Pacific Design Center Blue Bldg., 8687 Melrose Avenue, 2^nd Flr, West Hollywood, CA 90069 Mailing Address: den contemporary art, P.O. Box 6602, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 + 323 422 6340 info@dencontemporaryart.com

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibition Dates: On View at Space B261 July 22 through August 27

Opening Reception Thursday, July 22^nd from 5-8pm

Featured Artists: AMANDA SEFTON HOGG: New Paintings

NATHAN HUFF: Sculpture & Drawings

den contemporary art is pleased to feature solo exhibitions by two Los Angeles-based artists.

Scottish-born Amanda Sefton Hogg continues the series 'Remaining Light' in her abstract paintings and watercolors, which began with her first United States exhibition at den contemporary art in 2006, in which the artist explored light illuminating through elaborate chandeliers. As described by Los Angeles Times writer Leah Ollman, “The eye rides the painting like a musical score, continuously rising and lowering. It is a testament to the lyricism of Sefton Hogg’s paintings that they evoke time as much as space. Light appears to elapse, to be in constant motion.” In the recent paintings, Sefton Hogg’s work has evolved to depicting passages of light reflected in intricate seascape compositions.

Untitled, 2010 oil on canvas, 30 x 30”

Midpoint, 2010 wood and steel, 90 x 84 x 35”

Nathan Huff’s wood sculpture and gouache drawings explore the gravitational movement of objects and animals being launched and suspended, as well as in falling and clinging motions. Huff combines humor with uneasiness and the familiar with the surreal, whether in the solitary, worn rocking chair flung and frozen in the vastly spatial surface of an oversized drawing, or in his sculpture of several wooden boats appearing to be launched from or pulled to a curved ramp. Huff captures in his work a mid-motion moment filled with suspense.

About the Artists

Amanda Sefton Hogg received a BA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 1992, and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 1994, earning her MA Fine Art Degree with the highest commendation award given that year.

Nathan Huff received his BA from Azusa Pacific University, and received his MFA in Drawing/Painting as a 2010 graduate from California State University, Long Beach.

Special Experimental Sound Performance Performance Date: Thursday, July 22^nd 7:00pm at Space B261 Featured Artists: ANNA HOMLER and MICHAEL INTRIERE

During the July 22^nd art receptions in the Pacific Design Center gallery space B261, den contemporary art will host a Special Performance by the duo Anna Homler and Michael Intriere - two forces in the Los Angeles experimental art and sound performance practices. Encompassing music, spoken word, and installation, intermedia artist Anna Homler will be accompanied by Michael Intriere exploring non-traditional sonic capabilities on the violoncello.

About the Artist

ANNA HOMLER

During a career spanning over twenty-five years, Los Angeles-based Anna Homler has collaborated in America with composers/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James and Jorge Martin, and in Europe with the Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Sylvia Hallett.

Homler has performed at well-known venues throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, Dixon Place, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York; Supraclub in Prague; Klarinsky in Bratislava, Slovakia; Ketty Do in Bologna, Italy; the Stadgarten and the Loft in Koln, Germany; and the Melkweg and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

She has participated in numerous international festivals in Canada, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, and England.

MICHAEL INTRIERE

As one of the founding members of the now-defunct underground chamber group Fat & F…ed-Up, cellist Michael Intriere has been stalwart of the Los Angeles experimental music scene for over three decades. He has collaborated with many of L.A.’s foremost improvisers as well as participated in such unique musical configurations as the Salt Ensemble, the Miya Massoka Orchestra, the Emily Hay Collective and Zebra*Logic.

As an experimental video artist, Intriere's work has been shown both nationally and internationally including screenings at Lincoln Center in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and various venues in Japan.

den contemporary art is located in the Pacific Design Center Blue Building, 8687 Melrose Avenue, 2^nd Floor, West Hollywood, CA 90069. This event will take place in Space #B261. For information and visual material, please contact Donna Enad Napper at 323-422-6340, info@dencontemporaryart.com, or mailing address: PO Box 6602, Beverly Hills, California 90212.