Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 5 April 2013
ALEX COUWENBERG: SWELL
Front Room: Carmon Colangelo: Glocal Diptychs
Project Room: Chris Kahler: Disequencing
Media Room: Eric Minh Swenson: The Making of La Fonda
Opening Reception Friday, April 5, 2013, from 5 to 9 pm
April 5-May 4, 2013
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Alex Couwenberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Friday, April 5, 2013. The exhibition titled “Swell” will be on view April 5–May 4, 2013.
A catalogue, Alex Couwenberg: Swell, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Los Angeles based painter Alex Couwenberg’s new paintings explore “process” and the “moment” through tightly controlled compositions of paint and mark making. Couwenberg creates images that are inspired by the elements indigenous to his surroundings. The work references and suggests the aesthetic associated with mid-century modernism, car culture, skateboards, and surfing. Not to leave out, paying homage to the historical styles of post-war art making associated with Los Angeles and Southern California throughout the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s.
Couwenberg’s paintings give a nod towards the Hard-edge abstractionists, the finish fetish, and the light and space artists. Not content to replicate, he uses the sensibility of Eames-era design and hard-edge geometric abstraction as points of departure for creating paintings. His process, an additive and reductive series of moves and passes, creates multilayered environments that are deep and sensual. He harnesses these ideas into harmonious results, reflecting the visual landscape of his local environment.
In the Project Room, the gallery presents an exhibition titled "Disequencing" by Chris Kahler. A new body of work that utilizes a more intimate scale and simplicity that is in contrast to recent works. A duality exists in the work, playing back and forth with questions of depth and causality. David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times wrote of Kahler’s work: “a potent and corrosive beauty, a sublime combination of breakdown and growth, disintegration and accumulation, creation and destruction. Sometimes it seems as if he paints pictures of a world of effervescence, in which solid substances dissolve into roiling gases, steamy atmospheres, and gravity-defying liquid clouds. In his work, it is almost impossible to distinguish between the microscopic and the cosmic, and everything is richer for the confusion.”
In the Front Room, the gallery presents an exhibition by Carmon Colangelo titled “Glocal Diptychs”. Carmon Colangelo’s new work muses about cultural narratives, urban life, human ecologies, globalism, social networking, transcendence, and recording everyday ideas. Glocal Diptychs is a series of seven mixed media prints produced in 2012 at Pele Prints in St. Louis. Each of the works is made from a shared matrix and printed on two sheets of paper using monotype, intaglio, relief process as well as hand-coloring. These prints expand on Colangelo’s interest in architectonic forms and the poetics of space with an eye to our changing notions about place and shifts between geographic location and local identity while contemplating a globalized future.
In the New Media Room, the gallery presents a video-interview of Alex Couwenberg by filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson. The short-film titled “The Making of La Fonda” is directed and produced by Swenson and, is part of an on-going series that focuses on artists’ lives and studio practices in Los Angeles. The music is by The Hitchikers, James Lucchesi, and Mick Cripps and video is 20:32 minutes long. More info can be found on his ongoing Los Angeles project at thuvanarts.com and the interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=prZ6aGRTWhg
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3721 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.531.3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
Front Room: Carmon Colangelo: Glocal Diptychs
Project Room: Chris Kahler: Disequencing
Media Room: Eric Minh Swenson: The Making of La Fonda
Opening Reception Friday, April 5, 2013, from 5 to 9 pm
April 5-May 4, 2013
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Alex Couwenberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Friday, April 5, 2013. The exhibition titled “Swell” will be on view April 5–May 4, 2013.
A catalogue, Alex Couwenberg: Swell, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Los Angeles based painter Alex Couwenberg’s new paintings explore “process” and the “moment” through tightly controlled compositions of paint and mark making. Couwenberg creates images that are inspired by the elements indigenous to his surroundings. The work references and suggests the aesthetic associated with mid-century modernism, car culture, skateboards, and surfing. Not to leave out, paying homage to the historical styles of post-war art making associated with Los Angeles and Southern California throughout the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s.
Couwenberg’s paintings give a nod towards the Hard-edge abstractionists, the finish fetish, and the light and space artists. Not content to replicate, he uses the sensibility of Eames-era design and hard-edge geometric abstraction as points of departure for creating paintings. His process, an additive and reductive series of moves and passes, creates multilayered environments that are deep and sensual. He harnesses these ideas into harmonious results, reflecting the visual landscape of his local environment.
In the Project Room, the gallery presents an exhibition titled "Disequencing" by Chris Kahler. A new body of work that utilizes a more intimate scale and simplicity that is in contrast to recent works. A duality exists in the work, playing back and forth with questions of depth and causality. David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times wrote of Kahler’s work: “a potent and corrosive beauty, a sublime combination of breakdown and growth, disintegration and accumulation, creation and destruction. Sometimes it seems as if he paints pictures of a world of effervescence, in which solid substances dissolve into roiling gases, steamy atmospheres, and gravity-defying liquid clouds. In his work, it is almost impossible to distinguish between the microscopic and the cosmic, and everything is richer for the confusion.”
In the Front Room, the gallery presents an exhibition by Carmon Colangelo titled “Glocal Diptychs”. Carmon Colangelo’s new work muses about cultural narratives, urban life, human ecologies, globalism, social networking, transcendence, and recording everyday ideas. Glocal Diptychs is a series of seven mixed media prints produced in 2012 at Pele Prints in St. Louis. Each of the works is made from a shared matrix and printed on two sheets of paper using monotype, intaglio, relief process as well as hand-coloring. These prints expand on Colangelo’s interest in architectonic forms and the poetics of space with an eye to our changing notions about place and shifts between geographic location and local identity while contemplating a globalized future.
In the New Media Room, the gallery presents a video-interview of Alex Couwenberg by filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson. The short-film titled “The Making of La Fonda” is directed and produced by Swenson and, is part of an on-going series that focuses on artists’ lives and studio practices in Los Angeles. The music is by The Hitchikers, James Lucchesi, and Mick Cripps and video is 20:32 minutes long. More info can be found on his ongoing Los Angeles project at thuvanarts.com and the interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=prZ6aGRTWhg
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3721 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
314.531.3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
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