Press release for "3 Solo Projects: Jane Mulfinger, Ross Rudel, Elizabeth Turk" and "chicken: a video installation"

              University of California at Irvine and his BA from Montana State University at Bozeman. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
The Collars is a new series of marble sculptures carved by Elizabeth Turk. This project is an exploration into patterns of thought. Her forms synthesize patterns as varied as her sources: historic lace, global garden designs, natural structures, self-organizing systems and social constructs. The physical manifestation of the artist’s investigation of these ideas led her to create seven intricately carved marble forms that hover about shoulder height in the gallery. While studying historical examples of lace at the Mint Museum in North Carolina, she was inspired to make a series of intricate and sensual graphite drawings. She has morphed the lace patterning into an atmospheric rendition with the appearance of infinite depth and motion. Turk received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore and her BA in International Relations from Scripps College in Claremont, California. She lives and works in New York City and maintains a studio in Santa Ana, California.
chicken: a video installation by Eve Luckring
Humorously referencing the use of the non-heroic chicken’s counterpart the noble rooster —a common subject of Chinese brush painting—the installation “chicken” is a projection on shoji-like screens that produce a kaleidoscopic experience of scattered energy and bird-like vision through a hide-and-seek chase with human-size chickens. The title refers to both the noun and verb form of the word, as observer and observed merge in a visceral experience of meaning. Installed in the Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art + Design, “chicken” is an all-encompassing experience that fills the smaller gallery with movement and eternal clucking sounds that echo out into the halls.
Eve Luckring is an internationally exhibited video and installation artist living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from University of Delaware at Newark, and her MFA from University of California at Los Angeles. She has exhibited in traditional venues such as the Surrey Art Gallery in Vancouver, European Media Arts Festival, Germany, the Lance Fung Gallery, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as well as in public sites such as nightclubs, storefronts and video arcades.
Location: Otis College of Art + Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Parking: Free visitor parking inside gate at the La Tijera entrance and on the street
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm. Closed Mondays
Gallery Admission: Free
Information: 310.665.6905, galleryinfo@otis.edu, www.otis.edu
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