Stas Orlovski "Nocturnes"
Mixed Greens Gallery
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Mixed Greens presents Los Angeles-based artist Stas Orlovski’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. He will debut a series of large-scale canvases that collage drawing, painting and printmaking techniques to reclaim and reinterpret nostalgic and sentimental imagery.
In each of his nocturnes, Orlovski embraces images found in mid-Century Russian children’s books, Japanese woodcuts, Victorian illustrations and Dutch botanical drawings. Inspired and challenged by such overt sentimentality, he constructs decayed gardens where Modernist forms share space with figurative fragments and bird songs echo in the dark. Everything sits tranquil under a faded night sky and an oversized moon.
Orlovski’s references—broken statuary, overgrown vegetation, rainstorms, clouds, pools, mountains and songbirds—play on the romantic and maudlin to evoke familiar feelings of memory, loss and nostalgia. The result is a series of poetic and haunting works that invite the viewer into a place both familiar and innocent, a place dreamed about and remembered.
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Schedule
from October 10, 2008 to November 08, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-10-11 from 18:00 to 20:00