Exhibit: NEXT IN LINE: DRAWING IN THE 21st CENTURY at Kunsthalle Galapagos
NEXT IN LINE: DRAWING IN THE 21st CENTURY curated by Erin Brown
work by: Joseph Burwell, Martí Cormand, Adam Fowler, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski, Dustin London, Chris Nau, Allyson Strafella, and Ilene Sunshine
March 23rd--April 22nd, 2012
Opening Reception March 23rd, 6-9 pm
Early in the 20th century, drawing underwent a dramatic transformation: as advances ...Dawn Henning
Artist Statement
My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural ...Meredith Hoffheins
Statement
Meredith Hoffheins’ meandering hands create imaginative and lyrical works on paper that intuitively portray a desire for the unattainable. Her works can be spare and visionary, or abundant with internal information.
Website
http://reseda.tumblr.com/
Current Exhibit
http://extensionsofmemory.tumblr.com/ Lindsay Kolk
Statement
Whether printed on the page, manifest in continuously looped forms, or carefully arranged structures Lindsay Kolk quietly meditates on the repeated mark. At once familiar and consistent, these marks are intuitively and carefully manipulated, obscured, even destroyed; efforts that intrinsically assign value even to that which appears as a ...Cynthia Sparrenberger
Empty House
Muse
Psychic Carnivale I
Psychic Carnivale II
Sanctuary
Artist Statement
These mixed media 'drawing/paintings' find their roots in the exploration of unconscious images.
That' inner landscape' of the human soul where the boundaries of reality seemingly merge with the uncontrollable “netherworld” of dreams, visions, and nightmares.
Executed in pen and ink, as well ...Francisco Lopez
Artist's Statement
Film, obsession and beauty
The focus of my work is in the chance union of forms, symbols, images and colors. It is through cosmetics, in the sense of making up the world in an almost shaman-like manner, that my work plays with a pre-established language of beauty pervasive in popular ...Daniel McDonald
Visitation, 2009
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33 inches
edition of 25
Found, Gowanus, 2009
oil, pastel and wallpaper
18 x 22 inches
Along the Way, 2008
pastel on paper
31.25x 69.25 inches
Horizontal Triptych II, 2009
oil on linen
30 x 36 inches
Book, 2008
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33
Artist Statement
The complexity of the art world is curious, it ...Rebeca Olguin
Hidden Treasure
On Second Thought... Panic
Mom, Listen to the Sea
Artist Statement
My son’s birth has meant an encounter with a completely new form of experiencing life and interacting with the world. Since the moment I knew I was pregnant, parenting has been an existential experiment –an involuntary, uncontrolled one– marked by the ...Scott Faucheux
lines 001: 9' x 9'; ink, paint marker, automotive paint, on paper
bagtag 006: 9' x 9' ; found printed paper and glue on paper
lightning: 24'H x 36'W; found printed paper and shellac on canvas
jellyfish: 72'W x 48'H; housepaint, acrylic and shellac on canvas
Artist Statement
my work is about the mechanical expression ...