2 June 2012 to 14 July 2012
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Artist�s Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 6-9 p.m.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2635 S. La Cienega Blvd.
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Los Angeles, CA
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MICHAEL KINDRED KNIGHT �Wayward� JUNE 2 � JULY 14, 2012
JUNE 2 – JULY 14, 2012 Artist’s Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 6-9 p.m.
LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES is pleased to announce “Wayward”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by MICHAEL KINDRED KNIGHT in Gallery One. The exhibition opens June 2 through July 14, 2012. An artist’s reception will be held on Saturday, June 2nd, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Michael Kindred Knight’s small, intimate paintings represent complex pictorial situations Built upon a dissection and repurposing of modernist abstract strategies and motifs, and neither strictly landscape based nor pure abstraction—with allusions to Schutz, Hodgkins, Diebenkorn, and Scully, his paintings inhabit an in-between space that is as much about a formal appreciation and relationship to other paintings as it is about undermining the logic of any specific style. Knight uses color to establish a range of artificial constructs where a sense of place, time, light, atmosphere, gravity, and organic and architectonic structures are equally engaged. Luminous and beautiful, there is a similarity to these works, like receding windows that continuously open onto a distant horizon but never in full view—or, a painting that frustratingly eludes meaning. Composed of adjacent and overlapping layers of brushstrokes, the mark making is direct and accessible. Each painting looks like a complete, unified whole where shapes appear to be spatially connected. They also seem to drift apart, free of one another’s influence. Forceful yet lacking volume, their dimensionality is implied and interrupted—in turn revealing and concealing, establishing a fleeting sense of harmony. All of these elements conspire to create a seemingly legible space that is, for all of its technical and compositional nuance, unsettled and contradictory, yet strangely familiar. This artifice functions as an entry point into a story where the ritualization and predictability of temporal experience is shuffled, a place that is informed by our experience of the present and framed by a sense of oversaturation.
Michael Kindred Knight lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University and a B.A. in Studio Art from Western University. His work has been exhibited in several west coast venues, including Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA; Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA; Arena 1 Gallery and Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; CGU, Claremont, CA; and Shift, Seattle, WA.
Michael is the recipient of the Claremont Graduate University's President's Art Award, the Karl and Beverly Benjamin Fellowship in Art, and the Walker/Parker Memorial Fellowship.
CHRIS LIPOMI & JASON SHERRY
JUNE 2 – JULY 14, 2012 Artists’ Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 6-9 p.m.
LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works on paper by CHRIS LIPOMI and new collages by JASON SHERRY in Gallery Two. The exhibition will open June 2 through July 14, 2012. An artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, June 2nd, from 6 to 9 p.m.
CHRIS LIPOMI’s new works on paper continue his exploration of art’s double role as an agent of aesthetic and cultural valuation, and as a site for social interaction and integration. In 16 unique small-scale “drawings” created over the past two years, Lipomi combines photography—and, specifically found images from magazines and the internet—with images of railroad tie sculptures that he has created, alternately scanning and printing them onto other existing images or hotel stationery. He also adds his own drawing and painting—very often of these same railroad tie sculptures. The solid quasi-figurative / geometric pictograms of these sculptures maintain a sense of the familiar yet reflect a void. Their blackened out shapes are both placed on top of the imagery and are also simultaneously removed from it. By contextualizing his own “ready-made” sculptures, adding or subtracting their presence within his own works, Lipomi historicizes himself—with humor and irreverence—into a tradition of evolutionary criticism. Critic Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer has remarked that Lipomi’s reference-rich practice “continually reinforces a belief that history has always already happened—or, put in other terms, that any proposed beginning is also a middle or end contextualized according to another vantage.”
Chris Lipomi was born in 1975 in Miami, Florida and lives in Los Angeles. He was educated at UCLA, Valand Kunstskolan, Goteborg, Sweden, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Lipomi’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland; and Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Regen Projects, Los Angeles; The Seattle Art Museum, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany; and Domaine de Chamarande Centre d’Art, France.
JASON SHERRY’s collages and assemblages are carefully constructed from the precious detritus foraged from flea markets and second-hand stores. Sherry’s work occupies an intangible dimension determined by pattern and repetition. He plots out photographic fragments in an absurd cartography of symbolic and personal meaning. The accumulation of objects and images repeat exponentially as if they are imploding into a humorous singularity—a reference to celestial mechanics—and shed light on the absurd, irrational, and unpredictable side of human nature. The characters that inhabit these works range from politicians and historical figures to Hollywood celebrities and Sears catalog models. They are treated with equal parts nostalgia and detachment as they are incised from their original context and reconfigured into richly layered works that deftly skewer history and contemporary society. Some images act as proxies for the artist, which occupy the symbolic depiction of the world that he seeks to understand and subvert. This is Jason Sherry’s third exhibition with Luis De Jesus.
Jason Sherry was born in 1972 in San Diego and earned his BFA at San Diego State University. Recent exhibitions include Here Not There: San Diego Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Low Brow: Nine San Diego Pop-Surrealists at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; Time Space Trials and the Packrat Dirge (2009) and Metahistoriogrammetry Rah! Rah! (2007), both at Luis De Jesus. Other venues include Sushi Performance and Visual Art Space, San Diego, CA; Tag Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ; Broadway Gallery, New York, NY; and Aqua Miami, among others.
For further information, including hi-res images, please call 310-838-6000, or email: [email protected]. The Gallery is located at 2685 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm, and by appointment.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles 2685 S. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90034 T: 1 310-838-6000
