Post by leejp on May 23, 2011 15:18:57 GMT -8
Glenn Barr and Lyle Motley will be showing at La Luz de Jesus on Friday, June 3 - Glenn will be signing his new book "Faces" at 7pm and both exhibitions start at 8pm
Information below!
La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents
Glenn Barr's "Faces"
Exhibition and Book Release
June 3 - 26, 2011 4 - 27
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3,
Book Signing: 7 pm, Exhibition: 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com
Glenn Barr "Faces"
An image of a face can tell quite a story, especially when painted on a found object. Together they create a unique portrayal because the scarred wood has a personality all its own and the subtleties of the human expressions are endless. In "Faces", Detroit artist Glenn Barr focuses on the face, the striking face, the iconic and the ideal face as his narrative.
"I feel the paintings for this show need something other than canvas to rest on, so I’ve used found lumber, scavenged from the Detroit landscape, much as I used to do when I started out in the art world. I’ve always liked painting on found objects that have history and personality, like tired, sun-bleached panels from some collapsed building, or discarded cabinet doors lying alongside the road. By discovering them and painting on them, I’m infusing these wood remnants with new life, which gives my work a natural aesthetic of familiarity and creates a permanent visual of the iconic ideal. There is some new ground I am going to cover too which I rarely do. I will have a few "likenesses" in the exhibition and I had a great time painting them" states Barr
At the beginning of his career and throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Barr contributed to graphic novels, animated cartoons, rock poster art and a variety of other ephemera. Recognition for his paintings came with solo exhibitions in the late 1990s Since then, he has exhibited internationally and published compilations of his work in "Lowlife Paradise" (2003), "Haunted Paradise" (2006) and his new volume, "Faces."
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La Luz de Jesus Gallery Presents
Lyle Motley
"Sending The Sightlings"
June 3 - 26, 2011 4 - 27
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus, Gallery I
appearing in Gallery II, Glenn Barr's "Faces"
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com
Lyle Motley "Sending The Sightlings"
Lyle Motley returns to La Luz De Jesus Gallery with a new group of paintings titled "Sending The Sightlings". Motley's new paintings continue to explore the narrative potential of abstraction, and also present his most ambitious inclusion of sculptural elements to date. Motley creates these unique sculptural paintings by bending and brazing rods of steel, filling the spaces with custom cut panels and finally finishing in oils. As a result several of the paintings in " Sending The Sightlings " escape and are unbound by the squares and rectangles of frames. The complete collection can be viewed as one, June 3- June 26, 2011 at La Luz De Jesus Gallery.
Lyle Motley is a oil painter, drawer, and tinkerer from Colorado. With his beginnings in ceramics and sculpture , years writing and playing music with the Lyle and Sparkleface Band, commercial and editorial illustrations , murals in Flagstaff AZ and Salida CO , a love of the outdoors, aimless wanderings and adventures around the west, life in the city and the middle of nowhere, all the wackiness of being a dad, and a mind operating without enough sleep, his work has become a unique blend drawing on many sources. Most importantly though, Lyle is completely obsessed with smearing paint on things, and when he is not smearing, he is fascinated by the light bouncing off the stuff that is all around him.
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La Luz de Jesus Gallery is located in the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm. For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-269, f (818) 848-2699.
Information below!
La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents
Glenn Barr's "Faces"
Exhibition and Book Release
June 3 - 26, 2011 4 - 27
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3,
Book Signing: 7 pm, Exhibition: 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com
Glenn Barr "Faces"
An image of a face can tell quite a story, especially when painted on a found object. Together they create a unique portrayal because the scarred wood has a personality all its own and the subtleties of the human expressions are endless. In "Faces", Detroit artist Glenn Barr focuses on the face, the striking face, the iconic and the ideal face as his narrative.
"I feel the paintings for this show need something other than canvas to rest on, so I’ve used found lumber, scavenged from the Detroit landscape, much as I used to do when I started out in the art world. I’ve always liked painting on found objects that have history and personality, like tired, sun-bleached panels from some collapsed building, or discarded cabinet doors lying alongside the road. By discovering them and painting on them, I’m infusing these wood remnants with new life, which gives my work a natural aesthetic of familiarity and creates a permanent visual of the iconic ideal. There is some new ground I am going to cover too which I rarely do. I will have a few "likenesses" in the exhibition and I had a great time painting them" states Barr
At the beginning of his career and throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Barr contributed to graphic novels, animated cartoons, rock poster art and a variety of other ephemera. Recognition for his paintings came with solo exhibitions in the late 1990s Since then, he has exhibited internationally and published compilations of his work in "Lowlife Paradise" (2003), "Haunted Paradise" (2006) and his new volume, "Faces."
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La Luz de Jesus Gallery Presents
Lyle Motley
"Sending The Sightlings"
June 3 - 26, 2011 4 - 27
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus, Gallery I
appearing in Gallery II, Glenn Barr's "Faces"
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com
Lyle Motley "Sending The Sightlings"
Lyle Motley returns to La Luz De Jesus Gallery with a new group of paintings titled "Sending The Sightlings". Motley's new paintings continue to explore the narrative potential of abstraction, and also present his most ambitious inclusion of sculptural elements to date. Motley creates these unique sculptural paintings by bending and brazing rods of steel, filling the spaces with custom cut panels and finally finishing in oils. As a result several of the paintings in " Sending The Sightlings " escape and are unbound by the squares and rectangles of frames. The complete collection can be viewed as one, June 3- June 26, 2011 at La Luz De Jesus Gallery.
Lyle Motley is a oil painter, drawer, and tinkerer from Colorado. With his beginnings in ceramics and sculpture , years writing and playing music with the Lyle and Sparkleface Band, commercial and editorial illustrations , murals in Flagstaff AZ and Salida CO , a love of the outdoors, aimless wanderings and adventures around the west, life in the city and the middle of nowhere, all the wackiness of being a dad, and a mind operating without enough sleep, his work has become a unique blend drawing on many sources. Most importantly though, Lyle is completely obsessed with smearing paint on things, and when he is not smearing, he is fascinated by the light bouncing off the stuff that is all around him.
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La Luz de Jesus Gallery is located in the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm. For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-269, f (818) 848-2699.
