Tony Labat, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

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Tony Labat

December 2007 Gallery Installation

Available Works

Line of Sight, 2007
Plaster cast, Ivory soap, mirror, charcoal pencil on paper
Drawing: 20” x 18” Plaster cast: 10” x 10” x 12”

TIR (After Niki) AK47, 2007
Shooting range target (shot with an AK47), paint, photo/collage
34” x 24 1/2”

Mata Crush, 2006
DVD Video Loop, color, sound
Edition of 6

Wanted/Reward/Tagged (With BKF), 2007
Spray paint, house paint, stickers, oil sticks on canvas with wanted poster
62” x 62”

Peace Roll, 2006
Wood, rubber, paint, with flat-screen/DVD Loop, color, sound
Performance: Chelsea America Torres
55” diameter x 6”
Edition of 6

Day Labor: Mapping the Outside (Fat Chance Bruce Nauman), 2006
mixed media installation
Edition of 3

Designated Areas #1, 2007
Flag pole holder, paint and resin on panel
11” x 11” x 1 3/4” each

Frankenstein Series (Elvis Impersonator), 2007
Digital print on canvas
35” x 24”

Frankenstein Series (Karl Marx), 2007
Digital print on canvas
35” x 24”

Frankenstein Series (Klein’s Model), 2007
Digital print on canvas
35” x 24”

In Your Head (You Have to Close Your Eyes to See It), 2007
Paint on canvas, resin
60” x 40”

Montana/Fontana (Eye), 2007
Velvet painting, canvas, paint
36” x 34”

Montana/Fontana (Scar), 2007
Velvet painting, canvas, paint
36” x 34”

Target Painting (To be shot at), 2007
Target, paint, resin
32” x 24” x 2”

Coffee Drawing #1, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #2, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #3, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #5, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #6, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #7, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #8, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #10, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #11, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Coffee Drawing #12, 2007
Marker and coffee on paper
18 1/2” x 24”

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by TONY LABAT.

Labat will present a spectrum of works using photography, video, drawing, collage, painting and digital prints. Featured will be two video works, Day Labor: Mapping the Outside (Fat Chance Bruce Nauman) 2006 and Mata Crush 2006, shown at the recent Seville Biennial and Havana Biennial, respectively.

Since the early eighties Labat has been an important participant in the California performance and video scene. A pioneer of video installations, his work often identifies the “outsider”, whether the artist or the immigrant.

Born in Cuba, he makes frequent commen-tary on displacement and marginalization. In Day Labor: Mapping the Outside… he sets up a surveillance system from his studio window, observing day workers waiting to be picked up for temporary work. The split-screen video and the workers themselves divide into groups of visual codes: painters, carpenters, gardeners, etc. The artist is mimicking institutional surveillance, while participating in the workers passivity.

Labat received his BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and teaches performance and video there. His video works have been exhibited internation- ally and found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstmuseum, Bern, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Long Beach Museum of Art.