B4
https://theartshow.artsvp.com/2024
Benefit Preview:
Tuesday, October 29
Run of Show:
October 30–November 2, 2024
Wednesday, October 30: 12pm-7pm
Thursday, October 31: 12pm-7pm
Friday, November 1: 12pm-7pm
Saturday, November 2: 12pm-6pm
https://theartshow.org
Annie Lapin’s paintings reside in a world of multiplicities; digital histories and analog mark making come together to form landscapes that abide neither to the rules of the virtual nor to the physical. Initiating each painting with generous pours of paint and liquid graphite, Lapin’s abstract marks become the armature around which pictorial space is built. Punched with trompe l’oeil forms, photographic blur, and references to the sublime imagery of Western landscape painting and photography, the polyvalent scenes conjure a sense of mystery and fervor.
Los Angeles-based artist Fay Ray explores the fetishization of objects, the construction of female identity, and forms abstracted from the natural world through high-contrast monochromatic photomontages and large-scale metallic sculptures. For her three-dimensional works, Ray compiles cast aluminum objects, bored volcanic rocks, wire, chain, and natural materials into suspended sculptural masses. Conflating syncretic worlds of worship and desire, the artist works across mediums borrow from the symbolism and composition of traditional religious relics alluding simultaneously to Mexican-American Catholicism and the visual languages of the occult. Ray’s sculptures and collages hint at the presence of a rematerialized body through a mysterious yet systematic organization of abstract form.
Los Angeles-based artist Fay Ray explores the fetishization of objects, the construction of female identity, and forms abstracted from the natural world through high-contrast monochromatic photomontages and large-scale metallic sculptures. For her three-dimensional works, Ray compiles cast aluminum objects, bored volcanic rocks, wire, chain, and natural materials into suspended sculptural masses. Conflating syncretic worlds of worship and desire, the artist works across mediums borrow from the symbolism and composition of traditional religious relics alluding simultaneously to Mexican-American Catholicism and the visual languages of the occult. Ray’s sculptures and collages hint at the presence of a rematerialized body through a mysterious yet systematic organization of abstract form.
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