Robert C. Vance Aarti, oil on canvas, 36 x 48”, 2019 Image courtesy of the artist
Robin Bush-Vance
Robert C. Vance
February 6–29th, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb. 22nd, 1-3 pm
LA Artcore at Union Center for the Arts
120 Judge John Aiso St. Los Angeles, CA 90012
Gallery Hours: 12-4 p.m., Th–Sun
www.laartcore.org
(Los Angeles, CA) LA Artcore is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Robin Bush-Vance and Robert C. Vance, an artist couple who have shared a supportive working relationship for over 45 years. Together, they share a love of color, process, material in their search for finding liminal spaces within the two-dimensional plane that catch the ebb and flow of nature and perception.
As a painter working from within the traditional of the California Color and Light movement, Robin Bush-Vance uses different media and processes to create an atmospheric effect of light and color. Her creative interest in working with various materials and procedures began as a collagist and photographer, and has continued in her recent works on canvas and handmade paper. To create an illusionistic space of transparency and opacity, she uses different techniques such as aerosol spray paint through layers of cutout images of photographs and lace, with its own unique patterning, adding another layer of associations and meaning. Recent works are inspired by and dedicated to global rain forests, honoring their precious contributions to our planet’s health and beauty. Shadows, the shimmering effect of light on trees, sky, clouds, water; all are influences along with her long-time meditation practices and the shimmering of life itself.
Robert C. Vance liquefies, manipulates, responds, debates, and meditates with paint in order to map out equivalents for the rhythms of nature. While the imagery does not reference the landscape in any specific way, the juxtaposition of deep, cool and hot, bright color creates vibrant moods and temperatures with which to work; line carries asymmetrical, rhythmical movement through traceries of paint across surface. He conjures images into existence from seen and unseen worlds, embracing sensuality and the painterly incident. Free floating shapes arise to take on form, coalesce, and move toward abstraction and disappearance.
Robin Bush-Vance SINHARAJA, 2019, spray paint on canvas, 36”H x 48”L
An ongoing dialogue and critical involvement with each other’s art has greatly informed the evolution of their individual art practices.
A studio artist, Robin Bush-Vance also has practiced as a family and art therapist for over thirty years. Her writing is included in Art Therapy and Clinical Neuroscience, edited by Noah Hass-Cohen and Richard Carr, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia. As an artist and therapist, her work was included in Working with Images: The Art of Art Therapists, edited by Bruce L. Moon, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 2002. She has been an Adjunct Faculty at Phillips Graduate University since 1999. She has a BFA in Painting from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, an MA in Painting from University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Marriage & Family Therapy/Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. Her most recent exhibitions include “Artist Couples,” at Long Beach City College, LB (20019), and “Moving Line,” El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA (20018). Born into a military family, Bush-Vance has traveled and resided in Europe experiencing exposure to art museums, cultural histories, foreign movies, and peoples from many cultures and backgrounds.
Robert Vance born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to a foreign service family, has lived and traveled extensively throughout Nice, France; Martinique in French West Indies; Brussels, Belgium; Ethiopia; Fort Lamy, Republic of Chad. He has taught art in numerous colleges in southern California, most notably as a Professor of Art at Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles since 1989, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2013. From 1997 to 2013, he was the Director of the Southwest College Art Gallery. He has a BFA in Painting from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and an MFA in Painting from University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Additional Studies were at Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts, Haile Selassie I University, Ethiopia, and San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. His most recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition in 2014 at the Happy Lion Art Gallery in Los Angeles, and “Artist Couples,” at Long Beach City College, LB (2019).
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