KRISTI ENGLE GALLERY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kristi Engle Gallery
5002 York Ave.
Highland Park, CA 90042
323.472.6237
kristi@kristienglegallery.com

ART EXHIBITION: “PHOTODISRUPTION”

July 15 through August 19, 2006
Opening Reception: July 15, 2006: 6-9pm
Gallery hours: Thurs - Sat, 12 - 6pm & by appointment
For images, please contact: Kristi Engle, 323/472-6237

Co-curated by Kristi Engle & Meg Madison, “photodisruption” presents seven artists focusing on photography as a material rather than a medium. The featured artists create new forms by either adding to or taking away from the photograph in an attempt to disrupt the seamless flow of the traditional photographic print. This technique allows them to question photography as a representational medium and emphasize the conceptual ideas within it. While photography has historically been about making things clearer, this distancing from its common role as an “accurate” record invites multi-valent interpretations.

The artists included in the exhibition are all currently working in the Los Angeles area: Suzanne Adelman uses layers of photographs to digitally “paint” using photography as both paint & canvas. Danielle B. Ashton creates three-dimensional “floats,” mobile-like structures that use cut double-sided photographs as sculptural material. Mimi Drop draws from a personal history of embroidery & traditional crafts to inform her altered photographs. Alyssa Gorelick cuts, re-photographs and then cuts again. Lesley Krane uses sewing to combine two photographs simultaneously breaking up and creating narratives. Rosalyn Myles will be creating a series of nightlights, using photographs that are not necessarily chosen to help you sleep. Kyungmi Shin uses painting & cutting to intermix and confuse different modes of representation and language.

The work presented in photodisruption invites the viewer to question the contexts, constructs and concepts of the medium & material of photography.

Kristi Engle Gallery devotes itself primarily to solo exhibitions of new works by contemporary artists. It is located in Highland Park, near the corner of Ave. 50 and York Blvd.

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