FORMA MENTIS
A group exhibition that includes works by Kim Abeles, David Hollen, Jeremy Mora, Robert Reynolds, Sia Aryai.
November 12-30, 2010
Roughly translated as “the qualities of the mind,” the exhibition’s title provides salient clues as to the category of what it investigates. Many of the words we use to describe the visual world — form, shape, texture, contour, etc — have metaphorical implications for viewing the mind as an energy construct, a formless force both universal and infinitely variable. All of the artists assembled by Forma Mentis curator Gemma Sonego at Gallery Aryai are working in and around this vein of inquiry, supersaturating often non-traditional materials with a density of personal, political, and emotional significance. Continue…
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Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map
Until July 3, 2009
Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map, is a curatorial project that includes an art exhibition, a series of public programs and a book of related essays. g727, a non-profit art gallery in downtown Los Angeles, will host the exhibition [...]
Nathan Hylden, “Done and”
Until June 20th, 2009
The second solo exhibition of new work by Nathan Hylden, whose paintings have a basic efficiency and raw materiality are on show at Richard Telles Fine Art until June 20.
Brooks Shane Salzwedel: “Land Makers”
Until June 20, 2009
Salzwedel’s new body of work continues his exploration of the industrial versus natural, with beauty and deconstruction coexisting. Though the work shows relics of human life in the form of industrial urban develop.m.ent, the landscapes are meant to maintain an [...]
Misako Inaoka: “Survival Game”
Until June 20, 2009
San Francisco based Inaoka engages the raw stuff of existence in meaningful and novel ways by blurring the boundary between technique and concept, sculpture and found object. Painted with a glossy, metallic sheen, and appearing, for all intents and purposes, [...]