past exhibition
Mountaineers: New Collages by Alice Clements
5.10.2014
May 10 - June 5
Opening Reception: Saturday May 10th, 7pm-10pm
Additional Gallery Hours: Sunday May 25, 2-6 pm and by appointment
Elephant is pleased to announce an exhibition of new mixed media collages by Los Angeles based artist Alice Clements. With a raw and irreverent sense of materials, Clements uses paint to emphasize decisions made in mounting images on each other. Taking the most basic formula of collage as a starting place - an image glued onto a flat surface - she explores figure ground relationships, variations on landscape and subjects human, animal and neither.
Her Handsome Man Collages project began several years back. This body of work departs entirely from abstraction with painted forays into figurative representation, using images culled from popular culture, art history, and print media. The collages employ strategies of formal symmetry, sentimentality and wit to explore imaginary narratives and formal play.
Alice Clements received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 2008. "Mountaineers" is her third solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Recent shows include University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, Long Beach City College, and Glendale College Art Gallery.
