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23/4/2010

4 x 4: four figurative photographers

Kopeikin Gallery (new location), Los Angeles

The Kopeikin Gallery presents "4 x 4" an exhibition featuring four images each by four figurative photographers: Alison Brady, Mandy Corrado, David Schoener and Martynka Wawrzyniak. The show opens on Saturday, April 24th with a reception from 6:00 - 8:00. All four artists are expected to be in attendance at the opening. The show continues through June 5th.

Alison Brady
This body of work uses staged imagery on a metaphorical level, with inanimate objects and settings serving to illustrate the inner workings of the unconscious. Brady explores issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, feelings of anxiety, displacement and loss of identity. Brady's images question what the state of normality is and how that normality can be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed?

Mandy Corrado
This series, "Reflections of the Muse," came about after years as a figure model. Corrado asked herself, as many others had no doubt asked before; with the nude as a consistent subject in art throughout the ages why was the model's perspective so rarely heard? She bought a mirror and set it up so that she could see herself while posing. The resulting images of studio interiors with artists actively working and the model reflected back at herself turns the tables so the model is now the artist. Through this work she invites the viewer to consider the point of view of the many nudes encountered in art and to gain a new understanding of this timeless artistic tradition.

David Schoener
"After Betty" is a small series of photographs inspired by the Gerhard Richter painting "Betty, 1988." The series not only pays homage to Richter but also deals with the history of the relationship between photography and painting since Ricther's Betty was painted from a photograph reminiscent of earlier painters such as Vermeer. The photographs from "After Betty" have a similar feeling as Ricther's Betty. They convey a softness in the photograph - technically and figuratively - and variations in the light from over-exposed areas, subtle hints of light and colors reflecting off the subject. The photographs play off a painting which was made from a photograph that resembles 17th century painting. It is this "back and forth" kind of relationship that painting and photography have been in since the very beginning of photography.

Martynka Wawrzyniak
This series grew out of the realization of the growing gap between Martynka's childhood and her adulthood and of how much of her adult existence was effected by her earliest experiences. In this series of portraits she portrays the dark side of seemingly innocent childhood; their faces capturing an element of the adult they will mold into. This is the sixth year of an ongoing project. Every few years, she is re- photographing those children she still has access to. In 2007 Martynka made a video, titled "ME," to accompany the portrait series, in which four kids stare directly into the camera and reflect on issues they will encounter in their adulthood.

This show is loosely a sequel to an exhibition titled "3 x 5" presented at the Gallery in 2007.

Image: Alison Brady, Untitled 2006

Opening Saturday 24th April 2010, 6 to 8 pm
All four artists are expected to be in attendance at the opening.

Kopeikin Gallery
8810 Melrose Ave, west of Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, USA
Opening hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am - 5pm
Free admission

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