SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
JOEL TAUBER
Born in Boston, MA in 1972
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2002 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1997 MA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
1995 BA, Art History and Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2010
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008
"Joel Tauber: Digging, Diving, Flying, and Loving”, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Sick-Amour”, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2007
"Sick-Amour”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Sick-Amour”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2006
"Searching for the Impossible: Digging, Flying and Diving", Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, Montana
2005
"Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, project space
"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2004
"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
1999
"Spiritual Anxiety: 31 Rats & 15 Doves”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
"No Matter. Failure And Art”, the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany, curated by Florina Limberg and Jens Papenkort
“Cluster Balloons:From Lawn Chairs to Cosmic Rays”, Anderson-Abruzzo Albequerque International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“Water, CA”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, curated by Enid Baxter Blader and Nicole Antebi
2009
"ecoLOGIC" at the Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, curated by Patrica Watts
"LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning", 18th Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis
2008
"Flight dreams”, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
"California Biennial 2008”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
"The Whole World Is Still Watching”, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos
"Gravity Art”, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Rene Daalder
"Systems Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
"Tree Service”, Jeanne Patterson’s Domestic Setting, LA, CA. Curated by Michael Gold and Jeanne Patterson
2007
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, Curated by Maggi Owens.
"Love is Like Oxygen”, W139, Amsterdam, Holland, curated by Theo Tegelaers
"The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the post-Jewish Generation", catalogue, Spertus Museum,
Chicago, IL, curated by Staci Boris, traveling to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006
"700% Plus”, CPH Kunsthal Festival, Copenhagen
"Sick-Amour; a preview”, "Artini Shorts 2006”, Missoula Art Museum, MT, curated by Toni Matlock
"Happy Believers”, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany, curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren
"Eco Lux: Art in the Light of Ecology”, Lightbox, Los Angeles
Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany
2005
"The Gravity in Art", De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Rene Daalder and Theo Tegelaers
"Still, Things Fall From The Sky”, University of California Riverside / California Museum of Photography Curated by Ciara Ennis, catalog
2004
"The California Biennial", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA , curated by Liz Armstrong and Irene Hoffman, catalog
"Video Lounge", ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Guillermo Santamarina
2003
"Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles, Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France and the Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France, Curated by Carlos Cardenas.
"Works on Paper by Gallery Artists”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
"Enter Intercessor”, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Carrie Patterson
2002
"Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Konig Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Skip Arnold.
"To Believe Much More Than That”, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
1999
"Convergence: A National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Wilmington, VT. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Senior Curator at the DeCordova Museum And Sculpture Park.
1998
"1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Juried by John Udvardy, Sculptor and
Professor of Art at Rhode Island School of Design.
"New Art ’98: National Juried Exhibition”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Helaine Posner, Curator at M.I.T.’s List Visual Arts Center.
"Art in the Yard: Outdoor Sculpture Show ‘98”, Hole in the Wall Studio Works, Raymond, ME.
1996
"Cybermama”, The Artscape Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
2009
Immediato, Linda, "Gallery of Earthly Delights”, Angeleno Magazine, January
2008
Joel Tauber, "A Life Redeemed”, NYARTS, November / December
"Joel Tauber in Conversation With Susan Bell Yank”, 2008 California Biennial Catalog, pg 198-199.
Kelley Jr., Bill, "Observations on ‘Sick-Amour’”, Log: Observations on architecture and the contemporary city, Spring / Summer, pg 80.
Geagea, Nadia, "’Sick-Amour:’ One Californian’s Love Affair with Trees”, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist•News magazine, February
Biemiller, Lawrence, "At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18.
"Walden School’s ‘Tree Baby’ Project”, Pasadena Outlook, September 25
"Tree Planting Ceremony Held”, La Canada / La Crescenta Valley Sun, September 18
"Tree Project Branches Off Across SoCal”, USC Chronicle, February 4
Sheppard, Dale, "Flight Dreams”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Journal, Fall / Winter
Vider, Stephen, "Cultural Evolution: What exactly is "post-Jewish” art?”, Netbook, July 2
Joel Tauber, "Growing”, University of Southern California BA/BFA Catalogue, May
Mania, Astrid, "Graben und Fliegen”, Artnet, March 25
Geagea, Nadia, "Sick-Amour:” One Californian’s Love Affair with Trees”, International Society of Arboriculture: Arborist, February
Villamagna, Holly, "Sculptures honor urban plant life Sculptures surrounding a newly-planted tree aim to inspire respect for nature”, Daily Trojan, January 25
Biemiller, Lawrence, "At USC, a Sycamore With a Story to Tell”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18
2007
Nelson, Sarah Geller, "What Kind of Transformations Would We Enjoy If We Tried To Achieve The Impossible?” and Boris, Stacy, "The New Authentics, Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation”, (exhibition catalogue) Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago
Miles, Christopher, "Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts: Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” LA Weekly, December 27
Gunn, Dan. "Eye Exam: Authentically Yours”, NewCity Chicago, December 04
Brooks, Kimberly, "First Person Artist: Joel Tauber”, The Huffington Post, November 16
Patterson, Carrie, "Joel Tauber: Sick Amouor”, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, October 12
Villamagna, Holly, "Planting ‘amour’ seeds in L.A.”, The Daily Trojan, October 2
Khuri, Elizabeth, "Public Art Angel: Lauri Firstenberg gets art out of museums and into the street”, West: LA Times Magazine, September 16
Zellen, Jody, "Joel Tauber”, artUS, Summer
Degen, Pener, "A Pasadena Parking Lot’s cherished Tree”, seedhead.com, July 13
Martin, Victoria, "Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Artweek, June
McCave, Lesley, "Regional Roundup: Los Angeles", Artinfo.com, April 11
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art”, LA Weekly, April 11
Soules, Carol, "Sick-Amour", http://terranovadesign.blogspot.com, April 9
"Sick-Amour: A Guerrilla in Sunny CA", Guerillagardening.org, April 9
Myers, Holly, "Joel Tauber‚s Rose Bowl Sycamore Project Rooted in Obsession", Los Angeles Times, March 30
Clothier, Peter, The Buddha Diaries Blog, http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com, March 23
Es, Carol, "Good shows around town”, esart.com, March 21
Mizota, Sharon, "Crawling into the woodwork”, Los Angeles Times, March 10
Calder, Diane, "Joel Tauber”, Artscene, March
Gray, Emma, "Future Greats”, Art Review, March
Gray, Emma, "The ‘It’ Factor”, artnet, February 19
Blodgett, Erica, "A Sycamour Affair… The love story of Joel Tauber and his lonely sycamore”, The Design Magazine, February
2006
Harvey, Doug, "The new, weird counterculture”, LA Weekly, November 16
Tsui, Loire, "Protector of a lone sycamore tree: Teacher is creating an art exhibit about the future of a tree in Rose Bowl parking lot”, Daily Trojan, November 3
Williams, Janet, "His Tree of Life: Artist Tends to Lone Sycamore in Rose Bowl Parking Lot”, Pasadena Star News, October 4
Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, August 21
www.vvork.com, August
Werkleitz Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany
Bokern, Anneke, "Bedingungsloser Körpereinsatz”, Artnet.com, January 19
2005
de Vries, Marina, "Indrukwekkende ‘poging tot vliegen’”, De Volkskrant, www.volkskrant.nl/kunst, December 21
"On Stage”, USC Chronicle, August 29
Sachs, Mark, "The caveman digs nature and the Sox”, Los Angeles Times, August 25
Villasenor, Michael, "Water world of music”, Daily Trojan, August 24
Newhouse, Kristina, "Experiencing the California Biennial”, X-Tra, Spring Issue, Vol.7, No.3
Tumlir, Jan, "California Biennial", Artforum, pg. 168
2004
Hart, Hugh, "Into it for the shock of his life - Joel Tauber tries to jolt himself into seeing his place on
Earth. In his art he flies, dives, dares", Los Angeles Times, December 25
"Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects presents JOEL TAUBER: The Underwater Project; Turning Myself Into Music", re-title.com, December 24
Knight, Christopher, "Staking a claim for an idiom of Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, November 26
Pincus, Robert, "Tuning in to the O.C.:‚Biennial‚ belly laughs", San Diego Union Tribune, November 7
Gary, Jessica, "Adventures in the OC”, Insurgent Muse: Notes from the Underground
Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum", Los Angeles Times, October 13
Chang, Richard, "The art of the new", Orange County Register, October 10
Walsh, Daniella, "Orange Blossoms”, Riviera, September Issue
Simon, Jane, "Joel Tauber", 2004 California Biennial catalogue, pg 112 – 115
Kraus, Chris, "Cast Away”, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, pg 149-150. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)
2003
Ouest, Cote, "Des Anges De 30 Ans”, Nova Magazine June
"Light and Spaced Out”, Vogue: Paris May
"From L.A.” ("Light and Spaced Out” preview), Mouvement May – June
"Redonner a Saint Germain son aura d’antan” ("Light and Spaced Out” preview), L’OEIL May
2002
Piccard, Don (aviation pioneer, inventor, father of modern ballooning), "Coyote Dry Lake Flight”, www.piccard.info, June 22
2001
Kraus, Chris "Cast Away”, Art/Text May – July
2000
Ball, Molly, "From York Street to Broome, Yale Artists Grow Up”, The Yale Herald 21 January
1999
Faxon, Alicia , "Joel Tauber: Spiritual Anxiety, 31 Rats and 15 Doves”, Art New England June / July
McQuaid, Cate "The Stuff of Dreams”, The Boston Globe 18 February
1998-1999
Cover image of arts MEDIA Magazine Winter Issue
1998
Faxon, Alicia "Bristol Art Museum / Bristol: 1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Art New England October / November
Nieter, Dawn, "National Art Show Opens at Memorial Hall”, The Deerfield Valley News 24-31 December
1995
Soloski, Alexis, "The Undergraduate Art Show: Our Lives on Display”, The Yale Herald 6 October 1995.
Lana, Cheryl, "Sculpture Show Harmonizes Forces”, The Yale Herald 31 March 1995.
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
W139, Amsterdam Netherlands
USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Newcomb’s Ranch, Altadena, CA
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2007-2008
"Sick-Amour”, LA><ART public initiatives: Tree museum, Parking Lot K, Rose Bowl, Pasadena;
2007
series of tree baby shrines, public sites throughout Los Angeles. Sites include the USC Roski
School of Art, LA, CA; LA><ART, LA, CA; the Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA; a
sycamore grove in the restored Arroyo Seco Valley near the parent tree, Pasadena, CA; multiple
elementary schools in southern California; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; W139,
Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
2007-2008
Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts
2007
Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship
2009
"Shades of Green”, Ovation Network. Joel Tauber and Sick-Amour will be featured for a five minute segment in the hour long television documentary "Shades of Green”, which will be aired nation wide via the Ovation Network on television as well as the internet, February
2008
"Diving, Digging, Flying and Loving Interview with Joel Tauber”, Berliner Kunstkontakter: the active Art TV, Adamski Berlin, March
2007
Six-minute story about "Sick-Amour”, Deutsche Welle radio, Deutschlandfunk, March 18
Mayer, Daniela, "Akustisches Tagebuch: Highlights, Art Cologne”, Art Radio Podcast, Germany ZDF tv station, Düsseldorf, Germany, April
2006
Ross Becker, "Local Story: Man Adopts Tree At Rose Bowl In Pasadena”, Channel 4 Los Angeles, NBC, October 11
Bill Drummond, "Cities of the Plain”, NPR, June 2
2005
Storm, Louise, "FORMAT Los Angeles”, Swedish Television (aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland), October 18
2002
Live coverage of helium balloon and bagpipe powered flight, Z107.7 radio, Joshua Tree, CA, June 22
1999
Work discussed on the "Gary Jones Show”, Brookline Cable Access Television
1994-1995
"Shelter” (sculpture), the artist‚s ensuing conversation about loneliness is a primary focus of the film Boaz Halaban, "Generation X”, New Haven public television
2009
Alpert Ucross Artist Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming
2008
Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007
"Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It”, film screening, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Frenso, CA, curated by Susanneh Bieber
"Xerxes, Watering, & Tree Guards", "The Invisible Worker", & "Tree Babies”, film screening, Ruth B.
Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Guest lecturer, Environmental Science Colloquium at Whittier College, CA
Screening of "Searching for the Impossible: the Flying Project”, Mannheim Film Festival, Germany
Guest lecturer, UCLA Extension, Michelle Eisenberg’s class
Guest lecturer, UCLA Extension, Jeff Cain’s class
Guest lecturer, Cal State Long Beach, Dana Doyle’s class
Guest lecturer, UCLA, Dee Williams’ class
Artist talk, USC
Guest lecturer, Windward School, Postmodern Questions in Contemporary Art class
Screening of "Flying Project”, program "Finding a Home in the World While Moving Across It”, First Fridays summer series, Fresno Metropolitan Museum
Screening, "Sick-Amour”, Echo Park Film Center, May 31
"Cultivating Wilderness”, ART-TALK-ART lecture series, Foundation for Art Resources, CalTrans building, Los Angeles
Artist talk, Farmlab Public Salon, Los Angeles
2006
"Happy Believers: 7th Werkleitz Biennial”, Volkspark, Halle, Germany
Artist talk, USC
"Joel Tauber”, lecture by Lauri Firstenberg, Southern California Institute of Architecture
"Joel Tauber”, lecture by MA Greenstein, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
"Good Bye Festival”, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Artini Shorts 2006”, Missoula Art Museum, curated by Toni Matlock
2004
"Still Things Fall From the Sky: The unexpected, uncontrollable, and unexplained”, panel discussion at the California Museum of Photography with Ciara Ennis, two artists, an English professor, and a psychology professor
Lectures about artist’s work to USC graduate students, undergraduate senior seminar class
2003
Lectures about artist’s work at the Orange County Museum of Art; UC Irvine; and the Art Institute of California, Orange County, CA
2002
Subject of "Wonky Angel in the Desert”, guest lecture by MA Greenstein at the University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia, August
Participated in "Remediating Social Contracts: A Round Table Discussion on Site Specific
Performance Art”,Los Angeles Public Library, February 23
Lecture about his work in MA Greenstein’s class "Comparative Aesthetics: The Body” at Art Center
College of Design (February) and Otis College of Design (October)
2001
"Imagining Los Angeles Landscape: Video Art in the Millies”, Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia, July
"Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual” screened and discussed by MA Greenstein with films by Joseph Herring and Michelle Alperin, Lecture about his work in Brian McCormick’s class, "Science, Mysticism, and Art”, Art Center College of Design
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