Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14, 2017 (7-10 pm), part of NELA Art Second Saturday Gallery Night
Performance by Matthew Clough-Hunter at 8:30 pm
On view by appointment to mid-November. The gallery will be open for the Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour on Sun. Nov. 19 (10am-5pm).
“Intersections” is a group of local artists—from diverse backgrounds and creative approaches—who address intersections of communicative techniques, genres, and cultural heritages with ingenuity, whimsy, and transgression.
rtists of the post-modern period have held dialogue—often from a critical and alternate position—with the media models then and still largely at work in metropolitan centers like Los Angeles and elsewhere. They confront and redeploy the text and image programs generated in mainstream film, TV, music, ad-copy, and other media-producing industries. In turn, they have presented their own corpus of work in what has become an alternate and necessary artistic language.
“Intersections” is a group exhibit of artists whose works draw influence from previous media-concerned art and artists, but also reflects the changes the cultural landscape has undergone in recent years. Regions, cities, and their populaces are to navigate more and more the varieties of cultural experiences, the growth of media technologies and expression, and the re-ordering of physical boundaries and topographies. As such, how do these changes affect our notions, mythologies, and expectations of present cultural landscapes and their images? How may the media and image-producing tools of commercial production—confronted almost unavoidably in a media-saturated environment—be re-imagined to present a more inclusive and contemplative panorama of the spaces in which we live? In addition, what surprising examples of ingenuity may arise from the cross-influence of experiences and techniques now abundantly accessible?
The present group of artists—from diverse backgrounds and creative approaches—addresses intersections of communicative techniques, genres, and cultural heritages with ingenuity, whimsy, and transgression.
Participating artists include Molly Allis (mixed-media, installation), Hamo Bahnam (painting, printmaking), Matthew Clough-Hunter (music, performance, video), Marcia Dixon (painting, printmaking), John B. Kramer (sculpture), Eugene Moon (music, performance, painting), Roy Jean Park (printmaking, sculpture), and Douglas Wilmar (sculpture, installation).
Join us for an evening of art, music, and an outré dining experience on October 14th, 2017, 7-10pm.
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