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Art Exhibitions' Openings in L.A.

David Trautrimas: The Spyfrost Project
Gallery II Dylan Vitone: The Miami Project


SHOW DATES: Sept. 11 – Nov. 5, 2010
RECEPTION: Sat., Sept 11, 6-8 pm
With artist talks at 5pm

 

DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition “The Spyfrost Project” featuring photographs by the Toronto-based artist, David Trautrimas. Gallery II presents the work of Dylan Vitone in a show entitled “The Miami Project.”

David Trautrimas dismantles and photographs conventional household objects (from irons and refrigerators to vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers) and then digitally reassembles them to create fantastic, modernist architectural structures. “I became interested in the idea of creating fanciful dwellings unfettered by zoning ordinances or the laws of physics,” he told Penelope Green of the New York Times, “after noting the blandness of most residential development.” His new project is a series of photographs of imaginary Cold War military installations. Imposingly set in the landscapes of abandoned bases in remote mountain and desert locations, Trautrimas uses his functional building blocks to create quasi-futuristic, fortified structures – as if Mies van der Rohe had designed a thermos-shaped ICBM launch site in Montana. Both nostalgic and space age at the same time, Trautrimas has discovered the magnificent and modern in the empty and everyday.

David Trautrimas has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and Canada, and was recently featured in a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto. His work is included in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank Canada, The Bank of Montreal, Foreign Affairs Canada and many other private collections.

In his second solo show with DNJ Gallery, Dylan Vitone again displays narrative panoramas documenting a unique location: the spectacle and highly stylized glitz of Miami Beach. The “Miami Project” is a continuation of Vitone’s use of the multi-exposure, panoramic process to create layered documentary-style images that dissect his subjects from varying angles and perspectives. These photographs focus on the ego-driven characters that thrive both in the public eye and just below the surface of ‘acceptable’ in Miami’s hyper-visual and narcissistic subcultures: bodybuilders, porn stars, drug dealers, graffiti writers, and bikini models. “Working in the tradition of street photographers and social anthropologists such as Milton Rogovin and Bruce Davidson, Vitone makes extended portraits of communities through intimate observations of their everyday rituals.” (Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times)

Dylan Vitone has shown his photography in galleries nationally and is included in many esteemed collections such as The Smithsonian Institute, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The George Eastman House and The Portland Art Museum. He was named Emerging Artist of the Year in 2009 by The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts with a review of this project appearing in the “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.”

 

dnj gallery; 154-1/2 north la brea avenue; los angeles, california 90036; phone:
323.931.1311; Website: www.dnjgallery.net

Art in L.A.: CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
 


Darryl Curran
The Daily Dose

Darryl Curran, Untitled (from "The Daily Dose"),
unique photogram, 2007

Photograms: Uniquely Simple
Guest Curator: Darryl Curran

Featured artists: Elizabeth Bryant, Jason Lazarus, Jerry Burchfield,
Robert Heinecken, Jonas Kulikauskas, Julia Schlosser, Laura Parker,
Marsha Red Adams, and Sheila Pinkel
 



Marsha Red Adams, Chichen Itza Dream,
1996, GSP photogram + negative
generated image, 20 x20 inches

 

DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce, "Photograms: Uniquely Simple," a group show curated by artist Darryl Curran. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who have explored a minimal, straightforward process-the photogram. By definition, "a photogram is a kind of photograph, although made without a camera or lens by placing an object or objects on top of a piece of paper or film coated with light-sensitive materials and then exposing the paper to film or light." Experimentation with this simple process produces complex visual wonders when manipulated by creative artists.
Guest curator, Darryl Curran, lives and works in Los Angeles. For the past forty years he has sought to expand the definition of 'photography' to include experiments of the medium in its many forms, including camera and film, light as subject, camera-less image-making, obsolete photographic printing processes and scanner as camera. Curran's work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art; the International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House; Fogg Museum, Harvard University and others. His work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Robert Heinecken's photograms are chancy explorations into pages from women's magazines, where the overlap of imagery from one side of the printed page interacts with the image/text on the other side. Where as most photograms are negative, his images are positive, made on Ilford's Cibachrome (now called Ilfachrome) material.
Jerry Burchfield also explored Cibachrome, using projections, direct exposure, objects and people. He documented his Hawaiian shirt collection in reference to Pop Art. His "Amazon" Lumen prints are like no other images ever made. While on the Amazon River, he collected plant material and placed specimens on outdated, exposed black and white photographic paper. Plant and paper were in contact in the sun for hours as the two blended and exchanged their various chemical components. Results were varied, but we only present the finest.
Like Jerry, Julia Schlosser forges a documentary strategy. Her animal accessory cyanotypes, made of toys, leashes, and collars, are named and dated to generate a tongue in cheek scientific air.
Jason Lazarus' "Heinecken Studies" photograms were made with a portion of the cremated remains of the late Robert Heinecken (with the permission of the Heinecken Estate). This work is firmly in the 'documentary' camp, although the abstract images created seem either galactic or microscopic. The work is a conceptual homage to Heinecken and his image making process.
Jonas Kulikauskas shows a large cyanotype piece, "A.U.M (Assets Under Management) No. 1." The title parodies Wall Street corporate language, and Jonas makes a big statement using a simple metaphor for stock market excesses.
Laura Parker's beautiful, fundamental photograms, negatives and positives, salute the simple yet profound Noguchi paper lamp. She took the process further by contact printing her first negative prints onto fresh photographic paper to make the positive image. This process refers back to experiments by the English inventor, Henry Fox Talbot, who explored a similar but more primitive negative to positive process in the 1830's.
Marsha Red Adams' unique enlargement photograms shows another creative approach to the medium. Her connection to time and place, signs and symbols, land and spirit and performance based art propel her investigations of camera and camera-less hybrids.
Elizabeth Bryant, similar to Marsha, combines objects, symbols, toys, logos, and shapes into complex commentaries on social and political issues. Her photograms present overlapping layers of imagery and text both passive and potent. Her "Police Target" pieces examine a mix of conflicts associated with civil obedience and disobedience, law enforcement and freedom of choice.
The darkroom has been Sheila Pinkel's creative laboratory since the early 1970's. In her lab, she fashions illusionary images using the simplest means: photographic paper, bits of string and light. Her luminous, subtle, nuanced images reveal the poetry of the black and white photographic process in the hands of a master.
Gallery II presents a solo exhibition of new work by Darryl Curran. "Daily Dose" includes 365 autobiographic gum-pigment photograms created every day in 2007. The disciplined process tracks Curran's artistic choices (color palette, type of objects-- kitchen, office or garden, mechanical or organic, and multi-color or single, etc.) and creates a document of the objects, juxtapositions, associations, and the fine distinction of light and shadow that preoccupied the artist over the course of one year. The work in the exhibition is a credit to the process and the system.


dnj gallery; 154-1/2 north la brea avenue; los angeles, california 90036; phone:
323.931.1311; Website: www.dnjgallery.net

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