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7/1/2005

Carolyn Castano

Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles

Kontainer Gallery is pleased to announce new work by Carolyn Castano. Castano's work can best be described as ''elegantly emphatic,'' variant lines and forms insisting upon themselves effortlessly, creating a series of images sprung simultaneously from the worlds of fashion and craft.

Utilizing a variety of media including fake gem stones, glitter and feathers, Castano's paintings stand as tableaus to decadence, to wispy exoticism, and the strange, evacuated landscape of human desire. Often women's faces are seen in profile, in illuminated dresses of beads and a grand stand array of feathers, leaving the viewer to wonder if ''Castano's women'' are gazing inward at themselves, or trying to escape what they know to be true about the choices they've made, and the ways they choose to live.

Favorite images include bulls, matadors, peacocks, butterflies, a woman's gold shoe, and an array of flowers breaking into bloom. Castano's images conflate seduction with manufactured beauty. The women who populate these painting-scapes seem consistently poised on the verge of personal revelation, and yet they must wait forever in their self contained fervor, their glittering utopia.

Carolyn Castano's work was featured in ''International Paper'' at Hammer Museum, LA, ''Dead Hotel'' at Kontainer and ''Semiprecious'' organized by New York Public Art Fund. In February 2005, she will show in ''Step into Liquid'' Contemporary Watercolor Painting in Los Angeles, Pasadena Museum of California Art curated by Leslie Jones.

Carolyn Castano is represented by Kontainer Gallery.

Opening Reception: Saturday,January 8,2005, 6-8PM

Kontainer Gallery
6130 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048
Gallery Hours: 12 – 6pm,Tue-Sat

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