Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 25 March 2011
CARMON COLANGELO: Eyedeas
March 25 – May 7, 2011
Opening Reception Friday, March 25, from 6 to 9 pm
Project Room: Hung Liu: Za Zhong Paintings
Front Room: Lisa K. Blatt: desert water
Media Room: Lisa K. Blatt: untitled (Icarus)
BDG EastWall: SWOON : Life-size Installation
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Carmon Colangelo’s fourth solo exhibition entitled "Eyedeas" with the gallery. Carmon Colangelo's new works on paper and canvas from 2009-2011 explore the conflation of human history, current events and personal reveries through time, space and media. Taking a diaristic approach, Colangelo muses about cultural narratives, urban life, globalism, social networking, transcendence and recording everyday ideas. Using grids, reproductions, text and juxtaposing the iconography from modernism with conceptual artmaking strategies, this body of experimental work is composed of water based media, digital printing and drawing. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Buzz Spector accompanies the exhibition.
In the Front Room, the gallery presents a new exhibition of photographs titled “desert water” by photographer and video artist Lisa K. Blatt. She is attracted to deserts for their light, beauty and simplicity, and stays for their complexity, contradictions and secrets. Her art examines the intersection between the still and moving image, nature and culture, perception, and the political and historical implications of place. The work straddles the representational and perceptual and examines how landscape may be identified by what is not visible, what is memory or what is trace.
In the Project Room, the gallery presents a series of prints titled “Za Zhong Paintings” by Hung Liu. The exhibition is in conjunction with the SGC International Conference hosted by Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (SGC International Conference Link) and organized by Trillium Graphics. There will be an artist-talk at 9am on Friday, March 18 at The Chase Park Plaza (Khorassan Room). The "Za Zhong" (or literally, "bastard paintings") breaks new territory for the artist as she honors her traditional subject matter of women and historical images from China. Her work was enhanced when, during a 1990 visit to China, Liu discovered several hundred photographs from the time of the Cultural Revolution. These photographs have formed a basis for much of her work since. Personal photos from this era are rare because families often destroyed images that might be used as evidence that they were not proletarians. Her prints are rendered in a photorealist mode that looks back to her work for the Communist Party, yet individuals that are the object, rather than the subject, of history, populate them.
In the Media Room, the gallery presents a new video work titled “untitled (Icarus)” by Lisa K. Blatt. Her latest video was shot in Antarctica on top of the live volcano, Mount Erebus. Ms. Blatt received her MFA (New Genres) from the San Francisco Art Institute.
On the BDG East-Wall, the gallery presents a temporary life-size woodblocks and paper cutouts installation by SWOON (Caledonia Curry). The installation is in conjunction with the SGC International Conference hosted by Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (SGC International Conference Link). There will be an artist-talk at 4:30p on Friday, March 18 at The Chase Park Plaza (Khorassan Room). Swoon is also a member of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative.
Public Hours Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108
314.531.3030
INFO@BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
March 25 – May 7, 2011
Opening Reception Friday, March 25, from 6 to 9 pm
Project Room: Hung Liu: Za Zhong Paintings
Front Room: Lisa K. Blatt: desert water
Media Room: Lisa K. Blatt: untitled (Icarus)
BDG EastWall: SWOON : Life-size Installation
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Carmon Colangelo’s fourth solo exhibition entitled "Eyedeas" with the gallery. Carmon Colangelo's new works on paper and canvas from 2009-2011 explore the conflation of human history, current events and personal reveries through time, space and media. Taking a diaristic approach, Colangelo muses about cultural narratives, urban life, globalism, social networking, transcendence and recording everyday ideas. Using grids, reproductions, text and juxtaposing the iconography from modernism with conceptual artmaking strategies, this body of experimental work is composed of water based media, digital printing and drawing. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Buzz Spector accompanies the exhibition.
In the Front Room, the gallery presents a new exhibition of photographs titled “desert water” by photographer and video artist Lisa K. Blatt. She is attracted to deserts for their light, beauty and simplicity, and stays for their complexity, contradictions and secrets. Her art examines the intersection between the still and moving image, nature and culture, perception, and the political and historical implications of place. The work straddles the representational and perceptual and examines how landscape may be identified by what is not visible, what is memory or what is trace.
In the Project Room, the gallery presents a series of prints titled “Za Zhong Paintings” by Hung Liu. The exhibition is in conjunction with the SGC International Conference hosted by Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (SGC International Conference Link) and organized by Trillium Graphics. There will be an artist-talk at 9am on Friday, March 18 at The Chase Park Plaza (Khorassan Room). The "Za Zhong" (or literally, "bastard paintings") breaks new territory for the artist as she honors her traditional subject matter of women and historical images from China. Her work was enhanced when, during a 1990 visit to China, Liu discovered several hundred photographs from the time of the Cultural Revolution. These photographs have formed a basis for much of her work since. Personal photos from this era are rare because families often destroyed images that might be used as evidence that they were not proletarians. Her prints are rendered in a photorealist mode that looks back to her work for the Communist Party, yet individuals that are the object, rather than the subject, of history, populate them.
In the Media Room, the gallery presents a new video work titled “untitled (Icarus)” by Lisa K. Blatt. Her latest video was shot in Antarctica on top of the live volcano, Mount Erebus. Ms. Blatt received her MFA (New Genres) from the San Francisco Art Institute.
On the BDG East-Wall, the gallery presents a temporary life-size woodblocks and paper cutouts installation by SWOON (Caledonia Curry). The installation is in conjunction with the SGC International Conference hosted by Washington University in St. Louis - Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (SGC International Conference Link). There will be an artist-talk at 4:30p on Friday, March 18 at The Chase Park Plaza (Khorassan Room). Swoon is also a member of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative.
Public Hours Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108
314.531.3030
INFO@BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
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