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6/1/2006

Group show

Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles

Morgan Craig, Kathleen Buckley, Jay Brockman

Lawrence Asher Gallery is proud to present three expert visions of contemporary urban space. Morgan Craig paints from the evocative, unique perspective of an America left behind. His images of the stone, steel, silence and screams that built modern America conjure up questions and memories with brilliant detail and haunting hues of yesterday. Kathleen Buckley navigates through the vast network of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Once fed by the stimulating imagery, she now contorts, colors and creates masterful renderings of her city with potent effect. Jay Brockman, following a sold-out spring/summer season, returns with brilliant new canvasses capturing the essence and pace of the City of Angels like no other. His fine paintings treat the senses to many precious subtleties while clearly defining our urban landscape through precise lines and crowning gradations of color..

The Artists

Morgan Craig has taken upon himself the demanding task of teaching the subject of art to the students at Roberto Clemente Middle School, a Title 1 school, in North Philadelphia. He received his BFA with teacher’s certification from Tyler School of Art, and his MFA from University of the Arts. When not hauling his large canvasses throughout the eastern United States for collectors and curators, Morgan rests his head in Philadelphia often dreaming, thinking…

".....There was a place, where the placid snowfall was, for countless years, interrupted by a beautiful cacophony. To hear the moan of the freight train as the boxcars bang together, whilst wheels connect with track like the gnashing of teeth, steam bursts from every orifice, and the roar of the conflagration within each blast furnace was all he wanted. She would laugh. Absence was all that remained.

He felt her whisper against the back of his neck as the wind whipped across the roof. Each beam would sway and shudder as if made of wicker, and he would turn to find nothing, nothing but remnants of the past. Wire, metal and plastic would coalesce beneath the dust of decades of disuse.

The warm sunlight breached two pieces of corrugated steel like a mischievous child, and flickered across his countenance, causing him to squint. The colors that traversed the mottled walls would always entice him to journey further into each monolithic structure, in search of some answer to this void within. How her laughter would resonate. Memories drifted from the teeth of each gear, coagulated on each piece of steel, and dropped from the skeletal remains of the mezzanine into shallow pools of water stretched like pieces of ribbon across the night sky. She was in the room.

Like a princess in Tsarist Russia, she stood before him in a magnificent gown, hand raised as if he was obliged to ask her to dance. He was soot covered. Gently, he placed her pale hand in his, and raised it to his cheek. He realized there were tears in her eyes.

And she spoke: “You have always chased time, never understanding, that time will always find you."
The moment is the feast, but the memory is the wine. ..."

Kathleen Buckley 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 horizontal landscape of the 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.

Kathleen Buckley's "Shoots And Ladders"
“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 and creating various works in New York before settling in Los Angeles.

Image: Morgan Craig, In Reticence, a Thousand Voices, 2005

Opening: January 7th, 2006 from 6pm - 10pm

Lawrence Asher Gallery
5820 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100 - Los Angeles, CA

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