Jeana Sohn has three new paintings in a group exhibition at the Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY on view through September 6.
Galerie Carlos Cardenas is currently exhibiting new ink and watercolor pieces by Kyle Field as part of Stereo Notes: Kyle Field and David Ivar Herman Dune. On view through July 17.
Charlene Liu’s solo exhibition Fugue recently opened at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The series of new works on paper will be on view through July 31. From the Press Release:
The title of the exhibition, Fugue, refers to Liu’s constant repetition of certain forms, motifs, and patterns. Particular visual ideas from past works are woven together, altered and re-sampled, until awareness and a sense of place are lost, provoking a feeling of disorientation. The works hold the viewer in transitory moments; they often refer to abstracted natural landscapes, and the transitional state between growth and decay.
Review, by Allison Gibson. June 26, 2010
I’m a sucker for a storyline involving a protagonist’s search for identity across generations and distant lands. More often than not this fascination is satisfied by reading a novel or watching a film, maybe listening to a three-verse country song. It’s not often that such a sprawling narrative emerges from within a work of art, but such is the case with the series of photographs by San Francisco-based artist Danielle Nelson Mourning in her debut solo exhibition at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in Culver City.
Homecoming presents large-scale ink jet prints of the artist’s pilgrimage across the country and the Atlantic to understand herself and her ancestry. This is no documentary, though; Mourning has visited old family homes in Marks, Mississippi and Niagara Falls, New York to make self-portraits in which the self is more fictional than real. She assumes the dress and style of domestic women from decades past, recalling in part Cindy Sherman’s Complete Untitled Film Stills, though in a decidedly less aggressive way. Mourning goes to Ireland as well to recreate haunting scenes of life during the potato famine of 1845. The work is endearing in its earnest investigation of family history and self, and in its multidimensional presentation of women of certain eras and of domestic life. It seems to be an intensely personal practice, as if the project would mean as much to the artist regardless of whether it had an audience. Sometimes work comes across as so prepared for an audience that there is a paucity of the artist’s own identity, but there’s none of that here.
Click HERE to see the full article.
Gallery owner Heather Taylor is featured as a “Tastemaker” in 944 Magazine’s annual May Picks issue. Read her interview below:
The Shifting Art Circuit of Los Angeles, by Alie Ward. May 19, 2010.
“…This Saturday night offers several receptions worthy of an art safari…San Francisco artist and filmmaker Danielle Nelson Mourning exhibits “Homecoming,” a lush body of color-saturated photography. Traveling between Niagara Falls, Mississippi and Ireland, Mourning places herself in the narratives and settings of her relatives, like Cindy Sherman digging through her ancestry archives, and the results are strikingly composed and heavy with nostalgia…”
“Blague d’Art: LA Galleray Array in May” by Peter Frank, May 2010.
“You’re still owed one (1) Euro-report, but first a string of Los Angeles recommendations, especially as these shows are ending imminently…I’ll drop back in on Chris Natrop’s vivacious installation of painterly drips hewn from cut paper, colored thread, fluorescent tubes, mirror, and diverse other materials.” Click HERE to read the entire article.
Kimberly Brooks is pleased to be participating in INCOGNITO at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Saturday, May 1, 7 – 10 pm.
For more information on the event, click HERE.
