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1/4/2011

Daniel Brice - Skylar Fein

Western Project, Los Angeles

DANIEL BRICE / Paintings

Western Project is proud to present an exhibition by Los Angeles artist, Daniel Brice. In his first Los Angeles solo exhibition since 2008, Brice will present a new body of work unlike anything he has previously shown. Echoing aspects of Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn, Brice returns with a rough hewn geometry and vivid color in his paintings. Drawn from the landscape and beaches of Oxnard where the artist spends time, the works are imbued with a quality of light found only in Southern California. And similar to the 1970's works of Brice Marden from Hydra, Brice's paintings reek of foliage and air of the coastal landscape. His thickly worked surfaces of oil paint reveal layers and layers of time; refined and distilled day after day, into a specific quality of experience.

The artist paints on burlap stretched over wood panels; each painting comprised of multi-panels. His compositions are a minimal rectilinear language, divided into planes of color implying vast spatial expanses. Brice's use of color is akin to the legacy of Matisse; an emotive tool, here evidencing a 'Western' feeling or sensibility. His abstract fields intuit a rich acrid taste of dust or the scent of oaks, all drenched in the specific aqueous light of California.

Brice has shown in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Atlanta, among other locations. He has three times been an artist in residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico and is in numerous private and public collections.

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Skylar Fein: Black Flag For Herbert Marcuse
SKYLAR FEIN: Black Flag

Western Project is proud to present the first West coast exhibition by Skylar Fein.

Titled: Skylar Fein: Black Flag, his work is staunchly political and roots itself in revolutionary histories, and the notion of revolution. This particular grouping is based in the German Revolution of 1919, using quotes from German activist leader Rosa Luxemburg and Russian pioneer film documentarian and theorist, Dziga Vertov. Drawing parallels in purpose, Fein channels possible connections between revolutionary ideals and action, and artistic ideals and practice. In The Last Words of Rosa Luxemgurg, the quote: "I was, I am, I shall be!" is emblemized and lit up as a victorious monument. Fein's Vertov Telegram recreates a purported message sent from Vertov to fellow radical Luxemborg in support of her work on the liberal front; a call to consciousness and action for the over throw of the status quo. Fein plays history and myth together to mount an assault on passive cultural thinking, much in line with the punk movement of the 1970's and early 1980's. The American flag construction, Black Flag for Herbert Marcuse uses the last words from the Jewish German philosopher Herbert Marcuse's 1964 book, One Dimensional Man, both works denouncing consumerism as a form of social control.

Fein's work is dark, predominantly black in color, made of wood and low tech materials, mirroring his DIY ideals. Yet humor is an important tool also; in a table top tableau of books called, Issues, the titles, Mom Issues, Drug Issues, God Complex, Oversharing, Undertow, etc bring the conceptual back to home base. His targets are the subjective personal to the social public - his work a provocative tonic to the decline of critical thinking, action and freedom in the West.

Sklar Fein lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work is currently the subject of an exhibition: Installation of Skylar Fein Mixed Media Portrait with Related Works on View, at the Brooklyn Museum, March 23 - August 2011, and The World According to New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron at Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, also through August 2011. Fein was included in Prospect 1 New Orleans (curated by Dan Cameron) in 2008, also a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of art in 2009. Fein's work is in the collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Louisiana State Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and notable private collections in the United States.

He is represented by the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.

Image: Daniel Brice

Opening Reception: Saturday April 2, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

Western Project
2762 S. La Cienega Blvd - Los Angeles USA
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm / Saturday - 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
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