Christiane Lyons
dal 15/3/2013 al 26/4/2013
Segnalato da
15/3/2013
Christiane Lyons
Anna Meliksetian and MJBriggs Gallery, Los Angeles
What Goes Around Comes Around. A series of new paintings inspired by the Rorschach inkblot, an image of bilateral symmetry. Some paintings represent this pattern more traditionally while others expand on it.
Anna Meliksetian and MJBriggs are pleased to present a solo exhibition by Christiane Lyons: What Goes Around Comes Around.
The exhibition consists of a series of new paintings inspired by the Rorschach inkblot, an image of bilateral symmetry. Some paintings represent this pattern more traditionally while others expand on it, still retaining core traits of a symmetrical image.
The bilateral split offers an opportunity to combine normally unrelated source images by most obviously common colors and shapes. These commonalities lead to more abstract notions of symmetry especially in relation to a historical context.
Most paintings combine two images from art history, while some broaden to include film, advertising and photography. For instance, in the painting Breathless Young Woman, Lyons references two images, a still from Jean-Luc Goddard’s French New Wave 1960 film classic Breathless, mirrored by a Rubens drawing. In a hope to examine the concept of a symmetrical image in relation to the repetitive and circular notion of time, Lyons has juxtaposed two images to create a new singular image, thus not only retaining the original integrity and meanings of the two but also creating a new image with new meanings as a whole.
Christiane Lyons received her MFA in Painting/Drawing in 2004 from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her BA from University of California, Berkeley. This is her second solo show with the gallery, after her first solo show in 2011 at the Anna Meliksetian Gallery titled Dead, Headless and Female: The Matador Paintings. Lyons lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.
For more information, contact:
Anna Meliksetian: info@meliksetian.com
Michael Briggs: info@mjbriggs.com
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 16th from 5-8 pm
Anna Meliksetian and MJBriggs Gallery
313 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Free Admission