Where: Athen B Gallery
Event Date: March 12, 2016
Location: 1525 Webster St, Oakland, Ca
Exhibit Dates: March 12 - April 1
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523629021266138/
A GROUP EXHIBITION BY:
ANDREA HEIMER | KATE KLINGBEIL | MICHAEL OLIVO | WOODROW WHITE
OPENING RECEPTION MARCH 12TH AT 7PM
SHOWING THROUGH APRIL 1, 2016
ANDREA JOYCE HEIMER | The focus of my work is monoscenic narrative painting. The subject matter is heavily influenced by mythology, both personal and shared. Much of the work is influenced by the feelings and events surrounding my adoption and some of the events depicted are biographical.The figurative elements focus on the interactions between human beings in moments of conflict, transformation, or disconnection. Emotional themes of loneliness and detachment are expressed in various environments including houses, yards, forests, and bodies of water, with figures directly interacting with their surroundings and each other. The ultimate goal of the work is to expose painful and embarrassing realities in a flat matter-of-fact visual manner, as a means of acceptance through serenity.
KATE KLINGBEIL | “My work is about the awkward moment, the time in between feeling comfortable and melting in embarrassment. These fleeting ideas floating in my boiling blood, laid out in creamy texture and sweeping lines, are a tangible translation of life, as it exists inside. There is a satisfying serenity involved in visually mapping emotions. Painting is a way to organize these thoughts, to deconstruct confusing emotions, to process life, to slow down and make sensations tangible. Feelings change, and I am attached to the idea of the non-committal painting. I paint in sections, small pieces that are meticulously cut and arranged to form complete thoughts. I have the power to move and arrange images as I see fit. Using multiple techniques, I organize pictures to explain an intuition, where each process provides me with it’s own separate satisfaction. Each piece is a choreographed dance, an emotion laid out in ink, suspended in animation, balancing on pinheads. These paintings are records in time, and are carefully curated questions to myself. Each one acts as a puzzle of feelings in times of sedation, seduction, elation, anxiety and obsession.”
MICHAEL OLIVO | Michael Olivo (b. 1988) is a cartoonist and illustrator who also explores animation, mural painting, print-making, poetry, graphic design, and video art. Besides self-publishing, his comics and illustrations have been published by The New York Times, Esquire (Russia), Never Press (LA), Hirnplatzt Zine (Austria), Kuti Kuti (Finland), Tiny Splendor (Berkeley), and Sacred Prism (Philadelphia). He has done an animated video for California punk band Pleasure Gallows, interned at FLUXspace and Space 1026 in Philadelphia, and frequently collaborates with the great cartoonists Niv Bavarsky and Jesse Balmer.
WOODROW WHITE | My work experiments with the failure of the illusion, examining the nexuses of narrative, history and artifice. Palette, subject matter and personal connections inform the dual nature of each tableau. Through the realm of kitsch, such as museums and movie sets, I aim to connect these subjects to a conversation about painting and illusory art, at a time when all trust in images has been lost.