Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan and Lara Schnitger will each be presenting new sculpture and Amy Bessone will show new paintings. Amy Bessone had a solo exhibition (with Thomas Houseago) at Gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium and was in the group show b.a.-ba, un choix dans la collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France.

BIOGRAPHY

1972
Born in Leeds
Lives and works in Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

2004

Solo presentation, Art Brussels, with gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

2003

Thomas Houseago, I Am Here, Selected Sculptures 1995-2003, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

2002

Xavier Hufkens, (w/Amy Bessone), Brussels, Belgium

2000

Something to Be, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996

Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mum's tattoo, Si en La, (w/Matthew Monahan, guest curator: Luc Tuymans), Antwerp, Belgium

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Both Ends Burning, an exhibition of new work by Amy Bessone, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan and Lara Schnitger.The opening reception will be on Friday, October 14th and the exhibition will be on view through November 12th. The four artists first met in 1994 while completing their residencies at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Their meeting proved to be a profound experience that cemented the professional and personal friendships within the group.

After living and working in various countries after their time in Amsterdam, the four are once again in the same location, Los Angeles. Both Ends Burning is the first exhibition of all the artists together. Bessone, Houseago, Monahan and Schnitger are dedicated to exploring and challenging notions of the figure. Finding a lack of rigor in current trends regarding figuration they look to face their practices without ironic distractions.

Together they have decided to take a no-holds-barred approach to their work and find territories not before explored. Each artist confronts figuration from different angles and with various techniques. In this exhibition they continue this dialogue and the intertwining narratives between their work.

Read Entire Article about Artist Thomas Houseago paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/thomas_houseago.htm