The Deborah Martin Gallery will be at the LA ART SHOW exhibiting with the Downtown Galleries Association Januray 20-24, 2010.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
LA ART SHOW
The Deborah Martin Gallery will be at the LA ART SHOW exhibiting with the Downtown Galleries Association Januray 20-24, 2010.
Monday, December 21, 2009
SYNAPSES New Sculptures by Kim Ye Live Interactive Installation
SYNAPSES New Sculptures by Kim Ye
January 14-February 6, 2010
Artist Reception & Live Interactive Installation
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
6:30-9:30pm
Interactive Installation:
With their bodies connected by shared organs and appendages, live models wear Ye’s latex sculptures in the Deborah Martin Gallery. An experiment in compromise and confrontation, this interactive performance makes literal the relationships that bind humans together.
Kim Ye offers a fiercely intelligent body of work that provokes both fascination and discomfort. In the tradition of William Burroughs, JG Ballard, Donna Harraway, and Jana Sterbak’s infamous “Flesh Dress,” Ye’s anatomical objects populate a captivating interzone of flesh and polymer that blur the boundaries between synthetic and biological.
She is a master of composition and decomposition of new organic form, fully coherent in its execution. Her edgy vision is matched by an alchemist’s command of her materials - latex, nylon, human hair, silicone, wire and wood – whose mad genius betrays the sensibilities of seamstress and surgeon.
At play is a distorted and unrelenting fantasy of organic yet surgically-fabricated humanoid hybrids and cyborgs. Ye’s exquisitely disturbing creations suggest gynecological mutation (umbilical artifact, displaced placenta, intestinal catastrophe), or neurological prolapse of dendrite and synapse, or even post-apocalyptic intestinally-conjoined humanoids lounging on beds of sea kelp.
Yet Ye’s brutally delicate chimeras somehow comfort as much as they disturb – they are totems of our shared human vulnerability and dislocation. Her organisms’ unlikely eroticism transcend repellence and beauty, offering a peculiar familiarity and invoking a surprising sense of tenderness and affinity.
About Kim Ye
Born in 1984 in Beijing, China, Kim Ye is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture, performance, and video. Kim Ye received her B.A. in studio art and graduated summa cum laude from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and featured in a wide range of publications from Los Angeles, California to Sarasota, Florida. Ye was the recipient of the 2006 Corinne Gilbert Beaver Prize in Art and the 2007 Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Prize in Art. She is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Kim Ye is the gallery director of The Annex LA alternative art space.
With their bodies connected by shared organs and appendages, live models wear Ye’s latex sculptures in the Deborah Martin Gallery. An experiment in compromise and confrontation, this interactive performance makes literal the relationships that bind humans together.
Kim Ye offers a fiercely intelligent body of work that provokes both fascination and discomfort. In the tradition of William Burroughs, JG Ballard, Donna Harraway, and Jana Sterbak’s infamous “Flesh Dress,” Ye’s anatomical objects populate a captivating interzone of flesh and polymer that blur the boundaries between synthetic and biological.
She is a master of composition and decomposition of new organic form, fully coherent in its execution. Her edgy vision is matched by an alchemist’s command of her materials - latex, nylon, human hair, silicone, wire and wood – whose mad genius betrays the sensibilities of seamstress and surgeon.
At play is a distorted and unrelenting fantasy of organic yet surgically-fabricated humanoid hybrids and cyborgs. Ye’s exquisitely disturbing creations suggest gynecological mutation (umbilical artifact, displaced placenta, intestinal catastrophe), or neurological prolapse of dendrite and synapse, or even post-apocalyptic intestinally-conjoined humanoids lounging on beds of sea kelp.
Yet Ye’s brutally delicate chimeras somehow comfort as much as they disturb – they are totems of our shared human vulnerability and dislocation. Her organisms’ unlikely eroticism transcend repellence and beauty, offering a peculiar familiarity and invoking a surprising sense of tenderness and affinity.
About Kim Ye
Born in 1984 in Beijing, China, Kim Ye is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture, performance, and video. Kim Ye received her B.A. in studio art and graduated summa cum laude from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and featured in a wide range of publications from Los Angeles, California to Sarasota, Florida. Ye was the recipient of the 2006 Corinne Gilbert Beaver Prize in Art and the 2007 Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Prize in Art. She is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Kim Ye is the gallery director of The Annex LA alternative art space.
“Vessels of the Avant Garde” New Paintings by Melanie Van Latum
December 10- January 9, 2009
Silent Auction To Benefit PAWS/LA Assisting animal guardians in need.
Auction Bidding ends at exhibition closing
Melanie Van Latum’s portraits pop with a hardboiled baroque, neo-noir coterie of haunting, flamboyant heroines. Handsome, sinister, and supremely confident women stare from the canvas with an imperiously mysterious gaze, clearly indicating that no cloister, boudoir, suburb or nursery could ever contain the canny power of their bodies and minds.
Van Latum’s cleverly balanced compositions and high-tension-line lighting conjure a triumphant, intelligent feminine charisma – a mise-en-scene flushed with dizzyingly endless décolletage and the intricate obsessions of coiffure. In playfully provoking erotic traditions, these post-traditionalist paintings resuscitate the vapid, gaping pin-up model to her proper stance as empress, saint, and icon.
About Melanie Van Latum
Melanie earned her BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design and her MA in Drawing & Painting from Cal State Fullerton. A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Melanie is the only female street painter to win the title of Maestro and several gold medals in both Italy and Germany. Co-Founder of two prominent organizations in the chalk painting world, Street Painting Society and the Street Painting Academy, Melanie has consulted, painted, and held painting workshops for clients in Turkey, Holland, France, Canada and throughout the U.S. Melanie’s fine art work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Southern California.
Van Latum’s cleverly balanced compositions and high-tension-line lighting conjure a triumphant, intelligent feminine charisma – a mise-en-scene flushed with dizzyingly endless décolletage and the intricate obsessions of coiffure. In playfully provoking erotic traditions, these post-traditionalist paintings resuscitate the vapid, gaping pin-up model to her proper stance as empress, saint, and icon.
About Melanie Van Latum
Melanie earned her BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design and her MA in Drawing & Painting from Cal State Fullerton. A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Melanie is the only female street painter to win the title of Maestro and several gold medals in both Italy and Germany. Co-Founder of two prominent organizations in the chalk painting world, Street Painting Society and the Street Painting Academy, Melanie has consulted, painted, and held painting workshops for clients in Turkey, Holland, France, Canada and throughout the U.S. Melanie’s fine art work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Southern California.
Monday, November 9, 2009
ASHLEY HAGEN AND HOWARD SETH MILLER: REFLECTIONS OF INNOCENCE
November 12- December 5, 2009
Artist Reception Saturday, November 14th 6-10pm
Artist Reception Saturday, November 14th 6-10pm
Ashley Hagen
Within each of Hagen’s deliberate and romantic meditations linger the traces of a lustrous, dark enigma – an atmospheric effect concurrently brooding and joyous in its intensity. Hagen’s paintings offer a captivating, resplendent mirage in which dense abstraction of shape and texture seem to distill themselves over time, inexorably coalescing into tangible, half-glimpsed form – rabbits, spaceships, hopscotch charts.
Her romantic, lustrous colors of chartreuse, charcoal, lavender and cherry evoke the mysterious delights of an Edwardian children’s candy counter as well as the phosphorescent bottles of Belle Epoque aperitif liqueurs.
Born in Iowa, Ashley Hagen currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Hagen received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has studied in Florence, Italy, and Vienna, Austria. Her work has exhibited in galleries in Iowa, Chicago, Vienna, and throughout Southern California.
Howard Seth Miller
Howard Seth Miller gazes at youth through the milky cataract of age and cultivation, creating opalescent images of childhood. Light reveals often disturbing ambiguities of character, as shadow conceals an impending loss of naiveté. Baseball cards and blackboards and chain link schoolyards provide a charmingly stilted cinematic backdrop for Miller’s haunted iconography of childhood.
Miller was born in New York City, 1954. He received his BS from Empire State College (SUNY) and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Howard's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout NY, Chicago, Arizona and the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley.
Within each of Hagen’s deliberate and romantic meditations linger the traces of a lustrous, dark enigma – an atmospheric effect concurrently brooding and joyous in its intensity. Hagen’s paintings offer a captivating, resplendent mirage in which dense abstraction of shape and texture seem to distill themselves over time, inexorably coalescing into tangible, half-glimpsed form – rabbits, spaceships, hopscotch charts.
Her romantic, lustrous colors of chartreuse, charcoal, lavender and cherry evoke the mysterious delights of an Edwardian children’s candy counter as well as the phosphorescent bottles of Belle Epoque aperitif liqueurs.
Born in Iowa, Ashley Hagen currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Hagen received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has studied in Florence, Italy, and Vienna, Austria. Her work has exhibited in galleries in Iowa, Chicago, Vienna, and throughout Southern California.
Howard Seth Miller
Howard Seth Miller gazes at youth through the milky cataract of age and cultivation, creating opalescent images of childhood. Light reveals often disturbing ambiguities of character, as shadow conceals an impending loss of naiveté. Baseball cards and blackboards and chain link schoolyards provide a charmingly stilted cinematic backdrop for Miller’s haunted iconography of childhood.
Miller was born in New York City, 1954. He received his BS from Empire State College (SUNY) and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Howard's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout NY, Chicago, Arizona and the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Jason Alexander Cruz / Amerikan Blackheart "TEMPORARY MASTERS and RUNAWAY DISASTERS"
September 10 – October 3, 2009
Born in Los Angeles in 1974, AmerikanBlackheart is painter and musician Jason Alexander Cruz. Scrawled with apocalyptic odes and enchanting mod-pop iconography, his paintings evoke an ominous nocturnal tension: a clustered menace of Kalashnikov-slung Tuareg warriors, a hauntingly violet-tinted Twiggy, and the patent leather-wrapped talons of an impeccable trench-coated courtesan tidily folding away a bloody pocketbook full of crows.
Cruz's portraits emerge as a flirtatious, reckless army of the bar, the battlefield, and the urban alleyway. His female figures are fey, enchanting and ferocious within their glossy haute couture - his men ravaged, deranged, and disruptive. Yet within their insouciant violence run threads of sorrow, isolation, and grief.
Downtown Art Walk: Thursday September 10, 2009 12-9pm
Artist Reception 7-9pm
Live acoustic performance by the artist Jason Alexander Cruz / Amerikan Blackheart @ 8:30pm.
Born in Los Angeles in 1974, AmerikanBlackheart is painter and musician Jason Alexander Cruz. Scrawled with apocalyptic odes and enchanting mod-pop iconography, his paintings evoke an ominous nocturnal tension: a clustered menace of Kalashnikov-slung Tuareg warriors, a hauntingly violet-tinted Twiggy, and the patent leather-wrapped talons of an impeccable trench-coated courtesan tidily folding away a bloody pocketbook full of crows.
Cruz's portraits emerge as a flirtatious, reckless army of the bar, the battlefield, and the urban alleyway. His female figures are fey, enchanting and ferocious within their glossy haute couture - his men ravaged, deranged, and disruptive. Yet within their insouciant violence run threads of sorrow, isolation, and grief.
Downtown Art Walk: Thursday September 10, 2009 12-9pm
Artist Reception 7-9pm
Live acoustic performance by the artist Jason Alexander Cruz / Amerikan Blackheart @ 8:30pm.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Valerie Daval Les Grandes Vacances
Valerie DavalLes Grandes Vacances
August 13- September 5, 2009
Private Artist Reception
Wednesday August 12th 7-9pm
(Contact the gallery for an invitation to this event.)
Downtown Art Walk
Thursday August 13 12-9pm
Reception 7-9pm
In her new American paintings, French artist Valerie Daval invokes the luminosity of childhood memories - intimate moments of grace where time seems suspended in space and light.
Her eloquently suspenseful composition draws inspiration from her work in street art, frescos, theatre sets, and live dance portraiture. Valerie's work has been exhibited in galleries in France, Germany and the U.K.
Monday, July 6, 2009
RE:materialization Juried by Shana Nys Dambrot and Deborah Martin
JULY 9 - AUGUST 8 2009Artist Reception July 9 7-9pm
DOWNTOWN ART WALK
JULY 9 12-9PM
LIVE MUSIC with Indie-Folk-Pop Artist Arrica Rose
as heard on NBC's Lipstick Jungle from the album La La Lost a Paste Magazine recommended album produced by Dan Garcia (Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, Christina Aguilera.)
Arrica Rose just released her follow-up EP Pretend I'm Fur which debuted at 32 on iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts!
8:30pm
RE: materialization
Juried by Shana Nys Dambrot and Deborah Martin
Exploring the confluence of political, aesthetic, formal, conceptual, and environmental concerns through art.
Featuring
Alison Petty, Anne Spence, Carolyn Tille, Christopher Nitsche, Colby Beutel, David Hoang, David Macaluso, Deb Ris, Deborah Diehl, Desirae Hepp, Eric Singley, Gene Schmidt, Jeffery Jones, Jessica Westbrook, Joeseph Girandola, John Rosewall, Joshua Gagliardi, Leia Jervert, Maria Loewenstein, Molly Lowe, Peter Vogel, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Rick and Jessica Robinson, Ryan Ajean, Saul Grey Hildenbrand, Sim Sadler, Susan Sironi, Timothy Hemstreet.
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