Jason Freeny & Miso & William Mortensen Install Up!
February 6 – March 1, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
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2/6: Art of Miso “Cornucopia” at La Luz de Jesus
Miso – Cornucopia
Also showing: Jason Freeny Molt and William Mortensen American Grotesque
February 6 – March 1, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
Cornucopia began life as a meditation on 16th century Flemish still life paintings, but evolved into something more descriptively elusive. The relatively small, but lavishly illuminated oil paintings that comprise the exhibition feature botanical wonders alongside the dissected anatomical figures that populate Karen Hsiao‘s fantasy Miso world.
The titular cornucopia relates to Hsiao’s vast collection of specimens, both flora and fauna, that continue the tradition of scientific classification paintings spanning Audubon to Walton Ford–but reflecting a modern context of fetishistic connoisseurship.
Karen Hsiao is a self taught Fine Art photographer whom uses intense subject matters in an unconventional way. Primarily a figurative painter in her early years, Hsiao has since explored the figure and its space through various mediums, creating pieces that are both tactile and intuitive. Photography was a natural extension of that process which Hsiao has sought to perfect. Her work has captured the attention of many, having been shown in galleries both nationwide and abroad. A graduate from Art Center College of Design with a BFA, Hsiao lives and works in Los Angeles.
2/6: Jason Freeny “Molt” at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Jason Freeny – Molt
Also showing: Miso Cornucopia and William Mortensen American Grotesque
February 6 – March 1, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
molt verb ˈmōlt
: to cast off (an outer covering) periodically; specifically : to throw off (the old cuticle) —used of arthropods
Jason Freeny aptly chose the word MOLT as the title for his La Luz de Jesus debut, reflecting the display of transition inherent in the subject matter of his sculptural pieces. He has shed and moved forward from his iconic toy dissections onto pieces that are strictly about form.
Freeny has always had a fascination with clean surfaces, crisp edges and beautiful volumes, and this show is simultaneously the end of his exploration of vinyl toy anatomy and the beginning of his own, original surface and form based characters and creatures.
Freeny is the owner of the Moist Production studio, which acts as the primary publisher and distributor of his works. Freeny lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
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