OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, 12.08.2019, 1-3PM
(Los Angeles, CA) LA Artcore welcomes its three exhibiting artists to close out 2019 at the Brewery Annex.
Jeanne Dunn
Through loose, gestural and saturated brushstrokes, the luminous oil paintings of West L.A.-based artist Jeanne Dunn delight in the sensuousness of paint. Perhaps subliminally, their expressions of splendorous beauty are subverted in the works' visual forecasting of climactic tumult. Rife with symbolism, Dunn's evocative imagery collapses both real and imaginary worlds.
Jeanne Dunn Tangle Trees Series: Go
80 x 72 inches, Acrylic on canvas, 2013.
On view through Dec. 22nd. Image courtesy of the artist.
Studio Visit with Young Summers
Visit to Young Summers Los Angeles studio, November, 2019
The mixed media collages of Young Summers at first appear straightforwardly to perform varied modalities of abstraction-geometric, organic, biomorphic, and . In closing one's physical distance to a work however, an alternately parallel representational world begins to proliferate. A visionary in her own right, Summers' obsessively worked surfaces draw upon unconscious desire, association, and meaning.
"These painterly collage pieces are a continuation of my Beach Rock painting series. I was initially inspired by rocks on a deserted beach. Submerged in water, they reminded me of strange creatures pulsating with spirits, and inspired me to reimagine them on my canvas. The idea behind my collages was to bring out the mysteriousness I felt about these rocks and make their strangeness even more vivid. Each collage piece has several vignettes generated in the process, either intentionally or incidentally. They are like mini dramas within a bigger show and, when viewed as a whole, meant to heighten surreal feeling. The way I see and express nature might have been influenced by shamanistic spirit that I had witnessed as a youngster in my old country."
Young Ku Park’s Kimchi Paintings
Young Ku Park's sensitively-titled paintings, the Kimchi Paintings, encompass their title as a muse that guides the inspirations behind his processes. Trained in traditional drawing and paintings techniques in Korea, Park exhibits a rare kind of technical and expressive versatility, and always with the imagination in mind. The works on display read as colorful and celebratory gestural abstractions and in seeing them up close, reveal an alternate world of human and animal figures emerging from the strokes. Park's artistic statement may be that abstraction cannot come from nothing, that there is always a connection or relationship to something concrete.
Young Ku Park Kimchi Paintings on view through Dec. 22nd, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist