EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Red Lips, War Paint, Half a Horse
Treehouse gallery is pleased to announce the opening of J. Damron’s new installation; Red Lips, War Paint, Half a Horse. This mixed media installation includes two eleven foot drawings, a large kinetic sculpture, and other objects. This is J. Damron’s first solo show in Los Angeles, and Treehouse invites all to welcome this interesting artist to our community. Please join us Saturday October 20, 2007 @ 7pm.
Bio:
J.Damron lives and works in the high desert and the Sierra Nevada. He finished his graduate studies in the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute in May of 1998.
Currently J.Damron holds an assistant professorship at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe, a private liberal arts college. His work has been shown in galleries nationally.
What J.Damron says about this project:
Recently I have been considering the difference between a monster and a giant, the potential that lies between, the difficulty in the difference between chocolate and honey. My work has also been occupying a ground between personal ritual and play.
The objects, images and performance are not necessarily at the service of metaphor, and I can’t seem to abandon beauty in the presence of concept.
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September 14th, 2007
Sarah Rossiter’s first solo show in Los Angeles opens September 14th at Treehouse Gallery in downtown L.A. The installation includes large-scale photographs viewed from a walkway surrounded by water.
Primarily known for her photography and video work, Rossiter has for the first time created an immersive environment in the gallery within which to consider systems of representation and transformation. At the entrance of the darkened gallery is a raised plywood pathway, surrounded by water. The walls are lined with dramatically lit 8×10 foot images – an opulent flowering tree, thin branches against the evening sky, thick green reeds in a city park, a classical church
ceiling.
This combination of water and photographic elements within the space creates a charged dynamic, impeding the viewers’ desire to move closer to the image while preventing them from separating themselves from the whole. The curiosity of encountering water in an art gallery and the mysteriousness of the darkened room turns the installation into a theatrical event whose artifice is countered by the vibrant realism of the photographs.
Gallery hours: Saturdays 1-5pm, or by appointment: (323) 637-3267
FOR MORE INFORMATION: info@sarahrossiter.com / www.sarahrossiter.com
Artist Biography
Sarah Rossiter was born in 1970 in Ithaca, NY and currently lives & works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in 2005 from Mills College School of Art in Oakland, California, and in 1993, her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Solo shows of her work have been presented at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, Thomas Erben Gallery in New York, and Xavier Fiol Gallery in Mallorca, Spain. And in 2003 she was invited to create a site-specific work in Amden, Switzerland.
Most recently, her work was included in Intersections, a public art installation project in Los Angeles funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. Rossiter’s photography and video work have also been featured in various group exhibitions in New York, including the Andrea Rosen Gallery and American Fine Arts Co., the di Rosa Preserve for Art & Nature in California, and internationally at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels and Friesenwall 120, Cologne.
In 1992 Rossiter co-founded Art Club 2000, a student collaboration with NY art dealer Colin DeLand, and in 1997 she founded Velocity Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Reviews and articles on Rossiter have appeared in various publications including Artforum, New York Arts Magazine, and The New York Times.
This fall she will be travelling to Berlin to make a film.
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1st Annual Juried Show
Treehouse Gallery welcomes juror, Jorge J. Pardo’s survey of Emerging U.S. artists, fifteen in all from across the disciplines, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed media installation to participate in a group show.
Selected Artists:
Cal Crawford, Andre Woodward, Jocelyn Foye, Sojung Kwon, Cheryl Gilge, David Horvitz, John Sisley, Kate Casey, Mathew Bryant, Orrie King, Sayon Syrasoeuth, Theresa Masangkay, Tony Brown, Brendan Threadgill, Camilo Cruz
Show opens August 25 @ 7pm-11pm. Exhibition runs through September 8.
Viewing after August 25 by appointment only: 530.320.8057
About the Juror:
A native of Cuba, he spent much of his formative years in Mexico, Peru and Guatemala. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. As an architect he has won honor awards from the Texas Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects. A practicing artist, his artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries nation-wide. He is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California Fine Arts Department Public Art Studies Program.
Jorge Pardo is also Art & Design Manager for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro Art Program. Established in 1989, the program has garnered over 40 awards and commissioned over 250 artists for a wide variety of permanent and temporary artwork projects encompassing rail and bus stations, transit facilities, bus interiors, streetscapes, construction fences and poetry readings and performances.
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