Alexandros Vasmoulakis :: j.frede	February News
Culver City :: Alexandros Vasmoulakis Alexandros Vasmoulakis :: 'Figures' Artist reception: Saturday, February 9th, 6-9p Exhibition runs: February 9th - 23rd, 2013 PREVIEW ONLINE: View Exhibit Culver City, CA - LeBasse Projects is proud to announce two new painting exhibitions by multi-disciplinary artists Alexandros Vasmoulakis and j.frede. The main room will feature muralist and installation artist Vasmoulakis and his new series, 'Figures,' comprised of compelling figural work partly inspired by the tradition of portraiture. In the project room, Los Angeles artist j.frede presents 'unentitled,' which contemplates communication and language with text-based imagery. Vasmoulakis' paintings contain many layers - physically, in terms of their thick impasto and textural buildup of paint, and also metaphorically. At the outset, the figures are smiling, a nod to the traditional purpose of portraiture as a showcase of one's ideal or idealized comportment. However, the grinning and laughing expressions are menacingly exaggerated and recall the distorted visages of tortured souls in Francis Bacon's deeply psychological portraits and self-portraits. In the case of Vasmoulakis' personas, the turmoil does not come from an inner psyche, but from the outside influences of contemporary society, consumer culture and the media machine as the figures vapidly laugh, pose and posture. Vasmoulakis and j.frede have denuded time-honored traditions of their meaning in order to make us see them anew. The two artists obfuscate the original purposes of portraiture and language in order to achieve clarity about the way we perceive ourselves and others, and the manner in which we communicate with each other. For more info or preview, please contact: kim@lebasseprojects.com or 310.558.0200
Project Room :: j.frede j.frede:: 'unentitled' Artist reception: Saturday, February 9th, 6-9p Exhibition runs: February 9th - 23rd, 2013 PREVIEW ONLINE: View Exhibit Culver City, CA - On display in the Project Room, j.frede presents a new series of paintings for his solo exhibition 'unentitled'. j.frede is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles utilizing various mediums to create conceptually based work. j.frede has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe including such institutions as The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Soundvision Gallery (Portland, OR), Phantom Galleries (Long Beach, CA), Ausland (Berlin, Germany), Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), RE:FORM SCHOOL (NYC), The Berkley Art Museum (Berkley, CA) and more. For more information or a preview please contact the gallery at: kim@lebasseprojects.com or 310.558.0200
LeBasse Projects is focused on the development of a carefully selected roster of international emerging artists. Since opening its doors in the Culver City Art District in 2009, LeBasse Projects has presented a program that fosters the growth of its artists by allowing them the freedom to create across a range of mediums. Represented artists will include: Thomas Doyle, Nate Frizzell, Melissa Haslam, Andrew Hem, Herakut, Seonna Hong, Joshua Petker, Mike Stilkey, Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Yoskay Yamamoto.
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