Chris Ballantyne
dal 15/6/2007 al 27/7/2007
Segnalato da
15/6/2007
Chris Ballantyne
Peres Projects Chinatown, Los Angeles
Existing Outside of Another. The artist will present a new body of work that includes painting, sculpture and drawing. In an era of over-stimulation of every sort, exposure to an essential, almost primal kind of visual stimulus is like an act of ritual, of cleaning.
Existing Outside of Another
Javier Peres is very pleased to present "Existing Outside of
Another," the second Los Angeles solo exhibition by Chris Ballantyne
The artist will present a new body of work that includes painting,
sculpture and drawing.
In an era of over-stimulation of every sort, exposure to an essential,
almost primal kind of visual stimulus is like an act of ritual, of
cleaning. Enter Ballantyne, psychologer of modern landscape, whose
paintings and drawings serve as descriptions of desolate and consuming
experience of lands known and unknown, their intoxicating dangers and
earthly delights. Within these imaginary realms, we find inverse
meanings, reversals and contradictions; fiction is reality, and the center
is found at the circumference. Margins are at the center.
The title "Existing Outside of Another" was not submitted with
explanation by the artist, but it may refer to the prevailing state of
Ballantyne's world: he recently moved permanently from California to New
York City. Given the subject matter of his paintings - primarily
suburban landscapes - the subtle shifts in tonality that exist in his new
works are now ominous. Because of the inversion of tones from light to
dark and dark to light, the images present entirely different moods, and
thus narrative associations.
Chris Ballantyne (b. 1972 Alabama) lives and works in New York and will be
present for the opening. His work was recently the subject of a
self-titled solo exhibition at the University Art Gallery of Chico State
University, California, and was selected to participate in the "2006
California Biennial" at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, California.
"Existing Outside of Another" will be on view at Peres Projects
(969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, California) through July 28, 2007.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M and by
appointment.
For further information or reproductions please contact Sarah Walzer or
Javier Peres at tel. (213) 617-1100 or info@peresprojects.com.
Opening Saturday, June 16, 6 - 9 pm
Peres Projects
969 Chung King Road - Los Angeles