Paper Trail opens this Friday!

Paper Trail at Happy

happy
4675 hollywood blvd.
los angeles, ca 90027
323 661 2200

a curated, revolving group show of artists’ works on paper

Opening Friday, September 3, 6-10pm

Paper Trail will launch on September 3, featuring small works on paper by leading artists working in Los Angeles and beyond. A revolving and continuous show, Paper Trail will present new and exciting artists each month. The artists, in turn, have been invited to explore and exploit the medium of paper for Paper Trail, giving viewers an opportunity to acquire good work by established artists at reasonable prices. Works are available for immediate purchase. We want to encourage a constant stream of art viewing, appreciation and consumption, inviting to both new and savvy collectors.

Paper Trail is housed in Happy’s new mezzanine gallery. The past year of shows has garnered much interest and press and we hope to continue to bring new artists, projects and events to the Los Feliz area. We are thrilled to have been able to work with so many talented and generous people. Curators Paul Evans and Heather Arndt invite you to join them for a great season of art and friends at Happy.

September artists:

Sophia Allison, Susan Arena, Justina Blakeney, Michael Blasi, Rochelle Botello, Kris Chatterson, Audra Graziano, Corrie Gregory, Autumn Harrison, Aragna Ker, Elisabeth Kley, Joshua Levine, Li 'n Lee, Jay Lizo, Amy Maloof, Robert McCormack, Peter Owen, Sandy Rodriguez, Amanda Tan, Kim Tucker, Laura Sharp Wilson and Penny Young.

Review for Landskin in the Glendale New Press

Check it out!

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/entertainment/tn-gnp-brandshow-20100828,0,1995040,print.story

Images from the Landskin Opening

A big thanks to Paul Evans for taking the pictures!

Landskin

Landskin

Sophia Allison, Autumn Harrison, Li ‘n Lee, and Jaime Ursic

August 21– September 24, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 21, 6:00–9:00pm

Brand Art Library Art Galleries

Glendale Public Library

1601 West Mountain Street

Glendale, CA 91201

Phone: 818-458-2051; Fax: 818-458-5079

http://www.brandlibrary.org/

Gallery hours: Tues./Thurs., 12-8pm; Wed., 12-6pm; Fri./Sat, 10am-5pm.

Closed Sun. & Mon.

The Brand Art Library Galleries is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring artwork by Sophia Allison, Autumn Harrison, Li ‘n Lee and Jaime Ursic. Through installation, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, Landskin explores emotional and psychological environments, both observed and imaginary.

Sophia Allison’s art is inspired by the organic environs of her childhood home in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and her neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her sculptures and installations reference specific places and points in time, both physical and psychological. The “Blue Ridge” series consists of structures built from cardboard scraps. Their forms undulate like abstracted mountain ranges. Untitled (Shadows) is comprised of watercolor paper from which abstracted shapes are hand cut; their cast shadows are based on local vegetation around her Los Feliz neighborhood. Allison’s work addresses the connections and disconnections that result from revisiting the past, including the fragmentation of memories and experiences that meld and shift over time.

Autumn Harrison is interested in the discarded, decaying and abandoned materials of city life. She is influenced by the scaffolding of an unfinished construction, a half-eaten cake in its decorative box, or puckered balloons pulling each other across a sidewalk. Together these elements create an aesthetic language that conveys something about a city’s hidden emotional landscape. Her current sculptures and installations borrow from the colors, shapes, and physics of city detritus and are created from a variety of materials including plastic sheeting, acrylic paint, wood, cement, latex balloons and bakery foil.

Li ‘n Lee’s over-life-sized paintings-cum-sculptures evoke mythical islands full of impossible canyons, valleys and roiling waves, but also draw upon the very real setting of Los Angeles and all that it entails, including but not limited to palm trees, the people, the ocean, freeways and urban graffiti. This most recent body of work began as a translation of Lee’s longstanding pen-on-paper drawings of miniature, imaginary cityscapes motivated by a fascination with maps and the complex juxtaposition of chaos and order within metropolises. For her new painting-sculpture hybrids, Lee first begins with a free-form paint pour onto linoleum flooring which she eventually cuts out and adheres to wood. Drawing on her paper-making background, Lee cultivates a new process in which thin sheets of dried latex paint are treated like paper as she meticulously cuts, tears and pastes tiny organic shapes. Lee explores the manipulation and potential of the material, including experimenting with frosting bags to pipe out acrylic paint. Lee’s new works, with their multi-layered references and meanings, are like the city of Los Angeles itself—full of disparate people, places and things that are seemingly contradictory but ultimately complementary.

Jaime Ursic takes her inspiration from her environment; the phenomenon of the mundane vista and timeworn surface connected with the places she inhabits. In her recent body of work, Ursic reinterprets the SoCal landscape by drawing on her introspective observation of a location distilled to its most microcosmic elements. Working in a variety of media including painting, drawing and printmaking, Ursic’s work demonstrates an emphasis on process. Each mark serves as a visual homage to her craft— building up surfaces, layering subtle color tonalities, printing and embossing textures. Her images invite the viewer to peer closer and discern the drawn marks and delicate patterns incised, pressed and layered as surfaces.

Media contact: Cathy Billings, Gallery Manager, 818-548-2713, CBillings@ci.glendale.ca.us

Not in My Backyard closing reception

The group show Not in My Backyard in which I have work at d.e.n. contemporary art has been extended to this Thurs., July 22. There will be a closing reception from 5-8p.m. that evening. If you haven't seen the show, I hope you can stop by-it's a good one! Click on the image below for details.

Coagula

Check it out- a photo of me with my work from Underground Gallery last fall made their website yesterday:

http://coagula.com/2010/06/sophia-allison-at-underground-gallery/

Sneak Peek

Some new work in the studio for the Brand Library Art Galleries show in August:

This is a pair of watercolor cutouts based on drawings of shadows cast by local neighborhood vegetation. I have created around (20) of these cutouts -and more to come. They will be mounted off the wall by 4"-5" and should cast some interesting shadows.

This work is an extension/continuation of the "Blue Ridge" sculpture I did late last fall for my solo exhibition at Underground Gallery. I hope to complete (5) of these for the August exhibition.