8 Sept 2007 to 13 Oct 2007
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Tues.- Fri., 10am -5:30pm; Sat., 11am -5:30pm
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B3
CA90404
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica
California
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WOODS DAVY: Cantamar (sculpture) RICHARD EHRLICH: Vancouver Island (photographs) EXHIBITION DATES: September 8 - October 13, 2007 RECEPTION: Saturday, September 8, 4-6pm GALLERY HOURS: Tues – Fri: 10-5:30 and Sat 11-5:30
On September 8th, Craig Krull Gallery will open its fourth solo exhibition of the sculpture of Woods Davy. For the past twenty-five years, Davy has worked with natural elements, usually incorporating various types of stone in fluid balancing acts that reflect the artist’s “Western Zen” sensibility. Writer Shana Nys Dambrot wrote that Davy’s work is essentially a “kind of collaboration between artist and Nature,” one in which the artist “prefers to cooperate with the pre-existing uniqueness and objecthood of his materials.” The current body of work, entitled “Cantamar,” is created from stones collected on a beach in Mexico of the same name. The smooth, rounded, ovoid stones that the artist collects are naturally polished and shaped by years of rolling and tumbling from wave to shore. Davy then assembles these stones in graceful, wave-like arcs that seem to float in space. The assemblages are mounted on a rougher granite base with a heavy bark texture. As Holly Myers observed in a previous exhibition, there is “something thrilling about a work that appears to defy its own natural properties,” while at the same time one can appreciate the work’s “meditative reverence.”
In an adjoining space, the gallery will present its third solo exhibition of the photographic work of Richard Ehrlich. Like the Woods Davy exhibition, this body of work was created at a specific shoreline of the Pacific, in this case, at the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island. The area is known for its rugged coast and the raging storms that send foamy waves pounding over the rock formations. Ehrlich’s black and white images, printed in grainy, charcoal tones recall the texture of a Steichen photograph, while his imagery is in the spirit of 19th century Romantics and the sublimity of Nature’s power.
A reception for the artists will take place at the gallery on Saturday, September 8, from 4-6pm.
