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21/1/2004

New California Realism

Gallery C, Hermosa Beach

'New California Realism' features work by notable California artists: Christopher Chinn, Kevin Llewellyn, Cindy Craig, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Pamela Green, Kathleen Keifer, Timothy Oxley and Astrid Preston.

Gallery C in Hermosa Beach will present its fourth show, 'New California Realism,' from January 22, 2004 through March 21, 2004. This thoughtful exhibition includes landscapes, portraiture and photo-realist paintings from leading California artists, and delicately ponders the question, 'What is realism today, in California?'

At one time synonymous with 'representational art', realism now includes hyper-realist paintings, collages and even to some extent, impressionism. While still encompassing the factual or detailed works that traditionally define the movement, Gallery C's show 'New California Realism,' illustrates the many facets of representational work. The exhibition contemplates contrary notions of the sterile and the organic and the society that contains these forces together.

Noted California painter Astrid Preston produces some of the most powerful interpretations of Southern California¹s landscape. Celebrated for her fine and detailed lines, Preston¹s hyper-realist works evoke haunting park lands, mysterious, yet elegant cypress trees and refined gardenscapes.

Cindy Craig explores mass consumerism in her 'New California Realism' installation of shopping carts and paintings of COSTCO stores. Her remarkably detailed photo-realist paintings recreate the warehouse shopping experience and examine our compulsion to buy in bulk. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Cindy Craig's work has been exhibited in notable galleries throughout California. She attended UCLA and is the recipient of the Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden award and the Art Competition Watercolor Award sponsored by the Artist's Magazine.

Pamela Green was influenced largely by early Flemish and Italian renaissance painters. Her current series of paintings takes as its subject, people and their objects. Sitters were chosen both for their outer beauty as well as their inner spiritual force. The artifacts taken from the sitter's home reflect material attachments and recount personal histories. The objects are poised on top of the sitters head to suggest thought or memory. The compositional decision to crop the sitters just below the nose, thus rendering each sitter mum, redirects the viewer's attention to the objects themselves thereby balancing emphasis between still life and figuration.

Timothy Oxley's voyeuristic paintings offer viewers an isolated glimpse into his subject matter. Looking at his two-dimensional images which are overlaid with wooden framed slates, is like looking through a picket fence. The scenes alternate between pleasant and disturbing and the viewer is left wondering about the context. 'My intent is to use the three-dimensional structures and partially seen two-dimensional images to create a hybrid painting, thus engaging the viewer in perceptual relationships between form and image, object and concept.'

Born in Santa Monica, Tim Oxley has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the Fine Arts Institute of San Bernardino County Museum. Oxley attended El Camino College and San Jose State University.

In her current series of oil paintings Bobbie Moline- Kramer explores the most common of the human stains: sin. There are seven sins: lust, greed, envy, pride, sloth, gluttony and wrath. Each painting visually translates one of the seven sins. Half of the paintings are done in full color, half in grisaille (monochromatic grays) Bobbie visualizes each emotion as a color and uses that color as the base for gray. While she discards the notion of sin as the eternal damnation of Dante, she visualizes sin as small, banal blocks of actions that eventually stain and discolor the individual and in turn, the world. Bobbie studied art at California State University at Long Beach and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums.

Christopher Chin¹s life-like paintings ponder the nature of life in our ever increasing global village. His unique elliptical works manipulate and tilt the picture plane. His most recent body of work focuses on figures in varying stages of rest or contemplation from sitting to reclining. ³I seek, with these paintings, to establish the possibility for a mutual relationship between the painted subject and a viewing subject.' He received his Masters in Fine Art from University of Southern California.

Kevin Lewellyn¹s provocative figures exhibit a delicacy and refinement akin to old masters paintings. His detailed drawings and figure-paintings are refined and life-like. With a large body of female nudes, mythical creatures, biblical scenes and portraits; Llewellyn effectively captures his subject¹s darker emotions. Kevin studied under the tutelage of Calvin Stroble II in Cleveland, OH and attended the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida.

Kathleen Keifer paints nostalgic scenes of the Southern California coast. Her swaying palm trees and beach scenes are painted in pointillist style, the method of painting in which the background is covered with tiny dots of pure color that blend together when seen from a distance. Kathleen Keifer is a second-generation artist. Her mother, also a fine artist, exposed Kathleen to the world of art and supervised her training from an early age. Kramer attended Notre Dame University and St. Mary's College. She has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Opening Reception: Thursday January 22, 2004 7pm ­ 10pm

Join us for our Lecture Series at 7pm on Thursday nights:
February 12, 2004: Kevin Llewellyn and Christopher Chinn
February 19, 2004: Astrid Preston, Kathleen Keifer and Timothy Oxley
February 26, 2004: Bobbie Moline-Kramer and Cindy Craig

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

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. Public parking is available in the structure that is immediately to the north of the building. Gallery C's fourth exhibition, 'New California Realism' will be on view from Thursday, January 22 through Sunday, March 21, 2004.

Director Nancy Silverman-Miles at (310) 798-0102.

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

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