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SARAH COLEMAN: THE BIG BANG
April 5 - May 10, 2014 Artist Reception: Saturday, April 5, 5 - 8pm |
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
George Billis Gallery LA is pleased to present the gallery's second solo exhibition of work by Sarah Coleman. The exhibition features the artist's recent mixed media works and continues through May 10th.
Sarah Coleman was born in Marysville, California in 1976 and was raised in Texas and Minnesota as well as California. Traveling from place to place, she noticed how each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood and sky. These environmental and cultural changes shaped her early life experience and awakened her interest in exploring the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather and illusion.
Sarah’s most recent work addresses Illusion while delving into society's obsession with screen time and mobile devices. With layers of mirrors and glass, she creates three dimensional paintings that use the mirror's reflection to mimic an internal, back-lit, light source - the screen. In some works, the viewer looks out into expansive cosmos, enshrined in stars but also confronted with her or his own image inside the painting - the selfie. In other works, the glass surface is so obscured, it softens and retouches the image behind it making it more pleasing to the eye - the filter.
It’s no secret that we are all attracted like moths to the slick, glowing media devices which draw us in and hold us close. The influence on our lives and on society is momentous. For the past 10 years, Coleman's imagery has been enchantingly celestial and dream-like. This time around, it reminds us all to put the phone down - and look up.
“Coleman’s insight [is] to recognize abstraction as a readymade phenomenon, and to construe her job as one of discovering and presenting natural beauty…sending viewers back out into the world, newly sensitized to the compositional potential of everything around them.”
—Jonathon Keats, Conceptual Artist/Writer, Artweek Magazine
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Sarah Coleman was born in Marysville, California in 1976 and was raised in Texas and Minnesota as well as California. Traveling from place to place, she noticed how each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood and sky. These environmental and cultural changes shaped her early life experience and awakened her interest in exploring the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather and illusion.
Sarah’s most recent work addresses Illusion while delving into society's obsession with screen time and mobile devices. With layers of mirrors and glass, she creates three dimensional paintings that use the mirror's reflection to mimic an internal, back-lit, light source - the screen. In some works, the viewer looks out into expansive cosmos, enshrined in stars but also confronted with her or his own image inside the painting - the selfie. In other works, the glass surface is so obscured, it softens and retouches the image behind it making it more pleasing to the eye - the filter.
It’s no secret that we are all attracted like moths to the slick, glowing media devices which draw us in and hold us close. The influence on our lives and on society is momentous. For the past 10 years, Coleman's imagery has been enchantingly celestial and dream-like. This time around, it reminds us all to put the phone down - and look up.
“Coleman’s insight [is] to recognize abstraction as a readymade phenomenon, and to construe her job as one of discovering and presenting natural beauty…sending viewers back out into the world, newly sensitized to the compositional potential of everything around them.”
—Jonathon Keats, Conceptual Artist/Writer, Artweek Magazine
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George Billis Gallery opened its second location in the Culver City area of Los Angeles in 2004 and marks its 15th year in the Chelsea arts district in New York City. George Billis shows work by both emerging and established artists. For more information please contact the gallery at:
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T: 310-838-3685
F: 310-838-3438
email: la@georgebillis.com
www.georgebillis.com
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T: 310-838-3685
F: 310-838-3438
email: la@georgebillis.com
www.georgebillis.com
