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February 25 – April 8, 2006
RECEPTION Saturday, February 25, 5 – 8 pm

Beginning February 25, d.e.n. contemporary art will present Remaining Light, the U.S. debut solo exhibition of new paintings by Scottish-born artist Amanda Sefton Hogg. Concurrently on view in the Project Room will be an installation by Los Angeles artist Amanda Tan.

Remaining Light will include a series of oil paintings in which Amanda Sefton Hogg explores the illuminating presence of light radiating through chandeliers. Her focus is the rendering of light as it emanates from her subjects rather than depiction of the source object itself. With dramatically loose brushwork in shades of black and umber, coupled with finely sketched lines in pastel tones, the chandeliers hover mysteriously as ornate spectral forms.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 2000, Sefton Hogg lived most of her life in the United Kingdom, graduating from Glasgow School of Art with a BA (Hon) Fine Art in 1992. In 1994, she completed her MA Fine Art Degree, with commendation (the highest award given that year), from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. In the acclaimed history of the Slade, she was at that time the first Scottish applicant to be accepted into the MA program. Since graduating, she has exhibited in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, and Hong Kong, and has previously worked as a freelance public programmes curator for UK galleries and museums

d.e.n. contemporary art will also present Hedgerow, a site-specific installation by Amanda Tan, where patterned ink drawings and delicately cut forms on monumental-size sheets of paper, are suspended from the gallery ceiling beams. A quiet glow diffused from the painted backside of the paper creates a contemplative setting, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the space among, in front of, and behind the layers. The pieces can be perceived from numerous points of view, with the forms ranging optically between macro and micro scale. Tan’s attention is on a multiplicity of points of origin and intention, as she sees “the positive as negative and the negative as positive, the flat image as sculpture and the sculpture as flat image.”
Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, Tan is a recent graduate from Claremont Graduate University, where she received her M.F.A. in 2005, and was awarded the Fernandez Prize in Art as well as the Claremont Graduate University Art Fellowship.

An opening reception for both exhibitions will be held Saturday, February 25, from 5 to 8 p.m., and the shows will remain on view until April 8. The gallery is located at 6023 Washington Blvd. in Culver City. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 5:30.

For additional information and visual material, please contact:
Donna Enad Napper or Veronica Fernandez at (310) 559-3023 or info@dencontemporaryart.com



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