tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55914085222921120662024-02-05T02:31:16.736-08:00ElephantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-65222344505088876582023-10-12T15:29:00.002-07:002023-10-12T15:29:46.717-07:00Lucinda Trask PresbyopiaOpening Reception Saturday 10.21.237-10pm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwpZoiFdiDVm6hUojp73Wl7NsTQIZ-YAcTuSQ6kQH2uWcyee-5alYwVzsUKhYkhF5F9s-eWTOIiKFDGVwBvKF958leTEAE-h2kO_gI0-EXcsCdyt8VjJ1kk-3hQxNXI-h4ao7z1U06cwg3twYoBOeOsHMcBgd7eivMTJck2dnKuoV5CEcZEh9YmYPGLA/s3198/unnamed.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2132" data-original-width="3198" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwpZoiFdiDVm6hUojp73Wl7NsTQIZ-YAcTuSQ6kQH2uWcyee-5alYwVzsUKhYkhF5F9s-eWTOIiKFDGVwBvKF958leTEAE-h2kO_gI0-EXcsCdyt8VjJ1kk-3hQxNXI-h4ao7z1U06cwg3twYoBOeOsHMcBgd7eivMTJck2dnKuoV5CEcZEh9YmYPGLA/w417-h295/unnamed.jpeg" width="417" /></a><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 24px;" valign="top"><div id="m_5351779679044133736m_-7377500541109786029m_841171947079172572dataBlockId-16" style="width: 612px;"><p>Hosted in partnership with General Projects: </p><p>3609 Pomona Street (back house)</p><p>Los Angeles, CA 90031</p><p>Open hours: Thursday 7-9pm and Sundays 2-5pm or by appointment</p><p>Elephant is thrilled to partner with Insert Press General Projects to present Presbyopia, a new body of work by artist Lucinda Trask, opening Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 7-10pm and running through November 19, 2023. As part of the exhibition, Insert Press will also release a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://insertblancpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3De442127027b71254e6b6c19f6%26id%3D6e51ac0df6%26e%3D7bf67de3ed&source=gmail&ust=1697171156893000&usg=AOvVaw3EY1lg9Gwvny5jqUBvfW_8" href="https://insertblancpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e442127027b71254e6b6c19f6&id=6e51ac0df6&e=7bf67de3ed" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Limited Edition</a> of two of Trask’s photographic works.</p><p>Trask’s new work is inspired by her nine road trips across the breadth of the United States. Haunted by humanity’s impact on the land, Trask shifts perspective from peering through her bug-splattered windshield to a variety of scales, from bird’s eye view to close-up, each shift in perspective revealing the artist’s attempt to grapple with the relationship between humans and the land.</p><p>Driving along at eighty miles an hour on roads scarred by potholes, insight is limited. Yellow dashes demarcating lanes of the highway appear like rhythmic blips, much shorter than their true ten-foot length and there’s no way of knowing when you’ve crossed from Kansas to Colorado if not for the sign stuck into the side of the road. Overpowering natural and political boundaries the road connects vast distances and provides access to dramatic landscapes. The road is also a site of accidents, a density of death that we have become immune to. This takes its toll.</p><p>In Presbyopia, Trask primarily uses the two mediums of textiles and photography to reimagine the relationship between humans and their material environment. Fabric is sewn into blankets whose intimate scale mimics the dimensions of a bed, allowing the viewer a relationship to the land that is tangible and familiar to the body. Trask’s photography captures traces of human interference with the land, performing a related function through expansive images of the landscape. Through her use of craft and narrative, Lucinda’s work considers our reliance on inanimate matter and what responsibilities we hold to the material world. </p><p>After more than a decade in the fashion industry, Lucinda’s ideas began to spill far outside of the clothing form, expanding into new shapes and materials. Trask received her MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2019. She has shown at Canary TestGallery, Human Resources, Commons LA, and RedCat among others.</p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 24px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-38706086204158109612023-06-08T12:23:00.000-07:002023-06-08T12:23:16.603-07:00Elephant Open Studios & Goodbye PartySaturday 06.17.234-9pm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixyXzgEzqhSFc-LMqyPCrgj2Cu8QJ-18DhkWGP9GWxMqTM23QeFgW12C7ifRVabDXWJqBeutPxgDCApkWU4Z7A2IXHPahWGfh7HEVwLcewJdl4r0gijNyRDkqrm_BGZ7sLZBuSjtMXh1yG4ZTURLP6WC_isK6Mh7ls1wi46kzX1ZYK20yn2b6CRs-L/s624/p01zz0myx.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="624" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixyXzgEzqhSFc-LMqyPCrgj2Cu8QJ-18DhkWGP9GWxMqTM23QeFgW12C7ifRVabDXWJqBeutPxgDCApkWU4Z7A2IXHPahWGfh7HEVwLcewJdl4r0gijNyRDkqrm_BGZ7sLZBuSjtMXh1yG4ZTURLP6WC_isK6Mh7ls1wi46kzX1ZYK20yn2b6CRs-L/w453-h265/p01zz0myx.jpeg" width="453" /></a></div><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div>Join Elephant's studio residents - Astri Swendsrud, Bianca D'Amico, David P. Earle, Jason Kunke and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg - for an open studios and goodbye party on Saturday, June 17, from 4-9pm. </div><div><br /></div><div>The building that has housed our gallery and studios for the past 15 years is currently on the market, and the future of our residence at this space is uncertain. We didn't want to leave this spot, which has been such a home and hub for our community for so long, without a fitting goodbye. Please join us for one last cELE-bration, with all the BBQ, drinks, and backyard hangouts that you've come to expect from Elephant. Plus, check out the latest projects from each of the studio residents, as we open our personal spaces to the public. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We will have food and drinks available, but feel free to contribute to the potluck or beer bucket to keep the party going. We hope to see all of you who have helped to make this place so special for so many years!</div><span style="color: #888888;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-82522456387326284632023-04-27T22:41:00.000-07:002023-04-27T22:41:18.065-07:00Laksmi Camp May 6 - May 27, 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKgAe8kei3bbEPp-L_LG6y32sEanWIc7rzsus5XjPHbRz52vxYRXonzBx1fS-IjuAa4ElIBfelgkWz1wiaotWPPmTgawolOb6OsiLdR8A-o3YqOBxu-5dl9G3T8Aah9m_Yzh6rp6G55MKKdq9Z2EB7_weyb07wakjsNNycHV4Nry18-oudA89Op6W/s2969/Laksmi%20Camp%20Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2554" data-original-width="2969" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKgAe8kei3bbEPp-L_LG6y32sEanWIc7rzsus5XjPHbRz52vxYRXonzBx1fS-IjuAa4ElIBfelgkWz1wiaotWPPmTgawolOb6OsiLdR8A-o3YqOBxu-5dl9G3T8Aah9m_Yzh6rp6G55MKKdq9Z2EB7_weyb07wakjsNNycHV4Nry18-oudA89Op6W/w372-h320/Laksmi%20Camp%20Untitled.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span>Elephant is pleased to present an exhibition of double-sided drawings on paper and canvas by Laksmi Camp. Detailed patterns on both the fronts and backs of surfaces incorporate abstract patterns of dots, lines, and spirals reflecting Camp’s meditative mark-making process. Communicating primarily through her artwork, Camp’s exhibition makes visible her inner world. This is Laksmi Camp’s first solo exhibition.<br /><br />Laksmi Camp (b. 1970) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Camp’s work has been exhibited at the DAC Gallery and The Street and The Shop. Since 1993, Laskmi Camp has worked at the ECF Art Centers, a studio space for adult artists with developmental disabilities.<div><br />Gallery hours: Saturdays from 12 - 4 pm and by appointment<br /><br />Closing reception: Saturday, May 27, 2023, from 6 - 9 PM</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-50740285204659368492023-03-25T21:04:00.002-07:002023-03-25T21:04:32.434-07:00The Secret MineralsAlise SpinellaOpening reception Saturday 04.08.236pm-9pm<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8_swI6_7GYlA1LQQMKyCYJj_hTPow7eFfUuKGW80cZVk3i1Q1FO5oJNKM8Sc7-sC4ji_iDRejHxFkq4a3R_xRd0ezKrvRioRDoCbjyNDMQtH_j6fFTEkXd3jAlcliMJ39zR2mx0W-Ewr43gDZuiG7v0AZtc1oqSFSueJ9P5gMZTf1f00Ic1UzlzBC/s1627/AliseS_Main%20PRESS%20RELEASE%20IMAGE_Opal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1627" data-original-width="1315" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8_swI6_7GYlA1LQQMKyCYJj_hTPow7eFfUuKGW80cZVk3i1Q1FO5oJNKM8Sc7-sC4ji_iDRejHxFkq4a3R_xRd0ezKrvRioRDoCbjyNDMQtH_j6fFTEkXd3jAlcliMJ39zR2mx0W-Ewr43gDZuiG7v0AZtc1oqSFSueJ9P5gMZTf1f00Ic1UzlzBC/w378-h469/AliseS_Main%20PRESS%20RELEASE%20IMAGE_Opal.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><i>“Down here, too, the boundaries between life and not-life are less clear.”</i><br />--Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey<br /><br />I’ve been thinking a lot about what lies invisibly under the surface. What is present in the landscape, but unseen deep beneath the topsoil, the mountain face, the forest floor. I lost family during the pandemic, and over time, my grief settled below the surface, too. Tectonic shifts within me had significantly changed the underlying terrain: the body as its own mysterious landscape. <br /><br />These new paintings explore what might be witnessed if we could travel dark underground, down through the strata, to find the hidden things forming within the land itself: minerals slowly pushing themselves together, little deaths and births and transformations. Fossils of old prayers and older griefs, decomposing thresholds, crystallizing rocks. The fertile soil as it metabolizes the past into the next living thing.<br /><br /><br />*****<br /><br />Elephant Art Space is pleased to present The Secret Minerals, an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Los Angeles–based artist Alise Spinella. These intimate works trace a journey of transmutation—both in the psychic registers and the earthly realm. In each, we’re offered a glimpse into another world, with the central image of a grid recurring as an almost figurative presence. Here the grid doesn’t represent a rule-based system but instead a structure breaking down and coming loose. <br /><br />Within the dark-colored paintings, there are tiny bursts of brightness, specks of neon glowing in the shadows like buried jewels. In Opal (Shedding), luminous purple lines spin into a circular shape that is at once solidifying and melting into a blue-black abyss. In Glacier, one of the few paintings with a lighter palette, lines have broken free of the grid altogether, as if frozen in the moment of their dispersal; the vibrating lines snake like cracks or seams through a pale frontier. <br /><br />In Spinella’s practice, drawing and painting are inextricably interwoven, with a wide variety of materials and techniques used throughout: acrylic glazed over pastels and graphite; gouache and charcoal erased with water, leaving ghostly imprints; thick, porcelain-smooth paint mediums sanded down and built up. Through these repetitive processes, each piece acquires a patina of layers that alludes to the passage of time and lends the work a translucent, otherworldly quality. And always, the hand-drawn line is at the fore, mapping the contours of the unknown.<br /><br />Alise Spinella was born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Koyasan, Japan. She received an MFA from CalArts, a BA in Psychology and Computer Science from UCLA, and a BFA from RISD. Her artwork has been shown both nationally and internationally in New York, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, and Rome, and most recently at Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) in Los Angeles. She is an alumna of residency fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and Arteles Creative Center, Finland, and was awarded a California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists in 2015. She lives and works in Los Angeles.<div><br /></div><div><div>Open Saturdays 4/8 through 4/29, 12 to 4pm or by appointment.<br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-62188372089872073802023-02-24T11:21:00.007-08:002023-03-09T19:05:35.135-08:00La Semilla Despues Del Fuego Franco CastillaOpening reception Saturday 03.04.237pm-10pm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilooZH4ZixzBm1gX8ILANx66YpUhiB35dfiMkxUpdgppOckex9KTjj4C2ct0z-eS2hLMDudT4BEmX4Erj5VvJsJ9VZfeNBnzv9J67N51CHpjHpwOXOc7DtjesrEk6MF9WMY4N_uP-76axQZ-xRJmhWNN1-SidlTa4qRBS5x3FcqOWGLvpUGtbwx4b2/s1566/Mama.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="1333" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilooZH4ZixzBm1gX8ILANx66YpUhiB35dfiMkxUpdgppOckex9KTjj4C2ct0z-eS2hLMDudT4BEmX4Erj5VvJsJ9VZfeNBnzv9J67N51CHpjHpwOXOc7DtjesrEk6MF9WMY4N_uP-76axQZ-xRJmhWNN1-SidlTa4qRBS5x3FcqOWGLvpUGtbwx4b2/w377-h444/Mama.jpeg" width="377" /></a></div><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><div>Special evening hours Saturdays </div><div>6 - 10pm through 3/25!</div><div><br /></div><div>In <i>La Semilla Despues del Fuego</i>, Franco Castilla draws on memories of his family’s</div><div>displacement from Nicaragua due to a communist revolution sparked by the Frente Sandinistade Liberación Nacional. The artist engages with the dislocation and exclusion experienced upon arrival in the United States and integrates becoming a naturalized citizen with an awareness of American imperialist interventions in Nicaragua and beyond. Selfhood is examined by contemplating the effects of trauma on his body and psyche and a process of amelioration facilitated through meditation and other modalities of healing. Moreover, the work considers an infancy shaped by Catholicism transmuted into a spiritual practice with deep connections to the natural California landscape. </div><div><br /></div><div>Works in the front gallery include black velvet paintings based on family photographs painted in Tijuana, Mexico by Enrique Felix and Zenon Jimenez. Several sculptural pieces incorporate oak galls foraged by the artist while hiking in the Los Angeles area. The exhibition continues on the back patio, the location of a mixed-media installation featuring hand-woven tapestries, the fragrance of burning frankincense, horn speakers, and an experimental-cinematic soundscape. The soundscape was created using audio fragments found on the internet and begins anew on the hour and the half hour.</div><div><br /></div><div>Franco Castilla (Managua) has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from</div><div>Ohio State University. He has exhibited locally at LAST Projects and LACE. He lives and works</div><div>in Los Angeles.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Open Saturdays 3/4 through 3/25, 6 - 10pm or by appointment.<br /></div><div><br /></div><span><!--more--></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRyoA6YqNbZ9yaIS2IHM9tM8l6mtP4Hoe_S5HhsRJ1qgvn_JtsQsx5UebL03g4OVBKcXBNvCkvPqTGQiTJAyuGPe_nRmO8IuYCfy-ZaCH8XGpRxg5lOEvlzBkIJz_10nBp9l_0LNQUZqixSiTecxHuY4kyEGiyg6smM3IDTPR24z_JwqWOqmajdxZ/s768/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-24%20at%2011.20.04%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="768" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRyoA6YqNbZ9yaIS2IHM9tM8l6mtP4Hoe_S5HhsRJ1qgvn_JtsQsx5UebL03g4OVBKcXBNvCkvPqTGQiTJAyuGPe_nRmO8IuYCfy-ZaCH8XGpRxg5lOEvlzBkIJz_10nBp9l_0LNQUZqixSiTecxHuY4kyEGiyg6smM3IDTPR24z_JwqWOqmajdxZ/w200-h131/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-24%20at%2011.20.04%20AM.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-24202290954495284552023-02-06T09:53:00.000-08:002023-02-06T09:53:03.908-08:00Citadel, City of CommerceDaniel WroeOpening reception Saturday 02.11.237pm-10pm<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7CkW859rReblKi5yukLb7xonfMjy-DEx5mCWWRdOqFwKhImC7B8mk9PIFwspi8aTdxhIe4NvgWPZZbWOaurVqF3Ud8idP6XsZ9VnVjbYEf5I0TeqhofW0LIFpa2VopUBen1qDf5msdRHZ41OU3NBJG2hv-M-2FCtTfVPy1VTB3PpTMD7xnUUSCvg/s1080/citadel_grid.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7CkW859rReblKi5yukLb7xonfMjy-DEx5mCWWRdOqFwKhImC7B8mk9PIFwspi8aTdxhIe4NvgWPZZbWOaurVqF3Ud8idP6XsZ9VnVjbYEf5I0TeqhofW0LIFpa2VopUBen1qDf5msdRHZ41OU3NBJG2hv-M-2FCtTfVPy1VTB3PpTMD7xnUUSCvg/w381-h381/citadel_grid.jpeg" width="381" /></a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span>This project ruminates on the form of a ruinous arch and considers how technology/social media transform the cultural significance of an image or a site over time. In the show the ruins become portals that transport us to a speculative history that only exists within the imagination. There, we explore the space between a thing and our memory of it- between an idea and its representation. The focus of the work is on a flattening of time through the lenses of media, and the complex relationships between place, memory, and visualization.<br /><br />Daniel Wroe is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Through a variety of visual experiments including sculptural installations, performances, and video work Wroe focuses his fascination with the way things mechanically work into questions of how human perception affects our constantly undulating sense of the real. He is interested in the moments when we are confronted with the fallibility of our own senses– and how those moments force us to reexamine notions of truth, knowledge, memory, and desire and begin to break down our own perceptive dissonance.<br /><br />Open Saturdays 2/11 through 2/25, 12 - 4pm or by appointment.<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-6602680430957076592022-12-28T21:48:00.003-08:002022-12-28T21:51:18.561-08:00“Reverence” in quotesSydney WaltersOpening reception Saturday 01.07.237pm-10pm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZORg8nK6dOjeP4mNStTtu2vUwDJPhOrjuiJkl2nU52AdvsXB1ZGf6g7NB3TtyhLdHwXsqumNfMaqfEL7V-xJStu7fz0xGrDWLbyOp7m3DgP351zhGn1q9RphucB13WeE82fYzFEhok718qTk8f1O6dJvFGOu6zKOdkr9rqQd2TZENgEWWHtnPKOE3/s1118/Walters_pressimage.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="800" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZORg8nK6dOjeP4mNStTtu2vUwDJPhOrjuiJkl2nU52AdvsXB1ZGf6g7NB3TtyhLdHwXsqumNfMaqfEL7V-xJStu7fz0xGrDWLbyOp7m3DgP351zhGn1q9RphucB13WeE82fYzFEhok718qTk8f1O6dJvFGOu6zKOdkr9rqQd2TZENgEWWHtnPKOE3/w363-h508/Walters_pressimage.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span>Elephant Art Space is pleased to present <i>“Reverence” in quotes</i>, Sydney Walters’ first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Convinced that feminism is, in part, a theological project, Sydney Walters’ work explores the relationship between gender and piety. By mining historical images, myths and stories, she uncovers a catalog of religious symbols which she then inverts and reassigns new meaning to disrupt patriarchal constructs.<div><br /><i>“Reverence” in quotes</i> is bathed in the neon glow of Walters’ work. Her paintings, reminiscent of 17th and 18th century Dutch floral paintings, entwine references to figures such as Saint Lucy, the Virgin Mary and Hildegard of Bingen onto circular wood panels. She then embeds LED lights into the picture plane, disrupting the painted arrangement which creates an arena for the commercial and precious to collide. The visual symbiosis highlights the power dynamics between consumerism and private reverence.</div><div><br />Outside, Walters drapes a larger than life Virgin Mary armature with ultramarine blue and lace fabric. Mary, now cloaked in her own symbol, gestures down toward a table hosting communion. This body of work disrupts traditional iconography and invites viewers to experience autonomy and authority within a ritualistic environment. The first fifty visitors can participate in “communion.”</div><div><br />Open Saturdays January 7th - 28th, 12-4pm or by appointment. Masks are recommended indoors.</div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-83818609755438032842022-10-30T19:25:00.002-07:002022-10-30T19:25:22.397-07:00Fat, BastardAndrés JanacuaOpening reception Saturday 11.05.227pm-10pm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWsXrZStpa-oT6Cgzn85Kp0zjY3bEBpU-Bf9vRRpgnkoEz5hNhiU368CY_nGYWA2hd_BnVsA_MGZ0uWr-lwcvqtTKwTtery5cVa6rp9S63MKssX_TJsX_co4D9fIu8NcETYnazKOagTRsYNdSoD07Ln1CBFvP4qjVSOO0AHUHYbgVj30hic7JaEDk/s2456/ELE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2456" data-original-width="2415" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWsXrZStpa-oT6Cgzn85Kp0zjY3bEBpU-Bf9vRRpgnkoEz5hNhiU368CY_nGYWA2hd_BnVsA_MGZ0uWr-lwcvqtTKwTtery5cVa6rp9S63MKssX_TJsX_co4D9fIu8NcETYnazKOagTRsYNdSoD07Ln1CBFvP4qjVSOO0AHUHYbgVj30hic7JaEDk/w394-h400/ELE.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Hiccups in a visual vernacular that does not stray too far from the written word—indeed, the spoken word—where the atmosphere for misunderstanding, misdirection, misanthropy are probable, if not ample. I guess. The works in Fat, Bastard are tireless in their relation to language, drawing on complementary concerns of utterances, stutters, and withdrawals. Patterns move, get interrupted, are displayed with questionable neighbors. These works service the desire suggestive to review the past, nay, the present, ambivalent as they may be. <br /><br /><br />On view Saturdays through December 10, 12 - 4pm and by appointment.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-28026654814380417932022-09-28T13:41:00.000-07:002022-09-28T13:41:46.034-07:00Big SurKatie ShapiroOpening reception Saturday 10.1.226pm-9pm<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtKz6DMzcFSdJXYpV8rtdGQu8RPOwqsH7_pIB8WDRpmiJ6hVacgpOonNA2k4XlUcjqduDSp2LgmC_mCE-7Lr_p3CRovqFLc5a-win_5J7Q0wijW7OFzxU1jd7KXEfFGBtIzsSeJHxAjKiL276aneb2HugafjC25c8x8YDnrLl2TU662tM-1CV8zhW/s4320/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="4320" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtKz6DMzcFSdJXYpV8rtdGQu8RPOwqsH7_pIB8WDRpmiJ6hVacgpOonNA2k4XlUcjqduDSp2LgmC_mCE-7Lr_p3CRovqFLc5a-win_5J7Q0wijW7OFzxU1jd7KXEfFGBtIzsSeJHxAjKiL276aneb2HugafjC25c8x8YDnrLl2TU662tM-1CV8zhW/w400-h400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /> “It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say ‘amen.'"</p><p style="line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Henry Miller<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Located in California's Central Coast, Big Sur has long been a place of escape, retreat and renewal. As an artist, it has been all of those things for me. A magic hovers amongst the raised-up cliffs that make up its rugged topography. Extending for roughly 26 miles, Big Sur is a region of organic flowing coastline that no boundaries can clearly define. Perhaps this is what makes it feel so free.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Big Sur has long been a magnet for artists and dreamers alike. Driving between this meeting of land and sea yields a profound quiet of the mind. These feelings are unique to this location. Simply being in this place is a meditation.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Over the years I have returned to Big Sur as a place for retreat, renewal, and inspiration. This series of photographs explore different approaches to the landscape. They speak to the place as a changing topography over time, and a space that emits a palpable energy.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Born in 1983, Katie Shapiro received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA in Photography from CalArts. Her practice is centered on the ineffable, and visualizing things that cannot be seen. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, The Armory Center, Pasadena, Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica, Joan, Los Angeles and Aperture Gallery, New York. Her work has received coverage in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine and is housed in private collections as well as in the permanent collections at the Huntington Library and the Cleveland Clinic. She’s been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre and at Bullseye Glass in Pasadena. Shapiro lives and works in Los Angeles.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On view Saturdays through October 30th, 12 - 4pm and by appointment.</span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-35150323520804447822022-09-01T23:04:00.002-07:002022-09-01T23:04:35.521-07:00A PIECE OF MY HEART: the last world warLouie MoraOpening reception Friday 9.9.226pm-9pm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgHrK1_KSOWl73op4u1E_W0xXRcb_LLjJYRZ-Ajy30Apk49pLzHxxZ0k_8SB0XSOej4-KplWbSGLxM70r0x3nDe-347eCzLHoYYZpo4BeriQ5mQVk7d-1DrFAgNdGw6XfV2XmG0XQNjC3S8oPuUtsJKkL0WS0JlnTM8RM0dbIUU_f9iuPbkBy2MWt/s3440/Louie%20Mora%20invite%20image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3440" data-original-width="2752" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgHrK1_KSOWl73op4u1E_W0xXRcb_LLjJYRZ-Ajy30Apk49pLzHxxZ0k_8SB0XSOej4-KplWbSGLxM70r0x3nDe-347eCzLHoYYZpo4BeriQ5mQVk7d-1DrFAgNdGw6XfV2XmG0XQNjC3S8oPuUtsJKkL0WS0JlnTM8RM0dbIUU_f9iuPbkBy2MWt/w443-h554/Louie%20Mora%20invite%20image.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span></span><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></div>Gallery hours Saturdays 12pm-4pm and by appointment<br /><br />Exhibition on view September 9-23, 2022<br /><br /><br />A PIECE OF MY HEART: the last world war is the first gallery exhibit by photographer Louie Mora. Through his camera lens, he introduces us to the essence of the community he knows and embraces. Born and raised in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, Louie found his passion for portraiture shortly after being incarcerated and now focuses his efforts on cultivating a career in photography. This gallery is a full-circle moment for Louie, as it has been his dream to exhibit his art in the neighborhood he loves and that has shaped him. Louie is the staff photographer at Homeboy Industries, does freelance work, and is a student of photography at East LA College.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DjP_5q24XnMigSlLZkVHJSy-LoVHJPnYRRL9QqnLXaRssTYtBLx2CwfbAOtkKXIKiSIVg5D_K0cPux7dsmMjUdPbnNU6cTC_mkHPCovABR29e-LPi13DuKjUV-OD5alkRCCtCiBssJtWlinmqO04p2kIyTrpqqUB4HUyBANktKciJdIC_-2NZfi6/s319/Louie%20Mora%20LOGO.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="263" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DjP_5q24XnMigSlLZkVHJSy-LoVHJPnYRRL9QqnLXaRssTYtBLx2CwfbAOtkKXIKiSIVg5D_K0cPux7dsmMjUdPbnNU6cTC_mkHPCovABR29e-LPi13DuKjUV-OD5alkRCCtCiBssJtWlinmqO04p2kIyTrpqqUB4HUyBANktKciJdIC_-2NZfi6/w87-h106/Louie%20Mora%20LOGO.png" width="87" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span face=""helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif"><em><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></em></span></span></p><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Gallery hours Saturdays 12pm-4pm and by appointment</div><div><br /><div> Exhibition on view August 6-27, 2022<br /><br />Since February of 2018, I have spent approximately 1500 hours standing in roughly the same spot in our backyard, kicking a ball for our adopted 130 lb mastiff Bigby to retrieve. This has been a largely unchanged and welcome routine over the last few tumultuous years. A table and outdoor lights create an extension of the studio where I bring small, handheld projects to sculpt. I don headphones, pocket a handful of tools and clay, and make my way to our backyard with my eager dog leading the way. Rinse and repeat around three or four times every day. This routine provides much needed breaks from whatever I’m working on and offers opportunities to see sculptures in a new light. Most importantly, it gives dedicated time to visit a meditative oasis to center within no matter what is going on in my life. For the last year or so, small figures and their disembodied partitioned segments have been the focus as I prepare materials for a large project underway. A ⅓ scale self portrait has been my most recent companion, plaguing me daily with a desire for likeness as I strive for a more accurate internal perception of myself and my visage. <br /> <br /><br />A break in this routine came last spring when our now elderly dog had a health scare that forced me to consider the implications of life changes that might soon find us. I was abruptly forced to meditate on his life and mortality with more intentionality, reflecting on a desire to memorialize him and our years spent together. Sculpting his likeness to be partnered with my own portrait felt worthy of diverting my plans, but it’s surprisingly difficult to stare entities down long enough to render them sculpturally, especially when simultaneously confronting the emotional relationships you have with the subject. It forced me to study him with more intensity than I had before, and I quickly accrued a glut of footage to provide reference. In an abundance of concern, I ceased headphone usage to prevent misperceiving body language he might be using to communicate boundaries and needs with me while we played. I started hearing the repeated rhythmic phrases of our play as songs with the ambient neighborhood noises accompanying us. My lyrics were spoken aloud as directives: “Let’s go.” “Come on now.” “Goober, bring me the ball.” “Who is my best boy?” “Bring it here.” Silent lyrics were reserved for him, standing in for my internal monologue. I could imagine him delivering poignant thoughts that would come to me as I watched his practiced body language. Important lessons about life and sculpting were whispered to me amid his panting or the lip smacks he makes while he waits patiently for me to kick the ball. <br /> <br /><br />This installation was conceived as a static music video, animating our play and the soundtrack created together. The ever present helicopters overhead beat out a drum rhythm and cawing crows or whistling finches sing back up. Puppets rendered in oil clay were created using the sustainable, eco-friendly mold-making protocol I’ve developed and all the materials used were selected as sustainable and recycled alternatives to traditional art making supplies. <br /><br /></div><div>Bio:<br />Emily Blythe Jones is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sustainable sculpting methods and materials. Jones composes installations of imagery to convey narrative through the arrangement of sculpture, video, printmaking, and painting. Jones prioritizes the use of recycled materials paired with an environmentally friendly, recyclable, non-toxic, reusable mold-making protocol developed through several years of research, development and workshopping. Jones holds both private and public demonstrations to educate makers on the innovative process and expand its use as a method to minimize the waste stream. Raised in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, Jones moved to California in 2010 where she attended California State University Northridge to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2016. Jones has taught art courses at California State University Northridge and de Toledo High School in West Hills, CA. She served as co-director for the artist-run gallery, Monte Vista Projects from 2017 until 2022. Her work is part of several private collections and has been exhibited at BozoMag Gallery in Los Angeles, in Apt. 5's "Works from Home," Loyola Marymount University in “Dream Wavers,”as a part of Other Places Art Fair in San Pedro, CA, with QiP0 Art Fair in Mexico City, in “Heat of the Moment” at Eastside International Los Angeles, "I swear it was just there.” at Dalton Warehouse in Los Angeles, "GLAMFA" at California State University Long Beach, and "Apple Pie" at Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, NC.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-44897301853866252502022-06-10T23:41:00.002-07:002022-06-10T23:41:06.960-07:00Hej Angels! ForeverIsabel TheseliusOpening reception 6.17.226pm-9pm<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: CenturyGothic; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF7Pdts1kSNDRVXe04MA2sp9vpkAMTKcHmF7rOLSlN6DRw7vTaG194ME7wTEXvKh-8Sj9K7qVTbV39Gyu4W-LrZjY1Yq0Hx3wGYLgOxJAnuT-n-_f0Xf24AY7gxeTGqIdIk3z-SzvJ6Jji7Q4ETAkk0Kk4adYcqkB8yNEZ7yVfihZGQoTblB-3rEo/s452/hejangels!forever%20POSTERInstagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="452" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF7Pdts1kSNDRVXe04MA2sp9vpkAMTKcHmF7rOLSlN6DRw7vTaG194ME7wTEXvKh-8Sj9K7qVTbV39Gyu4W-LrZjY1Yq0Hx3wGYLgOxJAnuT-n-_f0Xf24AY7gxeTGqIdIk3z-SzvJ6Jji7Q4ETAkk0Kk4adYcqkB8yNEZ7yVfihZGQoTblB-3rEo/w390-h388/hejangels!forever%20POSTERInstagram.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Elephant Art Space is pleased to present Hej Angels! Forever by New York based artist Isabel Theselius. For this exhibition Theselius has created an oversized faux leather vest, with detailed embroidered patches and enlarged pins. This piece has been meticulously copied from a motorcycle vest that belonged to Theselius deceased stepfather, Swedish artist Anders Bom Lindén, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012.</div><div><br />Anders Bom Lindén graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 1998 and was active as an artist until his death. He made work from his own experiences, reflecting on themes such as loneliness, desire, and expressions of outsider-ness as well as freedom, using a variety of mediums. <br /><br />From the time Theselius was an art student, until today, she has been greatly influenced and inspired by Lindéns mode of working and living, blurring the boundaries between art and life, reality and fantasy. Bom was both a friend, colleague and father figure for Theselius. <br /><br />The act of copying his motorcycle vest is an attempt to capture some of his spirit. The oversized vest is accompanied and back lit by a red neon sign spelling out the phrase ”Hej Angels!” (”Hey Angels!”), a slip of the tongue that Lindén used when referring to the motorcycle club Hells Angels. This neon sign stems from a larger ongoing tribute-project about Theselius’s stepfather first exhibited at Room Gallery in Irvine in 2014. In that iteration of the project Theselius had airbrushed her stepfather's house in the Swedish countryside onto her car to be exhibited and then driven around Los Angeles, a city he always wanted to visit but was never able to. <br /><br />A third piece, consisting of a female torso lighter that used to belong to Lindén, is displayed on a small shelf attached to the wall. The lighter has a perpetually lit flame. <br /><br />Hej Angels! Forever marks the 10 year anniversary since Anders Bom Lindéns passing and serves as an homage to his eccentric personality and enthusiasm for American motorcycle and car culture. For Theselius this exhibition functions as a way to process her own ongoing grief and is a reason to continue celebrating her stepfathers memory. It is also a nod to all the Angels gone and still around.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gallery open Saturdays 12-5pm or by appointment<br />Closing event on Sunday, June 26th, from 4-7 PM<br /><br /></div><div>This exhibition has received generous support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.</div><div> </div><div><b>Isabel Theselius Bio <br /></b><br />Isabel Theselius creates drawings, paintings, objects, videos, and installations to investigate themes including mortality, desire, and superstition. Drawing from her own experiences, memories, and family relationships, Theselius creates work that often skirts the edge of social desire and incorporates indulgent flights of fancy to challenge the viewer to engage with their own desires. <br /><br />Originally from Lund, Sweden, Theselius earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA in Fine Arts from Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. <br /><br />In 2021 Theselius received an unrestricted two year Work Grant, to foster her artistic practice, from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. During 2020 Theselius was the recipient of several grants and awards, among them The Foundation for Contemporary Arts . During 2019 Theselius participated in a 3 month artist residency at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, Tennessee, where she also exhibited one of her projects in a solo exhibition at the Crosstown Arts Gallery. In 2018, she received a year-long Work Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and participated in an artist exchange project in Tiznit, Morocco. <br /><br />Recent solo shows include Galleri Slätten (2021), in Malmö, Sweden, Pio Pico Gallery (2020) in Los Angeles, Monte Vista Projects (2020) in Los Angeles, Detroit Gallery (2019) in Stockholm, Sweden, Crosstown Arts 430 Space (2019), Memphis Tennessee and OK Corral (2018) in Copenhagen, Denmark.<p></p><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%);"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column">
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Earlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543155747511259572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-45192479063851180822022-03-29T22:25:00.013-07:002022-05-06T16:38:05.940-07:00 MIDDplaceDiyan Achjadi, Ilga Leimanis, Melissa Manfull, Doreen Wittenbols4.9.22 - 4.30.22<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdATEznJW4xFZgv0i80H95oIXHjHDgnAfRuQVnzpTbjfR95Xw8n0nmCFKuGBD9tkcuM7tZPHkRYAijFjx5zh909Z_r40esd1y_4HDTJnVy6RkAoy1Y4lbqXhSQt2xsHuAoIdswh9A_Az3AF0izKwJZJ4Pt3OTvPO17Gp-MiKehRYfT-Cjqs04_RNN3/s4090/MIDDplaceMIDDsmall.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4090" data-original-width="2664" height="686" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdATEznJW4xFZgv0i80H95oIXHjHDgnAfRuQVnzpTbjfR95Xw8n0nmCFKuGBD9tkcuM7tZPHkRYAijFjx5zh909Z_r40esd1y_4HDTJnVy6RkAoy1Y4lbqXhSQt2xsHuAoIdswh9A_Az3AF0izKwJZJ4Pt3OTvPO17Gp-MiKehRYfT-Cjqs04_RNN3/w446-h686/MIDDplaceMIDDsmall.jpg" width="446" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div>Workshop with Melissa Manfull and Ilga Leimanis : Thursday April 21st 2022 6-9pm</div>Gallery open: Saturdays 12pm - 4pm and by appointment.<br /><br />MIDDplace is four artists – Melissa Manfull, Ilga Leimanis, Doreen Wittenbols, and Diyan Achjadi – each with independent practices that include works in drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, and performance. Currently dispersed between the US, Canada, and the UK, we met in graduate school in Montreal at Concordia University many years ago. In 2019, we reconnected, via emails and texts and Instagram messages, to propose a long-distance, mail-based collaborative project. This is the first time that the four of us have come together in an expansive, collective effort to navigate drawing, making and thinking together across time and space. <br /><br />This collaboration is an experimental direction, allowing us to come together through drawing as a mode of inquiry into hybridity, asynchronous space, domestic space, networking and otherness. It has also given us the opportunity to expand on the possibilities of what may be understood as “mail art” by working collaboratively across vast physical distances and on a relatively large scale. MIDDplace has become an energizing force that lives in our studios and homes alongside our solo practices, infusing our singular and collective works with new potentialities. <br /><br />The project is a series of works made across time and space through drawing, painting and collage. Conceived as a short-term and singular experiment to be completed in the first half of 2020, the project took on new significance as the global pandemic interrupted and impacted all our lives. In the midst of this time of anxiety, isolation, not-knowing, and fear, MIDDplace became essential as a mode of connection across the continents. As the pandemic heightened the sense of physical distance, and necessarily replaced in-person modes of engagement into digital platforms that flattened diverse experiences into Zoom screens, the materiality and tactility of our dialogue offered a sense of embodied connection that was uplifting and joyful in otherwise difficult times. In addition, the way that this process has stretched our studio practices – allowing us to respond to, learn from, and challenge each other’s visual propositions; it has energized us. This exhibition includes collaborative works, individual works, and documentation of process.<br /><br />As individual artists, we have established practices that are distinct from each other. Los-Angeles-based Melissa Manfull uses intricate pen and ink drawings to explore natural and man-made systems. Her current series uses isometric perspective as a constraint to visualize two-dimensional patterns as architectonic environments. Montreal-born Ilga Leimanis is a London-based visual artist, educator and author working in drawing, often collaboratively. Recent series attempt to visualize the energy of overflow and abundance, collaborations include research into walking art, drawing on 16mm film and process-based action to generate hope. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Diyan Achjadi’s practice incorporates a maximalist visual language that embraces pattern, ornamentation and decoration as carriers of culture and history, informed by the textile traditions of the island of Java. Working primarily in drawing, printmaking and animation, Diyan lives and works in Vancouver. Doreen Wittenbols, a Dutch-Canadian visual artist, is trained in the tradition of figurative painting. Her practice has become increasingly experimental to include abstraction and painting onto a variety of surfaces such as books, postcards, photographs, mirrors, as well as, producing installations. Doreen is currently based in New York. While our practices are discrete, we each work with drawing and painting as modes of thinking and being. In addition, we each explore concepts of space in our works, whether they be liminal, psychic or physical spaces.<br /><br />Our collaborative endeavor is a series of four 47.25" x 31.5" drawings. We each began one drawing on this large, flat sheet of paper with what we identified as a spatial question, using any material and process. Each foundational inquiry was then mailed from artist to artist in a predetermined sequence until the discussion was concluded. We agreed that any response was acceptable and embraced, including working on top of, erasing, cutting into, weaving and collaging. As the drawings moved through the chain and the marks accumulated, each has become a record of this visual dialogue. While there are visible traces of each hand, the final works embody a collective voice, creating a new form that none of us could have imagined on our own. Documentation of process is also part of the exhibition, as well as artworks created individually as a response to the collaboration, including sculptural works. We have recorded a series of virtual studio visits, conversations between us where we discuss our approaches to the drawings, our relationships to each other, and the specificities of our contexts during this time. These conversations will exist on an online platform as a supplement to the exhibition. The forms of negotiation that are core to collaborations are a practice towards building spaces of possibility that embrace multiplicity and difference. At the heart of MIDDplace is a desire to find points of synchronicity in an asynchronous and disjointed world. <br /><br />During the pandemic the artists held studio visits via zoom to discuss how the collaborative process had become an energizing force in their studios and homes during the pandemic and infused their singular and collective works with new potentialities:<br /><br />Doreen & Melissa <a href="https://youtu.be/h8CbI-U9EEg">https://youtu.be/h8CbI-U9EEg</a><br /><br />Ilga & Melissa <a href="https://youtu.be/U-mt_ERXM4Q">https://youtu.be/U-mt_ERXM4Q</a><br /><br />Diyan & Melissa <a href="https://youtu.be/_tcT2wrEThg">https://youtu.be/_tcT2wrEThg</a><br /><br />Ilga & Doreen <a href="https://youtu.be/wCbPADKVzqs">https://youtu.be/wCbPADKVzqs</a><div><br /></div><div>Ilga & Doreen <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/CfJ2eKGff-4&source=gmail&ust=1651962521594000&usg=AOvVaw0cxavWZdNjFuqHJXPpWadi" href="https://youtu.be/CfJ2eKGff-4" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">https://youtu.be/CfJ2eKGff-4</span></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Workshop Thursday April 21, 2022 6-9pm<br /></b><br />Please join Melissa Manfull together with Ilga Leimanis in person, for a workshop exploring collaboration, process and problem solving. All materials provided. All welcome. <br /><br />Bios<br /><br />Diyan Achjadi is a Jakarta-born, Vancouver-based artist who explores the ways that surface ornamentation and illustrated printed matter can function as archives documenting the circulation of ideas in visual form. They have exhibited widely at galleries and film festivals across Canada and beyond. Recent projects include Hush, an animation commissioned by Emily Carr University for the City of Vancouver Public Art Program (2021); NonSerie (In Commute), part of How far do you travel?, a year-long exhibition on the exterior of public buses, commissioned by the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) in partnership with Translink BC (2019); and Coming Soon!, a monthly series of prints installed at sites slated for construction and development, commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, documented with a book-length publication in 2020. Diyan was a 2021 recipient of the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, and has forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Nanaimo Art Gallery and the Burnaby Art Gallery. Diyan is currently the Interim Dean for the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University.<br /><br />Ilga Leimanis is a Montreal-born visual artist, educator and author based in London. In addition to her solo art practice and collaborative work, Ilga’s practice-led pedagogy and creative consultancy has brought her into contact with many diverse groups of students, both in the UK and internationally. For over a decade, she has facilitated workshops in sketching and idea generation, developing a functional method for creative practice. Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, she is also currently pursuing an MA in Academic Practice at UAL, research interests include idea generation, ethics of care, and transformational pedagogy. Her first book Sketching Perspective was published by the Crowood Press (2021). Recent collaborations include an independent virtual 16mm film research project hosted by not/nowhere and presented at the Paul Mellon Centre (2021) and ‘sisters hope’, a series of process-based interventions to generate hope together with her sister Andra Kalnins at Five Years (2022).<br /><br />Los Angeles based artist and educator, Melissa Manfull uses intricate pen and ink drawings to create disorienting spatial illusions through the expansion and dismantling of natural and man-made patterns. Her methodical approach to layering lines, washes and flat forms unite to create complex, often overwhelming three-dimensional spaces. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Taylor De Cordoba and Five Years in London. Her select group exhibitions include “Straddling the Boundaries” and “Witty and Urbane” at the Fellows of Contemporary Art, “Gravitas” at Brand Library and Art Center, “Structure Synthesis” at Irvine Fine Art Center, and “Abstracted Visions” at Cerritos College Art Gallery. She is included in the public collections of the Huntington Library and Art Collections, the Art in Embassies program as well as the collections of Google, Microsoft, Media Math and more. <br /><br />Doreen Wittenbols (Breda) is a Dutch-Canadian visual artist, based in New York City. She works in specific series or projects, both single session observational paintings and longer exploratory projects involving abstraction, varied surfaces, installation, performance and ephemeral art. Her life and work have been greatly influenced by frequent moving, from immigrating to Canada as a child to returning to The Netherlands as an adult. Transition and transformation are recurrent themes: the poignant reciprocity of souvenir and memento mori evokes fugitive, vulnerable, ambivalent states for the artist. Wittenbols exhibits throughout Canada, the UK, The Netherlands, New York and most recently Paris and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she also resided. Recent paintings are featured in the 150th juried issue of New American Paintings. For her upcoming residency at the Van Gogh Huis in Zundert, The Netherlands Wittenbols will explore the commodification of Van Gogh’s work through the concept of the souvenir.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-21587389855446412092022-02-26T09:48:00.003-08:002022-03-29T22:13:57.643-07:00Past exhibitionMats [Alpha (Release)] Luke Aleckson3.5.22 - 3.26.22<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJrtM_6qJaqmTJ3mOwVw5S6GErGdPr4FReIEenpAzL9tSt_SDEBnjfXoEV_RCdDyU499KZkGo6vpwvYXpCV2zlpTQzUjurjgP_E9jk2bcbsuqnfqaiO5ZlwDeU-xIvn96Zu17he4ix7nuVQ9Fg-WIdsm4p7HbHfzdmAhd86hXJLPJmgG_3y1SQsNQo=s1920" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJrtM_6qJaqmTJ3mOwVw5S6GErGdPr4FReIEenpAzL9tSt_SDEBnjfXoEV_RCdDyU499KZkGo6vpwvYXpCV2zlpTQzUjurjgP_E9jk2bcbsuqnfqaiO5ZlwDeU-xIvn96Zu17he4ix7nuVQ9Fg-WIdsm4p7HbHfzdmAhd86hXJLPJmgG_3y1SQsNQo=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">This exhibition includes scale models of proposed monuments for the artist's brother, Mathew (1988-2018).</span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There will be a catalog to accompany the exhibition.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both the catalog and the monuments are being released as alpha versions (as in pre-beta, early development), and are likely to remain in this state.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On view Saturdays, 12p to 4pm, March 5 - 26</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more on the artist, visit </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://lukealeckson.com&source=gmail&ust=1645983457276000&usg=AOvVaw2l4JoFXrAnPUcXyywh4EbO" href="http://lukealeckson.com/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">lukealeckson.com</a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-44549836107814025912022-02-02T12:12:00.006-08:002022-03-29T22:14:15.717-07:00Past exhibitionThe wilderness withinJennifer CelioOpening receptionSaturday, 2.5.22 12—4 pm2.5.22 - 2.26.22<p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7i4xwLwSJBdscryW2xZsHgqHeKptC40PUSh1bp6mHeyhClpaAfnoHGBh0_Np4D6NZEveTorWBV2a1pIQc8kOnEW9rjXMDx52nuW6V6UAYndaUk-0hNIyWZmGteIAqELwKVwoUy74f5yu6_1wZThe9DvsttwQt16yhU7eE4ejYjfvg07IOBH3Qa2nX=s750" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7i4xwLwSJBdscryW2xZsHgqHeKptC40PUSh1bp6mHeyhClpaAfnoHGBh0_Np4D6NZEveTorWBV2a1pIQc8kOnEW9rjXMDx52nuW6V6UAYndaUk-0hNIyWZmGteIAqELwKVwoUy74f5yu6_1wZThe9DvsttwQt16yhU7eE4ejYjfvg07IOBH3Qa2nX=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; 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color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #37220d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>Opening reception Saturday, 2.5.22 12—4 pm<p></p><p>Gallery hours Saturdays 12—4 pm and by appointment</p><p>Elephant is pleased to present The wilderness within, a solo site-specific installation by Jennifer Celio. In the unique exhibition area at elephant, Celio transforms the intimate room into an immersive version of a suburban house garage that displays mundane trappings as well as the bizarre and unexpected. The sculptural works and simple objects speak to entangled lines of inquiry into exotic animal trophy hunting, family ties and secrets, the potent influence of pop culture in childhood, and the pressing urgency of an environmental tipping point.<br /> <br />Celio pulls from her experiences at her grandparents’ suburban home, which was typical for a tract house in Southern California, both inside and out. There was one crucial distinction-the exotic animal heads that hung with a discarded air on the walls of the garage. Visits to their home often meant a trip into the garage for something, and what resulted was both repulsion and fascination to the mounted heads of a rhinoceros, a water buffalo, and an African gazelle collecting dust high up in the rafters. Inside their home, other bodily souvenirs were scattered throughout, including the bizarre sight of an elephant foot ashtray, the skin dry and cracked, the plain brass ashtray unused despite the fact that her grandfather smoked. Naively, she assumed he had hunted these animals a long time ago and they had become just another decoration in their home. Only when older did she find out, to her great surprise, that it was her grandmother who had gone on the African safaris with her previous husband, and she herself had shot and preserved those animal parts.<br /> <br />For The wilderness within, Celio has created mixed media sculptures, assemblage works, and collected vintage and personal ephemera to reference those majestic creatures reduced to a state of decay in the garage, intertwined with design influences from her 1980s upbringing, like a rattan peacock chair, macramé lampshades, and buttons and teeny bopper magazine pinups of pop music stars. The walls of elephant art space have been altered to resemble the dark, unfinished walls and the roll up door of a garage with Celio’s sculptures hanging from and leaning against them, and the open rafters and unfinished area above the gallery walls play into this illusion. The focal point of the “garage” is a peacock chair, situated on a rug made from a rejected painting covered in pencil drawings, alongside a replica elephant foot ashtray made from handmade paper, wood, and a vintage ashtray, in which sits nubs of Celio’s artist pencils painted to look like cigarettes.<br /> <br />In assemblage sculptures, mixed media paintings, and installation elements, she weaves disparate components and techniques into works that add to the illusion of a surreal garage. She repurposes objects within her art practice towards a personal goal of reducing resources consumption. The pieces include beach trash, scraps, salvaged items, and personal effects in order to minimize the use of new materials while playing with juxtapositions and conversations between these objects and more traditional art-making materials.<br /> <br />This installation explores the dual ideas of humanity’s complicated relationship with the natural world and the individual’s complex relationship with family. The messiness of memory lends to a collective forgetting of the human toll upon nature’s ecosystems, and on a micro scale, one can choose to ignore the problematic familial pasts lurking just below the surface. Setting the stage within a home garage-a place that can be a burying ground for unwanted possessions-symbolically layers these macro and micro relations in a surreal reimagining of a place and time that, for Celio, shaped an awareness of how crucial environment is.<br /> <br />Jennifer Celio’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Cristinerose Gallery and Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts in New York City; Haphazard Gallery and the Creative Artists’ Agency in Los Angeles, CA; La Estacion Gallery in Chihuahua, Mexico; romo gallery in Atlanta, GA; Bandini Art in Culver City, CA; California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, CA; Moorpark College in Moorpark, CA; and Phantom Galleries in Long Beach, CA. Her drawings represented the Southern California region in the 2015 biennial at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Her work has also been in group exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Houston; and Berlin, London, Mexico, Colombia, Greece, Istanbul, and Canada; and in other museum exhibits in San Francisco, Long Beach, Laguna Beach, and Indianapolis, IN. She is the recipient of individual artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2012) and The City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2014.) She has received residencies from Yaddo (N.Y.), Soulangh Cultural Center (Taiwan), and the Long Beach Museum of Art (CA.) She has a B.F.A. from Cal State Fullerton (1996.)<br /> <br /> Her interdisciplinary artwork has received critical review in such publications as The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Papers, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Art Ltd. Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Fabrik Magazine, Beautiful/Decay, The Huffington Post, Flavorpill, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<br /><br />NOTE: Masks are required inside the gallery. If you are vaccinated, you may remove your mask in the backyard reception area. Thank you!<br /></p><!--more--><p></p><div><span face=""helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-32924634613225704952021-12-29T23:14:00.006-08:002022-02-02T11:57:12.257-08:00Past exhibitionRecovery PositionBen White1.8.22 - 1.29.22<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdGGpM1PI6pAWMu36FO6d3rVZZabJ2VUm1eqIyw0xm5TkTHoXl5h6c47sPzobEOJKxPbjz2NwRneww6U8OTWCdOQk6E_ksTC5slDjE-GKxFO2cwiT4J-UyPxZWMJI1k29fzsIMqPoAXsonV3lBs4ZwpMgaZDYeBNvqmIs_-mNsDoojMrHSuRIQ08io=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdGGpM1PI6pAWMu36FO6d3rVZZabJ2VUm1eqIyw0xm5TkTHoXl5h6c47sPzobEOJKxPbjz2NwRneww6U8OTWCdOQk6E_ksTC5slDjE-GKxFO2cwiT4J-UyPxZWMJI1k29fzsIMqPoAXsonV3lBs4ZwpMgaZDYeBNvqmIs_-mNsDoojMrHSuRIQ08io=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span></span></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gallery hours Saturday 12-4 or by appointment</span></div><div><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: helvetica; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Recovery Position is a multi-media piece that speaks to the lingering effects of America’s failed post-Civil War project of Reconstruction, doomed by ingrained ideas of white supremacy/white complacency, and the persistence of Lost Cause ideology in the current sociopolitical arena. It utilizes imagery from the grotesquely staged Brady/Gardner war photographs, stock footage of white people saving white people as </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: white; color: #18191b; font-kerning: none;">unconscious but breathing casualties, and a reimagining of the musical theme from Ken Burns’ highly stylized and southern fried romantic Civil War documentary series in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the style of John Carpenter’s horror cinema scores.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p></div></div><div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></div><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-25772984323989794412021-10-29T11:17:00.004-07:002021-12-29T23:02:34.654-08:00Past exhibitionBig KnotCara Levine & Alee Peoples11.06.21-12.18.21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhPydLvCHGUGNoxX5czv9F3vHTZKANYchyphenhyphenjDMwNRA_62f1wsk6j-DueQ8nKhocTVQWLpmDH1vnJzJnntxuZqQoHHAEgxk0Mxx4d8b9PvNqCJ-TQOz18ruYYuClY4WemkxwqmxXFma8zI/s2400/Big_Knot_card_new1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="2400" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhPydLvCHGUGNoxX5czv9F3vHTZKANYchyphenhyphenjDMwNRA_62f1wsk6j-DueQ8nKhocTVQWLpmDH1vnJzJnntxuZqQoHHAEgxk0Mxx4d8b9PvNqCJ-TQOz18ruYYuClY4WemkxwqmxXFma8zI/w683-h241/Big_Knot_card_new1.png" width="683" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Gallery hours Saturday 12-4 or by appointment</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">16 months, and a world turned over, since this exhibition was initially scheduled, Levine and Peoples' return with new works containing all the new feels. Both utilize their art practices as methodologies for grappling with irreconcilability in today's world. Through interweaving practices of textile, painting, and filmmaking, Peoples' imagines surreal or fantastical landscapes. Through deliberate attention to detail and precision in each medium she is able to capture a sense of time moving and stopping at once. Levine, also working with the handmade, spent the year obsessed with our invisible yet constant and invaluable interconnectedness. Through repeated gestures, and the physical linking of objects, she displays a care and tenderness towards the materials and its subjects. Their practices diverge through visual style, but are tied through technical labor and conceptual motivation. In conversation about contextualizing the work for this show coming out of this upside-down period, they agreed on the near constant feeling of a <i>big knot</i> in their throats. This is the first time Levine and Peoples' work will be shown side by side.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">BIOS:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves our processing of images and codes with the tactility of screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She received a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2004 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Living in Los Angeles since 2011, Peoples has shown her sculpture and textile work at GAIT and 4th Wall as well as being involved at Echo Park Film Center.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has shown her films at numerous experimental festivals, micro-cinemas and artist spaces.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made. <a href="http://www.aleepeoples.com"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 60, 192); color: #103cc0; font-kerning: none;">www.aleepeoples.com</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Cara Levine lives in Los Angeles, CA. Levine is an artist exploring the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic, and illusionary through sculpture, video and socially engaged practice. She is the founder of <i>This Is Not A Gun</i>, a multidisciplinary project aiming to create awareness and activism around police brutality through collective creative action. She is currently an Associate Adjunct at Otis College of Art and Design. She received her MFA in sculpture from CCA in 2012 and has shown work in various places including the Wattis Center for Contemporary Art in San Francisco, YoungArts Miami Art Basel and The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has been a recent artist in residence at The Arctic Circle Residency, Sim Residency in Iceland, and Anderson Ranch in Colorado CO.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.caralevine.com"><span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 60, 192); color: #103cc0; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">www.caralevine.com</span></a></span></p></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />PLEASE NOTE: Masks are required inside the gallery. If you are vaccinated, you may remove your mask in the backyard reception area. Thank you!</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-87694826067371539612021-09-19T20:29:00.009-07:002021-11-01T21:35:36.204-07:00past exhibitionLos Angeles is not a desertChristine Atkinson09.25.21 - 10.30.21<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62Bb19CZSj9A2NODAFcvmYoKjGNHYedCfFlchg41JfEL7k-y3TzlS4_nsJvOAYEnMilAmg-uU7g_ZYZ3Pn8V_6JCnz-bZa78VHA168YNCGwotcwQutB5SRiyUAMSc2SfWKb2ZIZZGGXo/s1000/_for+you+and+those+you+love+%2528ag+var.+3%2529_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62Bb19CZSj9A2NODAFcvmYoKjGNHYedCfFlchg41JfEL7k-y3TzlS4_nsJvOAYEnMilAmg-uU7g_ZYZ3Pn8V_6JCnz-bZa78VHA168YNCGwotcwQutB5SRiyUAMSc2SfWKb2ZIZZGGXo/w640-h480/_for+you+and+those+you+love+%2528ag+var.+3%2529_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">September 25th - October 30th, 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gallery hours Saturdays 12pm—4pm and by appointment.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />“In the meantime, the pure waste going on — the wanton destruction of the innocents – is a sad sight to see and the sun may well be pitied in being compelled to look on.”<br /><br /> —John Muir in reference to the Central Valley of California. <br /><br />We know that our institutions have failed us, that what we thought of as a reliable model, is not working and has not worked for many of us for a long time. The understanding of the landscape, of where nature resides and our place in it, is flawed. The prevailing aesthetic of Los Angeles of palm trees, tropical and imported ornamental gardens has little to do with the hundreds of plants that create the native ecosystem. Static and unchanging, dead but predictable, we live in a taxidermied landscape. We’ve created an urban environment that is totally dependent on imported water and human intervention, which neither connects us to Los Angeles as a place or supports the failing ecosystem.<br /><br /><i>Los Angeles is not a desert</i> examines this disconnect through photography and installation. The images from the series <i>for you and those you love</i> focus on the gardens, both public and private, that are devoted to supporting the native ecosystem with the hope to prevent its collapse. Giant bird of paradise leaves painted in green epoxy masquerade as verdant, and ideal. While in contrast, the dead looking branches of the encelia californica sit dormant or burn red in the light filtered through wildfire smoke. Wildfire debris encased in epoxy and salt acts as a time capsule of the drought, increasing temperatures and the misuse of water. How do we inhabit, recalibrate, and affect our home landscape of Los Angeles, and what will be the impact of our actions? Are we here for ourselves alone?</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Christine Atkinson was born in Stockton, CA and raised in Northern California. She received her undergraduate degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara California and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her works have been included in various shows across the United States including The Aviary Gallery in Boston, SOIL in Seattle, Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, Focus Photo LA curated by Charlotte Cotton, Nicholas Fahey and Wendy Posner and has participated in “Art in Paper New York'' with Vellum. Atkinson is a member of Monte Vista Projects. She lives and works in Los Angeles.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />PLEASE NOTE: Masks are required inside the gallery. If you are vaccinated, you may remove your mask in the backyard reception area. Thank you!</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-53842198136567531372020-02-29T22:30:00.002-08:002021-09-17T10:16:28.686-07:00past exhibitionFlowers BodySarah Julig03.01.20 - 03.22.20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exhibition on view Saturdays 12-4pm and by appointment</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">This exhibit is a response to the constant demand from our capitalist culture to present only our most attractive selves to the world, and to compete and attack each other at any sign of weakness. Our goal is to construct as space of caring in opposition to this, and to mourn for what we have lost.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In her essay Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva asserts that living with a chronic illness in a society that values bodies only for their labor is a political act. As she concludes: " The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care."</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whether we currently suffer from an illness or not, we all carry the wounds we inflict on each other and the natural world in our bodies. This installation uses ceramic sculptures, water, heat, scent, ritual, and participation to create a space for caring and reflection, a space for confronting our vulnerability and transience. The gallery will act as a memento mori, a mourning for our violence to the natural world and each other, as well as an expression of joy.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening March 1st 4 to 7pm</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; 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white-space: pre-wrap;">planetary grief, self healing massage, drawing body sensation,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">with Nancy Wong and Sarah Julig</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">*RSVP</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-48811327693152334532020-01-30T21:57:00.001-08:002020-02-29T22:24:44.592-08:00past exhibitionGreener Than GrassChristina Mesiti and Natalie Smith02.02.20 - 02.29.20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He seems to me equal to gods that man</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to your sweet speaking</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and lovely laughing–oh it</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">puts the heart in my chest on wings</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and cold sweat holds me and shaking</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">grips me all, greener than grass</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I am and dead–or almost</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This exhibition presents an invitation to engage with swirling contingencies, paradoxes, and hypotheses about sacred space. When defined as a state of being, that which is sacred is bound up with the ways that the self can function both as an impediment and medium to sacredness. This show was organized around a series of conversations about Fra Angelico’s Annunciation. In this painting, a moment of an intangible mystery, represented through rays of light, is about to be made incarnate. Natalie Smith’s paintings in-the-round envelop the gallery in repeated self-portrait silhouettes based on cast shadows. An obelisk-like sculpture by Christina Mesiti emerges out of cast bodily forms, casting its own shadow onto the ground. Greener Than Grass confronts the implications of inescapable light, presence of being, and the images of the body that it creates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lake Lonely is a precisely composed filmic portrait of a parachute I made with the template of a military parachute from WWII made in China. The film takes the viewer into the protagonist’s journey into lake lonely which is a private lake without any public access in Saratoga Springs, NY.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sichong Xie received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, CA. In 2019, she was an artist in residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA. In the summer of 2018, she was a full fellowship artist at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In the summer of 2017, Xie has been chosen to participate in Hauser & Wirth Somerset exchange residency in the UK. She did a five-hour durational performance/installation “Walking With The Disappeared” at the Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK. In the summer of 2016 & 2017, she was a fellowship artist at the Watermill Center in Long Island, NY. Recent exhibitions include OCAT Art Museum in Xi’An, China, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK, OCAT Art Museum in Anren, China, LACE Gallery, Los Angele, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Automata Gallery, Los Angeles, Chashama Gallery, New York, and Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-25122525790832275062019-12-09T22:45:00.001-08:002020-01-05T11:17:58.766-08:00past exhibitionFlatlandsJen Bruce12.15.19 - 12.31.19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="m_4272006878058034116m_1969065949396603165gmail-docs-internal-guid-3de957a1-7fff-b009-c6be-883131bad136"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THINKING THAT it was time to bring </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">down the Monarch from his raptures to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">the level of common sense, I determined </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">to endeavor to open up to him some </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nature of things in Flatland. So I began </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">thus: “How does your Royal Highness </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">distinguish the shapes and positions of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">his subjects? I for my part noticed by </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">the sense of sight, before I entered your </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kingdom, that some of your people are </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lines and others Points, and that some of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Lines are larger - " “You speak of an </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">impossibility,” interrupted the King; “you </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">must have seen a vision; for to detect the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">difference between a Line and a Point by </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">the sense of sight is, as everyone knows, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the nature of things, impossible; but it </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">can be detected by the sense of hearing, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">and by the same means my shape can </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">be exactly ascertained. Behold me - I am </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">a Line, the longest in Lineland, over six </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">inches of Space - " “Of Length,” I ventured </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">to suggest. “Fool,” said he, “Space is </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Length. Interrupt me again, and I have </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">done.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The works in this show were initially harvested as scrap materials, discarded as the remains of production. These unintentional, secondary forms (wasteforms) are the negative space left after the primary, intentional form is removed. Through commonplace aesthetic treatments, the throw-away object is formally acknowledged and thus transposed into a more recognizable object (work of art) which now claims a value that is completely apart from the primary form and the unintentional, formal manifestation of its bi-product.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By using these forms to create a landscape, the discarded and unacknowledged is given both a new form and a new narrative trajectory, a discussion is formed that begins with both the unarticulated and articulated circumstances of the (signified) landscape. The landscape is a neutral one where representation and value have shifted into the realm of the under- in-articulated. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The installation proposes a study of the representation of class and society, giving representation to the discards, perhaps generating a neutral psychogeography for the secondary wasteforms and the unarticulated to occupy. The dialog between exhibition space, negative space, and light functions as a tool or system for assigning value to the discarded, naming the un-named, saying the unspoken, listening to the unheard, observing the unseen, esteeming the un-represented..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swelling in substance and the unknown, maggot and creature convince themselves they are architects and prepare to enter the imago, a process of growth and development, challenging maturity by building shelters where they feel safe to transform. On their journey they mechanize pre image at sexual maturity by embracing and releasing fear. The space becomes a habitat for the language from inside the body, confronting its unbearable presence with devices for being, they exhibit a new way to live.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Signer and Hafslund met at The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angles and then at A-Z West Encampment, Joshua Tree soon after in 2016. </span><br />
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Our new line is carefully constructed with USERNAME in mind, because USERNAME ARE WORTH IT!</span><br style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">-----</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lauren McElroy is a Philadelphia native living in Los Angeles who holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her fine art practice is rooted in collage and paint based abstraction inspired by textile markings and design motifs, subliminal doodling, patterns occurring in nature, microscopic biology and sacred geometry. This year she was selected as one of ten artists to paint one of these abstractions as a large public mural in downtown San Diego as part of the first all female mural festival called Ladies Who Paint Mural Walk.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lauren also runs a commercial mural painting company called L Star Murals, where she creates work in a broad selection of styles, often incorporating hand lettering, detailed line work, and representational painting into projects for a wide variety of clients. She has painted murals all over the country and has had her artwork featured in numerous television programs and publications. She has developed and created unique signage and murals for over 40 Trader Joe's stores.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The body of work created for this show is a result of contemplating the commercial work made in her studio, which passes through her hands as an artist yet remains largely faithful to the vision of her patrons, creating for her a strangely uncritical experience. By applying the intuitive observational approach of her abstract work, in which problem solving and impromptu decisions shape the image, and combining it with the bold, simple language of advertising Lauren has created an environment that explores the visual and psychological aspects of corporate signaling in the age of digital marketing. The work is informed by patterns of language and imagery used in contemporary advertising campaigns, taking on the form of hand painted display signage which seeks to articulate shared insecurities felt by the act of consuming them, uncovering an ongoing unconscious discomfort with the status quo.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591408522292112066.post-62420656480012037382019-09-18T20:09:00.000-07:002019-09-18T20:09:59.697-07:00eventThe Book of GoliathAkina Cox09.22/26/28/29.19 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The story is this: two tribes, both recent arrivals to the area, engaged in a land dispute over a tree lined valley. To settle the matter and avoid bloodshed, a warrior offered to fight a duel. Whoever won would claim the valley for their tribe. The duel was fought, the warrior died, and his tribe vacated the area. The man who fought him later became king of his tribe, and his progeny included many historical figures revered today, including Jesus Christ. Written down around 600 BC, the myth of David and Goliath became part of a collection of stories that formed the basis of the Abrahamic religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Baha’i.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a child steeped in that religious tradition, Cox frequently sang songs about David and Goliath at Sunday School, and reenacted the battle with her friends. In reexamining the story, Cox undermines the binaries at the heart of the tale, the lessons that she consumed along with the entertaining story. Traditionally, Goliath is portrayed as an evil monster, and his defeat by David is seen as proof of good triumphing over evil. In illustrations, Goliath barely appears to be human- hairy and dark, he towers over David, baring his teeth like fangs. David is always pale and beautiful, a boy ready to vanquish his foe.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the years, scientists have studied the myth further, positing that Goliath possibly suffered from a hereditary issue with his pituitary gland, which probably also affected his eyesight. Authors such as Malcom Gladwell have pointed to this evidence with glee, proof that all monsters have an Achilles heel that when attacked will deflate them. To this day, secular self help gurus frequently suggest that we mercilessly slay our Goliath- whether that be our bosses, a problem at work, or our own bodies.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">In “The Book of Goliath,” Cox questions this legacy, both on herself and prevailing culture. By restaging the story, Cox takes the very elements that introduced the story to children and uses them to retell the same story in a way that maintains the humanity of both David and Goliath. The “Book of Goliath” will take place over the course of a week. It is a live shadow puppet play, with home made sound effects, and some audience participation. Some effects will be uncomfortable for animals and babies. All others welcome. Tickets cost $6 and are available at </span><a data-lynx-mode="hover" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FEventbrite.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1UJYYm88K6h8hU4xPbGgv-as95UtLeSYbHmCnY1OzOEbX7bADcD5MSa04&h=AT3DrZ7Oz1kD6u18mU6AkU7DGWxIW1IkkNbqarQieeOe-CSEV3700xRok56RNxDZeOgdVmHCbK0ZNRr36tJjbApd5Hh_pYDw-fbhkGhOs9f9I1pepNaBTSpw4srrDoCoDvVcd5Y" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Eventbrite.com.</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">There will be an opening reception after the 7:00 performance at Elephant on Sunday, 9/22.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Akina Cox moved to Los Angeles in 2003 after being raised in the Unification Church. She graduated from CalArts with an MFA in 2012. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Monte Vista Projects, and LACE. Her artist books can be purchased at Otherwild and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Dia:Beacon and Printed Matter in New York.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com