The mainstays of BLK/MRKT's stable will be well represented with all new works by Jeff Soto, Dave Kinsey, Ben Tour and Tiffany Bozic, along with celebrated artists such as David Ellis, Lucy McLauchlan and Amir H. Fallah.
Group show - Annual salon
The mainstays of BLK/MRKT's stable will be well represented with all new works by
Jeff Soto, Dave Kinsey, Ben Tour and Tiffany Bozic, along with celebrated artists
such as David Ellis, Lucy McLauchlan and Amir H. Fallah.
But this annual salon is
also a chance for the gallery to present a range of exciting new voices and emerging
talents from close to home and as far away as Canada, Belgium and France. San
Francisco's Weston Teruya, for example, creates whimsical, semi-abstract mixed media
collage drawings with topographical complexity, and Flavien Demarigny (Mambo) from
Paris offers a selection of his zany line drawings of figures with impossible
anatomies and explosive energies.
The gallery will also be introducing Gregory
Euclide, a mixed-media artist from Minneapolis, who will reappear in September for
his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Mark Dean Veca is traveling from New York
to create one of his ebullient site-specific painted environments in the gallery's
project room, and D.C. artist Mark Jenkins is planning one of his quirky outdoor
sculptural installations on the gallery's exterior.
The Southern California locals
are not to be outdone either, as a phalanx of Adam Kurtzman's candy-colored Kewpie
dolls will cross the gallery floor, Stephen Tompkins creates a full-length animated
video in his peculiar voice of hand-drawn bubble gum surrealism, and painter Marion
Lane uses everything but brushes to engineer abstract images the evoke both the
harmony of nature and the transfixing dystopia of modern life.
Image: Jeff Soto
BLK/MRKT Gallery
6009 Washington Blvd. - Culver City
Admission free