TORONTO, CANADA.- p|m Gallery is pleased to present 3抯: a solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Joe Sola. The exhibition includes video, watercolours, and a performance at the opening reception. Joe Sola uses Hollywood cinema as fodder for his projects, inversing its imagery and themes in order to examine Hollywood 抯 construction of the male identity. Sola抯 performances often employ the excesses and stereotypes Hollywood cinema perpetuates. During his solo exhibition Taking a Bullet at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Sola presented Film Actors Make Conceptual Art, 2005. Film actors were provided with an explanation of conceptual art and commonplace materials during the opening of the exhibition. Sola抯 performance at p|m Gallery is going to be a surprise.

The video Watercolor, a collaboration with New York-based playwright Will Eno, leads the viewer on a brief educational tour of the finer points of landscape watercolour painting and mortality.

Joe Sola works in a variety of mediums, operating in the fuzzy electric space between cinema and the real world. His work has been exhibited internationally: Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, InSite 2000, San Diego + Mexico, ICA London, and as part of the 1999 Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba. In the United States his work has been exhibited at many public institutions including: J, Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, The 2002 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Berkley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, The Atlanta Contemporary Center, Atlanta, GA, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art on Paper, Art Papers, ArtUS, Frieze, and the New Yorker. Joe Sola lives and works in Los Angeles.