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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
May 27,
2010
"The Moveable Landscape: 4 Visions
>From
San
Francisco"
Monica Denevan, Ben Nixon, Amy Auerbach, Rolfe
Horn
June 12 - August 7,
2010
Duncan Miller Gallery is pleased to announce
the opening of
a
series of four concurrent solo exhibitions to be held over a period of
eight
weeks.
Separate
artist talks and book signing receptions will be held with each
artist.
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Echo, Burma 2006, Monica Denevan
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Monica Denevan's photographs
entitled "Songs of the River: Portraits
from
Burma" will be exhibited in the main gallery with an artist reception
on
June 12, 2010. At once stark and revelatory, Denevan's photographs capture
both
the complexity and inherent splendor of the Burmese landscape.
These
photographs reflect Denevan's own deeply personal investment in
Burmese
culture, and the complex relationships she has forged over time with
its
people. Documenting remote and sometimes isolated environments
"untouched
by Industrial development" Denevan photographs Burmese villagers,
those
for whom traditional cultural values maintain a deep and abiding
authenticity
and connection with the past. Focusing on what the artist herself has
called
"the intangible spirit of a place," the artist has created a
visual
conversation that represents a tapestry of Burma's daily landscape. Within
this
luminous setting, the courage of the individual in direct relationship to
the
natural world is further explored and revealed. Denevan has exhibited her
work
both nationally and internationally.
Denevan's exhibition is the first in the series
of revolving
solo
shows from four San Francisco-based artists. These are the first
solo
exhibitions for each of these artists in Los
Angeles.
The artist's
reception for Ben Nixon's exhibition
"Surface
Tension" is on June 26 from 7-10 pm. Nixon's photographs describe
a
connection to history that is both geological and photographic. Utilizing
the
19th century collodion technique Nixon's photographs reference the nostalgia
of
the American West. Amy Auerbach's exhibition "Vanishing
Waterfront" will have an
artist
reception on July 10 from 7-10 pm. This series of photographs encompasses
both
surrealism and abstraction, merging the elements of light and water to
create
beautifully rendered disjunctive realities that simultaneously reveal
and
conceal the living world. The artist's reception for Rolfe
Horn's exhibition "Landscape" will
be
held on July 24 from 7-10 pm. Horn's photographs exemplify the peace
and
simplicity of the natural world, images that capture a transcendental sense
of
euphoria at the joy of being alive.
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