Andrew Foster Deep Thoughts
November 15 - December 6, 2008
C2 Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 7:00-9:00pm
Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to announce “Deep Thoughts”, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Andrew Foster. Deep Thoughts displays the artist's current leaning towards a traditional mode of creating 'picturesque' works on canvas. Foster considers his new paintings an exploration of nostalgia and an attempt, in the words of Pierre Bonnard, "to escape the monotony of life."
Though light and whimsy in tone, Foster maintains his sardonic sense of humor. He employs a romanticized palette referencing Rococo and Impressionism with themes that revolve around overtly joyous, day dreaming girls who frolic and lounge in idealistic landscapes. Following the tradition that a young painter should copy from the work of past masters, there is an instant and romantic familiarity deeply rooted in each painting. Many of Foster's works are constructed with derivative subjects, themes, and compositions from 19th and early 20th century paintings coupled with ingenuous scenarios. Resurrecting a state of adolescence, boundless yet tumultuous, we are prompted to escape. He weaves in and out of reality but remains distant from surrealism’s visual tricks, obscurities, and cluttered imagery. Foster defines memory, familiarity, history, and paint as the vehicle for his process.
Andrew Foster received his BFA in 2004 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Foster's work has been exhibited in galleries such as Earl McGrath Gallery, (West Hollywood), Jonathan LeVine Gallery (NY), Merry Karnowsky Gallery (LA), George Billis Gallery (LA), and included in ARTNOW Fair (Basel, Miami) and Red Dot Fair (NY) among others. In past years, curators Mark Murphy and Brad Benedict have included Foster's works in their exhibits.
View works from this exhibition
Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
January 9 - 11, 2009 artfairsinc.com
January 21-29, 2009
Downtown Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
BOOTH #C109 laartshow.com
Vanessa Prager and Kathy Grayson Hunting and Gaming
January 24 - February 20, 2009
C2 Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 6:30-8:30pm
Hosted by Erika Christensen and Jeff Vespa Sponsored by WeSC
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Part 1 Group exhibition of selected photography and photo based works featuring:
Alex Prager, Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French, Andres Serrano, Rafael Serrano, Man Ray, William Wegman, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Edmund Teske, Shirin Neshat, Christopher Felver, E.T. Risk, Harry Bowers, Lauren Marsolier, Marc Fichou, John Colao, Marla Rutherford, Dietrich Wegner, Cameron Gray, Gerald Slota, Chin-Chin Wu, Hana Jakralova D5 Gallery
January 24 - February 21, 2009
featuring Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Johnston, Ron English, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Gibby Haynes
Curated by Jon Cournoyer
February 28 - March 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Galleries D5 and C2
Rock Paper Scissor will feature noteworthy artists who freely use, base imagery on, thrive, and excel in both the mediums of visual art and music. The artists taking part in the show are Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Johnston, Ron English, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers and Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. This exhibition will be a high-profile event featuring these artists who have created a memorable and historical body of work in both the mediums of music and art and continue to do so. Being an art exhibit based on artists who also are musicians, a live performance is scheduled for the weekend of the opening reception to be hosted by the very well respected Santa Monica Museum of Art, which is located a few doors down from us at Bergamot Station.
For inquiries and more information email curator Jon Cournoyer
Select Past Exhibitions:
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
December 3 - 7, 2008 BOOTH #304 artfairsinc.com
Tyson Grumm Anthropomorphism 01
November 15 - December 6, 2008
D5 Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 5:00-7:00pm
The Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present a new collection of paintings by Tyson Grumm entitled Anthropomorphism 01. Viewing an exhibition by Tyson Grumm is momentarily entering a fantastical world of unique characters, wild animals, nostalgic objects and textural environments created entirely in the mind of the artist. These well-rendered, contemporary Surrealist works are freeze-frame glimpes of these elements humorously and mysteriously orchestratred inside de Chirico-esque landscapes and architectural surroundings. Exploring these works reveals a story that is only partially told, enabling the viewer to contribute their own unique perceptions to the completion of each of Grumm’s works.
As the artist states, "The stories being told in each painting are created without preconceived planning. I add each element until I see a story. I enjoy forming the story, or parable, step-by-step with found imagery, animals interacting with humans and whatever grabs my eye. Often I keep in mind an overall theme, which in this case is parables told around the nooks, crannies, and niches of walls. This basic theme gives me focus, and a starting point, and from there, the story evolves itself. The characters, animals, and people that fall into these niches are created with a variety of intellectual range, and sometime seem to know what’s going on a lot more than you, or even me, the creator. I find this irony critical to the statements they seem to be making."
The artist not only renders objects such as maps, antique scientific instruments and books that he has collected throughout his life into the scenes but also chooses the actual frames that company the paintings. Hand-collected, reworked and carefully chosen, the frames help to enhance the personality and meaning of the paintings, the end result being not just paintings alone but objects of splendor, wonder, and amusement.
This is Tyson Grumm’s 3rd solo exhibition at the Robert Berman Gallery. His exhibitions, which consistently sell out, have also shown in San Francisco, Oregon, Washington and Internationally as well. The artist was recently the recipient of the 2008 PONCHO IFA Artistic Merit Award.
C H A NG E A M E RI C A A Group Exhibition
October 4 extended through November 8, 2008
D5 Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 4, 2008, 3 - 5 pm
The Robert Berman Gallery has designated our D5 gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, for an exhibit entitled "Change America." This collection of political art explores the momentum for renewed hope and the promise of America, emphasizing the theme of change. It also is an indictment against the arrogance of power and overt corruption by an administration that has weakened the Constitution and threatened Democracy.
The power of art is compelling. It challenges people to think and to act at important times. This is such a time, to effect change that America so desperately needs.
On view will be works by Banksy, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Rauschenberg, Ron English, Shepard Fairy, Jim Shaw, Robbie Conal, Dietrich Wegner, Gomez Bueno, Britt Ehringer, Robert Indiana, Kerr+Malley, Arnold Mesches, Antony Micallef, David Trulli, Daniel Martinez, RJ Berman, J Colao, Michele Pred, Ellwood T. Risk, Cameron Gray, Bill Barminski, Vanessa Prager & others
"Vote Obama" graces the cover of the November 2008 issue of THE Magazine:
As of this writing the stock market is down, no up, no down again . . . oh, forget it.
Lots of uncertainty is in the air; although Barack Obama is ahead in the polls, and the election is less than one week and many commercials away, you never, ever know. People are nervous about the economy, nervous about the future, just nervous about everything.
Take a trip back to 1972. People were nervous then, too. Nervous about the Vietnam War, nervous about Palestinian terrorists that killed Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, and, just like today, Americans were nervous about the presidential election. You had Nixon lovers and Nixon haters, McGovern lovers and haters-sound familiar? But, unlike today, back in 1972 the public school system was still exceptional, medical coverage was affordable, and your home was somewhere you lived, not just an investment.
Our cover image is based on Andy Warhol's Vote McGovern from 1972. Robert Berman came up with the idea, and enlisted artist John Colao to bring the concept to life. Berman says, "Andy Warhol's Nixon poster was the first time that I know of where an image of the opposition, an obvious anti-hero, had been used on a political poster. This was Warhol's only blatant political endorsement to my knowledge, using irony by portraying a face that people disliked-it would be the last thing you would want on your wall. The obvious choice for our poster would be McCain of course, but what we want to portray here through the Bush image is that McCain is just more of the same."
Through art-be it painting, song, dance, film, or a multitude of other mediums-the artist informs, engages, enrages, entertains, uplifts, and, hopefully, makes folks think. People may not always like the result, but what's important is that the artist gets to create and the audience gets to think for themselves. You can't please everybody. As Bob Dylan, one of the great artists of our time, once said, "You're nobody if you don't get booed sometime."
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Laurie Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief lrosenthal@themagla.com
Artillery Magazine: Change America exhibition video Video by Steve Cioffi
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French
MASSILLON New Large-Scale Black & White Photographs
C2 Gallery
October 4 - November 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 4, 5-7pm
Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present MASSILLON: the first exclusive presentation of large-scale photographs by Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French. On view 04 October – 04 November, 2008.
Trained as an anthropologist/musician, and an art historian respectively, artists Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French collaborate to produce staged photographs that transform personal family folklore and childhood reminiscence into scenes rich in fantasy, melancholy and seduction.
Massillon is the true story of ancestor Zeta Eliza Woolley, transposed through the surreal imaginings of the artists into a fairy-tale of suffering and unpredictable beauty. Each photograph is part of an unraveling narrative, derived from the memories and dreams inspired by Woolley’s life and death in Massillon, Ohio in the late 1800’s.
Combining a love for Victorian era aesthetics and 19th century craftsmanship, the artists produce large-scale photographs of rare texture and depth using medium and large format film, and traditional black and white darkroom techniques.
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French, writes critic and curator Peter Frank,
“have compiled an impressive body of work brimming with mystery and sensuality, self-consciously but elegantly Gothic – stills, it would seem, from an Edgar Allen Poe film adaptation directed by Ingmar Bergman, or Fellini’s take on Lewis Carroll.”
Massillon will travel to the Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, in November, 2008.
ARWI 3rd International Art Fair
San Juan, Puerto Rico
October 10 -13, 2008 prawri.com
Sunset Stripped, 2008, Oil on canvas, 24 x 96 inches
Robert Sean Coons
Distortions C2 Gallery
September 6-27, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Robert Berman Gallery presents a solo art exhibition from Robert Sean Coons titled “Distortions,” a collection of new paintings that are influenced by the artist’s surroundings and his ability to deceive the viewer by changing their perception of the obvious. Each painting is a vision that changes meaning according to your relative contextual environment.
Coons encourages the viewer to seek out the hidden dimensions of each painting through his discovery and interpretation, however, the underlying subject matter is not easily revealed. Varying in sizes, the foreground images are created in repeat motif style of fun themes and act as a diversion, while the background images display his Los Angeles surroundings of sex and beautiful women. The artist expresses the overall concept as “ work showing the prevailing sexual nature of the human experience and how it underlines most everything we are and do whether we admit it or not.”
Through this time consuming process of developing multiple levels of concept Coons is able to create beauty and wonder while surprising the viewer. These fun works with sexy hidden images creates an emotional experience as your perception changes as the underlying subject matter is revealed.
Robert Sean Coons was born in 1968 in Stanford, CA. He received his B.F.A, at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. He presently works and lives in Los Angeles.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Robert Berman gallery is please to present Koji Takei’s most recent body of work, titled “Isometry,” which reflects the juxtaposition between the complex and the simple. The artist alters everyday objects, humorously tweaking proportion and perspective. By rearranging the pieces he is able to create an altered perception where these once everyday objects are now seen in a different light.
The musical instruments are meant to be a representation of the artist’s complex life. The original instruments are constructed simply, to create beautiful music. When dissected and joined together again they become complicated and nonfunctional. They appear to be holding together in harmony, but they are vulnerable to falling apart. Takei expresses, “the chairs echo my struggle for simplification. I see my life consisting of length, width and depth, as in three-point perspective. Taking away one of these perspective points, like in an isometric drawing, reflects my effort to simplify.” As life grows increasingly multi-faceted and convoluted for the artist, these chairs make him feel at peace because they are uncomplicated and resolved in their own peculiar way.
Koji Takei graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA and is currently living and working in Los Angeles.
Cameron Gray We're All Doomed
July 26th - August 23rd, 2008
Gallery C2
Robert Berman Gallery presents an exceptional solo exhibition from Cameron Gray, with a set of "paintings" that are painstaking assemblages of credit card size mini-tableaux, cleverly put together to form portraits. This body of work, which makes up Gray’s second solo exhibition at the Robert Berman Gallery, addresses politics, religion, ideology, nature, commerce, media and our propensity for violence.
Beyond the interest of Cameron's work is his art of digital, network manufacturing.
His work begins as digital studies, which are divided into hundreds of small pieces and then sent out to a group of artists composed of personal associates, professional colleagues and Internet correspondents. By breaking the painting down into a grid of pixels and outsourcing the work, Gray builds a virtual factory by way of the Internet. Each painting is comprised of several smaller paintings. The smaller images used are thematic and play a vital role in the depiction of the larger image. This modern approach is used to create the appearance of a traditional oil painting.
Born in 1974 in Anaheim, California, Gray lives and works in Los Angeles. Prior to his entrance into the L.A. art scene, Gray owned his own animation studio and worked as an Animation Director for films like Apocalypto, Underworld: Evolution, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and multiple videos for the band, Tool.
View selected works from this exhibition
Reason Has Limits, 2008, Oil on wood
Yarg Noremac Enjoy It While You Can
July 26th - August 23rd, 2008
D5 Gallery
Robert Berman Gallery is proud to present the US premiere of artist Yarg Normac in an exhibition entitled “Enjoy It While You Can” which consists of paintings that explore the chaotic and surreal world of rock concerts through his method of reality alteration.
Noremac has been following rock bands in America and Europe for the past several years, photographing young music fans at rock concerts. He then paints from the photographs, breaking them up into smaller pieces, creating a fragmented, hallucinogenic version of the moments he's experienced. His previous work was a series of portraits of chickens, plucked nude or dressed in revealing bathing suits, but always turned away from us while looking back, craning their necks, reminiscent of the well crafted pose of the young ingénue posing for her admiring fans. Normac’s work deals with the relationship between the entertainer and their devotees, while somehow capturing what is sacred in that exchange.
Yarg Normac was born in 1981 in Eckonförde, Germany. He attended the prestigious Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany and graduated in 2007. Normac currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
not having, 2008, acrylic and oil on masonite, 36 x 48 inches
Dennis Mukai p a s s a g e
New Paintings
June 21 - July 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Gallery C2
Robert Berman Gallery presents a solo art exhibition from Dennis Mukai titled “Passage,” a collection of new paintings that personify workings of memory and inner awareness through his ability to blur the delicate balance between reality and illusion.
Often mistaken for photographs, Mukai’s new works are painstakingly created using only sandpaper to remove layers of paint to gradually reveal the white of the original surface, a technique developed and perfected through experimentation and trial & error. Inspired by primitive photos from the advent of photography, Dennis’ realistic yet distressed images trigger the emotions of recollection.
Renowned art critic, Peter Frank, expresses, “Mukai’s pictures manifest a reality that exists within our minds, a reflection, not on what we see or know, but how we see and know it”
Dennis Mukai was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Album Cover
Original album covers, paintings and collages
by Alex Steinweiss
And special tribute by selected artists.
Co-Curated by Kevin Reagan and Greg Escalante
Before Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover
in 1938, at the age of 23, all albums came in
plain brown wrappers. Steinweiss's idea to create
a package that had something visual on the outside
to lure the consumer was a huge success.
That simple idea revolutionized the record business
and spawned an entire new field of illustration -
album cover art - that is now inseparable from
the product it announces. Steinweiss's covers are
still regarded as icons of the genre. He designed
them as miniature posters, with eye-catching
graphics, distinctive and vivid colors, and creative,
original typography. He was an accomplished
illustrator, and he incorporated original artwork
into most of his pieces. The Steinwiess style
went hand in hand with the golden age of jazz,
classical, and popular music.
About the Tribute show:
As an addition to a show of Steinweiss's work
there will be a tribute show paying homage
to his unprecedented contribution to album
cover art. Steinweiss is 90 years old this year
and this tribute is long over due.
Participating artists include:
Sergio Aragones
Brett Aronson
Anthony Ausgang
Clive Barker
Bill Barminski
Gary Baseman
Lou Beach
Sandow Birk
Andrew Brandou
Kimberly Brooks
Hugh Brown
Gomez Bueno
Richard Duardo
Ron English
Mary Fleener
Andrew Foster
Victor Gastelum
Gregg Gibbs
Cameron Gray
Tamara Guion
Mick Haggerty
Jason Holley
Michael Knowlton
Masaki Koike
Charlie Kraft
Carol Lay
Lola
Jason Maloney
Michael McManus
Brian Moss
Mear One
Josh Petker
Raymond Pettibon
Vanessa Prager
Kevin Reagan
Martha Rich
Ellwood T. Risk
Charles Schneider
James P. Scott
John Seabury
Shag
Winston Smith
Nathan Spoor
Craig Stecyk
Tommy Steele
Parsley Steinweiss
Miles Thompson
David Trulli
Byron Werner
Glen Wexler
Shoshannah White
Allee Willis
Jim Woodrin
Jody Zellen
Bob Zoell
An exhibition featuring the work of select members of the notorious
Seventh Letter (T7L) graffiti collective. Within the Seventh Letter collective is an elite crew known as Angels Will Rise (AWR), who have established themselves as L.A.’s most influential modern
muralists.
The show will consist of a floor-to-ceiling mural installation constructed by AWR members:
Pusher, Zeser, Krush, Rime, Saber, Revok, Retna, Reyes, Skrew, Sever and Ewok.
Curated by Brett Aronson
January 19 - February 23, 2008 *Opening Reception: Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Gallery D5 No Admission Fee, Open to the Public
March 1 – March 15th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2008
From 6:30 – 8:30pm
Gallery C2
ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY is pleased to announce a group
show curated by Alex Prager with artists from
WeAreTheSuperlativeConspiracy (WeSC).
Chris Pastras, Mercedes Helnwein, Jason Lee, Alex
Prager, Sage Vaughn, Clint Peterson, Chad Robertson,
Beth Reisgraf, Par Stromberg and Marcel Strewer are
uniquely powerful sources of creativity with diverse
backgrounds. They have been asked to artistically
communicate the values of WeSC through their varying
modes of expression.
Presented by Nylon Magazine
For more info: www.wesc.com
Brad Benedict's Sideshow April 5- 26, 2008
Gallery D5
A group exhibition curated by Brad Benedict
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Participating artists include:
Van Arno
Attaboy
Anthony Ausgang
Bill Barminski
David Brinley
Lou Brooks
David Buckingham
Chris Buzelli
Dave Calver
Colin Christian
Sas Christian
Chris Crites
Daniel Davidson
Britt Ehringer
Ron English
Lori Field
Andrew Foster
Sam Gambino
Colin Johnson
Nancy Kintisch
Laurie Lipton
Everett Peck
Chris Peters
Judy Ragagli
Billy Reynolds
Joe Rocco
Cassandra Szekely
Brian Taylor
Bob & Val Tillery
Mark Dean Veca
Eric White
Barnaby Whitfield
Nate Williams
Robert Williams
Brian Zick
Inspired by the works of Sigmar Polke, Hunter S.
Thompson, and William S. Burroughs, Risk employs tools
of destruction to create intriguing and iconic imagery.
Referencing the near epidemic proportions of gun
violence in America and tragedies within our school
systems, these works reflect a basic moral vacuum and
the incidental damage affecting contemporary society. A
self-taught artist, Risk frequently experiments with
epoxies and resin, while incorporating images of guns,
targets and silhouettes into his work. A complicated
narrative is often implicit in these multi-layered
pieces.
This will be Risk’s second solo show with the ROBERT
BERMAN GALLERY.
Show runs November 17 - December 22, 2007
*Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Gallery D5
The ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY and Murphy Art Books are
proud to
present GREEN, an artist exhibition featuring inspired
painters and image-makers that form an eclectic mix of
fine artists, graph and street artists and comic
artists. Curator and publisher, Mark Murphy has invited
40 artists to share their inspired vision about the
delicate and often aggressive intermingling of human
beings with nature.
Featured Artists
Jason D Aquino, Jordan Awan, Andrew Brandou, Cathie
Bleck, Marc Burckhardt, William Buzzell, David Chung,
Amy Crehore, Kevin Christy, Sas Christianson, John
Copeland, Bob Dob, Douglas Fraser, P-Jay Fidler, Joseph
Daniel Fiedler, AJ Fosik, Robert Hardgrove, Jody
Hewgill, Michael Hussar, Tim Hussey, Jordin Isip, Rich
Jacobs, Pamela Jaeger, David Choong Lee, Anthony
Lister, Jen Lobo, Mars-1, Chris Mostyn, Mark Murphy,
Scott Musgrove, Christian Northeast, Martha Rich and
Esther Pearl Watson Collaboration, Kathie Olivas,
Nathan Ota, Brandt Peters, Jermaine Rogers, Kim Scott,
Keith Shore, Jeff Soto, Damon Soule, Matt Stallings,
Gary Taxali, Jonathan Viner, Amanda Wachab, Justin Wood
Show runs November 17 - December 22, 2007
*Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Gallery C2
PHOTO MIAMI - Featuring the work of Alex Prager
December 3 - 10, 2007
M.S. GARVEY'S LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT with the Hootenanny All-Stars November 29, 30th and
December 1, 2, 6 - 9th, 2007
In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns fiery, mesmerizing, and wise — preaches excerpts from over 130 letters he's sent to George W. The sonic reverb of the Hootenanny All-Stars, reminiscent of bluesy urban underbellies and fallow heartland wheat fields, provides an authentic American backdrop.– JT Priest
Produced by Ice Hat Creative in conjunction with the Robert Berman Gallery at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA
“Letters to the President” features Venice-based poet/actor/activist M.S. Garvey performing selections from the more than 130 letters he has written to President Bush since May of 2002. For this first full-scale production, he is accompanied by The Hootenanny All-Stars, a band of accomplished musicians who create a distinctive soundscape by using a variety of instruments including guitar, accordion, palm branch and trombone. Part beat poetry, part jam session, part old-fashioned tent revival, “Letters to the President” is all entertainment, carried out with enthusiasm, humor and insight.
Eric Orr (1939 - 1998) survey of works September 8 – October 6, 2007
The Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present a survey of works by artist Eric Orr (1939-1998). Part of the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s-70s, Orr was a contemporary conceptual artist dealing primarily with installation, sculpture, and painting. His work is based on a religio-philosophical conceptualization of space icons found in ancient religions and cultures, such as Egyptian symbolism and Buddhist spiritualism. In his installations, Orr worked with the elemental qualities of natural materials—stone, metal, water, and fire—with the intention of eliciting a visceral response from the viewer. Other materials Orr used include gold leaf, lead, blood, human skull, and AM/FM radio parts. Orr's body of work also include monochromatic paintings, as well as large scale fountains that can be viewed in a variety of public and private spaces around the city of Los Angeles.
Orr is an internationally acknowledged artists with work in the collections of the Pompidou Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Farm in New Zealand, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and The Gugenheim.
The exhibition will feature a number of Orr's works from the 1970s through the 1990s, and a short documentary on his life—"Crazy Wisdom"—that was collaboratively produced Orr’s daughter, Elizabeth Orr and Orr's lifelong friend, Kent Hodgetts.
The opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from
6:30 – 8:30pm.
JASON PETERS, paileontology, will be on view at ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY during August, 2007.
A Reception for the Artist will be held on Saturday, 11 August, 2007, from 7-9.
Brooklyn-based artist, Jason Peters, makes his west coast debut this August, 2007, with a large-scale installation at ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY. Peters will transform his host gallery into a world of infinite darkness, inhabited by a megalithic, luminous form. Using simple industrial materials and light, the artist effaces the traditional white gallery space, and erects rhythmic structures that echo our visual notions about deep space, molecular science,planetariums, dark rides, and hallucinatory rabbit-holes. With his singular, signature style, Jason Peters conjures space in the tradition of artists such as Richard Serra, and Gordon Matta-Clark, using urban objects and surfaces to alter our perception of an artwork’s authorship, sociological place and purpose. With grace and stunning ingenuity, he follows in the legacy of those like Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others who introduced and championed the use of objects trouvées in their three-dimensional works.
A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (1999), Peters is the recipient of two highly sought-after residencies, including one from the renowned Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006, as well as an upcoming residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, Fall 2007. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions since the late 1990’s and was the subject of two large-scale installations: The Space in-between, Brooklyn, New York. 2005, and Continually Becoming, in Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2004. This is Peters’ first solo show in California.
German by birth, Jason now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
As the history of art becomes longer and more crowded
with work, it becomes increasingly difficult to create
something truly original -- and that's exactly what
Jason Peters has done with this amazing sculpture.
Encompassing the microcosm and the macrocosm in one
fell swoop, it's like a piece of music you've never
heard before that's instantly burned into your memory.
- Kristine McKenna
"Coming Soon" New Paintings by Gomez Bueno
&
"North Atlantis"
A Raymond Pettibon Film
June 23 – July 21, 2007
C2 gallery
"Coming Soon", New Paintings by Gomez Bueno is a solo show featuring a video collaboration with Raymond Pettibon.
“Audio Collage” A Live Musical Collaboration with Raymond Pettibon and Guests
In Conjunction with the Closing Party for “Coming Soon” new paintings by gomez bueno and screening of “North Atlantis” a film by Raymond Pettibon
Sunday, July 22, 2007
ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY is pleased to present “Audio Collage”, a live musical collaboration with Raymond Pettibon, Jonny Cournoyer of the band Old War Shirt, performance artist M.S. Garvey, musician Bob Rokos, Chris Meszler, musicians/composers Tomas Jacobi and Nicolas Barry, artist Ashley Lauren Saks and very special guests. This performance is in conjunction with the closing party for “Coming Soon”, new paintings by gomez bueno and the screening of “North Atlantis” a film by Raymond Pettibon on view now through July 22nd. The performance will take place on Sunday, July 22nd beginning at 6:30 pm and is free to the public. Refreshments will be served.
POLYESTER
New Photography by Alex Prager April 21 – May 12, 2007
Los Angeles based photographer Alex Prager uses a cinematic approach in her vivid, intriguing, still imagery. Stories unfold with each photograph that stimulate the senses and playful yet bizarre scenes are a balancing act between fantasy and reality.
(figment)
February 17th - March 10th, 2007 Curated by Ashley Lauren Saks & Jon Cournoyer
A group exhibition featuring works by Marie-Claire Bozant
Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French
Reeve Schumacher
Erika Somogyi
Gallery C2
Robert Berman Gallery presents (figment), a group show curated by Jon Cournoyer and Ashley Lauren Saks, featuring dreamy landscapes and imaginative worlds created by emerging artists from 4 cities across the country.
New York based artist Erika Somogyi uses fluorescent watercolors to explore themes of love, hope, transition, and uncertainty. Moody and ambiguous scenes are formed with naturalistic explosions color that stimulate the imagination. Reeve Schumacher is an artist representing Miami, using fabric, paint, and stains of color, layered with drawings and photographs. Delving into the depths of the subconscious, Reeve's work often addresses themes of metamorphosis and fantasy. Marie-Claire Bozant, based out of Seattle, WA, uses acrylic on canvas, painting phantasmagoric portraits of faces that melt away in pools of uncertainty. Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French are photographers from the Los Angeles area that have been collaborating together for the past 4 years. Their mysterious images are inspired by their personal dreams and visions, yet have a vague sense of familiarity that intrigues the viewer and leaves them wanting more.
Together, these artists provide a space and experience that will take you away from reality, into a (figment) of their imagination and your own. The show runs from February 17 – March 10 in Gallery C2 of Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Please join us for an opening reception on Saturday, February 17th, 2007 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in gallery C2. Music and drinks will be provided.
Past Exhibitions:
2007
Ellwood T. Risk Collateral Damage
November 17 - December 22, 2007
Green Curated by Mark Murphy November 17 - December 22, 2007 PHOTO MIAMI - Featuring the work of Alex Prager
December 3 - 10, 2007
Marischa SlusarskiThe Bruise of Human Contact October 13- November 3, 2007
Cameron Gray Mise en Scene October 13- November 3, 2007
Eric Orr A Survey of Works September 8 - October 6, 2007
Jason Peters "paileontology"
Curated by E L K August 11 - September 4, 2007
"Coming Soon" new paintings by gomez bueno "North Atlantis" a film by Raymond Pettibon
June 21 – July 21, 2007
Liu Zheng - new paintings June 21 – July 21, 2007
Polyester: New Photography by Alex Prager April 21 – May 12, 2007
Onesto: So Close To Be Touched April 14 - May 5
BEAT: Christopher Felver March 17 - 31
Liu Zheng Selected works
March 2007
Louis Renzoni Selected works
March 2007
Figment - Group Exhibition featuring works by
Marie-Claire Bozant (seattle, wa) Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French (los angeles, ca) Reeve Schumacher (miami, fl) Erika Somogyi (new york, ny), Curated by Ashley Lauren Saks & Jon Cournoyer
Feb 17 - Mar 10
Paul Bob Velick - Fireworks, A Studio Fire Installed,
Feb 17 - Mar 10
Daniel Kaufman - Encaustic Perceptions, Jan 20 - Feb 10
2006
Koji Takei - New Works, Dec 2 - Jan 15
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Friendly Fire: Four from the East
Curated by Jonathan Levine
October 14- November 11
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Ron English - New Works
October 14- November 11
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Robert Sean Coons - Deceptions
September 9 - October 14
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Don Sorenson - Retrospective
April 22 - May 20
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Queen of the Night, Women under the Influence 1963-2006
Curated by Elk
April 21 - May 13
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Elizabeth Tinglof - Mersion
March 11 - April 8
(Berman/Turner Projects)
2005
Tyson Grumm - New Paintings
November 19 - December 17
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Bill Barminski - About Face
September 9 - October 4
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Ellwood T. Risk - Loaded
July 9 - August 9
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Flow
Curated by Peter Frank
July 23 - August 23
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Britt Ehringer - Baghdad Pizza Hut
May 14 - June 14
(Berman/Turner Projects)
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders - XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits
April 2 - May 8
(Berman/Turner Projects)
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