Cirrus | Steven Criqui

Proposals, Remodels,
Embarrasments, and Treasures

New Paintings by Steven Criqui

OCT 9 - NOV 27, 1999

Prices reflect those at the time of exhibition- not the current market value. For current value, go the artist page.

Previous Exhibitions

2012

NARCISSISM, THE REAL, THE FAKE AND THE ANTI-DIGITAL IMPULSE

ONCE EMERGING, NOW EMERGING: OPEN NETWORK

ONCE EMERGING, NOW EMERGING: THE VISITATION

2011

ONCE EMERGING, NOW EMERGING: LIVIN' L.A.

ONCE EMERGING, NOW EMERGING: NOW AND THEN

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: STATES OF BEING

SUSAN LOGORECI, JAMES GRIFFIOEN AND DENNIS OPPENHEIM

2010

JONAS WOOD: PRINTS

CRAIG KAUFFMAN:
WORKS ON PAPER RETROSPECTIVE

REMIX JULY 2010

GILLIAN THEOBALD:
NEW PAINTINGS

2009

NATHANIEL DE LARGE
at large

THE AWFUL PARENTHESIS
CURATED BY
ARAM MOSHAYEDI

VENICE/VENICE
JOHN BALDESSARI AND
BRUCE NAUMAN

NO SHOES ON THE CARPET

JAY BOLOTIN: THE JACKLEG TESTAMENT: PART ONE: JACK & EVE

CHARLOTTE F. SMITH

2008

JEDD GARRET:
WONDEROUS ORBS OF LIFE

COSMOS FACTORY
CURATED BY BRAD EBERHARD

SUMMER COOL

SUSAN LOGORECI
THERE IS ALWAYS
MORE FOR PEOPLE
LIKE YOU

MARK GOLAMCO
CLOAK AND CANDLE

VIJA CELMINS

2007

ALL HUMAN ACTIONS
CURATED BY
DAWN KASPER

NIGHT BLOOMS
CURATED BY
MARK GOLAMCO

JUSTIN MOORE: TIME MACHINES & PARANOID LANDSCAPES

STRODE & WILDER

WORKS ON PAPER

2006

NAIVE SET THEORY
CURATED BY CATHERINE TAFT

SUSAN LOGORECI: AREAS OF INTEREST

SUPERSIZE PRINTS

HEATHER BROWN-
JACOB HALEVY-JONAS WOOD

THE LATEST FICTION

2005

GILLIAN THEOBALD "ELEMENTS"

THE PICTURE I CARRY IN MY HEAD
CURATED BY TERRI PHILLIPS

DIMITRI KOZYREV

SUSAN LOGORECI

2004

ELAINE BRADFORD

JUSTIN MOORE - "GENESIS"

PLAY-GALLERY FOR STILL AND MOTION PICTURES AT CIRRUS

MARGO VICTOR "MVG TESTS"

JACOB DYRENFORTH "ROMANTIC COMEDY" AND "EVERY GUITAR MOVE"

MARK BRADFORD MONOPRINTS

"CRAZY THOUGHTS HAVE QUICK WINGS"
CURATED BY EVE WOOD

2003

DIMITRI KOZYREV "JOURNEY'S II

PAINTING BY LETTERS

ROSS BLECKNER "PATHWAYS"

DANIEL BRANDELY "ALAMEDA DANCE"

"RECESS"
CURATED BY DAN BAYLES

"IN THE SHADOW OF SUMMMER BLISS"
CURATED BY JUSTIN MOORE AND JEAN MILANT

"SELECTED GRAPHICS" LOPEZ COLLECTION

"DRAWINGS" DIMITRI KOZYREV

2002

MAGGIE LOWE TENNESEN

SALOMON HUERTA

ED RUSCHA "COUNTRY CITISCAPES"

JUSTIN MOORE

DIMITRI KOZYREV

2001

RICHARD BAKER

"GILLIAN THEOBALD"

"l*AND*sc*APE"
CURATED BY GEORGE RAGGETT

"AUXILIARY SETTINGS"
CURATED BY STEVEN CRIQUE AND JEAN MILANT

2000

"VIJA CELMINS"

NEW PRINTS BY
JOAN NELSON AND
CERAMICS BY ROGER HERMAN

"Past and New Prints"

1999

"GILLIAN THEOBALD"

"STEVEN CRIQUI"

"JERRY BRANE"

"GUY DE COINTET"

More information about previous exhibitions at Cirrus will be added to our website in the near future.

Prices in red are sold


	Based on photographs of vernacular structures in Los Angeles, the computer-manipulated images are slightly abstracted and highly saturated with artificial hues. Layered over the image are simple geometric forms of flat colors. The effect is a painterly intervention of architecture. Like Gordon Matta-Clark's cutting pieces, Criqui's paintings demonstrate the artist's reworking of three-dimensional form. The fields of flat colors simultaneously act as passages of void and as stimulators of flatness, emphasizing the two-dimensionality of facades and surfaces. The influence of the Los Angeles landscape quite literally takes form in these paintings in subject matter and in the use of color and light. Fundamentally however Criqui's devotion to painting as an ifinitely vialble form of art making. Criqui was included in David Pagel's 1998 exhibition "Painting from Another Planet" at Deitch Projects in New York and at the 1999 Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, these playfully colored, highly abstracted paintings stand as contemporary reworkings of a traditional form. His works lie between formal purism, a vernacular sentiment, and an interest in traditional genres in a contemporary context.

	Untitled (50s House E) 1998 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 29" x 721 3/4" 007-98-SC sold
			Untitled (Dan's B) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 24" x 30" 022-99-SC sold
			Untitled (Derby B) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 29" x 721 3/4" 012-99-SC $3,500
			Untitled (Video C) 1998 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 29 1/8" x 41 1/2" 010-98-SC $2,500
			Untitled (atomic B) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 24 1/2" x 291 1/2" 007-98-SC sold
			Untitled (Vegas B) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 20 1/2" x 35 1/4" 014-99-SC $2,000
			Untitled (Subway A) 1998 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 32" x 38 1/1" 008-98-SC sold
			Untitled (Garden B) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 32" x 38 1/1" 021-99-SC $2,000
			Untitled (Silverlake C) 1999 Inkjet oil and UV varnish on canvas 30" x 42" 016-99-SC sold

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