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"Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier"

Marjorie Welish, Olivier Gourvil

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Exhibit Duration: September 10 - October 22, 2005
Location: Slought Foundation
Reception: Saturday, September 24, 2005
Exhibition Openings Series

Marjorie Welish, detail, architecture de papier

Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents “Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier," a dialogue through working drawings by Marjorie Welish and Olivier Gourvil. In 1999, face-to-face conversations led to the idea of exchanging titles with which these painters might provoke one another to imagine conceptual architecture. A selection of the drawings thus produced, together with a sampling of their correspondence, is on view at Slought Projects from September 1-October 22, 2005, accompanied by a brochure with an essay by Joseph Masheck. Support for this collaborative project has come from the Fifth Floor Foundation. Marjorie Welish will be present for the public reception on September 24th, 2005 from 6:30-8:30pm.


The paintings of Marjorie Welish, at the Baumgartner Gallery, in New York, and at the Aaron Galleries, in Chicago, provide a context for the notational implication of drawings shown at Slought Foundation. Welish is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the International Studio Program, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She is the author of Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In April 2002, Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania produced a conference on her art and writing, the proceedings of which became Of the Diagram: The work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books, 2003).

Olivier Gourvil lives and works in Paris. Recent exhibitions of his paintings include the Artothèque de Caen (2004), the Rue Montgrand (Marseille, 2004), and the Sympra (Stuttgart, 2004). His upcoming exhibitions in Europe are at La Galeru (2005), Fontenay (www.lagaleru.org/), and at Duende Studios, Rotterdam, where he is an artist-in-residence for 2006. A relationship between text, drawings, and paintings usually forms the basis of his exhibitions.

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