UNITARD (the TREEHOUSE GALLERY’S sister space) is having an exciting opening this Saturday, September 22nd. Hope to see you all there!
What you missed – 1st Annual Juried show
In case you were unable to attend the 1st Annual Juried show, we put together this video of opening night. If you like what you see, please come visit the gallery. The show is still up and we welcome you all to come and check it out.
Enjoy!
Coming September 14th
Coming September 14th to the TREEHOUSE gallery
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.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
We hosted the YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL project at the TREEHOUSE gallery in october of 2005. For this show the YAB crew flew in from Chicago and we had an outdoor exhibition of work submitted from around the world. At the end of the show, all the work (which was required to say “you are beautiful”) was installed throughout the city streets of LA. One piece from the show was a 30′x8′ YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL which was suspended by ropes in front of the gallery. After the show the huge letters were installed under the 10 freeway on Olympic blvd. In the two years that the letters have been up, they have be broken, fixed, vandalized and repainted by the city or unknown people. We were sent this video by an anonymous friend. Though we would host the video on our Youtube for you all to enjoy. Next time your coming to the gallery keep your eyes peeled for the new updated YOU-ARE-BEAUTIFUL.com
JURIED SHOW – THIS SATURDAY
PLEASE JOIN US THIS STARUDAY AUGUST 25th:
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.
www.thgallery.com
INSTALLATION PHOTOS
Treehouse video blog #1
So I am going to try and post a video here for the first time. We decided to video-ize all the Treehouse gallery show openings for people to check out. This fist version is from Dola’s piece from August 11th. For those who don’t know, Dola is the TREEHOUSE gallerys newest resident artists. For her first show she performed a solo dance in the gallery space. The only lightly for the piece were a few candles which didnt translate well to video, but none the less you can see some of her 15 min piece in this video. Also Readymade magazine was all up in the gallery taking photos for their new issue. Check out the October edition for a piece on the THGALLERY! Ok with no further adeu -
NEW PHOTO SET
The Artist, originally uploaded by thetreehousegallery.
I just uploaded a photo set of the show I had at UNITARD (aplacecalledunitard.com) in June. Cruse over to our flicker site and check them out.
Random image of the day
Heres another blast from the past.
From Left to Right -
Steve Sueoka
Katsuo Design
Zen Sekizawa
Rory Wilson
From the show “NEVER DIE JUST MULTIPLY”
OUR MAGNIFICENT WORLD
Random image of the day!
This is a photo from Ryan Jacob-Smiths solo show at the treehouse entitled “OUR MAGNIFICENT WORLD” Check out more of Ryan’s work at – http://ryanjacobsmith.com/ and watch the TREEHOUSE gallery blog for new photos of the amazing work from the show.
NEW TREEHOUSE DOOR IMAGE
Treehouse mascot, Sven Barth, Just finished painting the rolldown door.
FLAVOR!
