20 Jan 2009 to 7 Mar 2009
Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM
The Kopeikin Gallery
8810 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood
CA. 90069
Los Angeles, CA
California
North America
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Los Angeles, California Jan 13, 2009 The Kopeikin Gallery (formally Paul Kopeikin Gallery) is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs entitled "Industrial Landscape[ing]" by J. Bennett Fitts. This is Fitts' third exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will open on Tuesday, January 20th at the Gallery's new location: 8810 Melrose Avenue (at Robertson Blvd.) in West Hollywood's art and design district.
There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, January 31st, from six to nine o'clock. It is free and open to the public.
Fitts conceived of these works as a response to Lewis Baltz' striking 1970's series of photographs of Irvine warehouses. Fitts expands on the theme of the strangely manicured, isolated space; manufactured environments that seem to quantify the human experience of literal space and how it is utilized as an oddly dissociative landscape where all trace of human interaction is missing. Instead what we find in these images are representations of the natural world codified and contained within the corporate agenda. These buildings seem to have been designed for the "low impact visual experience," meaning their appearance is deliberately innocuous. The landscape also reflects this same sense of disconnection and manicured precision as lone trees punctuate the otherwise bland surroundings. Lone trees appear almost as afterthoughts, isolated representations of nature thrown in for good measure. J. Bennett Fitts has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and his work is included in many notable collections, as well as being widely reviewed. A catalogue with an essay by Los Angeles Times critic Holly Myers will accompany the exhibition.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM. For details call the new Gallery Number: 310- 385-5894. Or go to our website: kopeikingallery.com or if you're on Facebook please join the Kopeikin Gallery group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php? gid=34662330521
"Dust" is Bas Louter's second solo exhibition in Los Angeles. This exhibition is curated by Fette- a young French gallerist currently based in Los Angeles.
In this new series, Louter draws on archived historical imagery, elements of entertainment, and narrative traditions like film noir to create a haunting series of figures and objects veiled in obscurity of time or place. His portrayals lay bare a fascination with the idea of collective misremembering and the distortion of meaning that occurs over time, as inevitably memory is infected by movies, books and other media.
Bas Louter was recently included in a group exhibition at Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Autocenter in Berlin, and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited at Aqua Art Fair Miami, Project(OR) Rotterdam and Swab Art Fair Barcelona. Conjointly with this exhibition, Louter will also present large scale drawings at OKOK Gallery in Seattle
BEAUTIFUL/DECAY CURATES ANNIVERSARY ART SHOW "BEAUTIFUL/DECAY: A TO Z" February 21st - March 7th 2009 The exhibition has been extended to April 18, 2009
Opening: Saturday, February 21st 6-9pm
Feb. 4, 2009--(Los Angeles, CA). Beautiful/Decay magazine and the Kopeikin Gallery are excited to celebrate the release of Beautiful/Decay's 26th Issue Z with a retrospective art show, " Beautiful/Decay A to Z," opening February 21st. To commemorate reaching the culmination of the alphabet, Beautiful/Decay has selected 26 exemplary artists to create a unique visual work for the show, using the publication's name, Beautiful/Decay, as the basis of their conceptual framework. Each of the artists was selected from the magazine's 10-year history in art and design publishing. The exhibit acknowledges each of the artists' influential contributions to the arts, and highlights Beautiful/Decay's prominent role in serving as a platform for creative expression. The myriad results showcase an exploration into what the publication represents to the creative community.
Participating artists include: Aaron Noble, Ai Kijima, Ala Ebtekar, Alex Trochut, Aya Kato, Barnaby Whitfield, Charlie Roberts, David Shaw, Eric Yahnker, Erik Parker, Erika Somogyi, Gary Taxali, Jacob Magraw, Julia Randall, Mark Schoening, Michael Scoggins, Pearl C. Hsiung, Pepe Mar, Robbie Conal, Scott Anderson, Scott Treleaven, Simmons and Burke, Skwak, SunTek Chung, Stella Lai, and Wendell Gladstone.
About Beautiful/ Decay
Issue Z is a milestone achievement in the print life of Beautiful/Decay magazine. Beginning as a DIY, self-bound, black and white publication nearly 10 years ago, Beautiful/Decay has since grown into an internationally published, full color go-to creative sourcebook. Since its inception, Beautiful/Decay has been a leader within creative publishing, by foregrounding and supporting some of today's leading artists and designers
