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"CALIFORNIA CRYPTOZOIC" Megan Whitmarsh OCTOBER 28 - November 25, 2006 Opening Saturday October 28, 7pm - 10pm |
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Megan Whitmarsh |
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| In California Cryptozoic, the first solo show in Los Angeles of L.A. based artist Megan Whitmarsh, the artist will be showing hand-embroidered canvasses, drawings & paintings, as well as soft sculpture and a site-specific wall drawing.
The artist uses the idea of Los Angeles as a playful catalyst for creating the work in this show. Her work displays scenes of fantasy characters existing amongst the detritus of the modern world and augmented by a subjective and optimistic iconography. In this invented world, elves wear tiny gold necklaces and yetis visit discos, scenes which are supernatural and precious, yet subverted by accoutrements such as pieces of trash and junky cellphones. Los Angeles can be read as a simulacre of contradiction: a city that contains the zenith of both artifice and Mother Nature. These antithetical characteristics echo the continuous subtext of contradiction the artist perceives in life and finds as a motive for making things. It creates a desire to order the ataxia of modern life, without however, managing to make it discernible. The artist finds as her immediate assignment the task of transforming the multiplicity of ordinary life into magical yet accessible moments. This is most naturally done with mediums of humble origins-- as it reveals the amateur at work and the amateur is always a more hopeful and generous symbol then the expert--because in perceiving the amateur one has something to look forward to (evolution!) The amateur gesture also transmits optimism directly to the viewer. One can walk away feeling that they too can create even if they possess no fantastic skills. For this reason the artist is drawn to the low-tech, and evidence of the hand in art. This interest extends to her design in curating the group show in the back gallery "Statik Dancing 2006", where artists collected conceive "handmade" work of a personal and generous nature. Martha Colburn's meticulously hand-painted, visually explosive and seductive films. Federico Solmi's hand drawn animation featuring a re-imagining of the King Kong myth. CF's idiosyncratic, cryptic, narrative drawings. Misaki Kawai's deft yet childlike creations. All these and the other artists´ works presented have an immediacy and fidelity to craft that reveals both honesty and resonance. Elizabeth Huey presents "The Waiting Room," an installation that fully engages with the architecture, interesting contraptions and peculiar patients of 19th century asylums. Her waiting room contains several of her paintings, some handmade magazines, drawings, collages and, of course, seating for her "patients." Huey has a BA in psychology and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She has previously shown her work internationally and at Feigen Contemporary in New York. |
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> in the project room < THE WAITING ROOM Elizabeth Huey |
featuring...DOLPHINFORCE ... makes SIDtunes sexy!!!
DJ_DOLPHINFORCE is the kind of robot minimilist sculptor/painter Sol Lewitt would have designed for the movie TRON ... he jams with his DOLPHINFORCE team members Quark Nova and Ghostkrabb who alternately karaoke, beat-box, robot dance, rip hot leads, and sax it up over hand picked SID music ... they like to "party on the other side of midnight" by performing their "certified #1" songs "Hold Me (It's Our Last Night On Earth)", "Night Slaves", and "Burn Down Radio City"(etc.) ...
in conjunction with
"Statik Dancing 2006"
a group show curated by Whitmarsh and Huey
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Amanda Barr |
Federico Solmi |
CF
Keith Shore |
Kime Buzzelli |
Also Featuring:
Misaki Kawai 
Taylor McKimens Kathryn Ruppert-Dazai Birgitta van Drie Keith Shore Martha Colburn Pearl Hsiung Kime Buzzelli
