SAMANTHA FIELDS - New Work on view at the C.O.L.A. 2013 Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery through July 7, 2013
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Western Project
2762 S LaCienega Blvd LA, CA 90034
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2013-05-20
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2013-05-16
Nicolas Shake: Significance Swells - Exhibition Installation at Western Project, on view through June 8, 2013
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Joe Lloyd exhibition at Western Project.
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We are proud to welcome Alec Egan to the gallery. Check out his page on our site for more images and information HERE
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We are proud to welcome Margaret Griffith to the gallery. Check out her page on our site for more work and information HERE
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2013-05-11
JOE LLOYD: New Paintings
Opens Tonight, May 11, 2013
6:00 - 8:00 PMSource: western-project.com
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NICOLAS SHAKE: Significance Swells
New Painting, Sculpture, PhotographyOpening Tonight, May 11, 2013
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2013-05-04
Western Project is proud to present, in the West Room, a new body of work by Joe Lloyd. Recently completing his MFA from Claremont Graduate School, the artist resides and works in Long Beach, California. His new paintings are observational records of his environment: geometric forms imposed on natural topography. Land, sky and water are pressed into mathematics. Using his computer to layer transparent abstract forms over succeeding layers, the works evolve both manually and digitally. Using one painting to create the next with his computer is a synthetic process yet more a drawing technique to multiply possibilities of combinations and forms. In lineage of historic painters such as Diebenkorn and Matisse, Lloyd’s practice looks at the natural world for clues of color and composition. As his predecessors, his work rests in geometric artifice, a cerebral vision of the tangible and ineffable.
Lloyd has shown at the Torrance Art Museum, California Srtate University Long Beach, and Den Contemporary in Los Angeles, California.
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2013-05-03
NICOLAS SHAKE
SIGNIFICANCE SWELLSWestern Project May 11 - June 8, 2013
Reception: Saturday, May 11, 6:00 - 8:00 PMWestern Project is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Los Angles artist, Nicolas Shake. Significance Swells is comprised of new sculptures, photographs and large-scale oil paintings. Returning to his home in the high desert of Palmdale in 2008, at the apex of the economic downturn, the artist found sections of his neighborhood abandoned and piles of domestic rubble in the surrounding landscape; an environment rife with debris and evidence of massive change. Out of the rubble emerged a lexicon of materials and possibilities. As a kind of transformative archeology, the artist began arranging the debris into sculptures and to photograph them at night, lit by rudimentary lighting equipment from Home Depot and the headlights of his truck. The outdoor still-life structures were ephemeral works existing for a few hours and only to be recorded; nocturnal apparitions in a landscape, reabsorbed the next day into the landscape, all sculptural qualities obliterated by the daylight.
Shake describes his work as, “pastoral and post-apocalyptic with one foot firmly planted in historical painting and the other in traditional still-life, so it is entropic and sanguine, gleeful, despondent, and matter of fact…my work celebrates the pastoral’s everyday ordinariness, the capacity for the viewer to experience something wondrous amidst decline. I focus on the cast-off household and utilitarian items that show up in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The items I engage with could easily be categorized as rhopography, but it is this insignificance that gives them the ability to be reassigned a new aesthetic value, transforming the rubbish into something unexpected by capturing and conveying its uncanny power and peculiar beauty.”
As objects imply narrative and carry a history, the artist has cast some elements found in the desert into sculptures elegant and haunting. The works are built into forms with plastic, wood, bamboo and cement. Shake has woven the cast parts with hand-dyed nylon twine as a kind of drawing element, and formal unifying material. A cast shopping-cart is transformed into something reminiscent of an ancient Chinese junk, or odd marble sarcophagus. An element of this piece is a woven purple nylon basketball net, giving the work an idiosyncratic urban/organic tension.
Influenced by Mark Doty in “The Art of Description”:
“…memory edits its records of the past like a brilliant auteur-cutting, juxtaposing, creating a peace determined by the direction and emotion of a story. What is memory but a story about how we have lived? …it takes dozens of pages to render the inner lives of a group people sitting around a dinner table; later…decades pass in a few pages. The kind of shifting feels accurate because it replicates something of our internal sense of time, where the irrelevant portions blur while significant moments swell.”
Shake’s oil paintings do not rely on imagery so much as the touch of paint and the act of painting. They are records of activity, a period and field of movement. He is not interested in illusion as his sensibility is more in the tradition of Gordon Matta Clark and Andy Goldsworthy. His works use the ordinary, the discarded, and used up to point at a beauty in temporality, and the immediacy of life.
The artist was recently included in The 10th Circle, curated by David Pagel at Vast Space Projects in Henderson, Nevada and has shown at Jaus Gallery, Temple/Ad Hoc Gallery, Mark Moore Gallery and Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, and Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, California. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Claremont Graduate School. He is currently an assistant of painting at Chapman University in Orange, California.
His newly completed book, The Rhythm Is Odd, is available at:
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2013-05-01
Samantha Fields: 2013 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient
COLA Exhibition: May 19 to July 7,2013
Opening Reception for the artists: Sunday, May 19, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park: 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 | 323.644.6269COLA 2013
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships
Visual Arts ExhibitionSunday, May 19, 2 to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception Hosted by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery AssociatesAwarded each year by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the C.O.L.A. Fellowships honor a spectrum of the City’s most exemplary mid-career artists and support the symbiotic relationship between LA, its artists, its history, and its identity as an international art capital. The 2013 C.O.L.A. award recipients in the visual arts are: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Krysten Cunningham, Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Samantha Fields, Judithe Hernández, Carole Kim, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Rebeca Méndez, and Rebecca Morris. For more information about the C.O.L.A. Exhibition and Performances, please visit culturela.org.
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