FATIMA JAMIL FAIZ // REFRACTED MEMOIRS

May 14th - June 5th

Artist’s Opening Reception Thursday, May 14th 7-9pm

Artist Talk Saturday May 30th 7-9pm Live Music TBA 8pm

Tapping into issues of childhood to maturity through a sequence of factual and fictional events, Faiz’s paintings blur the line between reality and fiction. Abstract thoughts are reflected through symbolism and metaphor, leading the viewer to be transported to another time frame.

About Fatima Jamil Faiz:

Fatima Jamil Faiz is a Pakistani-Canadian artist who was born and raised in Pakistan. In 2007, Faiz relocated to California from Canada to complete her MFA at California State University, Fullerton where she is currently a teaching associate. Faiz received her B.F.A. in Painting, Drawing and Print Making from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan. She is the recipient of the Graduate Scholarship, Book/Loan Scholarship, as well as the African-American Faculty and Staff Association ‘Prospect for Change’ Scholarship at California State University, Fullerton. Fatima’s work has been exhibited in art galleries in Canada, Pakistan and the US. Her illustrations have been published in four children’s books with Book Group Inc. in Pakistan. Fatima is currently commissioned to work on ancient folklore and mythology illustrations for a children’s book soon to be published in the US.

Juried Competition RE: materialization

Deborah Martin Gallery
Call for Entries

Submission Deadline June, 8th 2009

RE: materialization

Juried by Shana Nys Dambrot and Deborah Martin


ABOUT THE THEME:
The concept behind this juried show, as reflected in the title’s multiple references, is the confluence of political, aesthetic, formal, conceptual, and environmental concerns manifesting in the visual arts. Specifically, we are looking to have a conversation about the use of recycled and/or sustainable materials in art-making.

There have been fine strains of art historical practice in this area based in conceptual (and economic, and political) realms like DIY, arte povera, Dada; and of course Robert Rauschenberg’s famous penchant for making art exclusively from neighborhood trash and ground-scores; not to mention the strategies of appropriation and citation put forth in the more pleasing aspects of post-modernism.

But now, global citizens are using terms like repurposing, reclamation, and de-materialization (which has a nice linguistic synergy with the language of anti-object art movements) with a whole new zeal. They are paying attention to their footprints, pondering what the future might “look like”.

How do these concerns meet in visual art? Should they? How do these choices operate formally? Which considerations come first?
We are prepared to consider works in all media, from found art and objects, to installation, painting, photo, video, performance—there are no parameters as to media. But we are the kind of women that celebrate the allure of the well-made, soulful object. Maybe everything we need already exists, and it just needs to be skillfully rearranged…

ELIGIBILITY:

This exhibition is open to all domestic and international artists, professional and amateur. Work derived from all media will be considered.

ABOUT THE JURORS:

Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator and author based in Venice, CA. Her fine art & design reviews, features and interviews have appeared in scores of regional, national, international and online publications including Modern Painters, ArtReview, ARTnews, Whitehotmagazine.com, The Believer, Kotori Magazine, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Intersection, Juxtapoz and Coagula Art Journal.

She is currently the LA Managing Editor at Flavorpill.com, Features Editor at THE Magazine LA, and a Contributing Editor at Artweek and Art Ltd and the Galleries Editor at TimeOut LA. She is the author of scores of special exhibition book and catalogs essays locally and internationally. A complete account of her published books and articles can be found at sndx.net and she blogs sporadically at uber.com/snd. She holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College

Deborah Martin is a gallery director, curator, painter, fine art photographer and art instructor based in Downtown, Los Angeles.
Martin is a featured artist in the November 2008 issue of New American Paintings Studio Visit Magazine, Juried by Carl Belz Director Emeritus of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and managing editor of Art New England Magazine.

Martin's Polaroid work has been featured in Light Leaks Magazines Polaroid Issue 11 (2008). She will be a featured Polaroid photographer in the magazines Road Trip Issue 13 due out in April 2009. Her current work in progress includes a series titled "America" a documentation of American iconography in Polaroid and the transformation of these Polaroid's into oil paintings. She is currently researching the history of a selection of these American towns for an upcoming book titled "America."


Martin holds a BFA and BS in Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University respectively. More information about Deborah Martin can be found at www.deborahmartinfineart.com


CALENDAR:

-Deadline for entries: June 8th, 2009
-Exhibit Dates: July 8th – August 8th 2009

-All Work MUST BE received by June 30th, 2009

SUBMISSIONS:

$35US
Submissions can be made on line @ http://www.deborahmartingallery.com/submissions.html

WITHIN SHADOWS CLOSING PARTY

©Susan Burnstine

SUSAN BURNSTINE WITHIN SHADOWS

CLOSING PARTY

LIVE MUSIC

INDIE POP-ROCKER
COBY BROWN

For the better part of the last two years, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Coby Brown has been writing and recording the songs on his latest release, Stars and Curses. For Brown -- who spent most of his energy in 2006 going through cancer treatment for Ewing's Sarcoma (and all of 2007 recovering from it) Stars & Curses is a new start.

Recorded between November 2007 and April of 2008 in Los Angeles, Stars and Curses features guest turns from David Immergluck (Counting Crows), Ollie Kraus (Sia, Tom McCrae), Fil Krohnengold, (Ian Ball, Buddy, Brian Wright), Holly Conlan and Al Sgro (Gary Jules, Buddy).

SATURDAY MAY 9TH 6-9:00PM

LIVE MUSIC 8PM

DEBORAH MARTIN GALLERY

209 W. 5TH ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90013