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New Works, Painting Artists: Brigid McCabe & Daniel Kim  Exhibition: January 7th - February 13th, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14th 5pm - 7pm Brigid McCabe's oil paintings of playful organic square tessellations that encapsulate tiny figurative elements inside provide a space where her imaginative work can exist and the daily inventories of life are examined. Drawing inspiration from the patterns and routines created from familiar habits, McCabe maximizes what is apparent, and through the textures and painterly effects she creates, her paintings bring meaning and significance to the surface.  Through exploration with the capabilities of paint on canvas, Daniel Kim's interest in the various readings of Beauty is further explored in his new work. Kim's abstract canvases of obscure subject matter intensify the content, which is made as significant as possible with color, temperature, volume, value, light and different paint application. The Transmogrification of the Designated Safety Zone, SCULPTURE Artist: Steven Baikbak  Exhibition: January 7th - February 13th, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14th 5pm - 7pm Imitating natural systems of erosion out of human's control like hillsides, islands, canyons, and jungles, artist Steve Baibak dismantles inherent structures, covers up cultural labels, and convolutes forms as a "parallel for the intermittent patterns of societal evolution." Using recycled materials, Baibak's creations represent metaphors of "inherited designs of living, normalcy, and tradition." The Garden of Arbitrary Volition, PhotoGRAPHS Artist: Malcom Lubliner Exhibition: January 7th - February 13th, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14th 5pm - 7pm Open for First Thursday January 7, til 7:30pm  An intriguing exhibition of surreal photographs by noted California photographer Malcolm Lubliner, five new works are paired with five works from the 1980's for the the show, "The Garden of Arbitrary Volition". The earlier works were conceived as small theater pieces conceptually related more to the art of assemblage than to the traditional still life. Through both the selection of objects and elements not typically seen in the still life form and experiments in extremes of composition, Lubliner's images become vehicles for social and political commentary. The original photographs were black and white and printed on a now discontinued frosted acetate material called Translite that Lubliner backed with chrome Mylar, a combination that added a slight, ethereal glow to the images. |
