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PATRICK PAINTER INC: FRANCESCA GABBIANI: THE PRESENT EAST GALLERY: THE SCULPTURE SHOW - 12 Sept 2009 to 24 Oct 2009 Current Exhibition |
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WEST GALLERY FRANCESCA GABBIANI THE PRESENT September 12 - October 24, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th, 6 - 8pm Patrick Painter Inc. is proud to present an exhibition of recent works by Francesca Gabbiani in our West Gallery at Bergamot Station. Featuring four new pieces of work as well as a selection of works from 2008, this solo exhibition demonstrates Gabbiani's continued development of her technique and the themes of ambiguity, ornamentation, the ominous and the fantastic. This exhibition features a series of mirror pieces that explore Gabbiani's interests in voids and portraits, depth and superficiality, mythology, and the dimensions of time. Gabbiani creates these deceptively simple works through her use of layered construction paper. She uses a computer to generate an image and essentially uses that image as a kind of grid onto which she places meticulously hand-cut pieces of colored paper. She then carefully builds up the layers of paper to create a balance of color and texture, depth and perspective. These explorations can be seen clearly in the piece, NYX's, 2009. Here, Gabbiani constructs a montage of natural elements in psychedelic blues and oranges in this ornate mirror. Moths, snails, and other creepy crawly insects adorn the labyrinthine border. A dark blue oval occupies the center of the piece, creating a disturbing atmosphere in its empty void. When viewed up close, the viewer will see his or her own reflection in the glass of the frame inside of the blue oval, completing the mirror and drawing the viewer into the work. Dedicated to Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, Gabbiani constructs an alluring atmosphere of beauty and danger. The delicate wings of the moths, juxtaposed with the sharp snapping jaws of the crocodile, create a perfect balance between the beautiful, decorative elements and the dangerous undertones. There are various mushrooms situated around the border, all depicted in an intense electric blue. These mushrooms tower over the other creatures and plants, dominating the border. They contribute a mystical element to the piece, referencing both their poisonous attributes as well as their psychedelic implications. Born in Montreal and raised in Switzerland, Gabbiani studied at the �cole Sup�rieure des Beaux Arts in Geneva and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She went on to receive her MFA from UCLA in 1997, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Since then, her work has been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Armand Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Her work is included in such public collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. EAST GALLERY THOMAS HELBIG, GEORG HEROLD, MELLI INK, WON JU LIM, MICHELLE SEGRE and JIM SHAW THE SCULPTURE SHOW September 12 - October 24, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th, 6 - 8pm Patrick Painter Inc. is pleased to announce our group sculpture show featuring artists Thomas Helbig, Georg Herold, Melli Ink, Won Ju Lim, Michelle Segre and Jim Shaw. Thomas Helbig is a German based artist whose sculptures are both sinister and humorous, suggesting apocalyptic narratives that are simultaneously glamorous and abject. At first glance, Helbig's sculptures appear to be futuristic ruins -- bizarre and broken finds hinting at some remote civilization, glorifying its defunct authority. Although they are reminiscent of artifacts, they are made from contemporary objects and knickknacks found in dustbins and flea markets. Through this process of abstraction, Helbig poses formal solutions as literary escapism, drawing a timeless mythology from the everyday. His most recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Rüdiger Sch�ttle, Munich, Germany Rom, Galerie Guido W. Buadach, Berlin, Germany Otherlife, Stuart Shave, Modern Art, London. Like many established German artists, Georg Herold grew up in East Germany and made his reputation in West Germany. With minimal means, the pieces speak eloquently about the perceived inaccessibility of cultural greatness under postmodernism. Herold's satirical cynicism is aimed both at the inflated mysticism of some contemporary (German) art and also at the self-satisfied Spiessburger (petits bourgeois) of postwar West German society. Herold studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Art in Hamburg. His most recent solo exhibitions include Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent. Melli Ink is a Switzerland based artist who explores nature in her work by transforming organic objects into striking glass sculptures. An artist with a background in stage and set-design, she constructs fine-art installations built around large-scale, exquisite glassworks. Ink shows great range in her sculptures, some bearing a resemblance to the famed Blaschka glass models, others evoking Edward Gorey's gothic fantasies, and still others bringing to mind classic anatomical models rendered in stark, glistening crystal. Ink studied theatre design at Central St. Martins College of Art in London. Since then, her work has been exhibited in Austria and throughout Germany. Won Ju Lim creates multimedia sculpture-based installations using a series of assembled panes of plexiglass and projections of bold colors and scenery. Her manipulation of physical space, as well as her pieces' interactions with natural time and the viewer's memory, create an engaging and surreal atmosphere. She was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship. She earned her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Since then, her work has been exhibited at such institutions as the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and The Claremont Museum of Art. Both sculptor and draftsperson, Michelle Segre is known for large-scale organic sculptures and crowded linear drawings. She approaches each medium with microscopic attention; her works are highly detailed and finely realized studies of entropic growth and disintegration. The influence of artists such as Jasper Johns, Phillip Guston and Charles Garabedian lie behind Segre's whimsical works. Segre was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She received her BFA in 1987 from Cooper Union School of Art, and currently lives and works in New York City. Michele was the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award in 2001. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Jim Shaw is well known for his thematic explorations of the darkest corners of the American consciousness. Shaw's work constitutes a form of documentation and observations from the mind's unsettling underground. Just as dreams can be seen as a wrestling match between the conscious and subconscious, Shaw's work seems to thrive on a tugging between his compulsion to confess and his compel to hold back. Shaw, born in Midland, Michigan, lives and works in Los Angeles. Attending CalArts in the 1970s, his works have since been exhibited at such institutions as the UCLA Hammer Museum, and will be exhibited at CAPC, Mus�e d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux on 2010. |
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