18 Feb 2010 to 30 Apr 2010
Monday - Friday 11am till 5pm and by appointment
Exhibition reception: Thursday, March 25, 5-8pm
See Line Gallery at Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, Suite B274
West Hollywood
90069
Los Angeles, CA
California
North America
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See Line Gallery presents a solo exhibition E-1027 + Le Cabanon by Eamon O’Kane. The title for this exhibition is taken from the name of a famous house designed by Eileen Gray. Irish by birth, Eileen Gray spent the better part of her life in France, dying in 1976 at the age of 98 largely unrecognized for contribution she made to modern architecture. But in recent years new enthusiasm and interest has grown around Gray’s work, which included only two realized architectural projects but many studies, as well as furniture and rug designs.
O’Kane’s exhibition will examine Gray’s legacy to Architecture and Design and the connection to Le Corbusier through constructing a large installation comprising of wall paintings, screens, works on paper, models and sculptures. The Pacific Design Center is an ideal location for this exhibition in that it provides a context for a reevaluation of Grays influence on subsequent generations of architects and designers. The exhibition will have the feeling of an architect/designers studio where fact and fiction collide illustrating that history is contingent and how it can be distorted. O’Kane’s installation will involve wood and paper screens based on Gray’s and Le Corbusier’s designs as well as a large a wall drawings of "Le Cabanon” and ‘E-1027’.
