Rick
Araluce, JAW Cooper, Jessica Dalva, Bonni Reid, Krystopher
Sapp,
June 4 - 27, 2010
Reception for the artists: Friday,
June 4th 8 - 11
PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood
Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
info@laluzdejesus.com
www.laluzdejesus.com
Rick Araluce
"The
Poetry of Unreason"
Rick
Araluce makes
miniature constructions. That means he makes everything himself by
hand,
including the boxes that contain the collections. He's spent years
inventing methods to fashion (from scratch) a turned table leg, door
hardware, a light bulb, a clock case, elaborate trim moulding, and
whatever else is required to complete the illusions. Rick has created
flutes less than an eighth of an inch in length, functioning miniature
clocks measuring less than a quarter inch in diameter, and light
switches that illuminate rooms seventeen miniature floors beneath them.
No detail is sacrificed by the diminutive scale -even if those
flourishes go largely unnoticed by the casual observer; however is
nothing casual about the art of Rick Araluce, who makes his return to
La
Luz de Jesus after more than a decade abroad.
Rick Araluce website
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JAW
Cooper's series
"Tarnished"
explores the allure of imperfection. "I've created a world inhabited
by
the deformed, tainted, injured, and alien, where external
imperfections
are echos of internal struggle, and beauty is undeniably in the eye
of
the beholder. Behind every flaw is a story waiting to be discovered,"
states the artist. Cooper was born in England and grew up in Africa,
Sweden, Ireland, various other locations throughout Europe, and
California. She has always cultivated a deep curiosity for the natural
world and is inspired by forms found in nature, curio cabinets, fashion
photography, and nipples in general. Cooper currently lives and works
as
an illustrator and gallery artist in Los Angeles, California. The
artist will be in attendance.
JAW Cooper website
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Jessica Dalva
"Tie Strings
Into
Knots"
Jessica
Dalva's new
series of sculptures and oil paintings is only her second featured
exhibition at La Luz de Jesus, but marks one of the most anxiously
awaited series of new work from an emerging artist in recent memory.
The
centerpiece of "Tie Strings Into Knots" is
an
eerie, hanging chandelier that instills a sense of wandering for home,
while illuminating a lost sense of virtue. Sometimes a lamp is just a
lamp. But this is not one of those times. Dalva's marionettes and
mobiles inject their surroundings with instant nostalgia via a modern
craft-esthetic rooted deeply in antiquity. The artist will be in
attendance.
Jessica Dalva website
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Bonni
Reid
"Gone
West"
"Gone
West" was an expression used in the air
force during wartime to describe a brother-in-arms who was shot down
and
killed in combat. When pilots gather, they often open meetings with a
toast to those who have "gone west". They face the west and drink to
those who have died. West, in this case, refers to the place the sun
sets and extinguishes; the metaphor is clear. This somehow softens the
reality of death in a line of work rife with mortality. Bonni
Reid has co-opted this expression ion titling her most recent
body of paintings. Representing transformation, passage, and change,
the
title takes on an added, metaphysical tone, not unlike the Death card
in a tarot deck. this exhibition features all new, never-before-seen
work. Bonni Reid lives in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia.
When not brewing her own visual concoctions, she freelances as a color
designer for animation productions including six seasons of Cartoon
Network's "Ed, Edd 'n Eddy".
Bonni Reid website
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Krystopher Sapp
"Exoskeletal Engine"
Krystopher Sapp's
mixed media assemblage is a
sculptural study in discarded ephemery. His workshop is a literal
hereafter for broken toys, liberated fixtures, and kippered insects.
Rich dioramas of recontextualized doodads transform into a steampunk
nirvana of Victorian futurism, both resplendant and refined, but with
a
secret tinge of horror within each dark dimension. La Luz de Jesus is
proud to welcome back Krystopher Sapp for his third featured
exhibition, for which he's dialed back volume but escalated detail to
produce a collection of ambitious perfection. The artist will be in
attendance.
Krystopher Sapp
website
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