LA - "Conjure" (02.28.09 - 04.04.09)

Thomas Beale: Conjure

February 28 - April 4, 2009    OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 6-9PM

Kinsey/DesForges is delighted to present New York-based artist Thomas Beale with his first solo show in Los Angeles. The exhibition of mixed-media sculpture opens with a reception on February 28th and continues through April 4th.

While highlighting the intricate textures of fallen branches and scattered shells, Thomas Beale reinvigorates the possibilities of sculpture, reclaiming the destinies of these otherwise forgotten materials. His resulting assemblages form a fusion between the human-made and the natural, where a street reflector becomes an object of curiosity and mysterious origin and a vintage record player swells into

a dramatic sculpture besieged by wooden fractals, like budding coral overtaking a sunken ship. The artist allows his highly wrought, tactile surfaces to accumulate over found objects, while other works are born solely from the elemental nature of the raw materials themselves. Beale explains, "The working process is slow, labor intensive, and meditative, and I am interested in how the final pieces, while static and still, may resonate with this concentration of energy."

Born in Rochester, NY in 1978, Thomas Beale studied at Dartmouth College, where he received a B.A. in Studio Art and English Literature in 2000. In 2003 Beale was selected for one of five U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowships, an award administered by the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the young-
est recipient of this honor in the award's 30-year history. The fellowship gave him the resources to travel to Kyoto, Japan, where he studied traditional architecture and made sculpture for nine months. In 2004, Beale returned to the U.S. and moved to New York City, where he established Chelsea¹s innovative
Honey Space gallery and continues to live and work today.

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