March 9- April 6 2024 at Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles
Recently burned paintings on view at Bermudez Projects Los Angeles in a group show about resilience through the lens of fire.
Pictured above from left to right: Bryan David Griffith’s painting, Francesca Bifulco’s sculpture, and my paintings: “Lotto Mandalas” and “Throne”
Film premiere of “Creation Scenes”
From the artist’s “Lost Tapes” series comes “Creation Scenes,” based on footage misplaced for almost twenty years and recently re-discovered.
Using traditional film techniques like scratching the emulsion with a needle, splicing and taping the film, in combination with newer technology in editing including Ipad drawing and animated Gifs- to create a soft-spoken and evocative short film.
As a young filmmaker in the nineties, the artist would encourage intense performative acts by her friends and lovers in front of VHS and Super 8mm film cameras. Dawn, an ex-girlfriend, and Jesse, the artist’s ex-husband, as an artist in his own right, are subjects in this film.
“Creation Scenes” examines the idea of who is creator and who is the creation: woman birthing man; artist as the hand of ‘God’ -the filmmaker… A meta-narrative of a disembodied artist drawing on himself – as the filmmaker draws on top of him: ”X-ing out her exes’s…”
The film premieres at the Maiden LA Biennial September 1-20 2020.
You can view this film and others by the artist on VIMEO or via the FILM tab above on this website.
This idea came to me of relating to each other through aesthetic dialogue: symbolic artifacts in diverse cultures that, through association, acknowledge a borderless love of beauty, skill, and human expression. To locate the intersections of iconography and create equalized value across time and place, extending beyond regions and beliefs. The works become meditations on form pulled from their context and re-imagined within association…reducing and enlarging disparate items to the same scale and material to neutralize their worth and social/economic significance.
To see more: OPP Website
A reading of our 7×7.LA collaborative book
“Bring back what you can find” with author Iver Arnegard.
The details are here
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