Opening Reception | Kate Levant 's This is Laced and more

New work by Analia Saban, Aaron Spangler and Marianne Vitale in addition to a new installation, This is Laced, by Kate Levant.

Analia Saban plays with the creative process by deconstructing and exposing how work is made. This exhibition will feature a new series of work in which Saban takes photographs that are still developing and scrapes off strips of emulsion from the paper, which she then transfers to canvas, creating compositions of photographs and paintings where she is painting with photography. Analia Saban (b. 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina) received a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 and lives and works in Santa Monica, CA. Her work is currently featured in How Soon Now at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Art Foundation (Miami, FL).

Aaron Spangler will present a group of large-scale rubbings that relate to his carved and painted bas-relief panels and sculptures. Laying linen over wood panels he has carved with motifs ranging from the violent to the nostalgic, Spangler transfers different images and textures to the linen by burnishing the surface of the linen with hard and melted wax. Sampling different impressions, Spangler creates complex collages of multilayered compositions that blur myth and reality. Aaron Spangler (b. 1971, Minneapolis, MN) received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and lives and works in Two Inlets, MN. Awarded a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in 2009, Spangler's work is currently on view in The Spectacular of the Vernacular at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN).

Marianne Vitale's work is concerned with narrative as well as the idea of nature and the process of transforming that which is discarded into something anew. In this exhibition, Vitale will present a series of weathered wood markers or headstones constructed from reclaimed lumber devoid of inscriptions or epitaphs. Similar to Vitale's False Front facades, barns, and outhouses, the markers are like decaying monuments one might see littered throughout America's ghost towns that did not necessarily survive the passage of time due to the natural decomposition of the material. Marianne Vitale (b. 1973, East Rockaway, NY) graduated in 1995 from the School of Visual Arts in New York where she currently lives and works. In addition to the work currently featured in How Soon Now at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Art Foundation (Miami, FL), Vitale was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial as well as in exhibitions at White Columns (New York, NY), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm) and the SculptureCenter (New York, NY).

This is Laced installation consists of collages made from cut up drawings, photographs and plastic that are cross-stitched into construction paper and fabric to create a ricocheting network of aspects that reflect off and weave into other aspects.