[DowntownArtists] Thursday: West Coast Painters at AndrewShire Gallery

[Michael Salerno]

Apologies for cross postings / duplicates

Greetings, hope all is well.

This coming Thursday night, 6-9pm, my work will be featured in a seven
person painting show at AndrewShire Gallery. If you are in town, please join
us for the opening reception.

If we haven't seen each other for awhile, or have never met, or you are not
familiar with my recent work, Thursday would be the perfect opportunity to
catch up. I've seen the show, and the other six artists are presenting
paintings which are all quite different from my own. Truly a broad spectrum
dealing with many of the concerns of today's L.A. painters.

A note about available free parking.
The gallery is located at the south-east corner of Wilshire and St. Andrews.
Entrance to the gallery is through the parking lot immediately next door
(east of the building.) If there is an attendant collecting parking fees due
to a concert at the Wiltern theater, let him/her know that you are going to
the AndrewShire Gallery and you will be allowed to park for free.

WEST COAST PAINTERS
Curated by John Souza

Jonnyka Bormann, Ted Green, Hadley Holliday, Joan Kahn, Pam Posey, Michael
Salerno, and Hirotaka Suzuki

June 25‹July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 25, 6-9PM

AndrewShire Gallery presents West Coast Painters, a group exhibition by
seven artists whose abstract and representational paintings embody a wide
range of working methods, imagery, and intentions.

Jonnyka Bormann paints magical places where parfait-like landscapes of
fantastic terrain‹abstracted mountains, enchanted meadows, and secreted
valleys‹lead to mythical fortresses and castles.  Each make-believe setting
is one encountered only in daydreams, storybooks, or in Bormann¹s paintings.

Ted Green is a native of Southern California who currently lives and works
in Düsseldorf, Germany.  His painting method involves rolling a single die
so that a chance sequence of randomly generated numbers between 1 and 6, not
emotive judgment, determines how a painting is to be constructed.

Hadley Holliday builds an entire painting starting from a single shape.
Rather than planning a piece from beginning to end, it grows organically in
an intuitive way that imparts the joy of discovering something new for the
first time.  Hadley received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts
in 2004. 

Joan Kahn constructs hardedge paintings using spatial divisions based on
perpendicular geometric shapes that hold brilliant translucent colors.
Radiance is further attained by balancing fields of texture against areas
coated with transparent varnish to enhance Rorschach-like shapes hidden in
wood grain. 

Pam Posey finds inspiration in nature and follows its lessons to restore her
own natural voice.  Her images of shadowy trees and forests‹painted on top
of media such as layered paper‹have startling attributes analogous to those
seen in living things while being spellbound on some hallucinatory drug.

Michael Salerno begins each painting with a monochrome or multi-colored
background on top of which he makes a single mark or line.  From this mark
he builds a painting.  Concerned with the infinite possibilities in
continuous line and borderless form, he delineates space that evades notions
of shape. 

Hirotaka Suzuki lives and works in Pomona, California.  Suzuki¹s paintings
are highly evolved, well-crafted works that confirm his knowledge of
anatomy, graphic design, and cartoon caricaturizing.  His art is full of
strange and amusing creatures and characters who occupy the space of a
single painting.

AndrewShire Gallery
3850 Wilshire Boulevard #107, Los Angeles, CA 90010
213 389 2601
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6pm

For additional information feel free to reach me at 1.323.223.6089 or via
email at MS at MichaelSalerno.com

Hope to see you, Thursday!
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