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Larry Mantello & Edith Beaucage

Friday, February 25, 2011

Hi all! It’s been a while again. Life is just busy, busy, busy here in Downtown Los Angeles. I am again back in school, too. Just trying to keep learning and staying fresh, good for the brain.

We got two solo exhibitions coming up with the opening receptions on Saturday, February 26. Here’s some info for you. I hope to see some of you at the gallery!

Larry Mantello

Together Again

February 26 – April 3, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., February 26, 5 – 7 p.m.

CB1 Gallery is proud to present Larry Mantello’s return to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition in six-years. The exhibition, Together Again includes several series of works ranging from Floats (sculpture), to Off-Springs, and Rijiggers, which include temporary tattoos on paper and multi-layered wall-hangings.

Mantello’s current work is redolent with a pop-culture critique, which he packages with a reminiscence of childhood, a temptation with the body, and his interest in “the value of pleasure”. Throughout these works he suggests a subtle sense of sadness just below the surface, which is as important to the works as exuberance and celebration.

Edith Beaucage

.hurluberlu

February 26 – April 3, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., February 26, 5 – 7 p.m.

CB1 Gallery also presents “.hurlurberlu”, our first solo exhibition of the work of Los Angeles painter Edith Beaucage. The exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of painted images that investigate relationships between signs of abstraction and figuration and how we derive meaning by simple juxtaposition of these signs.

Beaucage invents characters and places them side by side with an abstracted form into a scenario that mimics what happens in a social space. The emotional thread woven into the paintings, the social spaces, is meant to stimulate discourse with the audience.

Tags: cb1 gallery, contemporary art, Edith Beaucage, historic core downtown, Larry Mantello, los angeles, old bank district, painting, sculpture
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Alexander Kroll – Unfoldings

Friday, January 14, 2011

Our first exhibition of the new year, Alexander Kroll’s Unfoldings, will officially open tomorrow, January 15, with an opening reception for the artist. But the show was already up and available for viewing starting yesterday’s Downtown LA Art Walk. Here are a few pictures of his work, followed by the press release:

January 13 – February 20, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., January 15, 5 – 7 p.m.

Los Angeles, CA — CB1 Gallery, is pleased to present the Los Angeles solo debut of the work of Alexander Kroll. In Unfoldings Kroll shows modestly scaled abstract paintings, which are simultaneously structural and intuitive; informal and hyper-considered; gestural and geometric. The exhibition will be on view on January 13 for the downtown LA Art Walk and be up through February 20, 2011. An opening reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, January 15, 2011 from 5 – 7 p.m.

In addition to an interest in exploring binary positions, Alexander Kroll’s work deals with scale, painting history, intuition, systems, emotions, and painting as a conversational nexus and means of producing an object that can embody and contradict these issues. Kroll’s work exists at a place of complexity and intensity. Through its conversational nature the work asserts an expanding set of ideas. As the work unfolds there occurs a process that necessitates further viewing and continuation of a dialog–both sensual and intellectual.

Kroll received his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design and a BFA from Yale University. In addition he studied at the Slade School of Art, University College (London), and he has been working in paint for well over a decade. Kroll’s work has been shown at James Harris Gallery (Seattle, WA), ACME, (Los Angeles, CA), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Torrance Art Museum, (Torrance, CA), Jessica Silverman Gallery, (San Francisco, CA), The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and The UCLA New Wight Gallery.

Tags: abstract, Alexander Kroll, cb1 gallery, contemporary art, historic core downtown, los angeles, old bank district, painting, Unfoldings
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Review & Interview

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Our current exhibition, “Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now“, got a review by Los Angeles Time’s Christopher Knight:

“…the schematic, profile style also harkens back to the hieroglyphic figures of ancient Egypt, who speak a mysterious language that continues to fascinate. A better analogy than that for the place of painting in today’s hyper-digital universe is difficult to imagine.”

–Christopher Knight

The complete review can be found in LA Times’ Culture Monster section.

Added: also check out a slideshow on The Huffington Post.

Mira Schor – Egyptian Figure, 2010

I also want to share one of my favorite paintings recently brought in by Lisa Adams. To me it has Zen-like quality, and yet upon a closer look you find a practical joke about to be played out. Beautifully painted and quirky!

Lisa Adams – Seconds To Go, 2010

Oh, here’s the video interview!

Fine Artist Lisa Adams shares insight about her career and what exactly makes her Pretty Rough and Tough.

Tags: cb1 gallery, contemporary art, historic core downtown, interview, Lisa Adams, los angeles, Mira Schor, old bank district, painting, review
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Mira Schor’s Opening Reception

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Just want to share a few photos of the opening reception for Mira. More can be seen on my Flickr account.

Tags: cb1 gallery, contemporary art, historic core downtown, los angeles, Mira Schor, old bank district, painting
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Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now

Friday, November 19, 2010

Tomorrow will be the first day and the opening reception for our next exhibition, Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now. Mira is a New York artist and author, and this show will be the first major survey of Mira’s work to be shown in Los Angeles. Here are some details about Mira and the exhibition:

November 20 – January 9, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., November 20, 5 – 8 p.m.
CB1 Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles

Mira Schor’s paintings exist on the razor’s edge between visual and verbal language, between formalism and politics. A conceptual artist who is a painter’s painter, a feminist who is an odd inheritor of the approaches to painting of the New York School, Schor’s primary subject is the co-existence of embodiment and thought within the material and pictorial surface of painting. Using the materiality and meaning of these two sets of languages, Schor references femininity and intellectualism, the body in wartime, the politicization of the personal, the self-portrait of thought. Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now is the first major survey of Schor’s work to be shown in Los Angeles.

“I chose handwriting as image when I had arrived at the portal of that end zone of painting, monochromatic abstraction. I no longer wanted to represent, in the sense of picturing the body, except through the bodily qualities of oil paint itself. In a sense, I was searching for the equivalent for me of Cézanne’s apples, something simple that would allow me to paint paint.”

–Mira Schor, “Poetry Plastique,” 2001

More details can be found on our exhibition page. We also published an essay Mira Schor: Making Thought Material, Painting (the Act of) Painting, by Amelia Jones. You can read a PDF version, or come by the gallery and pick one up!