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Julie Davidow

Julie Davidow: The New Strain
February 16th – March 15th
Opening Reception: February 16th, 6-8 pm

The New Strain #3, 2008, gesso, acrylic, latex enamel, and enamel paint
on canvas, 48′ x 48″

Tarryn Teresa Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, G8A
Santa Monica CA 90404
310-453-4752

http://ww.tarrynteresa.com

Santa Monica, CA - Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present new work by Miami-based artist Julie Davidow. A self-described “frustrated scientist�, Davidow has been collecting specimens from the organic and inorganic worlds for her entire life. Motivated by an endless curiosity for the natural sciences and the systems that govern its functions, her paintings and drawings explore the relationship between these systems and the affect mankind’s existence and coinciding interference have on nature. As a result, Davidow’s imagery is drawn from biological, sexual, botanical, geological, cartographic, and architectural influences.

The exhibition consists of new paintings and drawings, including a site-specific wall drawing which connects the entire space and body of work. The co-infectious relationship between man and nature is explored in Davidow’s work, as each piece takes the viewer on a web-like journey through the natural evolution of growth and the infectious process. Each painting is a snap shot – a momentary glimpse of interaction. Biomorphic abstractions seep off the canvas and onto the walls, evoking various organisms glimpsed in a moment of transition, growth, reproduction, mutation, and conflict. Much like mitosis, the work references a point which expands and grows. It also appears to evolve through an intricate grid like system, spreading at a virulent pace.

The vivid color palette – a purposeful diversion from the insidious subject matter – now includes acid and fluorescent colors, as well as interference pigments suggesting the spectrum of color found in butterfly wings, bird feathers, beetles and sea shells. Earlier work was more pastel colored, but Davidow’s choice for an increasingly fiery color palette is timely, with the world in conflict, and the human footprint inescapable, the earth is undoubtedly a heated place. Intensified colors and more dynamic, complex visual maps are tempered with masses of flat color, referencing both the built environment encroaching on these systems and the subsequent retreat of regions considered too remote to be affected.

The web-like background of her paintings is created from a series of folding. The un-stretched canvas is painted with a layer of white gesso, and folded according to a predetermined composition. This ground invokes the body, creating a “skinâ€� on which the organisms and infectious agents evolve. Ghosts of cellular changes are revealed in the skin – previous battles won or lost; the scars of conflict. These “ghostsâ€� could also be indications of that which is emerging and stimulated by invasion. Most importantly, it is the history, the underlying architecture of the painting from which creation occurs and grows outwards. This creation is an intelligent force, referring to anything that has the innate ability to grow. The grid, which could also be described as a map of space – both real and conceptual - is fundamental to the overall work. It forms a complex and symbiotic relationship with the paint on its surface. Much like the topics her work explores, the artistâ!
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process and final product are also interdependent. We see cells, rivers, veins - even neurological webs, but regardless of what these images may or may not evoke, there are continual connections and oppositions. There are labyrinths of connectivity which relate to the fundamental order within chaos. Microcosm and macrocosm. Creation and disease. Creation, both positive and negative is a relentless force and Davidow’s work embodies this sense of unchecked growth. The implications on the body and the earth are vast and almost incomprehensible. Each painting or drawing could be occurring under a microscope or the depiction of vast solar systems in an infinite universe.

Left image, Flavia Da Rin, Untitled (happy prerafaelite girl), 2007, C-print, 11×14 inches, ed. 1. Right image, Tim Sullivan, The back room, 2007, C-print, 11×14 inches, ed. 1.

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

January 11 - February 8, 2008.
Opening Reception = Friday, January 11, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm.

“A picture never merely represents x, but rather represents x as a man or represents x to be a mountain, or represents the fact that x is a melon. What could be meant by copying a fact would be hard to grasp even if there were any such things as facts…â€�
[from Nelson Goodman’s Languages of Art (2nd Edition; Indianapolis and Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 1984), p 9]

fette’s gallery is delighted to present its new exhibition featuring the photographs of 23 artists working internationally.
Each artist were asked to take a self-portrait representing someone else. Each photograph is 11×14 inches, in a limited edition of 1 (+3 AP).

Michele Abeles (us), Melanie Bonajo (nl), Victor Boullet (ch), Clayton Cubitt (us), Flavia Da Rin (ar), Arnaud Delrue (fr), Amy Elkins (us), Roya Falahi (us), Thobias Fäldt (se), Carlee Fernandez (us), Kristian Haggblom (au), Anouk Kruithof (nl), Eva Lauterlein (ch), Zoren Gold & Minori (jp), Raphaël Neal (fr), Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (ch), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (us), Suellen Parker (us), Tim Sullivan (us), Erika Svensson (se), and Deanna Templeton (us).

A catalogue will be published for the occasion with an introductory essay by Dr. Gomez from the League of Imaginary Scientists.

fette’s gallery
4255 baldwin ave.
culver city, ca 90232

g. 310 559 7733
c. 310 494 1588
contact@fette-gallery.com
http://www.fette-gallery.com

wed. to sat. | 11am to 5 pm

fette’s gallery at Robert Berman Gallery, November 13, 2007.

FETTE’S GALLERY CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH AN EXCLUSIVE EVENING OF NEW WORK, MUSIC, DRINKS AND HORS D’OEUVRES

Robert Berman Gallery to host affair on November 13, 2007.

On November 13, 2007, Culver City-based fette’s gallery will mark its one-year anniversary with an evening of engaging visual art and deserved celebration. This single-evening event and exhibition will be hosted by and take place at Robert Berman Gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. In keeping with fette’s gallery’s objective of presenting compelling new work from both sides of the Atlantic, the event will feature an exhibition of artist-curated solo and collaborative pieces by both American and European artists. DJ sets curated by Little Radio (Los Angeles) and Le Prince de Blois (Paris) and catered food and drinks will round out this not-to-be-missed intersection of celebration and visual exploration.

Featured artists for the fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary event include Reed Anderson (de), Jonathan Ballak (us), Lauren Bride (ca), Martha Colburn (us), Emmeline de Mooij (nl), Anne de Vries (nl), Daniel Eatock (us), Frédéric Fleury (fr), Stefan Guggisberg (de), Matt King (us), Steven Le Priol (fr), Chad Liebenguth (us), Jaring Lokhorst (nl), Eddie Martinez (us), Roland Moreau (fr), Gina Osterloh (us), David Ostrowski (de), Emmanuelle Pidoux (fr), Maegan Reid (us), Rebecca Saylor Sack (us), Sarah Smith (us), Levi van Veluw (nl), Porous Walker (us). A number of artists will create collaborative pieces, including: Anoush Abrar (ch) and Aimee Hoving (ch); Catrin Altenbrandt (de) and Adrien Niesler (de); and Sandrine Pelletier (fr/ch), Justin Morin (ch) and Erwan Frotin (ch).
John Copeland (us) will create a site-specific mural exclusively for the occasion.

The work will be on-view for this one special night only, and all work is available for sale. As with all fette’s gallery shows, 10% of the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders.

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary is thankful for the participation of its sponsors:
media sponsors Flavorpill, Artkrush, Little Radio, and Vernissage TV; alcohol sponsors Chimay, Absolut and Starbucks Liqueur; and the support of the Consulate General of the Netherlands.

The Flog and the road to fette’s gallery.

In April 2005, French visual artist Fette launched her blog The Flog to connect with the LA’s flourishing art scene and to promote the work of the region’s artists. Eighteen months later on October 20, 2006, she opened fette’s gallery to public and critical acclaim with the inaugural show I Know You, But You Don’t Know Me. Since then, Fette’s Culver City-based gallery has presented exhibitions, film projections and performances that remain true to the gallery’s mission: to stand as an independent laboratory to generate new dialogues between artists working both in and outside of California.
Over the past year, fette’s gallery has also come to play a vital role in Southern California’s dynamic art scene-the role of the cutting-edge creative space. According to gallerist Robert Berman, who owns a Bergamot Station gallery by the same name, “Los Angeles needs an underground, and fette’s gallery is the ultimate underground art scene-the gallery is hard to find, but once you get there you’re truly inspired by her choices.”

Celebrating the past, looking to the future.

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary is a exclamation point to a successful first year, and a harbinger of a very busy year ahead-a sign that Fette and her gallery are moving in a positive direction. In addition to assembling an exciting array of exhibitions for 2008, fette’s gallery is honored to be a part of a number of upcoming fairs and projects: Fette was recently invited by Chung King Project to exhibit work at the gallery’s booth during the Zoo Art Fair in London in early October; fette’s gallery will be showing in room 105 at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami this December; and Fette has been invited to participate in Project(O?), an international side-event of Art Rotterdam organized by MAMA in February 2008.

WHAT

fette’s gallery One-Year Anniversary–a single evening artist-curated exhibition celebrating the one-year anniversary of Culver City-based fette’s gallery. Music, food and drinks will round out an evening of art celebration and exploration.

WHEN

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
8pm to 1am

WHERE

Robert Berman Gallery / MAP
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue D5/C2
Santa Monica, CA 90404

FOR MORE INFORMATION

All press inquiries should go to Brent Turner at 323-244-5058 or brent@thecampbellspr.com

http://www.fette-gallery.com/exhibitions/one_year_anniversary.php

ball-point pen on paper, 26 x 25.5 inches. Right image, David Ostrowski, Untitled, 2007, oil on cotton, 31.5 x 23.6 inches.

Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up
Erica Eyres

How to Look at Homegrown Terror
David Ostrowski

November 2 - December 22, 2007.
Opening Reception | Friday, November 2, 2007, 6-9 pm.
Both artists will be present.

fette’s gallery
http://www.fette-gallery.com
contact@fette-gallery.com
+001 310 559-7733
4255 Baldwin Ave.
Culver City, CA 90232

fette’s gallery is delighted to present the double-solo show of Erica Eyres (ca/uk) and David Ostrowski (de).

Born 1980 in Winnipeg, Canada, Erica Eyres received her BFA with honors from the University of Manitoba in 2002. In 2004 she completed her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Erica Eyres at Rokeby, London, I Love You But I Hate You at The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and most recently, Erica Eyres at the Kunsthaus Erfurt in Germany. Her video work has been screened internationally and has most recently been featured during Cinematique, Winnipeg, Birdo Flugas in Japan, the Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal, the Media Waves Film Festival, Akureyri in Iceland, and the Media Waves Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary.

David Ostrowski was born 1981 in Cologne, Germany. In 2003 along with artist Ali Khashaei he founded the artists collective We Are Porn which features european based artists discussing the aesthetics of pornography. Since 2004, he has been studying at the Academy of Fine Art, Düsserldorf, Germany.
Ostrowski has been shown prominently all throughout Germany. His recent solo exhibitions include 15 Minuten at Alexa Jansen Galerie, Cologne which published a catalogue for the occasion and Hulk vs. Hulk at Acapulco, Düsseldorf, with Max Frintrop. His work was featured at the 2007 Auction of the Neuer Aachener Kunstberein in Aachen, Art Rotterdam and Art Brussel.

This is the art

Karl Benjamin, #17, 1970, oil on canvas, 56 3/4 x 56 3/4 inches

Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Dance the Line Paintings by Karl Benjamin. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 29 with a reception for the artist from 6-9 pm and continues through Saturday, December 22, 2007.

Infinite would indeed seem to be the appropriate word for the extraordinary range and virtuosity of Karl Benjamin’s work. A dazzling practitioner of what critic Jules Langsner termed hard edge painting and one of the four artists featured in the landmark 1959 Abstract Classicists exhibition, Benjamin fills each canvas with meticulously orchestrated color. Throughout his exemplary 50-year career, Benjamin has re-defined the flat planes of his canvases with an infectious joie de vivre and a ruthlessly disciplined technique. Stripes morph into op art eye candy. Column-like shapes deconstruct themselves as if they were exploding stars. Circles re-align themselves with verticals to create rhythmic sequences worthy of the silkiest jazz imaginable. His intuitive sensitivity to the peculiar union of form and color produces works that defy reason and return the viewer to the singular delight of seeing.

The artist’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is included in a number of prestigious international private and public collections. Karl Benjamin is represented exclusively by Louis Stern Fine Arts. This exhibitions is accompanied by a hard bound, full color 125 page catalogue with text by Dave Hickey.

For further information contact Marie Chambers or Jenise Ramos.

Left image, Adrien Missika, Untitled, from the series Safari Classique, 2006, C-print, ed. 3, 18 x 24 cm - Right image, Aya Saito, Untitled, 2007, Oil, acrylic and China ink on paper, 135 x 119 cm.

Le Flâneur.
Joshua Callaghan, Christopher Davison, Christiane Feser, Bas Louter, Adrien Missika, Aya Saito, and Ami Tallman.

September 7 - October 13, 2007.
Opening Reception for the Artists | Friday, September 7, 2007, 6-9 pm.

http://www.fette-gallery.com

fette’s gallery is delighted to present Le Flâneur, a group show with Joshua Callaghan (us), Christopher Davison (us), Christiane Feser (de), Bas Louter (nl), Adrien Missika (ch), Aya Saito (jp), and Ami Tallman (us).

For this exhibition, we invited seven artists to visually discuss their relation with the flâneur - a 19th century character portrayed by the French as a well dressed man, strolling through the Parisian arcades to pass the time, free to explore his surroundings to gather inspirational substance.
According to Walter Benjamin, the flâneur rose to prominence primarily because of an architectural change in the city. While Baron Haussmann was redesigning boulevards and tearing up many of the old twisting streets, the flâneur became the anonymous face in this revived crowd.

Re-defining flânerie in a current context within the Los Angeles boundaries appears quite foolish, yet it is rather compelling.
While the urban sprawl that is the city of LA remains fairly discouraging to the strolling of the Beaudelarian character, it still allows for a new genre of wandering poetry to be generated. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, Charles Bukowski and Andrea Zittel, whose work is heavily influenced by the atmosphere of their surroundings and daily routines, come to mind. The anonymity, compartmentation and luxurious façade of the vast LA suburban area greatly influenced new artistic vocabularies.

With this new exhibition we will gather alternative meanings associated with the historical flâneur in this current context of changes.

Los Angeles based Joshua Callaghan re-appropriates plastic and other found objects and solicits the viewers to reshape their experiences toward the medium. Often cynical, Callaghan’s installations ressemble allegoric landscapes from consumers’ reports. For this show, the artist will create a site specific installation revising the concept of flânerie from a suburban point of view.
Callaghan was recently included in the group show Rogue Wave ‘07 at LA Louver.

Christopher Davison is based in Philadelphia where he graduated last year from Tyler School of Art. His body of work includes mostly drawings and paintings on paper, their colorful and naive quality resonating within the narrative. Inspired by Bosch, his pieces carry layers of dark humor and disturbing accounts.
Davison’s work was recently included in two paper based group shows, one at Tower Gallery in Philadelphia and another at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen.

Christiane Feser lives in Germany. She takes photographs which she subtly alters digitally to question our aptitude to recognize truth and habits. The two images featured in the show are from the series Strassen (Roads) in which traces of the human interaction between the inside and the outside have been removed. By reducing the buildings and roads to their surface, these landscape describe new journeys and unfamiliar uses.
She recently received the Charlotte Prinz Fellowship from the city of Darmstadt in Germany.

Often, the protagonists drawn by Amsterdam based artist Bas Louter, are depictions of power and absurd arrogance. For this show, Louter will present a new charcoal drawing on paper. The character in this piece, although fictional, carries the aesthetic of the classic surrealist’s muse. She posses the attributes of a willful, dark, yet sensitive and imaginative individual. One can reflect on her radiance and witness the changes her historical figure embodies.
The artist just had his first solo show at fette’s gallery which was in part founded by a grant from the Fonds BKVB.

Adrien Missika will present four photographs from his series Safari Classique. These intimate sized works picture the wild dioramas, sans animals, which one can observe at the Natural History Museum in New York. These inanimate sceneries reflect on our aptitude to romanticize, yet organize our surroundings.
Missika just graduated from ecal in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is his first show in the US.

Japanese artist Aya Saito creates large oil, acrylic and ink works on paper. By mixing these mediums, she achieves an intricate and expressionist palimpsest of texture and matter. Often dark and engaged, her work grabs the viewer to question what he recognizes.
A catalogue of her recent work was recently published by Little More. Last year, she participated in the 8th Gunma Biennial for Young Artist at the Museum of Modern Art of Gunma, Japan.

Los Angeles based Ami Tallman draws opulent interiors and failed aristocratic gatherings. She colorfully rewrites history, combining elements of decor, ornamented generals, politicians in drag and disappearing fame.
For this exhibition, she will present new works on paper.
Her work was recently shown at Cirrus Gallery’s Naive Set Theory group show curated by Catherine Taft and was also included in the last MOCA’s silent auction. 2nd Cannons also published a book of her drawing.

Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)

UNKNOWN FORCES: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Opening reception: April 18, 6 – 9pm
Artist’s talk at 6:30pm
Exhibition dates: April 19 –
June 17, 2007

http://www.redcat.org

In UNKNOWN FORCES, commissioned by REDCAT, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has invited two of his regular actors – Sakda Kaewbuadee from Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, FAITH, and numerous shorts; and Jenjira Pongpas, from Blissfully Yours, Iron Pussy, and Syndromes and a Century – to travel on a pickup truck along a highway. According to Weerasethakul, “The act is a tribute to our land and our countrymen after the political maelstrom of 2006.” This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S., and the world premiere of the four-channel installation.

Says Weerasethakul, “UNKNOWN FORCES is also for the hard workers and hard drinkers of the northeast, my home region, who are the root of Thailand’s booming real estate. These construction workers are hauled around by contractors from one construction site to another, roaming cities and villages. Thailand’s landscape is shaped by these nomadic souls on pickup trucks. Like many actors I know, the workers have resided in a hierarchic system for so long that they are voiceless and are assigned to be part of an apolitical species…On many occasions I feel I am part of this pickup truck syndrome, fueled by a strange cocktail of politics, monarchy, and religion.”

Internationally recognized for his work in experimental and narrative cinema including Mysterious Objects at Noon (2000), Blissfully Yours (2002), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006), Weerasethakul’s films explore perception, impermanence, and the imaginary, cultivating fanciful potential within the mundane. Urban, rural, and galactic locations accentuate the aloneness of man in his environment and isolation from others. Abstract interchanges in Weerasethakul’s film and video installations interrogate conventions of the dramatic narrative while exploring desire, reality, and a kind of melancholy perhaps peculiar to our times. His exhibition at REDCAT includes June screenings of several feature and short films in the theater (see schedule below).

Unknown Forces: Apichatpong Weerasethakul is funded in part by the Asian Cultural Council; Camera Corner, Bangkok; North Star World, Bangkok; and Siamlite Film Service, Bangkok. Additional support provided by James Thompson Foundation, Bangkok; R23; and Smallroom, Bangkok.

Weerasethakul Screenings June 4, 6, 8, & 9, 8pm:
Mon, June 4: Mysterious Object at Noon, 2000 (35mm/screened on DVD, TRT: 83 mins)
Wed, June 6: Blissfully Yours, 2002 (35mm film, TRT: 125 mins)
Fri, June 8: Recent short works –
Anthem, 2006 (35mm, 5 mins)
FAITH, 2006 (video, 11 mins)
Ghost of Asia, 2005 (video, 8:30 mins)
Worldly Desires, 2005 (video, 40 mins)
Luminous People, 2007 (video, 15:22 mins)
Sat, June 9: Tropical Malady, 2004 (35mm film, TRT: 118 mins)

Gallery hours: noon–6 pm or curtain, closed Mondays
All screenings subject to change, please go to http://www.redcat.org or call +1.213.237.2800 to confirm screenings and to order tickets.

REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA

For more information go to: http://www.redcat.org

DADDY

DADDY
Number 1, 96 pages

http://www.daddythemagazine.com

Javier Peres is very pleased to present the inaugural issue of DADDY, a quarterly journal of art published in an edition of 2000.

DADDY is an image-based publication made just for you.

DADDY is available at Peres Projects Los Angeles (969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, California, US); Peres Projects Berlin (Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin, Germany); Art Metropole, Toronto; The MOCA Store, Los Angeles; Printed Matter, Inc., NY; PRO QM, Berlin, Germany.

For further information or reproductions please contact Kathy Garcia at tel. (213) 617-1100 or daddy@daddythemagazine.com

For more information go to: http://www.daddythemagazine.com

“Explosion # 14″, 2006, Pencil on paper, Diptych, detail

Venice Biennale 2007
June 10, 2007-November 21, 2007

Charles Gaines will be included in the upcoming Venice Biennale, opening June 10, 2007. Gaines’s work was chosen by Robert Storr, the director of this year’s Biennale. A highly influential artist and teacher, Gaines has been living in Los Angeles since 1989. For his exhibition at the Arsenale, Gaines will present “Airplanecrashclock”, a seminal sculpture from the series of “Disaster Narratives” which Gaines developed over the last decade. New and ambitiously scaled drawings from the “Randomized Text” and “Explosion” series will condense an artistic interest that has for more than a decade focused on laying bare the social relationships between feeling and intellectual recognition. Gaines is interested in critiquing the way we experience art, and particularly how we derive meaning and the experience of feeling from it. Gaines’ complex explorations attempt to reveal the political underpinnings of artistic representation by laying bare the linguistic structures that form truth/meaning and feeling. By understanding that feeling is produced in art rhetorically, Gaines shows that the truthfulness of any expression is politically realized, that it is an expression of political belief rather than truth.

A 1967 graduate with an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Charles Gaines began his professional career in 1972. He has had over 50 one person exhibitions and several hundred group exhibitions in the US and Europe. In the early 70s he was included in 1975 Whitney Biennial. He joined the Leo Castelli Gallery and the John Weber Gallery in New York in 1977. In addition, he has been represented by Young Hoffman, Chicago; Daniel Weinberg, San Francisco; Dorothy Goldeen, Los Angeles; Richard Heller, Los Angeles; Lavignes-Bastille, Paris; and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. He has been in group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria (2-person exhibition); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla. He is in the collection of many major museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Wadsworth Atheneum, Harford, Connecticut; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen; Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany. Recently, he has had a two-person show at the RedCat Gallery, Los Angeles, with Edgar Arceneaux, and a one person show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. He is currently preparing a solo exhibition at LA><ART in Los Angeles for July 2007. Charles Gaines has also published several essays on contemporary art, he is a full time faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts. He is presently represented by SusanneVielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; Michael Kapinos Gallery, Berlin; Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart; Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco.

More information can be found on the gallery webpage at http://www.vielmetter.com

For further questions please contact the gallery at info@vielmetter.com.

Amy Bennett Neighbors
January 6 ­ February 10, 2007

Opening reception: January 6, 2007 5 ­ 7 pm

RICHARD HELLER GALLERY
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave. B-5A
Santa Monica, CA 90404
T 310.453.9191 F 310.453.2791
www.richardhellergallery.com

Richard Heller Gallery presents new oil paintings by Brooklyn based artist
Amy Bennett. These works consist of various scenarios unfolding within an
imaginary suburban neighborhood. Bennett has created a tabletop scale model
on which the paintings are based.

³The model becomes a stage on which to develop the psychological
implications of belonging to a particular family, with all of its dramas,
struggles and familiar routines. I think: this tree will be taken down after
an old man crashes into it; a father will transform this lawn into an ice
skating rink; this house will be abandoned after its residents are
scandalized on the evening news.² - Amy Bennett

This is Amy¹s debut solo show in Los Angeles. She also shows with Galleri
Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden.

For further information please contact the Richard Heller Gallery
art@richardhellergallery.com