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Greg Ito at MON CHÉRI, Brussels.

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The Order of Shadowboxing

Alex Ito & Greg Ito

September 25 - October 31, 2015

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Shadow boxing is the practice of sparring against an imaginary opponent. The body moves through a space with an opposition recognizing a mass behind absence. This act is to rejoice in self-occupance as movement, intention and impulse become dictated by the concoction of a phantom will. The subject casts a shadow upon itself

A push and pull between forces sometimes unknown, the politics of the everyday sustain a similar inertia. Bodies move and collide all while transporting an emotive energy that socializes generously. This energy has no bias and lacks distinction of light and darkness—good or evil.

What is laughable is when this space is perceived so selfishly—“I think therefore I am”. The shadow is an image, and what we shadow box needs no face. Before the mirror we can be anything and what we speak are someone else’s words. When we look the truth is flat. When we kiss our eyes are closed.

Et Al. is pleased to present The Order of Shadowboxing, a two-person exhibition featuring Alex Ito and Greg Ito.

Alex Ito’s work consists of a series of digitally printed portraits and a three-dimensional maquette. Each work displays an arid treatment that conceals the identities of each image. These non-identities of the figure and space suggest a malleability of an object and its potential to be manipulated by external force—continuing Ito’s investigation of corporately homogenized intimacy .

Greg Ito’s paintings and sculpture display an arrangement of images extracted from the visual culture of romance. The scattered placement of bodily gestures, objects and emotional states use the visual vocabulary from popular culture to explore pathos within such universalized and massively distributed imagery. Both illustrative and chaotic, Ito’s paintings explore the seduction of the romantic narrative.

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Alex Ito (b.1991 Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include SADE (Los Angeles), Springsteen (Baltimore), Rod Barton (London), Art in General (NY). He has recently participated in group exhibitions at Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York), Spreez (Munich), The Zabludowicz Collection (London), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Deurle). Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at The Still House Group (Brooklyn) and group exhibitions at Franz Josefs Kai 3 (Vienna) and Galerie Jeanroch Dard (Brussels).

Greg Ito (b.1987 Los Angeles) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Forthcoming exhibitions include City Limits, Los Angeles. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include AFTER GRUEN (w/ Alex Ito) at SADE, Los Angeles, Children (w/ Chris Lux) at Mission Comics, San Francisco, and Heavy Withdrawals (solo) at City Limits, Oakland. Recent group exhibitions include Time Flies Like a Banana at Johannes Vogt, New York, and Casual Friday at VACANCY, Los Angeles. Ito is a co-founder of SFAQ magazine, and Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, and co-curator at MOROSO PROJECTS, San Francisco.

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Installation views of “Time Flies Like a Banana” at Johannes Vogt, New York featuring Ron Ewert, Greg Ito, and Josh Reames. April 16 - May 9, 2015. http://vogtgallery.com/index.php?/current/time-flies-like-a-banana/

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Upcoming show “Time Flies Like a Banana”, at Johannes Vogt, NYC with Josh Reames, Ron Ewert, and myself.  Opens April 16th, 2015.  Press Release below <3

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Ron Ewert lives and works in Chicago, IL, where he received his MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been shown in a number of two-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the New York Art Book Fair; Monya Rowe Gallery, and Launch F18 in New York; 356 Mission, and LA Art Book Fair Los Angeles; Good Weather Gallery, Little Rock, The Green Gallery and American Fantasy Classics, Milwaukee; Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas; and the Freies Museum, Berlin. He has also exhibited widely in Chicago, most recently, Ewert’s work was included in A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, a group exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center curated by Michelle Grabner, as well as Power Objects at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids. He is a founder and Co-Director of The Hills Esthetic Center, an exhibition space in Chicago dedicated to emerging local and international artists. Greg Ito (b.1987, Los Angeles) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Forthcoming exhibitions include two person exhibition (w/ Alex Ito) at Et al., San Francisco. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include AFTER GRUEN (w/ Alex Ito) at SADE, Los Angeles (2015), Children (w/ Chris Lux) at Mission Comics, San Francisco (2014), Heavy Withdrawals (solo) at City Limits, Oakland (2014), and Something Other Than (w/ Jonah Susskind) at The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Casual Friday at VACANCY, Los Angeles, PRTY PPL at Circuit 12, Dallas (2015), and Effeminaries at Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2014). Ito is a co-founder of SFAQ magazine (2010-14), and Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco (2009-13). Ito received his BFA from SFAI - San Francisco Art Institute. Josh Reames, (b. 1985, Dallas), lives and works in New York. He earned his MFA in 2012 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been the subject of solo presentations at Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA; and Robert Blumenthal Gallery, East Hampton, NY. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions including “YOU ARE HERE,” The Hole, New York, NY; “Sea Change,” Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; and “The Go Between,” Museo Di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.

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Selected images from Heavy Withdrawals solo exhibition at City Limits, Oakland, 2014.  On view November 21 - December 6, 2014.  For more information visit www.gregito.xyz or www.citylimitsgallery.com.

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Children featuring: Greg Ito & Chris Lux November 21 - December 17, 2014 Opening Reception: November 21st. 6-9pm Opening November 21, 2014 (6-9pm) at Mission Comics, San Francisco is Children, a two person exhibition featuring new works by Greg Ito and Chris Lux. The exhibition Children explores the unique behaviors within two separate art practices. Much like behavioral studies developed through observations of a child's growth, the exhibition exposes the unique approaches within Ito and Lux's practices which have been sculpted through their individual development as artists. Both artists translate appropriated imagery, materials and ideas in their independent ways, which constitute the autonomous vernaculars seen in their work. Ito uses readymade objects and images as preexisting structures in his practice for starting points of new work, while Lux uses his own stylized images and objects as preexisting structures for the formation of new work. Mission Comics San Francisco, CA www.missioncomicsandartgallery.tumblr.com

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Greg Ito more lonely than usual 2014 3"x3"x4" body piercing, peach, adhesive

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Step Into Infinity, (2014) from and we thought this would last forever... got flipped on ART FLIPPER. enjoy (~^o^)~~~~

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Excited to announce my solo exhibition Heavy Withdrawals at City Limits, Oakland opening October 24th 7-11pm.  On view through November 29, 2014. ♡o｡(๑๏‿ฺ๏๑)｡o♡

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Click photo for images of Augustus Thompson’s Bedroom Music at  The Still House Group, Brooklyn

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Documentation of SUN TAN featuring Alistair Matthews and Josh Reames at MOROSO PROEJCTS, San Francisco.  On view through October 31st.  Curated by Nate Hooper and Greg Ito. Press release below :)

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SUN TAN featuring: Alistair Matthews Josh Reames Opening Reception: September 12th, 6-9pm. September 12 - October 31, 2014 MOROSO PROJECTS is proud to announce ‘Sun Tan’, a two person exhibition featuring new works by Chicago-based painter Josh Reames and New York-based photographer Alistair Matthews, opening Friday September 12th. The artists’ practices explore the use of recontextualized commonplace objects, tongue and cheek humor and pop culture references. The exhibition explores the relationships, unexpected similarities and narratives that develop between the often disparate practices of painting and photography. SUN TAN is curated by Nate Hooper and Greg Ito. Alistair Matthews (b. 1987) lives and works in New York. Her photography appropriates pop-culture iconography and studio aesthetics, presenting objects and tableaus in a commercial influenced arrangement. Her work has been shown in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland and Denver. Josh Reames (b. 1985, Dallas, Texas) lives and works in Chicago. He earned his MFA (2012) from the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA (2007) from University of North Texas. He has exhibited in a number of institutions and galleries, including 356 Mission and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles; LVL3, Devening Projects, Andrew Rafacz, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Union League Club, Chicago; The Hole, Muelensteen, and Monya Rowe Gallery, New York; Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas; and Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, among others. In 2012, Reames was artist-in-residence at Ox Bow (funded by Joan Mitchell Foundation) in Saugatuck, Michigan.

For all inquiries: Moroso Projects 582 6th Street San Francisco Ca 94103 415.777.1121 [email protected] [email protected]

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The upcoming show at MOROSO PROJECTS, San Francisco.  Co-curated by Nate Hooper and Greg Ito. More info below~~~

SUN TAN featuring: Alistair Matthews Josh Reames Opening Reception: September 12th, 6-9pm. September 12 - October 31, 2014 MOROSO PROJECTS is proud to announce ‘Sun Tan’, a two person exhibition featuring new works by Chicago-based painter Josh Reames and New York-based photographer Alistair Matthews, opening Friday September 12th. The artists’ practices explore the use of recontextualized commonplace objects, tongue and cheek humor and pop culture references. The exhibition explores the relationships, unexpected similarities and narratives that develop between the often disparate practices of painting and photography. Alistair Matthews (b. 1987) lives and works in New York. Her photography appropriates pop-culture iconography and studio aesthetics, presenting objects and tableaus in a commercial influenced arrangement. Her work has been shown in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland and Denver. Josh Reames (b. 1985, Dallas, Texas) lives and works in Chicago. He earned his MFA (2012) from the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA (2007) from University of North Texas. He has exhibited in a number of institutions and galleries, including 356 Mission and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles; LVL3, Devening Projects, Andrew Rafacz, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Union League Club, Chicago; The Hole, Muelensteen, and Monya Rowe Gallery, New York; Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas; and Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, among others. In 2012, Reames was artist-in-residence at Ox Bow (funded by Joan Mitchell Foundation) in Saugatuck, Michigan.

For all inquiries: Moroso Projects 582 6th Street San Francisco Ca 94103 415.777.1121 [email protected] [email protected]

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