L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS

A GROUP EXHIBIT WITH ARTISTS

MICHAEL FREITAS WOOD, DANI VINOKUROV

& KARRIE ROSS

 

AUG. 3-31ST, 2014

Reception – Sunday August 3rd

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 (May 22nd, 2014) L.A. Artcore is pleased to announce this drawing and painting show that reveals in its artists, an attraction to craft and the intimate role it plays in each artist's methodical and intuitive processes.

 

The abstract paintings of Michael Freitas Wood are formed from numerous and overlaid handmade grids whose intricate structural buildup and exploration of color differentiate between compositions whose undulating and patterned effects are made active by underlying geometric forms that describe and an overall structure whose character fluidly travels between architectural elements, technological imprints, textile design (to name a few) and visually inquires about them through a lens similar to that of an

 

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archaeologist, anthropologist and/or sociologist engaging with the state of civilization past and present.

The intricate lattice structures that make up Wood's paintings are created with pigmented-plaster that is thinly applied through strips of tape giving Wood the desired definition of a hard edge. But repeating this technique numerous times while layering them over and over yields optically-vibrating images that are produced between chromatic variation and distinguished by alternating forms. More info and images can be found at: michaelfreitaswood.com/

 

In the curiously-inspired art of Dani Vinokurov, the artist exclaims, 'My collages are one part magic, one part dreamscape, one part folk art, and one part nature.' Vinokurov's  visual narrative unfolds through tiny ink drawings, meticulous paper cuts, watercolor washes, miniature weavings, and embroidery. In the artist's words, 'Each collage is a place where the conscious and subconscious minds intersect—a place of luscious and whimsical environments where flora and fauna interact with repeat-pattern design to tell a story of femininity, folklore, and fantasy.' More information can be found here: http://danivinokurov.com/

 

At its core, the direct aesthetic world of human, animal and natural imagery in Karrie Ross' art correlates with the development of the artist's working techniques on paper. Yet, the artist describes her process of discovery as one that is intertwined with learning about matter itself, Ross expresses equal fascination for the implications of science and its detections of matter vibrating at a subatomic level and producing frequencies, which the artist conveys as, '...a fascination with the internal vibrations of the atom; that everything vibrates. That concept was brought really close to me back when I was around nineteen. A man walked up to the counter I was working at and slammed his hand on it and he said, 'Do you know that that's moving!?' and I was a dumbfounded young girl going, 'Okay, he's a customer, what do I do?' Well, come to find out, that everything has a frequency. If we meet that frequency of what we want, the universe can't help but give us that frequency.' Needless to say, Ross captures the simultaneous

 

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interactions between materials and symbolic imagery. Ross vividly recalls  a childhood experience of being outside in the yard during an earthquake, and being called after by her mom from inside while a bee flew into her dress, this being of a dreamlike quality whose absurdity of simultaneous events has become the defining quality of her art. More info on Karrie Ross (including a video) can be found at: http://www.karrierossfineart.com/

 

 

 

Artist Reception:

Sunday August 3rd, 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.

 

 

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

 

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