la centric - gallery exhibitions (february 2013)

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gallery exhibitions | february 2013

MARA DE LUCA

CRUISE COLLECTION 2013

PREMIERES 2.23.13

LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES2685 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034 www.luisdejesus.com

V I R G I N I A K A T Z

Tracing Places – 8 Years

March 2 – April 13, 2013

Reception: Saturday, March 2, 4-6 PM

RUTH BACHOFNER GALLERYBergamot Station Arts Center 2525 Michigan Ave G2 ▪ Santa Monica ▪ CA www.RuthBachofnerGallery.com

Tracing Places – 8 Years, (detail) 2005 – 2013. Installation of collected paper ephemera, hand-cut into

2 centimeter squares. Approximately 75” x 150”

Joyce KozloffOther Geographies

January 13, 2013 – February 17, 2013

207 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013213-806-7889www.cb1gallery.com

2525 Michagan Ave, B4, Santa Monica, CA 90404t. 310 828 8488

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Lavi Daniel

“A Seed With A Mind Of Its Own”

February 9 – March 9, 2013

Reception: Saturday, February 9, 5 – 7 PMGallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10AM – 5:30 PM

Grant Mudford

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AT BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER2525 Michigan Ave Suite B7 Santa Monica, CA 90404P: 310.315.1937 / F: 310.315.9688info@robertbermangallery.comwww.robertbermangallery.com

R O B E R TB E R M A NG A L L E R Y

LAUREN MARSOLIER

Transition

FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 30

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A PARTICIPATING EXHIBITION OF:

HERBERT BAYER

EMIL NELSON GALLERY2862 COLORADO AVE

SANTA MONICA, CA 90404www.nelsongallery.com

Email: [email protected]

"Memorial Sculpture"tabletop editionc.1960-200748" x 21" x 21"

"Leaning Spiral Tower"tabletop edition, c. 196934 3/4" x 14" x 10 3/4"

"Undulated Wall"tabletop edition, c. 1967

37" x 21" x 21"

These sculptures and others from the Herbert Bayer Family Collection are available in editions of 6, in sizes

from tabletop to monumental.

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exhibitions ADAM MARS

Public Privates is the first solo exhibi-tion of Adam Mars’ large-scale, mixed media brick paintings, which expose contemporary media-obsessed culture and address the collapse of privacy into a larger public forum. Appropri-ating aesthetic elements from an urban art context, Mars’ paintings blend ve-racious humor with the sensibilities of California pop art. Focusing solely on the elements of color, text and surface,

these works use simplicity and inci-siveness to resonate with the viewer. Their relationship to viral communi-cation is evident in Mars’ clever phras-es, which strive for a sense of familiar originality. Overlaying the monochro-matic brick, stenciled witticisms such as Retardashians, I Loved You, then I Googled You, and Good Lay, Bad Tex-ter, cover a diversity of topics while remaining truly relatable to a massive

audience connected by shared social experiences. Engaging within the con-text of celebrity culture, but also look-ing to the ubiquitous nature of social media, these paintings, like communi-cation in the digital era, are grounded in the necessity of brevity. Mars’ works astutely examine what it means to live in a rapidly evolving society and ulti-mately drive to question the ambiguity of the future.

Feb 8 - Mar 23 Gusford

Adam Mars, all works: (named for display text), acrylic and spray paint on faux brick; 42.5 x 48 in.

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As they have done in their previous re-search-driven projects, artists Moreno and Oro-za begin by zeroing in on contemporary varia-tions of an object typology — in this case, they began with the souvenir — in an effort to un-derstand how it functions in relation to forces of contemporary production, the generation of ur-ban morphology and identity, and the changing terrain of user engagement. In a previous proj-ect entitled Pre-City, for instance, they sought to understand how an abstract plane made up of the different but limited shapes, specific met-rics, and repeating objects that make up the stocks of building depots, construction sites, landscape nurseries, home improvement stores, and even pet stores, becomes a determining set of codes and sequences that simultaneously

constrains and open distortive new potentials in urban morphology and city production. In physics, a moiré pattern is an interference or distortion created when two grids are over-laid at misaligned angles or slightly different mesh sizes. As part of their 2010 Quebec Bien-nial project entitled The Moiré House (Or, ‘Ur-banism’ for Emptying Cities), Moreno and Oro-za posited the “Moiré House” as a space where two or more functional fields meet to confuse and expand a house’s main function. The tense exchange of the incompatible demands placed upon it serves to become the structure’s most telling quality and dominant marker of identi-ty. Economic downturns are often the acceler-ating contextual force that causes this form to proliferate. “Imagine diagramming the residen-

tial functions of a house as a pattern, and then imagine over laying upon that a second pattern of functions usually not associated to the home: a ham-curing establishment, beauty salon, cake shop, scrap collection yard, or marijuana grow-ing house.” The visual field of these superim-posed functions, engaging these multiple pat-terns, produce a Moiré effect. In “Orange Tsunami,” the artists use an in-vasive pattern of object organization, under-mining the standard normally dictated by the gallery’s natural architectural shape. This com-plicates the design and layout of the existing structure to create a rubic that skews the natu-ral rigid logic of gallery constructs. It removes decision-making based on intuition and design codification to perpetuate this Moiré effect.

GEAN MORENO & ERNESTO OROZA Wharton + Espinosa thru Mar 23

Gene Moreno & Ernesto Oroza: installation view of “Orange Tsunami” at Wharton + Espinosa

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TRAVIS COLLINSON thru Feb 16 Maloney

Drawing from the influences of both classi-cal painting and minimal abstraction, Travis Collinson’s paintings and drawings creates a framework for people, nature and space to exist in an anxious state of entropy. With a skewed perspective and distortion of unas-suming subjects, objects and environments, the artist’s compositions are at once familiar and enigmatic. Collinson’s painting and draw-ing style, influence by the early work of Lucien

Freud, juxtaposes near-photographic render-ing, subtle exaggeration and a pallet of muted tones to create remarkably quiet scenes inhab-ited by sublime, psychological subjects. Col-linson has shown throughout California, most recently at the Berkeley Art Museum exhibi-tion ‘Hauntology’ and Eli Ridgeway Gallery in San Francisco. His work is in the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum as well as numerous private collections.

Travis Collinson, Pink Western, 2012, graphite and white chalk on colored paper, 27.75 X 29.75 in

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Shine, a new exhibition of work by Cynthia Ona Innis, continues her interest in nature and inter-preting the cyclical manifestations of landscape into well articulated abstractions. This past fall Innis became an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the Golden Gate National Park just north of San Francisco. Set within an old military building on a hill and adjacent to a restored missile site, her studio overlooks the ocean and sublime environment of rolling hills and majestic valleys. The new work continues to be a study of forms under transformation, ex-ploring exchanges that are seen and unseen to the eye and exposing moments when one thing becomes another. The subject specifically relates

to the changing notions of light in the course of a 24 hour period. Time, movement and observa-tions of the effects of light on the eye are explored within the range of weather patterns ranging from extremely bright coastal days to dense fog and pitch-black nights. The interference of light seen on objects and through the camera lens be-comes the focus and is visually recreated using a variety of collaged information such as satin, silk and reflective metallic fabrics layered with ink and acrylic paint on canvas, wood panel and paper. In contrast to the layering of materials, there are tightly drawn areas of patterns, over-lapping honey comb-like networks made from observations of light and the dust and pollution

left in its path between the eye/camera and the natural/artificial light source. The work takes on a landscape format with a narrative created by a combination of drawing, painting and overall relationship of fabrics. In addition to the paint-ings and drawings, a new video will be shown produced in collaboration with East Coast based video artist Adam Frelin. The video explores the experience of traversing a pedestrian tunnel that leads to the Point Bonita lighthouse, near the art-ist's studio, and the light effects inside of the tun-nel and the area. The project was created with information and footage collected by Innis and Frelin and exchanged, highlighting each artist’s vision and interpretation.

CYNTHIA ONA INNISWalter Maciel thru Feb 16

Cynthia Ona Innis: (clockwise from top right): Catchlight, 2012, acrylic, ink and satin fabric on wood panel, 11” x 14”; Flash, 2013, ink, acrylic and satin fabric on canvas, 48” x 60”; Sunset & Batteries, 2013, acrylic, ink and satin fabric on wood panel, 38” x 43”, Shone, 2012, acrylic, ink and satin fabric on wood pane, 16” x 20”

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Whitney Hubbs’ first Los Angeles exhibition,The Song It-self is Already a Skip, is dark, raw, powerful and swimming in sensuality. Her work is at once blunt and lyrical, formal and improvised, recognizable to daily experience and yet totally foreign from it. Full of unlikely visual rhythms, Hubbs’ work creates and provokes with aesthetic force. Her images reside in a reticence of feeling. Through pro-found light and dark, a specific refusal of continuity or seriality, as well as latent eroticism, Hubbs demonstrates over and over her disinterest in generic narratives. Her work persuasively follows its own internal logic through her willingness to challenge the relationship between photographic immediacy and “authenticity.” This is the point of contact where reality and representation become muddled. While we are accustomed to the photograph-ic medium as the revelator, Hubbs confounds this idea. Abstracting through framing and with little desire to il-luminate or provide an understanding, Hubbs prefers to leave the viewer feeling. It is a sense of intuitive wonder you are left with. If you care to look into the corners and crawl into the vastness, you find yourself pulling wonder out of the chaos and revealing something more.

WHITNEY HUBBSthru Mar 9 M+B

Whitney Hubbs: (fop) Untitled (Boulder), 2011, silver gelatin print, 40 x 50 in, edi-tion of 5; (bot) Untitled (Wave), 2012, silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 in, edition of 5.

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Ranging from landscapes (natural and industrial) to genre portrai-ture, the subject matter is inextricably bound to the 20th Century, en-coded deeply by that prior era's fascination with technology, progress and ideology. Executed using layers of varnishes and glazes, the style of these works references the 19th Century, transporting them further back in time and melding photography and the academic conven-tions of painting into a nostalgic fusion. In the connecting small gal-lery, LawrenceGipe creates a "21st Century Annex" with the display of two stark graphite drawings based on photos taken of riot police during the Occupy Frankfurt protest in 2011. These pieces provide a contrast with the front room's vision of a romanticized world, and suggest the continuation of a grim, authoritarian reality. Since 1986, Lawrence Gipe has had 49 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US and Germany. Later this year, Zero+ Publishing will release a book on his career, Lawrence Gipe, Century of Progress.

LAWRENCE GIPELora Schlesinger thru Feb 23

Lawrence Gipe: (top) Panel No. 11 from Salon (1931), 2012, oil on panel, 18 x 24 in; (bot) Panel No. 9 from Salon (1936), 2012, oil on panel, 12 x 9 in

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In “Essence, transference, no cigarettes”, Craig Taylor con-tinues his investigations of painting and drawing offering both the aesthetic experience arrived at through historical approaches to abstraction and the interplay of image associa-tions. Subject matter appears, dissolves, and reemerges into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the paint-ed object as emotive. For this show these investigations also are brought into the third dimension as sculptures.

In this exhibiition, the figurative and specifically por-traiture as a format, is coming to the surface and making an appearance. Craig Taylor displays an acute awareness of the conventions and limitations of both abstraction and rep-resentation. Chunks of image and figures float to the surface and create their own vernacular of signs and marks. A narra-tive unfolds through an understanding of how the painting is made. Erotic serenity and clarity of thought collide with scatological playfulness, and the historical role of abstraction.

Taylor’s influences are as diverse as Henri Matisse and Carroll Dunham, Joan Mitchell, and Peter Saul, all of whom provide a context for the gestures and marks that coalesce and fragment in these paintings, forming and reconstituting mo-ments of pictorial and narrative legibility. Taylor’s work is freighted with a 20th century American concern for the role and nature of abstract painting it is simultaneously buoyed by a romantic touch rooted in 19th century French tradi-tion. The space in the work is alternately atmospheric and descriptive, immediate and subtle, with painterly insouciance tempered by the presence of Surrealist grotesqueries and ag-gressive structural devices. Loose, luminous areas come to coexist with opaque graphic forms. Poetic and ruminative without being bound to tradition, funny and knowing without being defined by the rhetoric of postmodernism, the works are stylish and relevant without being subject to the whims of art world fashion.

CRAIG TAYLORthru Jan 6 CB1

Craig Taylor: (clockwise from top right): The Fugitive Elements, 2012, paper, plaster and acrylic; Influ-ence of the Atmosphere, 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 54 in; Flick Think Films, 2012, oil on linen, 30 x 26 in

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“PAPER”The Prospectus thru Mar 1

This group exhibition features six artists who each create “works on paper.” The flexibility of this dynamic material is highlighted by a variety of processes in-cluding drawing, printmaking, collage, mixed media and assemblage. A highly interactive material, paper is uniquely responsive to each artist’s treatment of it.

(clockwise from top) Chad Atti, The Garden Final; Brad Eberhard, What’s In the Box?; a work by Roger Herman.

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Lifetime Achieve Award to Artist Mel Ramos + Public Retrospective

Arts Patron of the Year Award to Helene Galen

The Art of Shooting Stars Panel and Party hosted by the Palm Springs International Film Festival

Meet the Artists and Curators Reception

Museum Curators Weekend Retreat

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