Hangar
dal 2/7/2004 al 3/7/2004
Segnalato da
2/7/2004
Hangar
Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles
Pneumatic sculpture by Karyl Newman. Karyl Newman's current sculptures and videos pull you towards, up, up and away, through space and scale. This is why we love her work. She has the chops (a Tony for Scenic Design) to be formally elegant but, as with William Wegman or Robert Cumming, her formalism gives body to a sophisticated sense of humor.
Pneumatic Newman Blows Up Space
at Dangerous Curve, the New Downtown Experimental
Exhibition and Performance Art Space
Join the Community Opening Celebration!
Los Angeles, CA, June 11, 2004 - It's official now: Dangerous Curve has
been a legend in Downtown for at least six months. So come on down to
our opening celebration of the pneumatic sculpture exhibit "Hangar" by
Karyl Newman on July 3, 2004.
The party runs
from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and
Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts (#102). As
usual, we have amazing food by chef John Saslow. We'll also have
performance art by the duo Jason Jenn and Nathalie Broizat, R. Sky
Palkowitz and Tim Quinn, and Tania Hammidi. Live music will be by the
Bay Area's Whiskey Hill Blues Band
and Los Angeles's favorites Demonika and the Darklings. There's no
charge, and there's free parking across the street. The exhibit runs
until July 24. Two weeks before and two weeks after openings, we
generally have Performance Art and/or Experimental Music and Film Nights
starting at 8:00 p.m. (See below.) See below also for other local
openings and events on opening night. The gallery is open every
Wednesday through Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Karyl Newman's current sculptures and videos pull you towards, up, up
and away, through space and scale. This is why we love her work. She
has the chops (a Tony for Scenic Design) to be formally elegant but, as
with William Wegman or Robert Cumming, her formalism gives body to a
sophisticated sense of humor. For instance, she shoots a time-lapse of
the sun rising over the desert flats and, using mirroring on a split
screen, turns the thing into a wacky Pong game. In another piece, she
finds a monumental rock split in half out in the desert, so she paints
the huge exposed interior a fresh blood red. Then she references
herself by showing a neo-Oldenberg inflatable version of the painted
split rock, installed up and over your head. Her wedding presents
(large platters with strange chemical-distillation images on them that
she actually gives as wedding presents) are enough to make one want to
get married just to get one! At Dangerous Curve, she's building a
hanger environment that you enter through the roll-up door. The hanger
is filled with inflatable blimps, the mothership of which projects
images of visitors onto its fuselage.
Karyl has exhibited her work in Berlin, Prague, London, New York,
Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Sundance (Utah), Houston, Minneapolis,
Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has an M.F.A. from Yale
University.
Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and
emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person shows of risky,
intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor
currently popular. In a time when other spaces have reduced their
performance art programming, Dangerous Curve is a new venue for
performance artists, with performance installations, monthly performance
art events, and an annual performance art festival planned.
Dangerous Curve
1020 East Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA 90013