"90021" Exhibition

Kate Werble Gallery

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90021 is a show of three Los Angeles based artists: Daniel Bayles, Patrick Jackson and Gina Osterloh. The first New York exhibition for each artist, this exhibition is presented in collaboration with Francois Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles.

Dan Bayles’ Aerial Obscuration series is an extension of his past work, dealing with architecture and landscape but focused on the kitsch-like act of painting clouds and sky. Several months ago Bayles noticed unusual trails of plane-like exhaust left in the sky above Los Angeles. Discovering that these chemical trails could be part of an undercover attempt to counteract global warming, his new series of paintings deal with how information is abstracted and contorted, creating something that lies in between fact and fiction. The architectural structures within the work form a temporal mash, contrails in the sky appear like monumental modernist grids written and fading into one another.

Patrick Jackson’s sculptures from his City Unborn series are made from alternately stacked cement tetrahedral shapes and sheets of glass on top of fiberboard boxes, painted with automotive paint. These tabletop height sculptures reference a new form of building, incorporating objects like a comb and a lollipop on each level, fitting objects to be shown in a storefront gallery. The pieces appear to balance delicately in space recalling Minimalist geometry.

Combining still performances with anonymous sitters, cast papier-mâché mannequins, and cardboard cutouts in room-size constructed paper sets, Gina Osterloh’s photographs explore the process of identifying and the structure of seeing. In Copy Flat and Body Prop, life-size collage and an applied crude pattern confuse perception of space and objects. The repeated gray dot pattern, loose in some areas and concentrated in others, collapses foreground, background, and the subject. Mimicry, camouflage, the figure, and artificial space exist in Osterloh’s work to further the relationship between a body politic and abstraction.

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Schedule

from April 16, 2010 to May 15, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-04-16 from 18:00 to 20:00

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