, a relationship or clue. The works carry a durational quality, slowly revealing new sets of questions or inquiry over time.

Amongst the subtle similarities, the two share the form of an ellipsis – held up high by the costumed character in the photo and in place of the ‘o’ in So This Is. This is a critical gesture for Trepte as he refers to the ellipsis in linguistics as a strategy to question meaning through the omission of content. In linguistics, the ellipsis refers to the deliberate removal of one or more words in a phrase without the phrase losing its meaning (i.e. “Fire when ready” understood as “Fire when you are ready”). Meaning is understood based on context not necessarily on content. For Trepte, this elliptical construction serves as a new vehicle for approaching subject and thinking about how work is understood independently, in relationship to a pair or any given multitude. The viewer is asked to play an active participant in distilling these complexities.

In - and outside - writing

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:35:00 -0700

Voorkamer

Lier, Belgium
May 21st - July 2nd

Kelly Chorpening (USA) Peter Morrens (BE) Rebecca Fortnum (UK) Ans Nys (BE) Marc Nagtzaam (NL) Rik De Boe (BE) Marijn van Kreij (NL) Johan De Wilde (BE) Reinhard Doubrawa (DE) Toine Horvers (NL) Rinus Van de Velde (BE) Katrin Stroebol (DE) Voebe de Gruyter (NL) Christoph Fink (BE) Reinaart Vanhoe (NL) Werner Mannaers (BE) Alice O’Hanlon (UK) Maria Barnas (NL) Hiroko Ichihara (JP) Armand Schulthess (CH) Philippe Vandenberg (BE) Ante Timmermans (BE) Guy Rombouts (BE) Serge Onnen (FR) Ryan Brown (USA) Pol Pierart (BE) Vaast Colson (BE) Lore Smolders (BE) Dries Warlop (BE) Sacha Eckes (BE) Simon Benson (UK) Anne Daems (BE) Guy Richards Smit (USA) Patricia Smith (USA) Carlo Mistiaen (BE) James Brooks (UK) Wouter Coolens (BE) Molly Springfield (USA) Pavel Büchler (CZ) Louisa Minkin (UK) David Blackmore (IRL) Rosalie Schweiker (UK) Susan Johanknecht (UK) Kate Scrivener (UK) Rosalie Schweiker (UK) Sonia Boyce (UK) Adam Humphries (UK) Anna Mossman (UK) Dean Hughes (UK) Rupert Norfolk (UK) Benoît Felix (BE) Ane Mette Hol (NO) Beni Bischof (CH) Bert Mebius (NL) Frank Selby (USA) Cody Trepte (USA) Deb Solokow (USA) Geert Clarisse (BE) llse Ermen (BE/CH) Jim Torok (USA) Joe Amrhein (USA) Joe Hardesty (USA) William Powhida (USA) Ofer Wolberger (USA) Rachel E. Foster (USA) Fred Eerdekens (BE) Steve Roden (USA) David Kramer (USA) Denicolai & Provoost (BE) Paul Casaer (BE) Kasper Andreasen (DK) Thierry De Cordier (BE) Wilhelm Sasnal (PL) Tine Melzer (DE) Norma Markley (UK) Melvin Way (UK) Stephan Van Den Burg (NL)

Artist talk with Sarah Seager

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:34:00 -0700

as part of On The Line

March 31, 7-9pm
LACE
6522 Hollywood Blvd.

On The Line

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:31:00 -0700

Meg Cranston, Larry Johnson, Sarah Seager, and Mitchell Syrop

March 3 - April 17
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3rd, 8-10pm

LACE
6522 Hollywood Blvd.

Curated by Cody Trepte

Since its inception in the late ‘60s, Conceptualism has shaken the art world, giving rise to a new type of art that prioritized ideas over form. As it developed, Conceptual Art began to spill over into other facets of art making, but its heavy reliance on language continued to fuel criticism that it was inaccessible and insider.

A new generation of artists gaining prominence in Los Angeles during the ‘80s sought to tackle this problem head on. On The Line looks to four artists — Meg Cranston, Larry Johnson, Sarah Seager, and Mitchell Syrop — whose use of language can be seen as an evolution of Conceptualism. They parsed the discipline and introduced a content that was more emotive while still maintaining the rigorous investment in ideas that artists like Sol Lewitt and Joseph Kosuth set forth.

With a casual commitment to systems, a heavy injection of reclaimed subjectivity, and the reintroduction of formal concerns, the artists in this exhibition continue to morph the use of text-in-art from its early rigid applications to a more humorous and pathos filled practice. The result is a simultaneous questioning and affirmation of Conceptualism which allows itself to be continually reinvented.

Exhibition hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, noon – 6pm and Thursday, noon – 9pm