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October 28, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Long Beach Artists’ Works
Shown
in Upcoming Exhibit at CSU Dominguez Hills
WHAT: Obsessive Surfaces: New Work by California
Painters
WHEN: Nov. 12 through Dec. 10; Opening reception/conversation
with the artists, 6 p.m., Nov. 12
WHERE: University Art Gallery,
LaCorte Hall, CSU Dominguez Hills campus (Carson,
CA) – Obsessive Surfaces: New Works by California
Painters, an exhibition featuring 45 paintings and drawings by
three Long Beach artists – Carleton Christy, Darren Hostetter
and John Koller – will open Nov. 12 in the University Art
Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The exhibit
runs through Dec. 10.
Curated by CSUDH alumna Bridget Borjorquez
(Class of ’08,
B.A., art history), the exhibition focuses on artists whose work
reflects an inescapable association with color, texture, and pattern,
with each artist presenting a unique conflation of these elements.
While the paintings and drawings stand as independent representations,
the underlying continuity, the drive to emphasize and exploit these
facets, derives works whose content ranges from subtle to bold,
while still interconnected.
Artists Carleton Christy and Darren Hostetter’s paintings
and large-scale drawings explore the derivations of pattern that
can be ascertained from both the documentation of man-made patterns,
as well as the manipulation of pre-existing shapes. With Christy’s
work, his finely patterned pencil drawings seductively elude the
almost floral motifs, only to discover that the patterns themselves
stem from Civil War battle movements. Hostetter’s work, conversely,
takes its cue from modern war armaments, combining their pre-existing
shapes, and re-appropriating them to create seductive patterns
in fashion palettes that convey the allure associated with the
military industrial complex.
Artist John Keller’s paintings indulge
the eye with tactile color, scale, and surface that produce abstract
dimensional exteriors
that begin the visual conversation. His surfaces intermingle with
the background and draw from it this barrage of objects that merge
to create a new actuality.
An opening reception for the artists will take place Wednesday,
Nov. 12, from 5-7 p.m., in the University Art Gallery. In conjunction
with the opening, there will be a conversation with the artists
beginning at 6 p.m.
The exhibition and related events are sponsored by the Instructionally
Related Activities Committee of the Associated Students, Inc.
Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday, the University
Art Gallery is in A-107 on the first floor of LaCorte Hall. Admission
is free.
CSU Dominguez Hills is located at 1000 E. Victoria Street in Carson,
Calif. LaCorte Hall is on the west side of campus off Toro Center
Drive/Tamcliff Street.
Visitor parking in campus lots is permitted with a valid parking
pass, which is sold for $4 at yellow dispensing machines at the
front of each campus lot.
A sampling of art work to be displayed:
www.cla.csudh.edu/dnp/art_gallery/exhibition_detail.asp?ageID=18
About the artists:
Carleton Christy: www.carletonchristy.com
John Koller: http://johnkoller.com
Darren Hostetter: www.darrenhostetter.com
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