Bunnie Reiss All Our Nature
Juan Muniz & Jasmine Worth
with Special Guests Maryrose Crook, Michael Murphy, and Bunnie Reiss
August 5-28, 2016
Opening Reception, Friday August 5, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
In this world of constant expansion of technology, how do we go back and behave like our trueanimal selves? How do we continue to go by instinct? To .nd courage in a time and spacewhere our connection seems to be forced by computer keys and tiny, glowing screens that showus a world that exists behind a pixelated force. This new work is a story of us, of all our nature,of how we can .nd our brave selves again and come into the beasts that we are, without fear,without hesitation. It is the complicated simplicity of being the human animal, with our abilities toreason ourselves right out of our true nature. I want us to remember before we could remember where our nature came from, how we all lived in harmony, how we survived on the trees, the air,and the soft moss under our hoofs. –
My family is mostly Polish and Russian, and I was raised fairly conservatively Jewish. There was always lots of eating, loud talking, family and community. Although I rebelled against much of the organized part of my religion, I rely on the mysticism part of it to guide my adult life. Born in Maryland, raised mostly with the wide-blue sky’s of Colorado, I studied literature in Greeley, Colorado, worked for NPR and various other publications, while painting quietly on the side. My interest in pursuing more a full-time art career kept growing and growing, and eventually I relocated to San Francisco and received my MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. I than moved to France for a bit to study very formal drawing and painting in a small town in Brittany, and came back to the west coast to continue my life in Oakland. I relocated to Los Angeles about year and a half ago, mostly to pursue mural projects and larger installation ideas. – Bunnie Reiss
