Sarah Cromarty and Karin Weiner :: Forecast & Conditions
April 2 - April 30, 2005 :: Reception: Saturday, April 2 from 7-10pm
(gallery opens at 5pm) :: All are invited
@ sixspace :: 549 West 23rd Street, Los Angeles (downtown)
On April 2nd, sixspace is proud to present Forecast & Conditions, the major Los Angeles exhibition debut of Sarah Cromarty (Los Angeles) and Karin Weiner (Brooklyn). Cromarty and Weiner are both heavily influenced by the landscape and are exploring various ideas pertaining to nature and our environment. Through appropriation they re-construct items such as vintage paintings, cut-outs of publications and books, and/or fabric to (re)create an entirely new object and context.
Sarah Cromarty’s painting practice involves acts of re-appropriation, defacement and recreation. The foundation of her work is the landscape paintings acquired at second-hand stores as merchandise that then undergo transformations via the artist’s hand such as remounting, cutting, scraping, gluing, collage, varnishing, and the subtle additions of color. In Forecast & Conditions, Cromarty presents a new work including a snow paintings series that function paradoxically (both ugly and beautiful, cynical and optimistic, attractive and repulsive), palm tree landscapes, and carved vintage "Time Life" nature books. Through her work, particularly the snow paintings, Cromarty is interested in transforming mundane spaces into something magical. (Sarah Cromarty is currently pursuing her BFA at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Her work was most recently seen in Can’t See the Forest at sixspace and artLA.)
Karin Weiner connects the contemporary aspect of life, with technology and the completely discovered world, with a historical past rooted in nature. She creates falsely constructed scenes of the landscape via cut-out images of birds, wolves, and flora from publications such as National Geographic (items that are indeed foreign to her within her everyday very urban landscape); these imaginary visual realms, created from real things, form a compelling narrative that allows the viewer to question reality. In Forecast & Conditions, Weiner presents these landscape works along with cut-out images of mid-century women, again re-inserting a historical image into a distorted and manipulated context, large-scale bird collage works on paper, and a large installation featuring five clouds made of re-constructed fabric hanging from the gallery ceiling. (Weiner received her MFA from Hunter College, New York and her BFA from the University of Vermont, Burlington. She has recently exhibited in her solo exhibition Shades of White at ZieherSmith. New York and in the group show Happy Medium at New York’s Clementine Gallery, curated by Meghan Dailey.)
To view complete exhibition details visit:
http://www.sixspace.com/gallery/cromartyweiner2005/pressrelease.php
For image preview request & questions contact: Caryn Coleman at 213.765.0248 or caryn@sixspace.com
