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15/7/2005

City-scapes

Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles

Group Show: 13 Contemporary California Artists

Curated by James Panozzo

Lawrence Asher Gallery presents City-scapes Group Show, July 16th to August 27th, 2005. This intriguing collection of fourteen California artists displays distinctive echoes of contemporary urban landscape, delivering unique perspectives and striking structures with dandy detail. Styles from photo-realism through abstract interpretation explore the theme. This summer survey by accomplished veterans and emerging darlings provides a refreshing journey through the urban spectrum on canvas and panel.

Participating artists:

Fumiko Amano. Born in Tokyo, she began her formal arts training in Wisconsin completing a B.A. in Art & Design - Painting/Printmaking then traveling throughout South and North America before settling in Los Angeles. Here, Fumiko continued her artistic journey creating fashion and unique installations. She continues to work on several series of exquisite paintings inspired by architecture, design, music and all her life’s experiences. As the “Culture Vulture” of Los Angeles and a beacon of the downtown scene, Fumiko nurtures her own creativity by providing opportunity and creating awareness of all things culturally significant.

Carl Auge. Carl began arts training at the University of Memphis and later completed BFA and MFA degrees at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. This is Carl’s first exhibition in Los Angeles. He is also an award-winning writer and founding member of the alternative-rock band, Dimlaia. He is based in San Francisco.

Douglas C. Bloom. Douglas was born in Houston, Texas, received his BFA from the University of Houston and later his MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Douglas is a faculty member of several area colleges and recent father. His work attempts to show the intersection between abstract and representational images. He is featured in Lawrence Asher Gallery’s September 10th three-artist exhibition.

Jay Brockman. – “Jay Brockman’s work lies within the great tradition of landscape painting. He does, however, give it a decidedly 21st century twist with its contemporary urban LA landscape viewed from a car, which is how one views landscapes in LA. Jay’s work captures a particular feel of LA the way Hockney or Ruscha does.” - Andy Moses, Artist, October 2003. Jay is originally from Florida where he studied fine art at the Ringling School of Art and Design. Following graduation in 1996, he spent numerous years painting in New York before settling in Los Angeles.

Kathleen Buckley. - Kathleen redesigns structures and spaces with her own set of rules enabling her to understand the environment while strengthening her relationship to it. “Navigating the vast landscape of Los Angeles, I feel compelled by, yet detached from, the inanimate structures and urban decay that surround me. I offer my own outlook on these surroundings, one reflecting complexly ambivalent relationships between the territory and my individual map and another between the constructs of abstract and representational imagery." With an emphasis on color and line, her work synthesizes both the natural and the man-made. She earned her BFA in Detroit from The Center for Creative Studies and presently lives in L.A.et detached from, the inanimate structures and urban decay that surround me. I offer my own outlook on these surroundings, one
Patrick Dailey. – Patrick is a Los Angeles based painter and craftsman. He is a resident of the Brewery Arts Complex community, downtown Los Angeles.

Jake Longstreth. – Jake originally received his BFA degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. This year, Jake completed his MFA degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He was recently published in New American Paintings, MFA Annual (Open Studio Press, Cambridge, MA.) This is Jake’s first exhibition in Los Angeles.

Leora Lutz. - Leora hopes to create a new dialogue with audiences on two levels with her work – one with the image and one with the method. These paintings are a token of her love for Los Angeles and specifically as night falls upon the city. Her two-color combinations are inspired by fashion and Southern California culture. Leora is owner/director of Revisited/Bamboo Lane Gallery in Chinatown of Los Angeles.
Jason Macaya. – Jason spent much of his youth surrounded by abundant natural beauty. Born in California and raised on the West Coast (from Santiago de Chile to Portland, Oregon), he earned a BA in Theatre Arts at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He currently lives in the expansive, enigmatic city of Los Angeles where canyons of concrete multiply endlessly and seas of people teem in wary symbiosis. Ever observant of his surroundings, Jason utilizes the colors, lines, and light of his past and present environments to create stained glass-like tableaus evoking the ubiquitous conflict of Man vs. Nature. Jason will exhibit a new series of work with two other artists opening September 10th at Lawrence Asher Gallery.

Maureen Maki. - Maureen often used drawing and painting as an escape from the daily grind of helping raise her five younger siblings in central Michigan. She attended art school at the University of Michigan and continued working and creating as a musician, painter, promoter and gallery owner in Detroit until she moved to Los Angeles in 2000. Ms. Maki's layered paintings are a testament to her studies in printmaking and love of color, texture, paper, process and experimentation. Her canvasses display rich terrains that are constantly evolving. She has received a grant for public art by the City of Los Angeles, the Ox-Bow Staff Fellowship from the Art Institute of Chicago as well as commissions from numerous public and corporate institutions.

James McDermott. - James studied animation at Animaction Studios in Santa Monica. Following his graduation in 1997, James was hired to work on Fox's Emmy Award winning television show "King of the Hill" as a layout artist and later became the head character designer to earn an Honorable Mention from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. James worked on several freelance projects for snowboard companies, comics, toy companies, and other TV/Film productions while developing his own style of work. James draws inspiration from his own emotional responses to the powers that be." My imagination sparks from the collective ideas of chaos and peace, and the need for that co-existence to balance itself."

Ana Osgood. – “At the core of my experiences are individualism and an autonomous approach to learning and art making punctuated by seeking out environments that are both challenging and rewarding for the visual artist. Whether it be the continued evolution of the language of my work, my underlying philosophies concerning art, or the place that inspires me, I feel painting provides an engaging way of exploring my interest in landscape, place, and environment.” Ana was a student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before completing her BFA from the Vermont College of the Union Institute in 2004. She lives in Los Angeles.

Francis Poland. - Francis Poland arrived in Los Angeles three years ago after having studied graphic design in Warsaw, Poland. In the United States, a country so culturally different from her own, she found immediate inspiration in her new surroundings. Her paintings combine aspects of popular culture with those of simple everyday life. Through the use of bold color and striking compositions, her paintings aim to capture the exceptional in the mundane.

Michael Rosenfeld. Michael has been painting from an early age influenced by Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali. He received his B.S. in Studio Art with honors from Wesleyan University and later his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. It was in these formative years that Michael decided to paint important subjects using different forms of imagery while often bending the boundaries of realism. Moving to New York in 1986, Michael developed what he now terms “pop surrealism” that found himself integrating into the east village art community while gaining admirers in the city’s hip-hop and graffiti scenes. Los Angeles has been his home since 1991 where his work subtly approaches more social and political themes with his usual panache.

James Scanlon. - Currently based in Los Angeles, having lived and worked in San Francisco, New York and Milan Italy. His new work breaks old traditions as it explores new frontiers. The most recent paintings incorporate a sky and cloud background with thought provoking images. All of his paintings embrace a love of painting and a high degree of technical excellence. Having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the New York Studio School, he has shown and sold work around the world for the last 30 years.

Opening reception: Saturday, July 16, 7 – 11 pm

Image: Jay Brockman, “Vine Avenue #2”, 2004, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48"

Lawrence Asher Gallery
5820 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Gallery hours, Tuesday – Friday 11am – 6pm

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