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19/11/2003

The Art of Paint

Gallery C, Hermosa Beach

Explores innovative methods of manipulating a variety of mediums from paint to resin.

The show highlights creative painting and sculpture techniques of notable California artists
Andy Moses, Eric Johnson, Joshua Elias, Charles Hill, Ned Evans, Marion Lane, Jennifer Wolf, Monique van Genderen, Lavi Daniel, Ron Reihel, Kirtland Ash, Christine Cunningham, Bryan Ida, Stephanie Prinz, Michael Stevenson and Roger Weik.

Hermosa Beach, CA--Gallery C presents The Art of Paint, opening November 20, 2003 and continuing through January 18, 2004. The Art of Paint illustrates how basic components, such as resins, wax, vinyl and acrylic, can become extraordinary when innovative methods are used to manipulate these mediums. The fourteen contemporary, California painters and two sculptors in The Art of Paint will showcase new works in their signature styles, with unusual results. The artists included in this show are Kirtland Ash, Christine Cunningham, Lavi Daniel, Joshua Elias, Ned Evans, Charles Hill, Bryan Ida, Eric Johnson, Marion Lane, Andy Moses, Stephanie Prinz, Ron Reihel, Michael Stevenson, Monique van Genderen, Roger Weik and Jennifer Wolf.

In the late sixties and early seventies, painterly attitudes toward abstract art were evolving in the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles. A group of artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman and Robert Irwin, were key in the development of a movement called Light and Space which 'tried to refocus modernism's gaze on basic questions of form.' [1] Gallery C's show The Art of Paint attempts to refocus modernism on the medium of painting. With notable California artists, the exhibition illustrates the versatility of paint.

Working primarily on birch panels, Jennifer Wolf investigates color and form with her hand-ground mineral pigments. Wolf began creating large, figurative, ephemeral works prepared with hand-made pastels on cement and asphalt in 1992. This motivated further inquiries into traditional techniques of paint-making, eventually inspiring her recent quest to gather her own pigments from Paleolithic cave site regions in Southern France and the California coast. She has spent countless hours researching, collecting, and preparing her pigments. Accordingly, her medium descriptions read more like a geology class with such colors as hematite, goethite, indigo and conchineal.

Also participating in The Art of Paint is Marion Lane, who is known for her almost candy-like malleable painting technique. Her delectable three-dimensional paintings are based on the physical properties of acrylic paint itself. Sugared and polished to a high gloss, Lane chooses to emphasize the properties of paint that look like plastic. She utilizes the reflective and refractive qualities of acrylic paint to create her highly modern works. Flowers come to life in an almost Alice in Wonderland way, wherein everything is larger, juicier and more polished than life. Lane is drawn to the ability of acrylic paint to 'move the eye,' and views paint as liquid plastic rather than paint. Lane explained that she creates 'seemingly familiar, mass-produced objects' rather than surfaces. In the end, her work is part painting and part sculpture. Born in New Orleans, Marion Lane has the advantage of having an innate talent, unbiased by formal training and earning a pure math degree from UCLA. She has exhibited at numerous galleries in California.

Another artist who uses acrylic paint is Andy Moses. His ethereal, haunting images are inspired by holographic notions of the universe. 'I endeavor to make visible things that can only be thought of abstractly, or glimpsed fleetingly through altered states of consciousness, or spiritual awareness. Like artists of the High Renaissance who made the abstractions of Heaven and Hell into visible realities, my paintings lay within a tradition of painters creating images to make visible seemingly invisible realms.'

Born in Los Angeles, Moses attended the prestigious California Institute of the Arts and received the Premio Michetti award in Francavilla al Mare, Italy. He has exhibited at galleries extensively in California, New York and Italy. Moses has also shown works at several museums including: The Newport Harbor Art Museum; Renaissance Society Chicago; and The Fondaizionne Michetti, Rome, Italy. Moses is the son of famed California painter Ed Moses.

Eric Johnson's composite wood and lacquer sculptures seductively blend the natural with the synthetic. Johnson builds skeletal forms of bent wood and rattan, then pours layers of colored resin into and over these armatures. Finally, he sands the work to a smooth finish. Born in Burbank, California, Johnson studied at the California Institute for the Arts and at University of California at Irvine, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including The Laguna Art Museum, Barnsdall Art Park, The Riverside Art Museum, and University of California at San Diego.

Vinyl collagist Monique van Genderen attempts to implicate the real world in her works. Working as both a sign maker and artist, she is attracted to the peculiar light conditions and reflective qualities afforded by the vinyl film. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Van Genderen received her B.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego and her M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Atlantic Center for the Arts, residency in Florida, a Cal Arts Grant and a travel grant to Universitas Gadja Mada, Indonesia. Van Genderen has held teaching positions at Cal Arts, Art Center College of Design, UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design. She has exhibited at numerous galleries around the world.

One of the featured artists in The Art of Paint is Jennifer Wolf, whose work is central to the theme of the show given her current use of found minerals and shells as her pigments. In addition to her studio work, Wolf's background in I Madonnari, a sixteenth century Italian tradition of ephemeral street painting, will be showcased as part of the opening reception. These unique works on ground emphasize the experience of a work by focusing the viewer on the creative process rather than the finished product. Jennifer will start a painting on the sidewalk in front of Gallery C on Wednesday Nov. 19 and finish at the opening on Thursday Nov. 20th. Her image will remain on view for 1 week.

Gallery C, Hermosa Beach's newest cultural destination is located at 1225 Hermosa Avenue in Hermosa Beach, CA. Public hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays, and open by appointment. Public parking is available in the structure that is immediately to the north of the building.

For further information, the public may visit or contact Gallery C Executive Director Nancy Silverman-Miles at (310) 798-0102.

[1] Excerpt from The World's Biggest Canvas, Los Angeles Times Magazine, February 17, 2002.

Opening Reception: Thursday November 20, 7-10pm

Join us for our lecture series on Thursday nights at 7pm
December 4, 2003 - Jennifer Wolf, Joshua Elias and Charles Hill
December 11, 2003 - Eric Johnson and Andy Moses
December 18, 2003 - Kirtland Ash, Roger Weik, Ron Reihel
Free Admission. Seating is limited.

Hours, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 11am - 6pm; Thursday 11am to 8pm; Sunday 12pm ­ 5pm

Gallery C
1225 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Tel, 310-798-0102; Fax, 310-798-0039

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