Group Exhibition at TAG Gallery
June 17, 2017
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

TAG Gallery
5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036


Tuesday, June 13th – Saturday, July 8th
Go Woon Choi – Daldongne
Paul Ivanushka – Carrizo Plain
Camey McGilvray – My Favorite Things

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 17th, 2017 from 5 – 8PM

Artist Panel Discussion:
Saturday, June 17th, 2017 at 3PM

Go Woon Choi – Daldongne

Artist Go Woon Choi’s newest exhibition at TAG Gallery entitled Daldongne explores the beauty and possibilities of every day objects. Analyzing the mundane and often overlooked, Choi’s artistry is drawn from the interesting forms of the common objects around her. Her sensibility has now led Choi to find purpose and beauty in what she calls ‘the town of shacks’. Exploring and expanding on her interest in the structural and sometimes abstract nature of architecture, the town of shacks symbolizes `the warm memory of my childhood` and `vanished things that will not exist anymore’. Buildings and apartments filled out the city, and she painted this in various ways from her perspective.

Choi’s interest in mundane, everyday items is rooted in her ideology that “even common objects can appear strong and fantastic under different light conditions and environments, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary visual experiences with repetition and variation. The light changes on the surface to give an impression of constant motion, sharing the process of its becoming. Henceforth ordinary objects can provoke intense emotions of strength and energy.

Paul Ivanushka – Carrizo Plain

“The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles long and up to 15 miles across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.”

Over the last 3 years it has provided artist Paul Ivanushka with a studio allowing him to scratch the itch of a passion for landscape photography.

Once a major producer of grain from 1890 to about 1950, agricultural economics and a alkaline water supply found farming the Carrizo Plain to be no longer viable and its equipment and buildings no longer needed and subsequently left behind…. abandoned and left to the elements to decay.

Ivanushka found the aging process of rubber, wood, and metal on 30 to 80-year-old farm equipment naturally created interesting textures, tonalities and design. Switching recently from black and white to color (film) opened a whole new world of visualization. To this end, he now uses the subject as a vehicle for color rather than the color as an augmentation to the subject.

Most important recent legislation is opening the Carrizo Plain, a National Park, to development, off road vehicles, oil drilling and such. Through this body of work, Ivanushka is attempting to record its last days as a sublime and remote grassland plain.

Camey McGilvray – My Favorite Things

Artist Camey McGilvray’s Favorite Things is a collection of wood and metal wall sculptures and freestanding sculptures. McGilvray’s artwork is primarily evocative rather than representational, challenging the contemporary viewer with the subtle play of the literal and the illusionistic. The components of these assemblages are specifically created or selected to advance the narrative of each piece. Components are created from scratch using sheets of plywood, aluminum, or salvaged from McGilvray’s large treasure trove of found objects and subsequently recycled into new creations.

Favorite Things continues the artist’s strong focus on line and the employment of color fields (mostly primaries) in her work. Ideas are always started as line drawings or purely imagined geometric shapes. McGilvray then translates said concepts into wood and metal to form the hard edges of the composition. Rich, broad fields of solid colors are applied to the components in a flat, shaded manner then assembled into the final piece, always taking advantage of light and the shadows formed by the juxtaposition of each piece’s individual parts.

McGilvray feels a personal relationship to all of these Favorite Things, as they represent the coming together of the idea and the reality. The joy of creating art is, after all, in the process, which she refers to as a beautiful journey that gives outward expression to what was once only imagined.

TAG Gallery
Established in 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation, TAG Gallery is a member-owned community of forty artists. Through the physical gallery in Miracle Mile as well as lectures from exhibiting and visiting artists, TAG Gallery has become a valuable resource for launching the careers of both emerging and mid-career artists based in the greater Los Angeles area. For more information about TAG Gallery, please visit www.taggallery.net.

CONTACTS

TAG Gallery – www.taggallery.net
Rakeem Cunningham, (310) 829-9556, gallery@taggallery.net


5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036

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