ARTIST BIO & CV
GABIE STRONG
Born 1971. Denver, Colorado.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Gabie Strong is an artist with a multidisciplinary approach to creating work about nature, technology, power and social resistance. Through her art she seeks to tease out the contemporary sublime by visualizing the post-Cold War affect of the American West. With a foundation in conceptualism and research in the built environment, Strong traces entropy in the West by framing vernacular obsolescence as speculative futures through photography, sculpture, and sound. Her sound performance and recordings are studies in degeneration. She improvises arrangements and layers of aural textures to emphasize reduced and abstracted musical gestures to further invoke drone and decay.
She has received grant awards from the University of California, Irvine, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, and is a 2011 CCI ARC grant award recipient. Strong's work has been exhibited at Autonomie, PØST, Pitzer Art Galleries, University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, UCSD, LAXArt, Acuna-Hansen, Gallery Five Thirty Three, and the Torrance Art Museum among others. She has performed collaborative sound compositions at venues including Human Resources, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Las Cienegas Projects, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and with her experimental music performance group Lady Noise at the Whitney Biennial 2012 opening events. She is a lecturer in the Cultural Studies department at SCI-Arc and in the Art History and Urbanism departments at Woodbury University.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine
2006 M. Arch, Southern California Institute of Architecture
1993 BA, Art, University of California, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
The Exegesis of Entropy, Autonomie, Los Angeles
Archaeological Expedition, PØST, Los Angeles
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
La Cosa Nostra-This Thing of Ours, Galerie Rheeway, Los Angeles
Durden & Ray Presents: Vertigo, 12th Floor, Los Angeles
&Now Festival of New Writing: Tomorrowland Forever!, UC San Diego
The De-socialized Landscape, Foundation for Art Resources at D-Block Gallery, Long Beach
New Moon, Shangrila, Joshua Tree
2010
Elysian Park Museum of Art, LACE, Hollywood
Wo Es War, Soll Ich Werden!, Cabrini Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank Curated by Amy Pederson
Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree
Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map: Dry Immersion 3, Twentynine Palms. Cosponsored by UCIRA/UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside
Capitalism in Question (Because It Is), Pitzer Art Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont. Curated by Ciara Ennis and Daniel Joseph Martinez
2009
I'm Gorgeous Inside, Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles
Second Shift, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
Juried Art Exhibition 2008, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
Wreckers, Records, Redeemers, LAXArt, Los Angeles
Summer Guests Show, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles
Oranges & Paper, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine
2006
Video Nightmare, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
2004
Imagination and Reality: First Beijing Dashanzi International Art Festival. Curated by Huang Rui and Tatehata Akira, Beijing, PRC
2001
Three Day Weekend, Mad Art Gallery, Saint Louis. Curated by Dave Muller
1998
Anwander, Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Space is the Place, Space Command Gallery, Los Angeles
SELECT PERFORMANCES
2012
Lady Noise with Dawn Kasper, Whitney Biennial 2012 opening receptions, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
2011
Lady Noise & Friends: Untitled score for Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Oct. 16, 2011. SASSAS commission, Los Angeles
Lady Noise: Material Utterances, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Lady Noise with OMAYUMI, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Irvin: Flat Red, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Lady Noise with Raquel Guttierez: GUTTED, LACE, Hollywood
Lady Noise: Late Risers Club, Verse/Chorus/Verse Amphitheater, 2011 Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, Santa Monica
Lady Noise: The Collective Show, Los Angeles
2010
Lady Noise: An Evening of Light, Space and Sound, UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside
Gabie Strong, Steve Kim, Ron Russell: LACMA Launch/Muse Artwalk, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Lady Noise: An Evening of Experimental Music, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2009
Gabie Strong, Steve Kim, Ron Russell: Mind ur Head, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles
w/ Joe Potts, Telethon Returns Revisited, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2008
88 Boadrum 08/08/08 (directed by The Boredoms). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Sand and Sky Rituals (Helga Fassonaki, Andrew Scott, Ron Russell, Steve Kim, Albert Ortega), Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites (CB08), Joshua Tree
2000
David Patton, Ron Russell, Joe Potts, Joseph Hammer. Cindy Bernard: space, climate, light, mood, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
1999
angel's gate 8.16.99 dusk: installations + trios pulled from a hat, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro (organized by Cindy Bernard)
DISCOGRAPHY
Lady Noise, s/t, © 2012 Coats/Kim/Strong/Yang. 12” vinyl LP (forthcoming).
Gabie Strong, performance, EarMeal (solo). 2011. Digital streaming media. http://laartstream. com/ear-meal/gabie-strong/
Sandy Yang, performance, EarMeal (in accompaniment). 2011. Digital streaming media. http:// laartstream.com/ear-meal/sandy-yang/
Lament Project at Viralnet.net, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts. 2008. Digital streaming media. http://viralnet.net/lamentproject/each_lament.html?artist=strong
Various artists, soundCD no.1: Live recordings of experimental improvisations organized as a part
of sound., ©2002 by soundNet recordings/SASSAS. Compact disc.
Tom Watson, Country and Watson. With Erik Bluhm, Brian Christopher, Lynn Johnston, Bob
Mothersbaugh, Stephen Prina, Gabie Strong, Mayo Thompson and Diana Watson. ©1999 by
Leiterwagen Records, ©2002 by Theologian Records. Compact disc.
Ron Russell, David Patton, and Gabie Strong, PS001 Ron Russell, David Patton, Gabie Strong.
©1999 by Pacific Standard Recordings.
Ajay Dhaka, Tanya Samazan and Gabie Strong, Canopy/SeeSaw, with Joey Morris and Richard
Medina. ©1993 by Canopy/SeeSaw. Sour Power Records. 7” vinyl record.
Cast member, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video, Nirvana. ©1991 by DGC.
PUBLISHED WRITING
“Kara Walker,” This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of MOCA,
Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2010. Ann Goldstein,
editor.
“Dirty Work, Land Art of the West,” Great God Pan, The Journal of Californiana, #13 (1999): pp.22-23.
“Headbanging Revisited: The Melvins, The Bootlicker, Ipecac Records,” New Times L.A. (Sept. 2,
1999).
“Nightstick: Cindy Bernard and Joseph Hammer,” New Times L.A. (July 15, 1999).
“Nightstick: The Donnas, Delta 72,” New Times L.A. (July 8, 1999).
“Revolver: Guitar Wolf, Jet Generation, Matador Records,” New Times L.A. (June 17, 1999).
“Revolver: Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy, True, Matador Records,” New Times L.A. (March 11,
1999).
“Revolver: godspeed you black emperor! Slow Riot for new Zero Kanada, Kranky Records,” New
Times L.A. (March 4, 1999).
“LoCAL: Solid Eye, Fruits of Automation, W.I.N. Records,” New Times L.A. (Feb. 25 1999).
“Non: Receive the Flame,” “Mouse on Mars,” “Crib: Forward Back,” Mean #7 (1999).
“Holger Czukay, Good Morning Story,” Mean #5 (1999).
“Edith Frost: Telescopic;” “Will Oldham: Black Rich Music/ Benway Records, Venice,” “Buck
Owens and The Sugar Hill Gang with Grandmaster Flash and Mel E. Mel at the Santa Monica
Pier,” “Royal Trux,” “Joan Didion: The White Album,” Great God Pan, The Journal of Californiana,
#12 (1998): pp. 105, 111-113, 113-114.
“Jeffrey Vallance: The World of Jeffrey Vallance,” “Blue is Beautiful: A film by James Schnieder,”
“For The Dead In Space: Interpretations of the Work of Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine
(Ptolemaic Terrascope)/ Tard and Further’d: Selected Tracks from the Siltbreeze 7” Catalog
1989-95 (Siltbreeze),” “Flying Saucer Attack: New Lands (Drag City)/ Movietone: Day and Night
(Drag City)/ Bardo Pond: Lapsed (Matador),” “Royal Trux: Singles. Live. Unreleased. (Drag City),”
Great God Pan, The Journal of Californiana, #11 (1998): pp. 18-19, 91-92, 99-102.
“Amp: Perception (Darla),” “Ashtabula: River of Many Dead Fish (Siltbreeze),” “The Azusa Plane:
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly and the Full Consciousness of Hidden Harmony (Camera Obscura),”
“Brother J.T.: Rainy Day Fun (Drunken Fish),” “Hash Jar Tempo: Well Oiled (Drunken Fish),”
Great God Pan, The Journal of Californiana, #10 (1997): pp. 62-71.
“Rock for Choice with L7,” ”Here Kitty Kitty – An Interview with Performer Ann Magnuson,”
Together, UCLA Women’s Magazine, 1992.
ARTIST WORKSHOPS
2011
Blast Site: A Workshop for Conjecture, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree
Sound & Performance Workshop, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
2010
Sound & Performance Workshop, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
2008
Sound & Listening Workshop, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
ARTIST LECTURES
2010
Guest Artist Lecture, Fine Art Photography, Art Center College of Design
Guest Artist Lecture, History of Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Woodbury University, Burbank
Guest Artist Lecture, Graduate Thesis, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank
2009
Guest Artist Lecture, Intermediate Projects in Photography, Department of Studio Art, UC Irvine, Irvine
Guest Artist Lecture, History of Contemporary Art, Woodbury University, Burbank
PANELS & JURIES
2010
Panelist, Capitalism in Question (Because It Is), Munroe Center for Social Inquiry, Pitzer College, Claremont
Juror, Graduate Architecture Thesis Reviews, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank
Juror, Undergraduate Studio First Year Final Reviews, Department of Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank
CURATION
2009
Co-curator, “Mapping sound. The SASSAS 10th Anniversary Concert Series.” Sylvan Amphitheater, Chung King Rd., Amoeba Music, Eighth Veil, Beyond Baroque, Schindler House, Pierre’s Fine Pianos, and the Sousa Hine Bandshell, Los Angeles
2007
Guest curator, Time Writers From The Mirror Horizon, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles
AWARDS
2011
CCI ARC Grant
2010
UCIRA/UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Collaborative Research Grant for UR RITUALS
UCIRA/UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Collaborative Research Grant for THE DESERT DIE
2007/2008
UC Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant
UC Irvine Resident of California Fees Fellowship
UC Irvine Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship
2006/2007
UC Irvine Medici Circle Scholarship
UC Irvine Department of Studio Art, Graduate Student Scholarship
UC Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant
UC Irvine Resident of California Fees Fellowship
UC Irvine Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship
2006
UC Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant
UC Irvine Resident of California Fees Fellowship
UC Irvine Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship
2003
SCI-Arc Graduate Student Scholarship
COLLECTIONS
Sarah and Jen Wolfe Zine Collection, University of Iowa
Darby Romeo Collection of Zines in the Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles
Arielle Greenberg Zine Collection, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University Libraries
Sarah Dyer Zine collection at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University Libraries