L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS
A GALLERY RETROSPECTIVE BY KATHI FLOOD, STEVEN REY FUJIMOTO, EMILY HALPERN
DEC. 3- 28TH, 2014
Reception – Sunday Dec 7th
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Artcore Brewery Annex
Conversation With The Artist Series: 2 p.m.
L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex
L.A. Artcore presents a group show of three artists with significant skill and distinct voices. Each working in varying degrees of abstraction while retaining links to the suggestion of recognizable form, they take us into the realm of our own role in interpreting and identifying unexpected forms.
Kathi Flood identifies herself as a guerrilla sociologist, creating sculptural collage out of ephemera and antiques, installations that occupy the walls salon style, and burst out of frames to spill into the room, and accumulate on the furnishings. Her assemblage is full of history and appropriation, positive messages and affirmations of creativity. These provide viewers with curious details to hone in on and explore.
Steven Rey Fujimoto works with organic materials, shaping them beyond the threshold of certainty, until their character takes on the suggestions of more cosmic themes for the artist. In his work he sees collision, agitation, and masculinity, as well as ways of interpreting the flow and force of the natural world.
Emily Halpern produces expansive, striking paintings that walk the line between abstract and representational. Pulling deeply from her instinct and emotions, with an unrestrained, expressive color palette that avoids style or thematic uniformity, she undertakes a central struggle in modern painting of achieving balance in composition along with sincerity in the translation of personal visions.
Artist Reception:
Sunday Dec. 7th, 2014, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Conversation With the Artist Series at 2 p.m.
L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex
650A S. Ave. 21., Los Angeles, CA 90031
Gallery hours: 12-5 p.m., Thu-Sun.
ABOUT L.A. ARTCORE
L.A. Artcore helps develop the careers of visual artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, bringing innovative contemporary art to the public, and provides educational programs by professional artists for people of all ages. For more information visit www.laartcore.org
