14 Mar 2009 to 18 Apr 2009
Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM
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Rebecca Bird "Everything that ever existed still exists" March 14 - April 18, 2009
curated by Fette
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist, Rebecca Bird. "Everything that ever existed still exists" will feature Ms. Bird's highly-detailed watercolor works on paper depicting explosions which have dominated the artist's practice for the past several years. Bird's paintings of explosions attempt to visually address emotional trauma and the inherent problems of empathy and visual communication. These explosions have become the vehicle for a body of work about how some subjects defy communication. Pivotal to this series is a loss of scale that accentuates the futility of conveying the enormity of a traumatic or violent event. Thoughtful pencil markings throughout the works allude to an underlying concern with systems of classification, cataloguing, and anxiety about the limits of understanding.
In addition to painting, Bird works in a variety of mediums including comics, album covers, film, animation, installation, and performs with the band, Ambergris. She tends to work in extended series', focusing on her chosen subjects for long periods of time. Previous bodies of work have included dead birds found in the city and Happy Meal toys. Regardless of the particular subject matter, Bird's visual language and overall thematic concerns continue to disseminate formality and static-ness, mental distancing techniques, and themes of empathy, communication, dissassociation, and recognition.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 14, 2009 from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. The artist will be in attendance. Kopeikin Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm. Our new exhibition space is located at 8810 Melrose Avenue, just west of Robertson Blvd.
Rebecca Bird
Since Rebecca Bird graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Luzern, Beijing, and Japan. While a student, she received the Ellen Battelle- Stoeckel Fellowship to the Yale Norfolk Summer School in painting, and immediately after graduation she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the traditional Nihonga painting technique in Japan.
For images or further information about the upcoming exhibition, please contact Kopeikin Gallery.
Concurrent to the Rebecca Bird exhibition, Beautiful / Decay : A-Z will continue to be on view at the gallery through April 18th, 2009. The exhibition has been extended to close on April 18th
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
