Art critic, curator and historian James Scarborough says the following about the exhibition:

Each of the four artists administers a Rorschach test on the world around them. Subjective as can be - each artist has a distinct aesthetic - the show as a whole nonetheless seems like the most obvious, inevitable thing in the world. The overall tone of the work seamlessly balances cartoony playfulness with an overarching sense of unease and disquiet. The forms are lyrical but they're colored in a minor key, acknowledging a disagreeable status quo while, at the sametime, laughing at it in a non-judgmental manner. The show is firmly rooted in the landscape tradition: bands-of-color creating horizon lines abound, as do variously rendered skies and species of floral and fauna. But it¡¯s not Audubon naturalistic, to say the least. It¡¯s more a case that the landscape is an occasion in which the assembled artists convene to collectively thumb their noses at whatever imminent sense of doom the future ¨C hell, the present, too - presages.

This spectacle of unease ¨C of an artist¡¯s ability to find inspiration and humor but not much comfort in the landscape tradition ¨C as well as the peculiar circumstances that have engendered these conditions suggests that the best artistic recourse is to ask, as Okakura Kazuko does in The Book of Tea, ¡°How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?¡±

For more information about the opening or exhibition please contact Kirk Pedersen.

PRELUDE TO AN APOCALYPSE: LANDSCAPE IN AN ERA OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS

Featuring Los Angeles artists Lisa Adams, Amir H. Fallah, Wendell Gladstone and Greg Rose

Opening Reception Saturday, September 11, 2010

6:00 - 10:00p.m.

PEDERSEN projects

396 South Thomas Street

Pomona, CA 91766

www.pedersenprojects.com