Art Exhibition:
“The Nature of Things”
Exhibition Dates: June 3, thru July 5, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10, 2017 Time: 4pm to 7pm
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Mike Kelley Gallery Presents
“The Nature of Things”
The Mike Kelley Gallery invites three artists to celebrate “The Nature of Things”. In a world currently filled with uncertainties the attention to ‘all things Nature’ allows us a freedom of, and connection to the differences in our world. Each day we are called on to make choices about how to live, to be. A showing-up for the not so simple phenomena of the physical world, landscapes, animals, plants; the not so easy human condition man-made structures, social rules; and the never superficial inherent beauty of things—their sense of magic. Each with a language of its own when perception gets a hold on our soul, and we can’t look away from what they demand of us. Art has a way of saving “things” from extinction, even if it’s just a simple, easy, depth of a new color, sound, distraction from—there is nothing so compelling when it comes to an artistic view.
Gallery A: Lillian Abel, “Energy”
Gallery B: Tracey Weiss, “Metamorphosis”
Gallery C: Karrie Ross, “Balance & Flow”
Gallery A: Lillian Abel
“Energy” My work depicts Nature, however, it is made in my studio from memory, impulse and emotions. They are abstracted by the palette knife, searching for hidden worlds and images in the paint that reveal on the picture plane. They need to be uncovered, stroked, massaged and moved onto the surface, brought up from where they are hiding; surprising me with their ability to come forth when called by my hand. Revealing the recognized of our ‘world sight’ as unrecognizable, opening the eye of the witness to the experienced memory of the coalescence of fierceness and delicacy in the wilderness. Beginning from the darkness, moving to find hidden worlds that lay just beyond the edge of our awareness, calling the unexplored knowledge of the unseen.
Lillian Abel is a Los Angeles based artist who creates paintings that provoke a response to the unknown.
Gallery B: Tracey Weiss
“Metamorphosis” is an investigation into the innate cycle of nature, as well as our own society. Seasons, life cycles, survival of the fittest: these are all terms we come to know as relating to wildlife, ecology, and the natural world around us. These terms also play an important role in our man-made world of industry, advancement, and even sociology. While 35mm slides left the mainstream in the late 1970s as every household’s record of their summer vacation, slide film had an extended life in the art world and academia. Artists’ portfolios were captured in slides well into the late 1990’s and even into the early 21st century for some. Since the digital film has taken over, slide portfolios and slide libraries have been collecting dust in artist studios and educational institutions everywhere. In the work in “Metamorphosis”, viewers are invited to view these miniature, framed images as objects unto themselves, evolving from an outdated photography medium to a new sculpture medium.
Tracey Weiss is a Long Beach based artist who creates sculpture from found objects, as well as ceramics.
Gallery C: Karrie Ross
“Balance & Flow” continues the questions for how exposure to higher vibrations, deep thinking, and taking actions are able to twist perception and create the ability to make conscious choices affecting growth on the cellular level. Art is a powerful influencer. Art that encourages choice creates a kinetic pull in such a way that it takes the action of ‘walking away’ from it to realize something changed and a safe place using space/time experiences now exists. “Balance & Flow” presents the experience of process intense abstract paintings, paired with a 3D installation on the 5 Elements—together offering choices and reflection of ‘what is’ and ‘what’s next’—as a rock is to a stream, intentionally balancing conflict in the flow dynamic—a sense of magic, inherent beauty.
Karrie Ross is a Los Angeles based visual artist, who offers choices, and a sense of ‘safe’ through paintings, and interactive installations, allowing a twisting of perceptions using kineticly infused visual experiences.
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The Mike Kelley Gallery is part of historic Beyond Baroque, one of the United States’ leading independent Literary / Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of art, poetry, and literature through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California.
Gallery and Bookstore Hours: Friday: 3pm to 10pm; Saturday: 3pm to 10pm
They have an active scheduling of events throughout the week as well as Sundays. Check their website for best hours. http://www.beyondbaroque.org Phone: 310-822-3006
Location:
Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque
681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
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