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COLOUR FACTORY – first solo photo exhibition of Marzena Gregier

Posted on 25 September 2009.

COLOUR FACTORY
first solo photo exhibition of Marzena Gregier 

Place:
Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35, 1016
TN Amsterdam, Netherlands

OPENING:  10.10.2009 , 17:00-19:00
Exhibition open till 7 of November. 

www.gallerywm.com

email: gallery@gallerywm.com

Work of Marzena Gregier is close to painting.
Thanks to innate intuition, the artist makes
use of her surroundings and picks up urban
motifs to compose rythms and patterns which
strike us with intense colour. Marzena's domain
is strong, southern sunlight which forms deep
shadows and intensifies hues of photographed
objects. In these paintings, framed by the
camera lens, we may feel human presence
-- sometimes it is hinted as a shadow on a wall
 or by a silhouette walking along passages of
subway; by an inscription on a mailbox or by
products of human labour which are "portrayed"
by Marzena Gregier. These photo-paintings may
be created only by the artist who constantly
revels in life, surprised by its multicoloured
diversity.
(by Tomasz Zając)

www.marzenagregier.blogspot.com

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MICHELE CARLSON ‘Relics and Warnings’

Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: C E R A S O L I g a l l e r y, DEREK ALBECK & FRENCH, HELLOVON, MICHELE CARLSON, Relics and Warnings, Semblance, The Initiation

C E R A S O L I g a l l e r y – For Immediate Release

MICHELE CARLSON ‘Relics and Warnings’

HELLOVON ‘Semblance’

DEREK ALBECK & FRENCH ‘The Initiation’

September 19 – October 14, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19, 6-9pm

C E R A S O L I gallery 8530- b Washington Blvd. Culver City,CA 90232
Tue- Sat 11am – 6pm / Tel. 310 954 5974 / contact@cerasoligallery.com
http://www.cerasoligallery.com http://cerasoligallery.blogspot.com

image: hellovon

C E R A S O L I Gallery is pleased to present MICHELE CARLSON ‘Relics and Warnings’ solo exhibition in Gallery One, HELLOVON ‘Semblance’ in Gallery Two, and DEREK ALBECK & FRENCH ‘The Initiation’ in Gallery Three at the Cerasoli Gallery (8530-B Washington Blvd in Culver City). Opens September 19, 2009, and remains on view through October 14, 2009.

Michele Carlson’s ‘Relics and Warnings’ is an exploration through collaged drawings of the spaces between history, memory, loss, and collectivity. Carlson’s surrealistic images of raven-haired women adorned in fabrics rich with ethnic patterns acting out the iconography of the artist’s own secret mythologies are visually seductive, interpersonal tableaux. Drawn to the allegories of lost cities and the relationship those myths have on contemporary diasporic communities, Carlson’s works symbolize imagined forgotten cultures of faraway homelands. Invoking graffiti art practices, hip hop culture, homespun altar memorials, and cautionary fables, Carlson’s work delves into the detritus of the collision of contradictory sociopolitical ideas, where the valorization of certain lifestyles and memories becomes blurred with its victims’ fates. Carlson holds an MFA in Printmaking, MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts, and she also holds her BFA in Printmaking and BAs in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and American History from the University of Washington.

Wispy, luminous, and waif-like, the portraits in HelloVon’s ‘Semblance’ show at Cerasoli Gallery gaze openly at viewers with the curiosity and allure of striking strangers with whom fantastic adventures may be possible. Engaging, beautiful, and tantalizingly untouchable, Von’s subjects seem born from a malleable reality, perhaps composed while amiably daydreaming. The drawings in ‘Semblance’ are indicative of Von’s fascination with image construction, form, distortion and the process of drawing itself. Utilizing a blend of traditional and digital mark making techniques, Von’s original drawings have been featured as part of Creative Review’s award-winning Monograph series and featured on billboards from London to New York in the Migration exhibition, adopted by Liberty of London for their relaunch and appeared on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week as part of the Trussardi A/W 09 collection. HelloVon is the globally branded studio of London-based illustrator and artist Von. Von’s work has been exhibited at The London Design Museum and featured in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the New York Times and Esquire. ‘Semblance’ will be Von’s debut solo show in Los Angeles.

Derek Albeck and French’s ‘The Initiation’ in Gallery Three consists of works in a variety of medias, including drawings, serigraphs, video and a small installation. With a shared interest in the occult, Albeck and French explore the idea of an initiation rite as interpreted by two artists working in different techniques and with unique conceptual ideas. The works are mutual investigations of forms of transformation and passage as rites of initiation, as well as tongue-in-cheek meditations on extreme music, such as a metal song by the band Inquisition.

Derek Albeck lives and works in Los Angeles developing complex figurative works influenced by his background in graphic printmaking. His work has been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. French is an artist from South East England whose love of metal music, history and story-telling informs his often dark artwork. He has exhibited in the UK, France, Denmark, Sweden, the U.S., Australia and Israel.

C E R A S O L I gallery is located at 8530- b Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 For additional information email to: contact@cerasoligallery.com or Tel. (310) 954 5974 Website: http://www.cerasoligallery.com

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US FUTURE STATES: AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL IMPERIALISM

Posted on 12 September 2009.

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 12, 2009 6 – 9 pm

Exhibition Dates
September 12 – November 7, 2009

Dan Mills

US FUTURE STATES: AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL IMPERIALISM

SHERRY FRUMKIN GALLERY is pleased to present US FUTURE STATES: AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL IMPERIALISM, a solo exhibition of works by artist Dan Mills opening September 12, 2009 with a reception for the artist from 6 – 9 pm. The exhibition continues through November 7, 2009.

Us Future States began as a visual/text exercise in early March 2003 between the US war with Afghanistan and the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. In this bitingly satirical series of works on paper Mills discovered “that by conceptually pushing this global stance a little further, it was possible to justify taking over almost any country.” So he did.
In these 35 works, the US of America (USA) expands with the US Global (USG) and morphs into US Empire (USE).

The exhibition is in conjunction with the release of the AMERICAN EDITION of US Future States ATLAS published by Perceval Press. The artist will be present at the opening and will sign copies of the book.

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