1301PE is pleased to announce its fourth solo exhibition with internationally acclaimed Los Angeles artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe is known for expansive and profound works in film and mixed media that explore consciousness, communication and memory. Her work embeds these themes in phenomenological cinematic experiences that collapse narrative and perception.
“Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.” –William James
Tribe’s latest exhibition finds the artist positioned as caregiver, looking after loved ones in the surrounding generations. Corner Piece, a video projected into the corner of the gallery, features animated text exchanges with Tribe’s mother on the right wall and Tribe’s growing children on the left. The artist’s “outgoing” messages,” always in blue, appear on one or the other side of the divide as they navigate requests for transportation, medical advice, technical assistance, weekly allowance and moral support.
A related series of works on paper, made with a homespun combination of watercolor and oil pastel, document recent text messages Tribe has received or sent. Elegant, funny and intimate, they capture the constant insect buzz of communication within a family, like room tone, traffic or weather.
Included in this exhibition are five large “scratch drawings” in rainbow-hued wax crayon and black pastel. These reproduce diagrams, made by western philosophers, that attempt to explain the present moment from a first person perspective. Experientially, “now” is never the indivisible, non-durational point one sees on a timeline, but a continuum of consciousness that enfolds the past and future within it. How else could we recognize duration, movement or change?
Tribe’s work has been the subject of solo presentations at SFMOMA, Camden Arts Centre, London and the Power Plant, Toronto, among others. She has received multiple awards, including the Herb Alpert Award, the USA Artists award, the Presidential Residency at Stanford University, and was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Tribe’s work is in the public collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the Hammer Museum, and LACMA. Her films have been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; the New York Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival, among others. Tribe lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two kids, three chickens, two cats, a goldfish, a tarantula, and a praying mantis.
For more information about Double Bumblefoot or Kerry Tribe, please contact Brian Butler, Tate Smith or Quaja Butler at info@1301pe.com
