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11/6/2004

Two exhibitions

cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles

Adia Millett and Yvonne Venegas: Esposas y Muchachas

cherrydelosreyes is proud to present a solo exhibition of new miniature-scaled sculptures and photographs by Adia Millett.

For her most ambitious exhibition to date, Adia Millett has created eight miniature, one-inch-to-one-foot scale buildings modeled after Chicago brick housing units. Intricately crafted on the exterior with miniature bricks and tiny trim, Millett fills the interior lower floor and second floor of each building with objects indicating poetic corresponding narratives. In one of the buildings, the bottom floor is painted a deep rusty red and the dimly lit room is empty except for a staircase and half burned candles all over the floor. Upstairs, almost the entire room is tiled except for part of the walls with green paint peeling off of them. The only thing in that room is a large industrial sink and a roll of toilet paper. Accompanying the sculptures will be a series of seductive photographs of the interiors furthering notions of impending tension, class structure/struggle, solitude and desire.

For the artist, the sometimes playful, yet deceptive narratives derive from the limitations of access permitted to the viewer, and to herself as the maker. The viewer on one level is permitted to peer into the windows, yet is unable to touch objects that are traditionally intended for physical play. This, combined with the muddled object placements and absence of human figures, suggests not a parallel, but a consistency within divisions of class, which prevents groups from participating in the process of miniature building.

Adia Millett received her MFA from CalArts in 2000. She has been an artist in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem and the University of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the New Museum. She is represented by mixed greens in New York.
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Yvonne Venegas
Esposas y Muchachas

cherrydelosreyes is proud to present a solo exhibition of new photographs by Tijuana-based artist Yvonne Venegas.

As part of her ongoing series Las Novias Mas Hermosas de Baja California (The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California), Yvonne Venegas surreptitiously captures candid interactions between the upper-middle class women of Tijuana and the objects and people that surround them. Venegas, having been raised in Tijuana, is familiar with the restrictive demands of artificiality and social expectation placed on these women. Gaining privileged and often intimate access as a friend, relative or the daughter of a high-society wedding photographer, she has described this series as a ³glimpse of what my life could have been like if I had done what was expected of me.² Rather than follow in her father¹s footsteps or in those of her peers, Venegas turns her camera lense onto the socio-economic realities that surround her in a border town that has been described as having a social structure distinct from the United States and Mexico. Part documentary, part sociology, and part autobiography, Esposas y Muchachas presents vibrant photographs, which encapsulate moments between the wives (Esposas), their nannies (Muchachas) and children. These candid and sometimes posed images offer a view of Tijuana that is rarely discussed north of the border.

Yvonne Venegas attended the International Center of Photography in New York and is currently studying photography at UC San Diego. Her work has recently been seen in a solo exhibition at the downtown San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and in the traveling exhibition Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art.

These two exhibitions open June 12, 2004 and runs through July 11, 2004.

Opening reception is Saturday, June 12, 2004 7-9 PM.

cherrydelosreyes is a gallery committed to exhibiting innovative contemporary exhibitions focusing on new and established regional artists, and integrating international artists into the mix of Los Angeles. For further information and images contact Mary Leigh Cherry at 310.398.7404.

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12611 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90066

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