L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS
A GREAT GROUP EXHIBIT WITH JOHN ROSEWALL,
XI HOU, GO WOON CHOI
SEPT. 4- 28TH, 2014
Reception – Sunday Sept 7th
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Artcore Brewery Annex
Conversation With The Artist Series: 2 p.m.
L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 22nd, 2014) LA Artcore’s Brewery Annex will present a three person painting show in September. The artists have in common an experimental drive to the way they approach the canvas, seeking to create imagery that satisfies their sense of personal exploration. Stylistically, each artist has shown flexibility through their career, promising an exhibit that is fresh, for the artists, closely linked to their individual growth.
Xi Hou began her career as a professor after studying printmaking in Sichuan, China. Immediately her interest was drawn towards the language of abstraction, working with the relationships of edges and colors, and the character of edges each color produces against others. With an almost immediate embrasure of using colors as fill to follow a surface composed of line, what makes her paintings significant is the ferocity with which she has explored this course. Each piece carries its own desire for resolution, and the visible energy of her work that is creating a sense of anticipation among other artists. Since making Los Angeles her home, her work has only increased in dimension and volume.
John Rosewall is an explorer whose art seeks to answer questions, not necessarily thematically but as an almost oracular quest, to use his own creativity to draw something sensible from within himself that can address reality. Able to shift from being wholly engrossed in the technical aspects of a medium, and then discard it when it doesn’t serve, shows the sort of shift only possible when we are eavesdropping on a truly personal effort. In his current group of abstract paintings, recently born from a turning motion, textural abstraction combined with provisional marks hint at the edges of weighty representations. Titles like ‘Scenes of War’ and ‘Temple’ hint at a motivation to incorporate and face conflicts, to product art that is more than simply pleasant to look at.
Go Woon Choi works to capture the aesthetics of every day life by honing in on details, yet halting at a soft point just prior to total realism. Following her instinctive response to imagery and light, she finds emotional scenery in small spaces and details, and adds layers of new feeling to them in the process of painting. A graduate of Ewha Women’s University in South Korea, this emerging artist first arrived in the US through exhibits in New York, before finding a home in Los Angeles. Her close-up views of buttons, machinery, and metal objects hints at an occupation with modernity, engineering, and the still warm remnants they left behind, evoking a sense of the abruptness of the ‘Korean miracle’, its accelerated arrival in the global economy in a single generation.
Artist Reception:
Sunday Sept. 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.
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