CHARLES LaBELLE
View Images of Charles LaBelle's Sugar Hill Suite at Anna Kustera Gallery
CHARLES LABELLE
Born 1964, Dearborn, Michigan. Lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
1988 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1988-1990 Graduate Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
Bldgs Entered 1997 – 2007, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2006 Sugar Hill Suite, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
2004 Miami Drift, Lemon Sky, Miami
Driftworks, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
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)
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
2007 Imagined Worlds (curated by Jeanne Gerrity), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
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
2000 Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter, Sala Diaz, San Antonio
Cleaning Up, (curated by Lisa Tan), 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 Residency, New Hampshire
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Swing Space Grant
2003 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellowship
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
SELECTED ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES
2007 Wilson, Michael. “Charles LaBelle at Anna Kustera”, Artforum, April (image) pp.273-274
2006 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
2004 Buck, David. “Topographies,” Artweek, June
“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,pp.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
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
1996 “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, p. 19, 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)
For additional information please contact the gallery at 212-989-0082.