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| Works on Paper From California |
| Linda Besemer produces abstract paintings of stripes and plaids without
any means of structural support - canvas, stretcher, or panel. Consisting of
solid skins of unconventionally think layers of acrylic paint, her ‘fold’ and ‘slab’
paintings are draped over metal rods or hung like pictures directly on the wall.
Represented in the show by four works on paper, Besemer had found a way
to reconcile formalist imagery with visual sensuality and immediacy. The
opaque chunkiness, chromatic energy and humorous physical presence of her
paintings is reflected in her drawings.
Russell Crotty emphasizes the obsessiveness of mark making. Using large
scale sketch pads, Crotty fills the field with inky scribbles combining his
telescope observations of celestial or terrestrial phenomena, with mantric
repetitions of names and phrases from his personal experience in the surfer life.
Crotty maps out the infinity of space seen through the lens of LA Zen, bridging
the gap between science and art with a mixture of intensity and nonchalance.
Jim Isermann is known for blurring the boundaries between art and craft,
designing and executing wall hangings, stained glass and hooked rugs. In fact,
one of the artist’s first solo shows was installed in the Inn of Tomorrow, near
Disneyland in Anaheim, California. His optically charged work celebrates appealing
color, flat, crisp forms, and the grid as an organizational device. Isermann’s
personal amalgam of Pop Art, neo-Geo and rec room Funk has left its stamp on
a whole group of younger artists like Kevin Appel, Jorge Pardo and Andrea Zittel.
In his latest drawings Adam Ross continues to chronicle his fascination with
a futuristic, utopian plane of perception and existence. Graphite lines stretch
across and into unknown territories, while elongated colored geometric forms skip
through the space. Ross refers to the rigorous modernism of the Russian
Constructivists, while at the same time playfully teasing us into a make believe
world where absolute purity and rationality are the only landscape. |
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