Charles
LaBelle (b. 1964)
Charles
LaBelle’s practice uses walking and travel as
methods of observation and documentation. Through drawings made across
different cities and locations, he records architecture, temporary structures,
and overlooked details encountered along the way.
Presented
within a large wooden framework, the drawings form a spatial archive through
which viewers are invited to walk and explore. The installation transforms
individual observations into an immersive environment, connecting memory,
movement, place, and the act of looking.
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Charles
LaBelle (เกิด ค.ศ. 1964)
การทำงานของ Charles
LaBelle ใช้การเดินและการเดินทางเป็นกระบวนการสังเกตและบันทึก ผ่านภาพวาดจากเมืองและสถานที่ต่าง ๆ เขาถ่ายทอดสถาปัตยกรรม สิ่งปลูกสร้างชั่วคราว และรายละเอียดที่มักถูกมองข้ามระหว่างการเดินทาง
ภาพวาดถูกติดตั้งหรือแขวนอยู่ภายในโครงสร้างไม้ขนาดใหญ่ กลายเป็นคลังความทรงจำเชิงพื้นที่ที่เปิดให้ผู้ชมเดินเข้าไปสำรวจ การจัดวางทำให้บันทึกแต่ละชิ้นเชื่อมโยงเข้ากับความทรงจำ การเคลื่อนไหว สถานที่ และประสบการณ์ของการมองเห็นค่ะ
EDUCATION
1988 -
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 -
Charles LaBelle, Number One Gallery,
Bangkok
- Charles LaBelle, Saamlung, Hong Kong
2010 -
Charles LaBelle, MobArt at the Hong Kong
Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong
- Charles LaBelle, Walter Maciel Gallery,
Los Angeles
2009 -
Lines of Flight, Stage 1, Hong Kong
- California Suite: Selected Works 1993 – 2009,
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
2008 -
Charles LaBelle, Para/Site Central, Hong
Kong
- Charles LaBelle, Maass Gallery, Purchase
College, NY
- Polis / Persona, Lawrimore Project,
Seattle
2007 -
Fieldworks, Tony Wight, Chicago
- Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
- Buildings Entered 1997-2007,
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley CA
2006 -
Sugar Hill Suite, Tony Wight/Bodybuilder
& Sportsman, Chicago
2005 -
Columbus Suite, Rebecca Ibel Gallery,
Columbus OH
2004 -
Miami Drift, Lemon Sky, Miami
- Driftworks, Roberts & Tilton, Los
Angeles
2003 -
Intervals + Intensities, Ten in One Gallery, New
York
2002 -
Darkness and Light, Bodybuilder and Sportsman,
Chicago
- Holiday, Traywick Gallery,
Berkeley
- Dearborn, Roberts & Tilton Gallery,
Los Angeles
2001 -
Horror of Light, Pomona College Museum of
Art, Pomona, CA (catalogue)
- Sunset at Dawn, Rebecca Ibel Gallery,
Columbus OH
2000 -
Illuminated Trees, Traywick Gallery,
Berkeley
- Disappearer, Roberts & Tilton, Los
Angeles (catalogue)
1999 -
Night Moves, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles
(catalogue)
1998 -
Manifestation, Post Los Angeles
1997 -
Charles LaBelle, University of Texas, San
Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
1995 -
Works on Paper, domestic setting, Los
Angeles
1993 -
Colonies II, Robert Berman Gallery,
Santa Monica
1992 -
Colonies, Philippe Briet Gallery,
New York
SELECTED
PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 -
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2011 -
Taking Time, Nou Gallery, Taipei
- Size Matters, Walter Maciel Gallery,
Los Angeles
- Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2010 -
Charles LaBelle and Scott Ingram,
Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2009 -
Urban Alienation, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong
Kong
- Of People and Places,
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
2008 -
The Silver Shed, New York
- to: Night; Hunter College Art
Galleries, New York
- Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose CA
- Urbanity on Paper, Anna Kustera Gallery, New
York
- Person of the Crowd,
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2007 -
What a Beautiful Space You Have,
Claremont College Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
- The Uncertainty Principle,
Northern Illinois University Museum, Dekalb IL
2006 -
Local Transit, Artist’s Space, New York
2005 -
In the Neighborhood of Infinity,
Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 - In
Focus: Themes in Contemporary Photography, Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo
- Rimbaud (curated by Max Henry),
I-20 Gallery, New York
- Topographies, San Francisco Art
Institute (traveled, catalogue)
2003 -
I am a curator, Chisenhale Gallery,
London
- Justine LaCroix, Marseille
2002 -
Cut, Colored, Pulled and Burnt,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Glow:
-
Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
(curated by Francis Colpitt), ArtPace and University of Texas, San Antonio (travelled, catalogue)
- Liminal Spaces, Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College, New York
2001 -
... a preacher and a bible...,
Galerie La Friche, Marseilles, France
- In Through the Outdoors,
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- Wattage & Friendship,
Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin
- In the City (Curated by Lorelei
Stewart), Gallery 400, Chicago
- Travelogue, Orange County Center for
Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
- Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle,
Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
2000 -
Under the Influence: New Art from LA,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
- Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter,
Sala Diaz, San Antonio
- Cleaning Up, University of Southern California Art Gallery,
Los Angeles
- Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum,
Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)
- Night Moves, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum
1999 -
Venus, Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna
- The Mourning After, Barnsdale Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998 -
Some Related Areas (curated by Brad Spence),
Art Gallery, University of California Irvine
- Wings of Desire,Walter McBean Gallery, San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1997 -
CA 9001-185, W139, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1996 -
True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1995 -
Its Only Rock
'n Roll (curated by David Rubin), Contemporary Arts
Center,Cincinnati, Ohio (catalogue, traveled)
- Rezone, DiverseWorks, Houston,
Texas
1994 -
Let the Artist Live, Exit Art/The First World,
New York
- For Your Pleasure......,
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
- Altered Egos , Santa Monica Museum of
Art (catalogue)
- Mapping (curated by Frances
Colpitt), University of Texas, San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio
(catalogue, traveled)
- Le Temps d'un Dessin,
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France (catalogue, traveled)
1993 -
Poverty Pop, Exit Art/The First World,
New York
1992 -
In Flux, Gallery 400, Chicago
- Evidently, Dooley Le Cappellaine
Gallery, New York
- Fever, Exit Art/The First World,
New York (traveled)
- A/C Project Room, New York
- Crusoe (Refiguring Reality),
Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
GRANTS,
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2007 -
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2006 -
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Swing Space Grant
2003 -
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellow
-
Triangle France/ La Friche de la Belle de Mai Residency, Marseilles,
France
- Los Angeles Metropolitian Transit Authority
Project Award
2000 -
Getty Trust Fellowship
1995 -
Art Matters Fellowship
Artist’s
Books
2011 -
“Corpus,” MCCM Creations, Hong Kong
- “Architecture from the Outside,” Ood Press, Los Angeles/ Rio de Janeiro
SELECTED
ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
2011 -
Warden, Kathleen Suraya. “Charles
LaBelle and Michael Lee at the 2011 Singapore Biennale,” Asian Art News,
p. 127-129 (images)
- Palmer, Daniel. “2011 Singapore Biennale,”
Frieze, May
- Peckham, Robin. “Photo Tour Singapore Biennale
2011,” Randian, April 27 (images)
- Yao, Pauline.
“2011 Singapore Biennale,” Art Agenda, March 18 (image)
- Singapore Biennale 2011 Catalogue. Text by Nuit Banai and artist’s folio p. 234
2010 -
Bryan, Kate. “Charles LaBelle at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical
Sciences,” Asia Art News, July/August
p95
(images)
- Batten, John.
“Personal Mapping,” Perspective,
July p.24 (images)
- Agnew, Mary. “Eye Spy,” Time Out Hong Kong - Peckham, Robin. “LaBelle at HKMSS,” ArtSlant
(images)
- Teh, Yvonne. “Charles LaBelle,” South China
Morning Post, May 27 (image)
- In Magazine, April + May (images)
- Anonymous. “Archaeologies of the future by
Charles LaBelle,” Post Internet (A Project of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts’ Writers Grant
Program), April 22
2009
-
Lam, Yuki. “Artistic
Documentation,” Today’s Living, December , p 46-49 (images)
- Visualingual. “Archaeologies of the Future,”
Oct 10 (images)
- Hackett, Regina. “Charles LaBelle- Archaeologies of the
Future,” ArtsJournal.com, Sept (image)
-
Szupinski, Joanna,. “Charles
LaBelle at Traywick Contemporary,” Artweek, May (image)
2008 -
Lippens, Nate. “Time Space
Location: Catching Charles LaBelle’s Drift,” Arcade, June (image)
- Shipley, Jonathan. “Charles LaBelle
(review),” Art Lies!, Summer (image)
- Demetre, Jim. “Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore
Project,” Art Dish (image)
- Lippens, Nate. “Videos at Lawrimore Take Us
Far and Wide,” Seattle PI, March 20 (image)
- Grant, Adriana. “Charles LaBelle and his Bare Chest,” Seattle
Weekly, March19 (image) -
Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Walk on
the Wild Side, and Then Some,” New York Times, February 10 (image)
2007 -
Grabner, Michelle. “Charles
LaBelle- Fieldworks,” Time Out Chicago, Oct. (image)
- Ewing, John. “Charles LaBelle: Sugar Hill
Suite,” Art Lies, Issue 53, Spring (image)
- Wilson, Michael. “Charles LaBelle at Anna Kustera Gallery,”
Artforum, April (image)
2006 -
Jones, Amelia. Self/Image:
Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject. Routledge, p 110-115
- Wienstein, Lauren. “Charles LaBelle: ‘Sugar Hill Suite,’” Time
Out Chicago, April 13-20
- Artner, Alan.
“Charles LaBelle’s ‘Sugar Hill Suite,’ Chicago Tribune, March 31
2004
-
Daigle, Claire. “Rimbaud at I-20
Gallery,” Art Papers, November/December p. 49 (image)
- Frank, Peter.
“Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Art Review, November 2004
(image)
- Baker, Kenneth. “LaBelle Adrift at Traywick,”
San Francisco Chronicle, October 23 (image)
- Wood, Eve.
“Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Flash Art, Oct. (image)
- Knight, Christopher. “The Result of Aimless Drifting,” Los Angeles Times, August 6 p. E6
- Smith, Roberta. “Rimbaud,” New York Times, July 30
- Buck, David.
“Topographies,” Artweek, June 2004
- “Topographies,” Exhibition Catalogue, Essays
by Steve Dietz, Jeanne Przblysky and Noah Snyder,
- San Francisco Art Institute and the Fellows
of Contemporary Art, Artist Folio pg. 6A
2003 -
Colpitt, Frances. “Charles
LaBelle & Randy Wray: Sudden,”
ArtLies! Issue 41, Winter 2003-4,
p. 94
- Goddard, Dan. “Visionary Art,” San Antono
Express-News, November 13 (image)
- Matlick, Justin. Critics’ Choices: Charles LaBelle,” Chicago
Reader, Jan. 3-9
2002 -
Zwartjes, Arend. “Glow: Aspects
of Light in Contemporary American Art,” Artlies, Fall 2002, p. 95-96
- Baker, Kenneth. “LaBelle at Traywick,” San
Francisco Chronicle, October 12, p. D10
2001 -
“Horror of Light,” Exhibition Catalogue, Pomona College Museum of Art
- Fryer-Kohles, “Street of Dreams Under a
Lens,” The Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 30, 8F (image)
- “Sunset at Dawn,” Exhibition Catalogue,
Rebecca Ibel Gallery
- “Hollywood 101,” project for Zing Magazine,
Spring/ Summer (image)
- Starker, Melissa. “Here’s Looking at You,” Columbus Alive, May
10 (image)
- Helfand, Glen. “Charles LaBelle, Traywick
Gallery,” Art on Paper, Jan-Feb. (image)
2000 -
Meyer, James. “Top Ten: Charles LaBelle,” Artforum, December, p. 114
(image)
- “Disappearer,” Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by
Jacqueline Cooper, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica
- Thornson, Alice. “Under the
Influence: Young Artists Celebrate LA’s Culture,” Kansas City Star, October 21
-
Harvey, Doug. “Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Art Issues, p.
48 (images)
- Moreno, Gean. “Polis as Playground:
Contemporary Artists in Urban Space,” Art Papers, September/October,
p. 28-35, (images)
- Zellen, Jody. “Rites of Passage,” d’Art
International, p. 27 (image)
- Cooper, Jacqueline. “The Fashion Show,” New
Art Examiner, May, P. 56 (image)
- Tumlir, Jan.”The Fashion Show,” Art &
Text, May-July, p. 94-95
- Allherholm, Milou. “Narstudie Los Angeles,”
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), April 12, p B3 (image)
- Harvey, Doug. “Gallaria,” LA Weekly, April
7-13, p. 47 (image)
- Knight, Christopher. “In Charles LaBelle’s
World Things are Inside-Out,” Los Angeles Times, March 17,
p. F25 (image)
- Crowder, Joan. “Working on those Night
Moves,” Santa Barbara Press-News, March 17, p. 3 (image)
- Meeker, Cheryl. “Drive By: Snapshots from the
Cultural Landscape,” Art Papers, January/February p. 57 (image)
- Colpitt, Frances. “Charles LaBelle at Lemon
Sky,” Art in America, January, p. 126 (Image)
1999 -
Ise, Claudine. “Articulating Grief Though the ‘Art of Loss’,” Los
Angeles Times, April 16, p. F30 (image)
- Frank, Peter. “The Mourning After,” LA
Weekly, April 13
- “The Mourning After,” (exhibition catalogue),
Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, essay by Susette Min
1998 -
Curtis, Cathy. “When Seeing Isn’t Believing,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15
1997 -
Finkel, Jori. Review of Refusalon
Show, San Francisco Express, May 23, p. 52 (image)
- Goddard, Dan.
“Stained Bedsheets Underlie LaBelle’s Embroidered Art,” San Antonio
Express-News, January 29
1996 -
True.Bliss. (exhibition catalogue), Essays by David Greene and Julie
Joyce, Artist’s Folio
p.21,
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
- “Abstract Eroticism”, Art & Design #47,
organized by Michael Petry, p. 20-21
1995 -
It’s Only Rock and Roll (exhibition catalogue), Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinatti, organized by David S. Rubin - Kandel, Susan. "Art of Mixing," Los Angeles Times,
June 22, p. F4
1994 -
Hess, Elizabeth. "No Exit Art," Village Voice, October 11, p.
109
- Jones, Amelia. "Taro Chiezo, Michael
Cohen, LouAnne Greenwald, Charles LaBelle and Marie Lafia at domestic
- setting," Artforum, October, p. 109
- Wilson, William. "Santa Monica's
Exquisite Deceptions," Los Angeles Times, July 16, p. F4
- Altered Egos (exhibition catalogue), Essays
by Karen Moss and Amelia Jones, Artist's text, p. 39-42, color folio
p. 77, Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica
- Mapping (exhibition catalogue), Essay by
Frances Colpitt, p19, Artist's folio, p. 31, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Le temps d'un Dessin (exhibition catalogue),
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France
1993 - Ostrow, Saul. "On Kawara and Six Other
Artists," Flash Art, September, p. 79 (image)
- Pagel, David. "Charles LaBelle at Robert
Berman Gallery," Artforum, May, p.110-111 (image)
- Greenstein, M.A. "Edgy in Edge
City," Artweek, April 22, p. 16-17 (image)
- Taylor, Simon. "Charles LaBelle at
Philippe Briet," Art in America, March, p. 114-115(image)
- Kandel, Susan. "Charles LaBelle's
Bourgeois Revolution," Los Angeles Times, January 28, p. F8
- Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices: Fever,"
Village Voice, January 5, p. 56
1992 -
Smith, Roberta. "The Los Angeles Art World's New Image," New
York Times, Dec. 29, p. B1
- Hess, Elizabeth. "Pillows to Post
(Graffiti)," Village Voice, November 17, p. 109 (image)
Public
and Private Collections
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum; Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Deautsche Bank Collection; The Stuart
& Judy Spence Collection; Microsoft Collection; Hewlett-Packard Collection;
Nationwide Collection; Banana Republic Collection