Walter Maciel GalleryAndrea Cohen New Work

Walter Maciel Gallery is presenting a new body of work by New York based artist Andrea Cohen. The exhibition will be on display until June 21st.

Andrea Cohen installation view
Courtesy Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City



Andrea Cohen installation view
Courtesy Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City

Cohen’s new sculptures continue to take their cues from the formal complexity of Chinese landscape painting and Chinese rock gardens. For her second solo show with Walter Maciel Gallery, Cohen presents five free standing sculptures and several small pedestal pieces. Three of the five large works, like her previous sculptures, are quirky yet carefully articulated hybrid landscapes made from materials such as tree branches, hand-dyed vinyl, Styrofoam, popsicle sticks, origami paper and numerous other materials. Within them, Cohen uses provisional materials and an economy of means. Each detail of these compositions is highly asserted and yet her sculptures appear to be on the verge of collapse.

Cohen received a BA from New York University in 1993 and an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1999. She is currently an adjunct professor at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Cohen had her first solo exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery in June of 2006. A series of the larger sculptures was featured in the show The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC that same year. She was also ARTnews magazine’s Critic’s Pick in the October 2006 issue. Her work is included in many important private collections.


Andrea Cohen
Overlook, New Sculpture
May 10 - June 21, 2008


Walter Maciel Gallery
2642 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310 839 1840


Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00am - 6:00pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Walter Maciel Gallery


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Corey Helford Gallery - Vanity Bonfire

A new exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and mixed media opens on Saturday night at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. Opening Reception: April 26th, 7-10pm



Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 287-2340

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 6:00

Please contact the gallery for additional information.
Their website is http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/

Taylor De Cordoba / Claire Oswalt Exhibition

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Trustfall, a new series of sculptural drawings by Los Angeles-based artist Claire Oswalt. The exhibition will run from March 15 through April 19, 2008. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Saturday March 15th from 6-9pm. This is the artist's first solo show with the gallery.

Claire Oswalt
Eternal Introduction, 2008
Graphite, paper, wood, 13 x 13 inches
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City




Claire Oswalt
Title and demensions n/a
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City




Claire Oswalt
For Right Now, 2008
Graphite, paper, wood, 54 x 40 inches
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City

With her puppets made from wood, twine, and graphite on paper, Oswalt explores an increasingly complex adult world with a childlike simplicity and curiosity. The push and pull between control and freedom is pervasive throughout her series: from a girl being blown away, to the clothes that have fallen on the floor, to a man falling out of his chair. Her puppets demonstrate a sense of restricted movement, while the title of her series suggests an unrestrained freefall, made possible only with trust. Oswalt ensures that each fall is a fall in the right direction, or to a safe place. And although they are put into a position that lacks control, the puppets put their trust in the artist and subsequently the viewer. In this sense, the puppets welcome us into their world as we explore the trials and tribulations of "falling" in love and falling through life. Though Trustfall is theatrical with its changing backdrops and Pinnochio-esque qualities, its characters instill a quiet sense of realism that prompt the viewer to ponder the simple aesthetic quality which propels these puppets into our world.


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Claire Oswalt
Trustfall
March 15 - April 15, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15, 6-9pm


Taylor De Cordoba
2660 S La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
310.559.9156


Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 - 5:30pm.


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website. Taylor De Cordoba


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Nonor Fraser / Rosson Crow Exhibition

Honor Fraser, is currently showing Night at the Palomino, an exhibition of new paintings by Rosson Crow. The exhibition will continue through March 29th.

Rosson Crow is celebrated for her exuberant large-scale depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend historical allusion and theatrical illusion. The paintings evoke the good times of yesteryear, with lush interiors that are always deserted, yet speak eloquently — if obliquely — of recent use and inhabitation. The work also stands out for its hallucinogenic spaces, with interiors fracturing and distorting from realistic representation into abstraction and surrealism, and “teetering,” as she puts it, “between claustrophobic and agoraphobic.”

Rosson Crow, exhibition
Night at the Palomino
Installation photo courtesy of Honor Fraser




Rosson Crow, exhibition
Night at the Palomino
Installation photo courtesy of Honor Fraser

Rosson Crow grew up in Texas, and studied at Yale and the School of Visual Arts in New York before serving a one-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work has been widely published, and exhibited in solo shows in New York (CANADA Gallery) and Paris (Galerie Nathalie Obadia) as well as in a number of group shows.

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Rosson Crow
Night at the Palomino
Janurary 26 - March 29, 2008


Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310.837.0191


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Honor Fraser.


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Sandroni Rey / Johan Nobell Exhibition

Sandroni Rey is exhibiting "Acres of Pain" an exhibition of new work by Johan Nobell. This will be Nobell’s first solo show with Sandroni Rey.The exhibition will continue through March 15th.

Johan Nobell
Sky Tinted Water, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 24 3/4 " (47.9 x 62.9 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City




Johan Nobell
Feeder, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 23 5/8 " (47.9 x 60 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City





Johan Nobell
Battlefield, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 24 3/4 " (47.9 x 62.9 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City

In this new body of work Nobell continues to explore landscapes through intricate narratives conjured from both imagined and real events. He juxtaposes vibrant color and cartoon-like imagery with apocalyptic themes to create paintings that are ominous yet amusing as machines and natural elements merge and take on lives of their own.

Nobell creates organized chaos in a degenerated paradise where he plays out the life cycles of political struggle, violence, hunger, sexuality and death. While his work does not necessarily fit within traditional landscape genres, Nobell borrows from a wide variety of art historical references in order to evoke intense emotion and conflict through anthropomorphic beings—acknowledging and interpreting human relations to nature in a contemporary society where natural and man-made worlds collide.

The gallery is also showing the artwork of Farrah Karapetian, in the Project Room.

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Johan Nobell
Acres of Pain
February 16, 2008 - March 15, 2008


Farrah Karapetian
Shipping Container
February 16, 2008 - March 15, 2008


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Sandroni Rey
2762 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310.280.0111

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Sandroni Rey.


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