FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

Beginning on March 11th, Kristi Engle Gallery presents “Broken Arms, Long Shadows”, an installation of collaborative work by artists Mike Saijo, Jim Holyoak, Airom Bleicher.

“Broken Arms, Long Shadows” reflects the common ground between each of the artistÕs perspectives on history and memory emphasizing the relationship between the imagination and past experience. Throughout the exhibition, the artists investigate how historical events from the past can coexist with oneÕs personal experience - the way a presently occurring event can trigger a memory of past events or cause us to imagine future possibilities.

The artists seek to impede the temporal linearity of experience, allowing a unique interplay between ideas and events. Distinct and personal representations of historical and imaginary events are based on shared themes rather than chronological order. Depicted subjects interact in a thematic, associative way in an effort to override a traditional understanding of history.

The exhibition will include drawing, painting and mixed media works as well as a series of related and connected sound works. The sound compositions will begin at a different points in time in several areas of the gallery. They are constructed to have matching tempos and time signatures that when played together will be heard in harmony at specific locations within the gallery. As viewers move through the gallery, the past, present and future of the composition will intersect, intensifying the temporal and thematic crossovers of the visual pieces.

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.