From info at montevistaprojects.com Sun Aug 2 22:05:44 2009 From: info at montevistaprojects.com (Monte Vista) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Opening August 8 =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C_7-10_pm_=93Until_we_come_to_one_that_reminds_us=94_con?= tinuing August 8 - September 5=?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C_2009?= Message-ID: <52562.69.230.183.170.1249265144.squirrel@webmail10.pair.com> Dear Friends,We'd love to see you at our next exhibitionAugust 8 to September 5, 2009 Opening Saturday, August 8, 7-10PM?Until we come to one that reminds us? Paintings and sculpture Kristina Faragher, Christine Frerichs, Amy Green, and Curt LeMieux Until we come to one that reminds us is an exhibition of four artists whose works reflect an engagement with materials in a landscape of personal and political trouble. Kristina Faragher, Curt LeMieux, Amy Green, and Christine Frerichs use materials as surrogates for body, place, psyche, and the gap between emotion and language. The paintings and sculptures in this exhibition suggest a substratum of guilt and loss in American psychology, the unease of belonging to a nation engaged in imperialist wars that have not ceased despite popular objection. The works subtly couple a domestic sensibility of the brutal landscape of war in a queasy interplay of long-time American themes.? Kristina Faragher?s hundreds of small, craft-store balsawood ?keepsake? boxes are strategically smashed, reconstructed, and enameled with painstaking attention to detail. The pieces are then forced back into the boxes, no longer able to contain sentiment. Faragher?s work suggests the violence inherent in frustration at the limits of knowledge, cycles of violence and creation, and the potential recuperation of those who have been disfigured and forced back into a cultural system that must contend with them. Christine Frerichs uses charged materials?active carbon, cement, dirty turpenoid?in order to call up the penetrable split between the conscious and unconscious and the personal and cultural impact of repression. Images are cultivated on the surface of her paintings to be immediately rejected and wiped out. Some images are barely allowed to form, while others have been laboriously plied. Frerichs rehearses the connection between personal and cultural conflicts, between what is spoken and what is denied. The incompatibility of materials echoes the way in which emotion and language disengage at the height of tension, neither being enough for the other, both resonating apart. Amy Green?s felt paintings delicately try the relationship between craft and abstraction. The paintings recall metaphors of stain and place, of an uneasy bargain between surface and support, and of the liminal space of the 70?s household, wherein women understood the murky possibilities between liberation and reduction in the tight confinements of the physical world. Green?s tentative placement of the frayed felt surfaces against the hard edges of the stretcher bars belies a hesitation in the juxtaposition of craft against its heavy modernist counterpart. Curt LeMieux?s sculptures and mixed media drawings allude to the witnessing of bodily trauma within the tragedy of mediated warfare, linking barbarity to everyday cultural referents--remnants of curtains, socks, pencils, and shoes. Materials are handled with a delicate aesthetic that opens up a place into which the sense of both the disjunction and union of violence and security can flow. Surveying LeMieux?s small drawings and sculptures, one has the sense of the viewer as mute witness to a concatenation of banal and terrible events that have been reviewed, acknowledged, and dismissed. Images and more about the artists and curators at: http://montevistaprojects.com/exhibitions/until_we_come_to_one_that_reminds_us.html -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: