Two exhibitions
dal 12/5/2006 al 16/6/2006
Segnalato da
12/5/2006
Two exhibitions
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
In the main space is El Dorado, a group exhibition featuring four young painters from New York and Los Angeles: Holly Coulis, Alison Fox, Angelina Gualdoni and Portia Hein. In the rear gallery is a new project by Amanda Ross-Ho.
El Dorado and Amanda Ross-Ho
Cherry and Martin presents two exhibitions. In the main space is El Dorado,
a group exhibition featuring four important young painters from New York and
Los Angeles: Holly Coulis, Alison Fox, Angelina Gualdoni and Portia Hein. In
the rear gallery, in her first exhibition at Cherry and Martin, is a
highly-anticipated new project by Amanda Ross-Ho.
The title of the main gallery exhibition, El Dorado, suggests that
art-making is a journey, if not a quest, to the limits of the imaginable.
The history of painting, in particular, has been defined by the idea of
painting as an artistic epic and that painterly practice is an arena in
which individuals prove themselves and leave their mark. Holly Coulis¹
canvases evoke painting as a dream world, the characters of which are actors
in a continually evolving drama. Alison Fox explores the painting¹s
fractured perspectives and modes of representation using a multitude of
painterly styles. Angelina Gualdoni depicts abandoned shopping malls and
other failed structures, recalling the utopic and distopic history of
painting and modern society. Portia Hein¹s abstracted lotuses, tree branches
and sunflowers explore not only the thing represented, but also the artist¹s
trace.
Amanda Ross-Ho is also interested in individual experience, interpreting it
through the lens of contemporary culture¹s mass-consumer, product-driven
flow. Her exhibition in the rear gallery locates sites of artistic action
and personal significance, proposing relationships between a range disparate
objects and experiences. Though Ross-Ho often couches her practice in
relation to painting (whose language for action and individual experience is
so well articulated), her work encompasses not just painting, but also
photography, drawing, sculpture and installation.
Holly Coulis¹ first exhibition at Cherry and Martin closed in February of
2006. She will be included in the upcoming show, Ben Butler, Holly Coulis
and Ridley Howard at Galleria Glance in Turin, Italy. Alison Fox was
recently featured in a solo exhibition at Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles,
and Turn the Beat Around at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York. Angelina
Gualdoni¹s work appeared in The Painter of Modern Life at Museum De
Paviljoens in Almere, Netherlands. She will have a solo show at the St.
Louis Art Museum in 2007. Portia Hein is included in the exhibition (Keep
Feeling) Fascination at the Luckman Gallery of California State University,
Los Angeles, and will be in a group exhibition at Dominique Fiat in Paris,
France, in the spring of 2006.
Amanda Ross-Ho received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute,
Chicago, IL, and her MFA from the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured in Hella Chihuahuas as a part of
Platform China, Beijing, China; Drunk vs. Stoned at Gavin Brown¹s
Enterprise, New York, NY; Uncovered at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL; and The Earth is Rotating with This Room As Its Axis at the
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
Opening reception is Saturday, May 13, 2006 from 6-9pm
Reception co-sponsored by Campari, music by Sonny Von Bulow
Cherry and Martin
12611 Venice Boulevard - Los Angeles
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