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MEDIA RELEASE
BEN MALTZ GALLERY at Otis College of Art and Design
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER, 2005
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909
Images available
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is proud to present:
Step into Liquid: Jane Callister, Pia Fries, James Hayward, Michael Reafsnyder, David Reed
Guest Curator: Dave Hickey
December 3, 2005 – January 28, 2006
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3, 4pm gallery-talk with Guest Curator Dave Hickey followed by a reception until 7pm
Public Lecture: Thursday, January 26, 2006, 7:30pm, (Location TBA)
In post-war American abstraction, wet became the new deep. Paintings, of course, are neither wet nor deep. The idea of wetness became a primary metaphor for a whole manner of painting in which the fluidity of the surface provides the narrativity once provided by pictorial depth. Since most wet painting in recent years has been in the figurative idiom, Guest Curator Dave Hickey thought it would be interesting to revisit this tradition of abstraction in some of its current manifestations and to do so in Southern California where the language of liquidity has its own iconography.
Jane Callister was born on the Isle of Man in 1963. She received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Las Vegas in Nevada in 1994. Mixing romantic landscape with abstraction, her paintings and mixed media projects have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City and lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.
Pia Fries was born in Beromunster, Switzerland in 1955, and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Düsseldorf and at Kunstakadem with Gerhard Richter. Early in her career, Fries showed her work throughout Germany at Galerie Monika Reiz in Frankfurt, Sfeir-Semmler Galerie in Kiel, Galerie Conrads in Dusseldorf, and Kunstverein Kassel and continues to show internationally. She is represented in the United States by Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, and she lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Object Description
| Exhibition | Step into Liquid |
| Artist(s) |
Callister, Jane Fries, Pia Hayward, James Reafsnyder, Michael Reed, David |
| Title | Press release for "Step Into Liquid" |
| Year | 2005 |
| Decade(s) | 2000s |
| Curator(s) | Hickey, Dave |
| Description | For immediate release: October 2005 |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | SIL_Release |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | MEDIA RELEASE BEN MALTZ GALLERY at Otis College of Art and Design FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER, 2005 Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909 Images available Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is proud to present: Step into Liquid: Jane Callister, Pia Fries, James Hayward, Michael Reafsnyder, David Reed Guest Curator: Dave Hickey December 3, 2005 – January 28, 2006 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3, 4pm gallery-talk with Guest Curator Dave Hickey followed by a reception until 7pm Public Lecture: Thursday, January 26, 2006, 7:30pm, (Location TBA) In post-war American abstraction, wet became the new deep. Paintings, of course, are neither wet nor deep. The idea of wetness became a primary metaphor for a whole manner of painting in which the fluidity of the surface provides the narrativity once provided by pictorial depth. Since most wet painting in recent years has been in the figurative idiom, Guest Curator Dave Hickey thought it would be interesting to revisit this tradition of abstraction in some of its current manifestations and to do so in Southern California where the language of liquidity has its own iconography. Jane Callister was born on the Isle of Man in 1963. She received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Las Vegas in Nevada in 1994. Mixing romantic landscape with abstraction, her paintings and mixed media projects have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City and lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. Pia Fries was born in Beromunster, Switzerland in 1955, and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Düsseldorf and at Kunstakadem with Gerhard Richter. Early in her career, Fries showed her work throughout Germany at Galerie Monika Reiz in Frankfurt, Sfeir-Semmler Galerie in Kiel, Galerie Conrads in Dusseldorf, and Kunstverein Kassel and continues to show internationally. She is represented in the United States by Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, and she lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. (continued) |
