Brenna Youngblood
dal 15/1/2009 al 13/2/2009
Segnalato da
15/1/2009
Brenna Youngblood
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin
New paintings. The Los Angeles-based artist has created a new series of paintings and collages that incorporate her own photographs and a variety of mixed media.
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects is pleased to present new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Brenna Youngblood in our Berlin gallery space. Brenna Youngblood has created a new series of paintings and collages that incorporate her own photographs and a variety of mixed media. Youngblood's work is characterized by densely layered surfaces combining gestural painting, photography and readymade objects in lush and unabashedly formal compositions. The assemblages are often charged with a dark undercurrent that is elicited in the working-class vernacular of the imagery and in the evocation of moody interiors. In their skillful manipulation of photographic and readymade imagery, Youngblood's painterly collages play with depth, flatness, accumulation and deterioration, revealing their surface as both an illusionistic space and as a scarred testament to the layered process of accretion and removal.
Brenna Youngblood graduated with a MFA degree at the Univeristy of California Los Angeles in 2006. Her work has been featured in solo exhibtions at Hammer Project, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, at the Wignall Museum at Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, at the Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, and at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. She has recently been included in the California Biennial at the University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, and in exhibitions at LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; at Grand Central Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton; and at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, among others. Brenna Youngblood is represented in the United States by Margo Leavin Gallery. This is her first solo exhibition in Europe.
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects is located at Holzmarktstrasse 15/18 in Berlin Mitte. From the U/S train stop Jannowitzbrücke turn right and walk approximately 300 meters towards the “Aral” gas station. At the “Aral” gas station turn right towards the galleries which are located in the arched spaces underneath the rail road tracks.
Image: "Untitled", 2008, Paper, color photographs, acrylic paint and medium with found frame, 24”H x 20 1/2"W
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects
Holzmarkstrasse 15-18 - Berlin
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