Two exhibitions
dal 16/2/2007 al 23/3/2007
Segnalato da
16/2/2007
Two exhibitions
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Allison Schulnik turns to her imagination in order to find the characters she casts within her canvases. By combining elements of sculpture, photography, performance and painting, Boo Ritson creates works that hover between definitions and leave the viewer contemplating not only the meaning but also the medium.
Allison Schulnik
Fools, Rejects, and Sanctuaries
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce new paintings from Los
Angeles based artist Allison Schulnik. Regarding herself as a
choreographer, Schulnik turns to her imagination in order to find the
characters she casts within her canvases. Whether they appear as
animals, strange creatures or alien forms, these characters are often
based on a human framework, instilling within them a humanity they
retain regardless of feathers or fur or blemishes. Schulnik often
focuses on the eyes of her subjects, using their gaze not only to
unsettle the viewer but also to prompt a sense of understanding and
compassion that she hopes will provoke a certain viewer
introspection. Schulnik creates her distinctive style by using old,
worn brushes and thick globs of paint, the resulting canvases
depicting a controlled chaos- often on an epic scale- in which her
characters may reside.
I allow my imagination to revel in its own world -- where thickly-
sculpted oils, historical fact and blatant fiction collide to form
images of tragedy, farce, and raw beauty.
Allison Schulnik
Schulnik received her BFA in Experimental Animation at the California
Institute of Arts in 2000. Her paintings have been exhibited
internationally at venues including Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles,
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, Bellwether Gallery, New York,
Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, The Armory Show, New York, Rokeby
Gallery, London, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of
Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She will have her
London debut solo exhibition at Rokeby Gallery in June 2007.
Schulnik is represented by Mark Moore Gallery.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17th, from 5-7pm
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Project Room
Boo Ritson
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce new work from British
artist Boo Ritson. By combining elements of sculpture, photography,
performance and painting, Ritson creates works that hover between
definitions and leave the viewer contemplating not only the meaning
but also the medium. Ritson pushes the boundaries of reality,
forcing her audience to question what is right before their eyes.
Past projects have included Cast, in which Ritson covers her
sitters’ head and clothes in paint, creating a new character that
she then photographs. The resulting image is an unnerving mix of the
imaginary and the real. Ritson says, The ‘Cast’ are the people
that the people I know could be, if they weren’t the people I know.
In the larger context of her work, it could be said that Ritson also
transforms objects into what they could be, were they not the objects
they actually are.
Ritson received her MFA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in
2005 and her BFA from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in
2002. She has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United
States, including a solo exhibition in 2006 at David Risley Gallery,
London, and group shows at Spitalfields, London, PumpHouse Gallery,
Battersea Park, London, and De Parel, Amsterdam.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17th, from 5-7pm
Mark Moore Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue - Santa Monica