L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS
BEANIE KAMAN
SOLO PAINTING EXHIBIT
DECEMBER 3-28TH, 2014
Reception – Sunday Dec. 7th
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Union Center
Conversation With The Artist Series: 4 p.m.
L.A. Artcore at Union Center for the Arts
LOS ANGELES, CA (Oct. 2014) L.A. Artcore is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Los Angeles painter Beanie Kaman whose amalgams of landscape, abstraction and figuration have seen tremendous change upon returning to residence in Los Angeles after having lived, worked and raised her family in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the last twenty-four years. In this time Kaman developed a body of paintings whose compositions revolve between domesticated, Buddhist, and natural imagery on amorphous backgrounds or quilt-like foregrounds that belie the steady thread of the artist's hand guiding her subjects along. A sense of Santa Fe's enveloping, seasonal and color-saturated landscape is alternately conveyed as felt through the inward gaze of compositions that insulate their contents, fortifying them with densely-built up paint.
The most striking difference is evidenced between landscapes of the old and newly discovered; a shift from the interior cosmology of the 'Santa Fe Works' to gazing outward to the views of the Pacific from her studio and reveling in reflection.
The elemental qualities and influences of light, air and water upon Kaman's newfound environment have found their way exuberantly into Kaman's paintings, a turn of the page that runs counter to much of the artist's works of the previous two decades of work, whose impulses emanated out of the familial, architectural and mental spaces the artist inhabited. Kaman's 2014 painting, 'Gotta Be This or That' reflects a remarkable contrast and is one of the first paintings created upon returning to California, addressing change raptly at its outset. Where Kaman's previous works have conveyed ground in a variety of ways, as an image, color or expressed in material density, there is little trace in 'Gotta Be This or That', or, of anything that isn't in transition. Abstract forms surface and crash on what is a giant and blue body of water that is vast, powerful and sure to always change. Circular forms thread and dot the composition giving the painting both a sense of movement and simultaneity. The light of the sky's expanses heaves, contracts and expands once again. Cyclicality and funky pathways are articulated with dotted lines connecting forms that plunge and surface. Boundlessness ensues.
Artist Reception:
Sunday Dec. 7th, 2014, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conversation With the Artist Series at 4 p.m.
L.A. Artcore at Union Center for the Arts
120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Gallery hours: 12-5 p.m., Wed-Sun.
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