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Sneak
Peek, a taste of the year to come......
December 12 – January 19, 2009
Opening
Reception: Friday December 12, from 6-9 pm.
Featuring:
Lauriston Avery, Rafael Bueno, Damian Catera, Dave Choi, Michelle Forsyth,
Peter Fox, Lee Ranaldo and Matt Wycoff.
On December 12, The Hogar Collection will open it’s newest exhibition,
Sneak Peek, a taste of the year to come..., a group
exhibition that will feature recent painting, sculpture, video, works
on paper, sound and photography by 8 extraordinary and diverse artists
who will all be presenting solo exhibitions at the gallery in the coming
year of 2009. With variations on approach, styles and themes, the show
will encompass the gallery’s mission to promote energetic, provocative
and innovative art that challenges a broad variety of mediums and concepts.
With unique and utterly contemporary voices, the artists represented deal
with a wide range of ideas including rock and roll, poetry, handicraft,
humor, materiality, deconstruction, abstraction, synasthesia, conceptualism,
the occult, sublimity, language and its semantics. The year and it’s
artists have a lot to say and show, we hope you enjoy!
Michelle Forsyth’s work documents tragic moments
of history into subtle mantra-like poetic memorials that cultivate and
consider the collective human condition. As a narrator of scenes, she
creates beautiful and stunning works that capture the essence of specific
places and presents their current landscape in an abstracted kaleidoscopic
pixilation that is inspired by ancient Islamic mosaic patterning techniques.
Founding member and guitarist for Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo will
present works that meld and blur poetry, rock and roll, media and borrow
from familiar everyday things. He will be presenting a mixed media wall
installation that combines written word with both sculptural and painterly
elements.
Peter Fox’s work goes beyond the lush, colorful
and textured eye-candy from that they seem to be at first look. His beautifully
designed and crafted paintings are reduced to the baseness of the material
used to create them. Using drips as his brushstrokes, his strategy talks
about the architecture of language and how things are encoded.
Damian Catera’s work deconstructs everyday and
familiar sound using algorithmic methods to sample, cut, manipulate, splice
and combine the pieces back together creating a familiar yet foreign arrangement.
His newest series takes a fresh look at the visual language of his manipulated
musical scores and turns them into “classically” inspired
prints that twist and distort the written composition and their notes
into a warp of “sound waves”.
Dave Choi
walks a thin line that teeters the edge of a philosophical hermit and
an extraverted punk rocker. His work is as serious as a complex postulate
or a playful meditation. He will be presenting his newest video work that
considers the age-old curiosity and notion of flight and it’s contemplative
mysteries.
Lauriston Avery’s dark and mysterious paintings
evoke auras and mystical landscapes that delve into the realms of mythology.
Culling from inspirations like death metal, the occult and our desire
to know a magical and sublime sense of the unknown, his paintings push
the envelope of the overly drawn out “dark” art of recent
trends to insightful, provocative and truly innovative painterly vision.
Matt Wycoff’s work traverses on a path of the conceptual
mastermind. With highly educated responses and references to historical
works and movements he employs a certain semantic word play that is like
an inquisitive exploration that pushes the possibilities and understanding
of communication. He will be presenting his newest work that combines
minimalist abstract color painting with precarious formalistic sculpture.
Rafael Bueno’s paintings visually represent discordant
figures that exist in atmospheric and bleak vacuous landscapes. His paintings
contrast between thin and washy backgrounds with faint figures that are
covered and hidden in part by thick and painterly globular brushstrokes
whose tactile material quality speaks in the most expressionistic terms.
They are poems from a verse unsaid that are quiet yet contain a sense
of undetermined urgency.
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