The Angles is proud to present by Baik Art and Noblesse Collection in Seoul. The exhibition is curated by Baik Art and presented in partnership with Noblesse Collection. Sited in two locations, the works are configured into two groups – one that reflects an engagement with the world outside through commerce, landscape, socialisation, and intellect, and another that deals with romance, feeling, introspection, and history.
Los Angeles artists see things differently. Colours, light, depth and surface. Shaped by the hyperreal flatness of commercial photography and film on one side and the wild desert roughness of the western frontier on the other, LA artists look for meaning in soft focus and low resolution. Their work spatially expands the painted frame and extends sculptural form into every corner. Strong sunny pastels and dark, moody shadows reflect the duality of Los Angeles, which is both dark and light. Contrary to the image of California as superficial, subtle gestures here reflect a sensitivity to the region's natural and cultural characteristics. Above all, these artists embrace the city's call to reimagine ourselves in new and unfamiliar ways.
Sculptor Alex Anderson draws from the lineage of California Funk in ceramic objects and wall-based works with colourful, textured surfaces.
Kristopher Raos's graphic Pop paintings pull from advertising and art history while his drawings use comic and illustration references to question the power of numbers and currencies over our lives.
Jonathan Casella uses acrylic paint to create layered abstract compositions that describe the beauty and the anxiety of Los Angeles through colour, shape, pattern, and juxtaposition.
Ramiro Hernandez paints found scenes of Southern California suburbia with faded colour palettes of sun-bleached photographs, revealing and concealing mediated realities at the same time.
Carrie Cook paints dark, mysterious compositions that evoke the mystical and the psychological.
Amy Bessone navigates value systems through iconographies derived from art history and the fantastical landscapes of LA.
Kira Maria Shewfelt explores transitional states through personal memories and sensualities, while Conrad Ruiz updates history painting for the internet age with observations of masculine power in all its forms.
Manuel Lopez's pencil drawings capture the eastside of Los Angeles with its humble single-family homes lived in by immigrant families and their stories.
Together, these artists paint a portrait of Los Angeles in its effervescent, noir glory.
Press release courtesy Baik Art.
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