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Joel Kyack

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  • Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    9 Jun - 30 Jul 2022
    Featuring works by Abigail Hampsey, Amy Bravo, Annika Ström, Aubrey Levinthal, Damien Meade, Hazel Brill, Iriée Zamblé, Jacob Dahlgreen, James Prapaithong, Jill McKnight, Joel Kyack, Katinka Lampe, Laura Lancaster, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Marcus Coates, Matt Stokes, Miko Veldkamp, Olivia Jia, Rachel Lancaster, Simeon Barclay
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  • This Is Water

    This Is Water

    3 Jul - 12 Sep 2021
    Featuring works by Aglaé Bassens, Melissa Brown, Dominique Fung, Joel Kyack, Becky Kolsrud, Mevlana Lipp, Laura Lancaster, Ryan Orme, James Prapaithong, Will Peck and Michael Stamm.
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  • Come Together

    Come Together

    18 Feb 2021
    In the spirit of solidarity between different art forms, Workplace is delighted to announce Come Together, an online exhibition featuring works by eleven artists in support of the Music Venue Trust.
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  • Schmaltz

    Schmaltz

    Guimarães, Vienna 10 Nov 2018 - 10 Jan 2019
    Schmalz is juicy. Schmalz is elastic. Schmalz is sexual. Schmalz is out of tune; Schmalz is non-binary; Schmalz has no gender, no race, no religion, no political party, no football club; Schmalz has no agenda; Schmalz is bio, vegan, paleo, Atkins, lactose and gluten intolerant. Schmalz does Love/Hate exceedingly well. Schmalz makes you feel schmalzy.
    A schmalzy artwork cannot be translated into words. Schmalz is an excuse. Schmalz is festive, Dionysian;
    Schmalz is crusty and juicy, and this can be a physical or conceptual state.
    Schmalz doesn’t need other titles. Being schmalzy defies any other sort of classification. Schmalz in non-bourgeois; Schmalz is anti - Anti-Art. Schmalz is Schmaltz. Schmalz is anti-schmalz. Schmalz is nice to you and your friends. Schmalz is a space for non-negotiable differences; a manifestation of human-grain that saves us from being tabula rasa. Schmalz is typing on your phone with fat fingers.
    Schmaltz is a show built with materials that do not need affiliations and have an elastic sense of their own materiality.
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  • Joel Kyack

    Joel Kyack

    Hold On Tightly / Let Go Lightly 24 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2018
    Workplace Gallery is excited to present Joel Kyack’s first solo exhibition at the Mayfair gallery. Following his successful debut UK exhibition at Workplace Gateshead in the North of England, Hold On Tightly / Let Go Lightly will be the LA based artist’s first solo exhibition in London.
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  • On the Floor in the Cave of Skulls

    On the Floor in the Cave of Skulls

    Ghebaly Gallery: Los Angeles, U.S.A. 9 Apr - 14 May 2016
    Beginning with one of his earliest performative works, The Dam (2006), Kyack’s practice has been the result of an aggressive refusal to resist the natural resolution of materials, forms, and ideas. With this piece, a photograph of a performance that casts Kyack waist-deep in the middle of a swollen river...
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  • DOT DOT DOT DASH

    DOT DOT DOT DASH

    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 21 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016
    A well-known Morse code rhythm from the Second World War period derives from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the opening phrase of which was regularly played at the beginning of BBC broadcasts. The timing of the notes corresponds to the Morse for 'V'; di-di-di-dah and stood for 'V for Victory' (as well...
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  • Eric Bainbridge / Joel Kyack

    Eric Bainbridge / Joel Kyack

    WORKPLACE LONDON 10 Oct - 21 Nov 2015
    Workplace Gallery is proud to present a two-person exhibition of British artist Eric Bainbridge and Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack. For this exhibition, Bainbridge will present a new body of paintings made from synthetic fur fabric, and Kyack will present a new body of sculpture and painting shown in...
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  • Joel Kyack: The Very First Day

    Joel Kyack: The Very First Day

    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 25 Apr - 11 Jul 2015
    Workplace Gallery is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack. For this exhibition Kyack will present a new body of sculpture and painting shown here for the first time. Joel Kyack brings together a combination of unlikely components purchased from hardware stores,...
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  • Sophie Lisa Beresford

    Sophie Lisa Beresford

    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 20 Sep - 25 Oct 2014
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  • Jo Coupe: The Ashes of other Elements

    Jo Coupe: The Ashes of other Elements

    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 7 Jun - 19 Jul 2014
    Workplace Gallery is delighted to present our second exhibition of new work by Jo Coupe. After the rain is an installation that presents an audio recording made by Coupe alongside the means of its making. Recorded in Chopwell Woods in West Gateshead, After the rain documents the sounds emitted from...
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  • Old Sailors Never Die

    Old Sailors Never Die

    Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 18 Jan - 8 Mar 2014
    10 Questions w / Joel Kyack 1. If you were to be eaten, how would you like it to be? (a) chewed up (b) swallowed whole (c) from the inside out 2. As water seeks to level itself, how do you respond to its effort? (a) adapt to its...
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  • Point At The Thing That's Furthest Away

    Point At The Thing That's Furthest Away

    Praz-Delavallade Gallery: Paris, France 23 Nov 2013 - 1 Feb 2014
    'I moved into my present studio a year ago, one block from two large thrift stores in a primarily industrial neighborhood of Los Angeles, a thin sliver of land nestled between a river and a railroad and a highway. These stores (and the streets surrounding them) become regional way stations...
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  • Terms/Proposals/Demands

    Terms/Proposals/Demands

    SSZ Suede: Cologne, Germany 20 Apr - 30 May 2013
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  • Most Games are Lost, Not Won

    Most Games are Lost, Not Won

    FRIEZE NEW YORK 11 - 14 Oct 2012
    Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack created a country fair game trailer shaped as a giant body. Unfolding simultaneously as an installation, a performance space and a large-scale mobile sculpture, the trailer houses two games, one taking place inside the trailer’s ‘mouth’, the other in its splayed ‘ribcage’. Visitors were able...
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  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    WORKPLACE GATESHEAD 12 May - 16 Jun 2012
    Workplace Gallery are pleased to present Out of Sight, Out of Mind a group exhibition bringing together diverse works by eleven artists working internationally. The exhibition explores themes that draw upon notions of the Body - either directly as site, material, and subject - or indirectly as starting point for...
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  • Escape to Shit Mountain

    Escape to Shit Mountain

    François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 10 Sep - 30 Oct 2011
    So this drunk walks into a bar. It's rather small in square footage but very tall in proportion. The drunk stops for a second, disoriented by the dimensions of the space, and gathers himself up. He makes his way to a stool at the bar and slides up to order...
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  • River / Stream / In-Between

    River / Stream / In-Between

    Kate Werbel Gallery: New York, U.S.A. 3 May - 11 Jun 2011
    Without particular allegiance to material, Kyack re-examines the fountain as a performative sculpture that addresses the base and inescapable chaos of the world. The five sculptures in this exhibition utilize flowing water as a literal and figurative line, portraying the body and nature as slaves to systems of fluids. Brutish...
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  • Flow, River, Flow!

    Flow, River, Flow!

    NADA Art Fair, Miami, Florida 2 - 5 Dec 2010
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  • Superclogger

    Superclogger

    Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 25 Sep 2010
    Superclogger marks Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack ’s first large-scale public project. Conceived with Providence-based artist and bike mechanic Peter Fuller and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger will present various puppet shows to drivers caught in afternoon...
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  • Superclogger - Ongoing Public Project

    Superclogger - Ongoing Public Project

    LA> 1 Jun 2010
    Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack’s first large-scale public project. Conceived with Providence-based artist and bike mechanic Peter Fuller and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger will present various puppet shows to drivers caught in afternoon...
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  • The Knife Shop

    The Knife Shop

    Ghebaly Gallery: Los Angeles, USA 12 Sep - 17 Oct 2009
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  • The Greater The Goal The Deeper The Hole

    The Greater The Goal The Deeper The Hole

    High Desert Test Sites: Joshua TreeSan Bernardino, CA 7 - 9 Nov 2008
    THE GREATER THE GOAL THE DEEPER THE HOLE At the dusty intersection where legitimate archeology meets seat-of-the-pants prospecting, Joel Kyack explores the hidden rewards of impossible tasks. MISSION High Desert Test Sites is a non-profit organization that supports intimate and immersive experiences and exchanges between artists, critical thinkers, and...
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