Axis
Mundi
Alexander
Kori Girard Solo
Exhibition
February 18 – March 20,
2011
Opening Reception: Friday, February 18,
7-10pm
Triple Base is proud to announce
AXIS MUNDI,
a solo show of new work by Alexander Kori
Girard, originally
a
Berkeley-based artist who now resides in Los Angeles. For this new body of work, Girard used a set
of
shapes as the starting point and each painting unfolds much like a
chain
reaction in which every color and shape was born out of the context of
its
predecessors. All of the images in the exhibition are built out from a
central
axis, creating a mirror reflection within each composition. Rather than
these
mirrors being mathematically exact, they are instead closer to the
approximate
symmetry found in the nature.
“Axis Mundi” is sometimes referred
to as the "Naval
of
the World". In most cultures, you can find a prominent symbol of
Axis
Mundi; often depicted as a human form, tree, mountain, staircase or tower.
It
is the pulse or center that growth and development expands from. Girard
regards
these new paintings as windows or corridors that invite the viewer to cross
a
threshold into another space. This collection of work was influenced greatly
by
Girard’s numerous trips to India, evident in his treatment of color as well
as
the spiritual function of the paintings.
Alexander
Kori Girard graduated from
the
School of Visual Arts in New York 2001. He is an artist design
consultant
living in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book with Todd Oldham
about
the life and work of his grandfather, renowned designer Alexander
Girard.
Girard was recently awarded and featured in the New American
Paintings
#91 featuring the winners of the 2010 Pacific Coast Competition juried
by
Lawrence Rinder. His collaborative works with Oliver Halsman Rosenberg will
be
included in the upcoming exhibition Abstract Now and Then at the Berkeley Art Museum.
In the Backroom:
New Work by
Chechu
Álava
February 18 – March 20,
2011
Opening
Reception:
Friday, February 18, 7-10pm
The Romanov is a new body of portraits by
Paris-based Chechu Álava
that
depict the daughters of Tzar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. The
works
are both haunting and charming with an authentically historic feel.
Chechu Álava
was
born in Piedras Blancas, Asturias in 1973. She received her Bachelor of
Fine
Arts from the School of Salamanca in 1995 and won the Erasmus scholarship
to
study at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Álava currently resides in Paris. Álava’s
personal
way of working is focused on the eternal representation of what surrounds
us
and the search for identity through painting. This trail begins in
her
subconscious and is completed by visiting museums, reinterpreting genres
such
as portraiture and landscape, and studying literature of the nineteenth
century
and cinema. Her final work demonstrates her passionate love of
pictorial
language.
Álava is represented by Espacio
Liquido in Gijon, Spain.
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Street (@Treat), San Francisco
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Gallery Hours: Thu-Sun, 12-5pm
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