THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small | Torrance Art Museum, California, USA

THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small

Curated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley

Curatorial Assistants: Jolanda Chandler & Chelsea Garner

Private View
Saturday May 28th

Exhibition Dates
May 29th – June 25th 2011

Address
Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Centre Drive, Torrance, CA 90503, USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com

Museum Hours
Tuesday – Saturday 11am-5pm

Admission
Free

The Torrance Art Museum is proud to announce a monumental exhibition of new British art for Los Angeles BritWeek 2011, organised in association with The Future Can Wait and Edward Lucie-Smith.

Based on the idea that small, today, is often much better than big, this exhibition will be a groundbreaking show of almost 100 British or British based artists. All working on paper and none bigger than A3 in size, it invites viewers to engage with art intimately, and at the same time offers the American public a sweeping overview of the exciting new artistic developments now taking place in Britain.

It will almost certainly be the largest display, in terms both of the number of artists, and also in terms of stylistic variety, of new British and British-based art ever seen in California. This exhibition reflects the do it yourself attitude of the curators, standing against bureaucracy and top down institutionalism, and demonstrates how young artists and committed curators can mount major events in straightened times.

ARTISTS:

Henny Acloque
Alexander Adams
Dale Adcock
Dominic Allan
Jonathan Baldock
Angela Bartram
Paul Becker
Emma Bennett
Kiera Bennett
Jemima Brown
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Gordon Cheung
Billy Childish
Oliver Clegg
Sam Dargan
Tom Doran
Heather Eastes
Zavier Ellis
Nadine Feinson
Hester Finch
Grant Foster
Nick Fox
Rose Gibbs
Stuart Gough
Steve Green
Andrea Gregson
David Hancock
Christopher Hanlon
Sarah Hardacre
Andy Harper
Justin Hibbs
Christian Hidaka
Sigrid Holmwood
Paul Hosking
James Howard
Luke Jackson
Sam Jackson
Monica Ursina Jäger
James Jessop
Jasper Joffe
Chris Jones & Vicky Wright
Reece Jones
Claire de Jong
Annie Kevans
Rebecca Kressley
Peter Lamb
Cathy Lomax
Francesca Lowe
Robert Luzar
Joe Machine
Alastair Mackie
Jasmine Maddock
Robin Mason
Rui Matsunaga
Alan McQuillan
Hugh Mendes
Alexis Milne
Jock Mooney
Kieran Moore
Alex Gene Morrison
Jost Münster
Nika Neelova
Gavin Nolan
Margaret O'Brien
Tim Parr
Claire Pestaille
Harry Pye
Danny Rolph
Kim Rugg
Miho Sato
Stuart Semple
Benjamin Senior
Dominic Shepherd
Jamie Shovlin
John Stark
Nessie Stonebridge
Kate Street
Charles Thomson
Erik Tidemann
Gavin Tremlett
James Unsworth
Covadonga Valdes
Alex Virji
Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich
Stephen Walter
Miranda Whall
Hannah Wooll

EDITOR’S NOTES:

The Future Can Wait was launched in 2007 by Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley. Conceived to provide a platform for emerging artists of the highest standard, The Future Can Wait has taken place each year during London’s Frieze week in industrial or historical locations of note. To date the project has focused on London based or educated artists working in all mediums including Gordon Cheung, Alexander Hoda, Sam Jackson, Monica Ursina Jäger, Jasper Joffe, Gavin Nolan, John Stark and Stella Vine and has led to gallery shows in Berlin, Los Angeles, Naples and Rome. The exhibition is privately funded and as a museum scale curated exhibition provides an important and independent alternative to the art fair routine.
www.thefuturecanwait.com

Zavier Ellis is the Director of the Shoreditch gallery CHARLIE SMITH london. He is also co-founder of the museum scale show for emerging artists The Future Can Wait and has curated exhibitions internationally including in Berlin, Helsinki, Klaipeda, LA, Naples, Rome and London. Known as an acute talent spotter he has identified and exhibited a number of important young artists from Art College including David Blandy, Oliver Clegg, Tessa Farmer, Sam Jackson, Monica Ursina Jäger, Annie Kevans, Nika Neelova and Douglas White. Zavier is also a practicing artist and has most recently exhibited at Paul Stolper Gallery in London and Museum der Moderne in Salzburg.
www.zavierellis.com 
www.charliesmithlondon.com

Edward Lucie-Smith is an internationally known art critic and historian who is also a curator, a published poet, an anthologist and a practicing photographer. He has published more than one hundred books in all, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary art. Edward is generally regarded as the most prolific and the most widely published writer on art in the UK. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945; Visual Arts of the 20th Century; A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world.

Max Presneill is a Los Angeles based artist and curator, originally from London, UK. He was the Founder and former Director of the artists initiative space Raid Projects and Director of the Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica from 2005-2008. Currently he is Head Curator for Torrance Art Museum as well as Director of ARTRA Curatorial, an independent curatorial projects management team. He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions for museums, institutions and galleries in the US and UK, Australia, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Turkey and more. Max is known as an international talent spotter and an authority on emerging art in Los Angeles. He is also part of the international movement of curators concerned with overseeing museums becoming more artist-centric. As an artist Max has shown throughout the world including Amsterdam, Istanbul, London, New York, Sydney and Tokyo and is represented by Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, and the Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
www.artrala.org 
www.raidprojects.wordpress.com

Simon Rumley founded the auspicious New London Kicks in 2005. An annual exhibition sponsored by The Armory Show, New London Kicks promoted British contemporary and emerging artists in New York in collaboration with Soho House NY and Wooster Projects. As well as showing breaking talent such as Tessa Farmer, Gordon Cheung and Stella Vine, Rumley was first to exhibit Katy Moran's work in New York before she was signed by Stuart Shave/Modern Art and Andrea Rosen. More recently Simon has co-founded The Future Can Wait and co-curated shows globally. Simon has also produced, written and directed six feature films including Strong Language, The Truth Game and Club Le Monde & The Living and The Dead. His most recent film, Red White & Blue, is released in the USA by IFC films and will be coming out theatrically in the UK via Trinity X in September.
www.simonrumley.com