Landskin

Landskin: Sophia Allison, Autumn Harrison, Li 'n Lee, Jaime Ursic On View: August 21 - September 24, 2010 Reception: Saturday, August 21, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Postcard Glendale News Press Art Review Photos from the Opening Reception Return to Brand Library Art Galleries Schedule page

Through installation, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, Landskin explores emotional and psychological environments, both observed and imaginary.

Sophia Allison's art is inspired by the organic environs of her childhood home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and her neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her sculptures and installations reference specific places and points in time, both physical and psychological. The “Blue Ridge” series consists of structures built from cardboard scraps. Their forms undulate like abstracted mountain ranges. Untitled (Shadows) is comprised of watercolor paper from which abstracted shapes are hand cut; their cast shadows are based on local vegetation around her Los Feliz neighborhood. Allison’s work addresses the connections and disconnections that result from revisiting the past, including the fragmentation of memories and experiences that meld and shift over time. Sophia Allison received her BFA from East Carolina University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has received many favorable critical reviews in esteemed publications including Artillery Magazine, MAKE magazine, Artscene, and the Los Angeles Times. She has exhibited extensively in the Los Angeles areas at venues including d.e.n. contemporary art, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association’s Gallery 825, and the Torrance Art Museum. More information about Allison’s work can be found on her website and blog.	Sophia Allison Blue Ridge cardboard, foam core, spray paint, watercolor paper, straight pins 3 1/2' x 4 1/2'
Autumn Harrison is interested in the discarded, decaying and abandoned materials of city life. She is influenced by the scaffolding of an unfinished construction, a half-eaten cake in its decorative box, or puckered balloons pulling each other across a sidewalk. Together these elements create an aesthetic language that conveys something about a city’s hidden emotional landscape. Her current sculptures and installations borrow from the colors, shapes, and physics of city detritus and are created from a variety of materials including plastic sheeting, acrylic paint, wood, cement, latex balloons and bakery foil. Autumn Harrison earned her BFA from the University of California Los Angeles and has exhibited recently at The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Little Bird Gallery, MorYork Gallery, the West LA College Art Gallery and Gallery 825 in group shows curated by jurors such as Howard Fox and David Pagel. Autumn recently taught an Emerging Artists workshop at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. She has lived, taught and studied in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she had a solo exhibition at the Açâo Comunitária gallery.	Autumn Harrison Float Tether (detail) foil, wire, acrylic, found polyethylene sheeting 36" x 40" x 20"
Li 'n Lee's over-life-sized paintings-cum-sculptures evoke mythical islands full of impossible canyons, valleys and roiling waves, but also draw upon the very real setting of Los Angeles and all that it entails, including but not limited to palm trees, the people, the ocean, freeways and urban graffiti. This most recent body of work began as a translation of Lee’s longstanding pen-on-paper drawings of miniature, imaginary cityscapes motivated by a fascination with maps and the complex juxtaposition of chaos and order within metropolises. For her new painting-sculpture hybrids, Lee begins with a free-form paint pour onto linoleum flooring which she eventually cuts out and adheres to wood. Drawing on her paper-making background, Lee cultivates a new process in which thin sheets of dried latex paint are treated like paper as she meticulously cuts, tears and pastes tiny organic shapes. Lee explores the manipulation and potential of the material, including experimenting with frosting bags to pipe out acrylic paint. Lee’s new works, with their multi-layered references and meanings, are like the city of Los Angeles itself—full of disparate people, places and things that are seemingly contradictory but ultimately complementary. Li 'n Lee earned a BA in Studio Art with distinction in 2005 from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Lee is a recipient of the Sigrid and Erling Larsen Award and her work has been exhibited at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Korean American Artists Association in Seattle, and at the Torrance Art Museum. More information about Lee’s work can be found on her website.	Li ‘n Lee Wall 1 (detail) enamel and acrylic on plywood
Jaime Ursic takes her inspiration from her environment; the phenomenon of the mundane vista and timeworn surface connected with the places she inhabits. In her recent body of work, Ursic reinterprets the SoCal landscape by drawing on her introspective observation of a location distilled to its most microcosmic elements. Working in a variety of media, including painting, drawing and printmaking, Ursic’s work demonstrates an emphasis on process. Each mark serves as a visual homage to her craft—building up surfaces, layering subtle color tonalities, printing and embossing textures. Her images invite the viewer to peer closer and discern the drawn marks and delicate patterns incised, pressed and layered as surfaces. Jaime Ursic earned her BFA in painting and drawing at Pennsylvania State University and an MFA in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art. She has worked as a museum educator at prominent institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has taught at institutions including Wesleyan University and U.C.L.A. Extension. Ursic has also been recognized with numerous prestigious artist fellowships and residencies. Her work was most recently on view in the Los Angeles area at Underground Gallery and Gallery 825. More information about Ursic’s work can be found on her website.	Jaime Ursic Untitled (detail) watercolor, ink, acrylic, glue and monoprint on paper 22” x 30”

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