past
exhibitionS
FAN LEE WARREN
“Heart Talk While Soul Wanders” – Mixed Media
Works
Press
Release
Exhibition
Thursday, August 2 - Saturday, August 25, 2007
Warren’s newest exhibition provides a moving
look into the African-American experience. Her lifelong fascination
with visual references to African-American history, slave life,
and colonization are evident within this seventeen piece series.
She enhances these historical allusions by administering a unique
procedure in which she physically “ages” the work surface
using earth, fire, and herbs before applying an intermix of paints,
pastels, and charcoal.
Warren earned her MFA from the School of the Art
Institute in Chicago in 1985 and a BFA from Illinois State University
in 1982. She has been exhibiting her sculptures, drawings/paintings,
and installations for over 20 years. According to art historian
Constance Cortez, Warren’s pictorial fragmentation can be
linked to Robert Rauschenberg’s work and her use of symbols
relates to traditions of representation established by Betye Saar.
The artist continues to teach painting and art history at Laney
College in Oakland, California.
Painting And Mixed Media Works “A
Summer Introduction” Group Exhibition: Casson Demmon, Isabel
Maria Manalo, Katherine Love, Mira O’brien
Press
Release
Togonon Gallery is proud to introduce the works
of four new artists: Casson Demmon, Isabel Maria Manalo, Katherine
Love, and Mira O’Brien. These artists all share a sensitive
awareness of their surrounding world and react by creating powerful
pieces drawn from both personal experience and media images.
Casson Demmon’s work appears in a journalistic form. As the
son of a newspaper reporter, his paintings are composed like a news
clipping. His standard gives way to great attention to detail and
the human element. Demmon earned his BFA at Westmont College and
his MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His video work has been
featured at the Met in New York in conjunction with Tony Oursler’s
installation.
Isabel Maria Manalo is also interested in using found images to
communicate the duality between nature’s intrinsic beauty
and the reality of tragic world events. Her work pairs jarring media
photographs with delicate patterns as a way of evoking a paradoxical
emotional reaction in the viewer. Manalo completed her BFA from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in painting
at Yale University. She is currently part of the Adjunct Faculty
at the American University’s Art Department where she has
been teaching since 2000 in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Love uses mixed media to create familiar, yet haunting
domestic scenes; including feminine materials such as lace and old
cookbooks, as well as vintage scientific texts. Her arduous process
includes drawing, mounting, coating with beeswax, painting with
oils, and distressing the surface to expose the many layers. Love
received her BFA at the University of CA, Santa Barbara and her
MFA in painting from The University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1998.
She has been awarded for her work in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and Honolulu.
Mira O’Brien creates scenes that incorporate nature and industry
in a fantastical way, making her style at once surreal and realistic.
Her style is characterized by a precise and evocative use of light
and color. O’Brien earned her BFA from UCLA and is currently
working on her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University.
She was awarded the Schoelkopf Travel Grant Prize in 2007.
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