On October 15, 2011, Los Angeles Art Association will present four solo exhibits by Birgit Faustmann, Tm Gratkowski, Rebecca Lowry and Christine Weir at Gallery 825.
Reception: Saturday, October 15, 6-9pm (show runs through November 11)
Admission: FREE
Birgit Faustmann's compelling exhibit 'Shiftings' features constructive sculptures fundamentally based on horizontal laterally...
[read more] On October 15, 2011, Los Angeles Art Association will present four solo exhibits by Birgit Faustmann, Tm Gratkowski, Rebecca Lowry and Christine Weir at Gallery 825.
Reception: Saturday, October 15, 6-9pm (show runs through November 11)
Admission: FREE
Birgit Faustmann's compelling exhibit 'Shiftings' features constructive sculptures fundamentally based on horizontal laterally conjoined square wooden boards. In ten stages, they vertically expand from a slab-like shape to slowly form a cube, thereby rotating step by step upwards around a vertical axis, finally completing a semicircle or a full circle. Conversely, a hollow cube could also flatten upwards to a hollow slab. Faustmann's resulting forms are subjected to sectional cuts or cut-outs, often producing unexpectedly complex and intriguing visual outcomes.
Tm Gratkowski's new solo exhibition 'Palimpsest' delivers a process-driven body of work about words, meanings, messages and how they are viewed and appropriated in a contemporaneous media-driven world. This body of work chooses to use text as subject in how it appears alongside graphics and images and how that meaning and message is allowed to change and reinterpret itself. Tm's unique collage process of composing layers of paper (much the way a painter builds up their canvas with layers of paint) develops his imagery in very associative and dynamic ways — a way of lateral thinking. The process becomes evident as the viewer becomes engaged in a visual dialogue about specific issues relevant to the current social climate. Tm hopes to leave the viewer with a topic for conversation in which they are at liberty to see, discuss and challenge that which has been discovered.
Rebecca Lowry's object-based poems create relationships between texts, objects and actions as a means of modifying and reinforcing the associations already inherent in each of these elements. As a poet writes with words: utilizing their sense, sounds and the structure linking them, Lowry writes with objects and texts, employing their various qualities and the relationships between them. Lowry's solo exhibition 'Rite' is a continuation of two bodies of work that explore the phenomenon of music and the struggle to represent and contain it. The three-dimensional works compress monumental musical experiences into tiny structures wherein the music is tangible, but no longer perceptible. In contrast, the drawings attempt to reveal the music as a visual experience, while still remaining true to the intention of the original composition.
Christine Weir's new body of work, 'Water Becomes Dust' is a series of hyper-detailed drawings highlighting the natural courses of California river waters and lakes along with the man-made manipulations of these waters to create the Los Angeles Aqueduct system. Weir's investigations of how early 20th century Owens River headwaters were diverted to create Los Angeles' current aqueduct system, inspired this series of drawings that integrate aerial views of the reservoirs, past and present and the area where the Owens Lake should exist.
For more information call 310.652.8272 or visit
www.laaa.org.
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