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1/7/2005

Depth Analysis

Raid Projects, Los Angeles

Work by Fiona Jack, Devon Tsuno, Lara Odell and Maeghan Reid

Although depth may be most simply described as a 'measurement downward from the surface or backward from the front', the physical and psychological experience of being in space confounds simple objective measurement. With Depth Analysis Raid Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of works that variously navigate remembered, manufactured, imagined, depicted and actual spaces to take on the complex territory of spatial relationships.

In FIONA JACK's North Gallery installation monochromatic shapes breach the bounds of their canvases to spill across the walls and floor, while delicate contour lines call out small architectural features. The impact is subtly vertiginous. For Jack collides cartographic and painterly conventions with an actual interior geography to create an installation that is both prospect and map, both real space and imagined topography.

Influenced by 19th century tableaux vivant LAURA ODELL'S Video Paintings initially occur as still images. Dressed in matching colored outfits that complement their chosen stage – a night-time laundromat or parking lot – Odell and collaborator Monica Duncan are static as carefully orchestrated slashes of paint. Only the occasional passage of a passerby or, more rarely, the pacing of the artist/performers through the space, reveals that time is as much a compositional element here as form, light and color. In that moment of deliberate movement landscapes that have been flattened by lens and screen shiver briefly into three-dimensionality before settling once again into flatness.

Taut, clean, and colored with harmony in mind, DEVON TSUNO'S large-scale paintings are peppered with visual clues – red white and blue triangles set beside a softer blue expanse, white curlicues repeated over a violet-gray ground – that suggest flag-decked marinas, chill mountains and wide sunlit streets. Accept their seductive invitation to enter the frame, however, and the seemingly contiguous depicted spaces become fractured. Cut through by zigzagging lines and multiplied by subtle layerings of fat over scumbled lean, once flat planes multiply and rend as illusion gives way to the phenomenon of the paint.

MAEGHAN REID'S images of suburbia are fashioned from home decorating materials. Simultaneously representing streets, hills, and the houses they are designed to decorate and remaining very much their paper and plastic selves, scraps of pebble-print wallpaper, flowered fabric and patterned linoleum collapse vista into miniature and wrest beige-toned city-fringes from domestic interiors.

Maeghan Reid is a recent graduate of the Claremont Graduate School, she has exhibited most recently at the Adele Simmons Gallery, Massachusetts; Concrete Walls, Los Angeles; and the West Gallery in Rhode Island.

Lara Odell's individual works and collaborative projects have been shown at, among many others, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Cuba; the Virginia Museum of Art, U.S.A.; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, PRC; and the Festival of Actual Kino, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Now living and working in Los Angeles, New Zealand-born Fiona Jack has participated in over 30 international exhibitions, including at institutions in Australia, London, the USA and the Netherlands as well as in New Zealand.

Devon Tsuno's paintings have been shown at venues including the Gatov Gallery West in Long Beach, Irvine Valley College, and the Miller Durazo Gallery, LA. He is the Director of Concrete Walls Alternative Art Space in Los Angeles.

Opening: Saturday July 2, 7-10pm

Image: Lara Odell and Monica Duncan

Raid Projects
602 Moulton
Los Angeles

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