"Connections"

“CONNECTIONS”
A collaborative exhibition between OVERTONES gallery and den contemporary art
on view at OVERTONES gallery through February 28, 2009.
Amir H. Fallah
Tim Forcum (CSUN Art Dept Faculty)
Cornia Gamma
Stas Orlovski
Margi Scharff
Amanda Sefton Hogg
Carole Silverstein
Coleen Sterritt
Alexis Weidig
Nicola Vruwink
Opening Night: SATURDAY, January 17, 2009; 7-10PM
Exhibition dates: January 17 – February 28, 2009
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“Connections” is a group exhibition of ten Los Angeles-based artists from OVERTONES and den contemporary art, featured at the OVERTONES gallery exhibition space. The artists are linked through a sequence of visual dialogs in art making, and the exhibition will include painting, work on paper, sculpture, and video.

Each artist has a singular vision and style, yet one connects to another in visual discourse reflecting contemporary consciousness about subjects ranging from nature to domesticity, and through use of text, patterning, collage, and craft, in works that include both abstract and representational imagery. Landscape and nature are represented in detailed paintings by Amir Fallah, Stas Orlovski, and Amanda Sefton Hogg. Elements from nature are also found in the sensitively assembled sculptures by Coleen Sterritt and Alexis Weidig. Use of craft in Nicola Vruwink’s crocheted cassette tape piece relates to
Margi Scharff’s intimate collages of discarded materials. Scharff’s arrangements are fashioned into mandala patterns, which connect to Gamma’s video installation of kaleidoscopic images of moving objects and people. The images layered in Gamma’s videos link to the layering of patterns and lines in the abstract works of Carole Silverstein’s meditative ink paintings on mylar and Tim Forcum’s dynamic oil paintings.

“Connections” provides the audience with a sense that, if one is open to seeing, relationships exist everywhere. In times of change like the World is experiencing today, the links between us are pathways to new opportunities and growth. The collaborative nature of the exhibition “Connections” and the artists presented, offer a visual space within which we can play, explore and find delight in the challenges that often come with the uncertainty of change.
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+ For additional information and images please contact Elizabeta Betinski at word@overtonesgallery.com
or Donna Enad Napper at info@dencontemporaryart.com

Professor Samantha Fields - This Land

OUTSIDE

CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ART
featuring Prof. Samantha Fields
click on image for details

HAUSGUESTS

Work of over 200 artists, including CSUN Professor Samantha Fields
February 24 - March 24, 2007
Reception: February 24, 7 to 10 pm

At The Brewery Project
676 S. Avenue 21, #33, Los Angeles, CA 90031
(323) 222-0222
Email: director@hausgallerycom
Web-site: http://www.hausgallery.com
Hours: Friday - Sunday, noon to 5pm


To view formatted version of this announcement online:
http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0207/Haus0207.html

On Saturday, February 24th, an exhibition sponsored by HAUS to benefit the Darfur region of Sudan will open at the Brewery Project featuring the work of over 200 artists. Small works (no larger than 24" square) of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and mixed media will be exhibited by established, mid-career and emerging artists.

The reception will be from 7 to 10 p.m. All work will be for sale and HAUS will donate all profit from its 50% sales commissions from this event to SaveDarfur.org. It is expected that many of the showing artists will also voluntarily donate their proceeds from the sale of their work.

According to the SaveDarfur websitehttp://www.SaveDarfur.org, Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed, more than two million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter. António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has described the situation in Sudan and Chad as the largest and most complex humanitarian problem on the globe.

Since its inaugural exhibition in 2003, HAUS, an alternative gallery in Pasadenahttp://www.hausgallery.com, has been hosting solo exhibitions of emerging and underexposed contemporary artists. According to HAUS owners, William Rabe and Nena Amsler, We are pleased to have been given the opportunity to sponsor this event which, it is hoped, will generate both aid and awareness for the Darfur crisis and have been thrilled with the art community's response to our efforts.