Gallery 419 Veronese
419 W. Commonwealth Av.
Fullerton, CA 92832
714-578-8265
http://www.419cv.com
Opening reception: Friday, June 4, 2004, 7-10 pm
Exhibition dates: June 4 July 4, 2004
Gallery hours: every day, 9 am - 10 pm.
Gallery 419 Veronese, a newly established fine art venue at 419 W. Commonwealth Avenue in Fullerton, will exhibit work by Elena Pascuzzi Corsi, Won Sil Kim, Nina Jun, Desiree Engel, and Sandro Corsi from June 4 to July 4, 2004. The opening reception is scheduled for Friday, June 4, from 7 to 10 PM. Regular gallery hours are 9 am to 10 pm every day. For further information, contact the gallery at 714-578-8265.
Ranging widely in scope and media, including photography, ceramics, sculpture, painting and drawing, this exhibition brings together artists of equally varied origins. Converging on Fullerton from the East Coast, Asia, and Europe, they forge a unified experience in the heated collision of diverse materials and artistic visions.
To create the works in this show, I first use a computer to coax a richly patterned surface out of paper and pigment. The resulting chaotic forms appear to hover between abstraction and latent figuration. Later, wielding a finely sharpened pencil, I prod this raw material further, selectively pushing it just past the threshold of perception, allowing objects and characters to emerge.
The end result is interactive media on paper, a standing offer of mutual assistance between the artist and the viewer. The audience is invited to join in, and to continue the work of seeing pictures in the array of visual elements collected and framed here. Strewn among these bits of graphic representation (line, shape, shading), among these seeds left in varying stages of unfulfilled potentiality, is a faint storyline waiting to be told.
Assembling these scattered visual prompts is not unlike our daily experience of disjointed incidents--some we'd like to salvage, in an attempt to put together a coherent narrative of our lives. This exercise may be indeed valuable. It may help us resist a growing tendency to have our lives' narratives manufactured by others--picking them up off the shelf like all-purpose greeting card truisms.
Exuberant shapes and colors in nature, whether in the world of plants or animals, earth, water or sky, have formed the basis of my work for several years. I am interested in discovering what is on the surface, above and below it, and delight in using those shapes to express my own ideas. Some of the forms are intended to elicit a sense of recognition in the viewer, although none are accurate representations of anything real, but are my own inventions.
I have worked in several different media, always exploring the many possibilities of expressing my ideas in whichever medium I am working at that time. In working with clay there is an element of danger from the extreme temperature required for firing, as well as surprise when the piece is removed from the kiln. Exploring different techniques and inventing new ways of using the material are exciting challenges for me.
I am a sculptor and video artist. My video works are displayed in a unique way, projecting images onto a surface I created. By doing so I combine two images and let out two messages at the same time. The pieces that will be shown in this exhibition are photographs taken from those video installations, particularly images on styrofoam packaging boxes. My interest in making this photographic art is to conceive and help others to conceive the unknown beauty in the distorted images arising from staged and manipulated three-dimensional spaces.
My medium is sculpture, and I have created installations as well. I make three-dimensional objects out of different kinds of material. For installation indoors I usually use rice paper and fabric, and for outdoor work I use metal.
I do not assign any meaning to my pieces; they are forms derived from inside my mind. The theme is floating. My work is literally suspended, as I try to impart a feeling of surreal freedom from the limitations of three-dimensional media, such as weight and the fixed space that the piece occupies.
My work depicts personal feelings and events that are both real and imagined. Images are sometimes derived from actual objects, such as a ladder, wheel, or human bones, which then become transformed into another kind of reality. Layers are built up, rubbed, scraped, and pushed around as the search for some kind of beauty emerges. It is like being on the beach as a child, moving one's hands over the sand or in a mud puddle just to feel the tactile surface and the texture and to discover something embedded in it. Sometimes a happy surprise comes out of the muck, that feels sexy and spiritual and medicinal.
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