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JULY 2 – AUGUST
20, 2005
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS: Saturday,
JULY 2, 5 – 8 pm
d.e.n. contemporary art is pleased
to present Collected Recordings, an exhibition of six artists whose
work is derived from recordings, collectings, and cumulations of those
basic parts of life easily unnoticed or disregarded.
Glenn Bach records ambient sounds,
from campground sites to his Long Beach backyard, then translates them
into graphite drawings. By assigning a subjective visual language to
an aural one, Bach imbues tangible value to the ephemeral memories of
a place, as he transfers the raw and minute data of one sense to another.
New York artist Suzanne Bocanegra
reproduces flowers from Jan Breughel paintings by making paper cutouts
of each petal from the bouquets, on which she then applies a finish
of wax and gouache. Arranging the petals into categories corresponding
to their placement in the original, she then inverts them on the wall,
creating her own vivid floral collection.
Michele Costa Baron collects
stains on paper found in her Los Angeles office, then cuts and assembles
them into a collage, often embellishing them with simple lines to create
architectural forms. The intimate scale of each piece reflects a humility
that is in concert emotionally with the nature of stains themselves,
while shifting a new perspective to the beauty of the tarnished and
unwanted.
Seattle-based Marc Dombrosky
collects found notes and then embroiders over the handwriting and calculations,
giving a permanence and new life to lost and temporal communication,
through a humble and often forgotten domestic craft.
Virginia Katz
records southern California wind movement by affixing pens to tree
branches, allowing the wind to spontaneously "draw" erratic,
yet elegant lines. Her system allows for the element of chance to dictate
the work’s final form through a direct collaboration with both
elements of nature and the various mark-making tools and paper she chooses.
Peter Owen repeatedly draws various
Los Angeles streets and buildings in simple lines, which abstract the
forms into unrecognizable sites. Accumulating at times up to 20 drawings
layered one on top of another on a single wood panel, the final work
echoes the density of the downtown and east L.A. neighborhoods from
where the work is created.
Each artist, through their own specific methodology, explores details
that are part of a larger existence, bringing a new value to the original
inspiration, either by excerpting and expanding, resuscitating, reframing,
amassing, or harnessing those details into something that will make
it's presence tangible. While making the subject their own, they incorporate
a respect and reference for the "original.” Each work reflects
a beauty in the cast-off and the unseen, from detritus found on the
streets, to the wind in the trees, to an old master's flowers, allowing
for a fresh perspective in something all over again, and revealing a
sublime presence that may be overlooked.
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ENERGETIC:
New Paintings by Kirby Ingram The gallery also presents an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles artist Kirby Ingram. In her series of “Energetic” paintings, Ingram’s use of color and form create a mystifying sense of dimensional movement. Ingram creates vibrating circles that either quietly suspend in a serene sea of blue, or travel through a glowing yellow atmosphere. An invisible energy stream appears to traverse the circles, receding or ascending into a mysterious universe. |
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d.e.n. contemporary art is located
at 6023 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Gallery hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, from 11:00 to 5:30 pm. For information or visual material,
please contact the gallery at (310) 559-3023 or info@dencontemporaryart.com
©2005