LIGHTS ON IN L.A. - LOS ANGELES

"Lights On..." is a public art project developed and organized by the Los Angeles- based space Tarryn Teresa Gallery. "Lights on..." is a temporary light display that is installed in cities as a tribute to the local arts scene. In each occurence, CFL light bulbs decorated by individual local artists are displayed in a public park or other pedestrian-friendly area.

In July 2009, Los Angeles was the first city recognized. " Lights On.." has announced the planned location for the second installation: San Francisco, focusing attention on the vibrant art scene and diverse community of artists in the Bay Area.

"Lights on LA" is displayed in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles from July 15-September 18, 2009. Tarryn Soderberg conceived of "Lights on LA" as a way to focus attention on the arts during difficult economic times, when “nonessentials” typically suffer. In the years before the financial crisis, Gallery Row in Downtown Los Angeles was instrumental in the rejuvenation of the city core from strictly business to a thriving residential and business center. Ms Soderberg believes that it is imperative to recognize the important role arts institutions and individual artists played in this transformation. The installation is meant to serve as a reminder of the role that a vital and diverse artistic community plays in any successful urban environment at all stages of its development.

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PALIMPSETS - LOS ANGELES

Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present Palimpsests, an exhibit from guest curator Elizabeth Williams featuring work by Cara Barer, Annie Vought and Christine Wong Yap. Whether done playfully or poignantly, the artists in Palimpsests pay tribute to the associations and meanings we bring to the written word. Collections of words can differ extraordinarily, as can the reader’s response to them. Letters, books, newspapers, magazines or small one-page notes all offer the ability to inspire feelings of attachment or even aversion. An audience’s perception is mainly influenced by the meaning of the words themselves, but the manner of delivery can create an air of legitimacy, sentimentality or stronger emotions. With these visual works, the artists address the continuum of the written word.

For Cara Barer, old volumes of books serve as inspiration. Wetting them and twisting and turning them into odd shapes, the volumes take on a new life. Sometimes made to resemble living beings and sometimes allowed to remain as abstract geometric shapes, these old volumes impress the viewer anew with their tangibility and physical presence. By retracing and cutting out the letters in private correspondence, Annie Vought interpolates herself into the original document with amusing and poignant results. Installation artist Christine Wong Yap creates text installations which address language’s inability to convey fully our meanings. In this exhibit, her installations and wall pieces feature text construed or arranged so as to be indecipherable.

In Palimpsests, the artists address the concept of re-purposement of words for artistic ends. Like the original meaning of a palimpsest, these words used in these pieces are encapsulated in their medium and transformed by it.

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About the Guest Curator
Elizabeth Williams received an M.Phil from Oxford University in 2005 and a BA from UC Davis in 2003. A native of the Pasadena area, she works in Los Angeles.


Reception: September 26, 6-8pm
Exhibition: September 26-October 29, 2009
Mon-Fri: 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm

Heure de début :	26 septembre 2009 à 18:00
Heure de fin :	29 octobre 2009 à 17:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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JOSHUA LEVINE - LOS ANGELES

Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present unNATURAL HISTORY the debut Los Angeles exhibit of artist Joshua Levine. Using taxidermy models as a reference point, Levine constructs fantastical and sometimes frightening hybrids of familiar animals. The creatures are often brightly and unnaturally colored with numbers of heads, eyes and legs that are typically considered to be extraneous in land mammals.

Levine is fascinated by the interplay between humanity’s increasing ability to control our genetic structure and that of other animals and the random genetic variations resulting from our environmental manipulation. Levine refers to his works as “mutations”, appropriating technical terminology to describe an artistic vision. In keeping with this schematic, Levine presents his mutations as museum or curio pieces: mounted, posed and stationary.

Levine’s Trophy Stands feature the full body of the mutation and resemble the dioramas of a natural history museum. They plausibly hint at initiatives to educate and cultivate respect for nature. But humanity’s instinct is not only to preserve and to study, but also, occasionally to celebrate our “mastery” over nature. Here, Levine’s “Game” Trophy Heads (instead of deer or elk, Levine mounts the heads of the mutations ) are a wry commentary on humanity’s complicated relationship with nature. unNATURAL HISTORY turns the gallery space into a parallel world, one in which Levine’s mutations are curious enough to be studied and preserved and routine enough to be hunted and killed.

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About the Artist
Joshua Levine was born in Boston and raised in Miami. He studied at The School of the Art Insititute of Chicago and earned an MFA from the University of Miami. Levine has shown previous at Luxe Gallery in Manhattan, Irvine Contemporary Gallery in Washington DC and had the inaugural exhibit in the INSIGHT program at the Moore College of Art Design in Philadelphia, PA.

Reception: August 15, 2009 6-8pm
Exhibition: August 8 - September 17, 2009
Mon-Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat: 11am-4pm

Heure de début :	8 août 2009 à 11:00
Heure de fin :	17 septembre 2009 à 17:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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DAVE BONDI - LOS ANGELES

Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present Suspended Animation, a solo exhibit featuring new work by Venice-based artist Dave Bondi. In his second show at the gallery, Bondi addresses the stasis of modern existence: how it informs the development of one’s character and personality. Bondi’s work is improvisational and is in direct contradiction to the personal or emotional impasse brought on by fear for the future or regret for the past which confronts many of us. This obstruction impedes decision making, robbing us of opportunities to grow and change. For the artist, the act of making work serves as a personal catharsis as he wrestles with his own obstructions. The work he creates is an invitation to the viewer to do the same.

Bondi’s colorful polyutherene resin and foam pieces are displayed within the gallery space either as hanging sculptures or floating “wall” pieces. The viewer is meant to circle around each piece, view it from all angles, and even touch the piece. Suspended Animation breaks many conventional gallery rules and disarms expectations to create an intimate relationship between the viewer and the piece. Within this relationship, Bondi’s work and the viewer act on each other, each shedding their nature and existing, even if only for a moment, in the here and now.

For Bondi, such temporality is of primary importance, both for an understanding of one’s self and for compassion for the rest of the world. Suspended Animation is the artist’s honest dialogue with the viewer and with himself: “To me, this is about as truthful as I can ever become.”

About the Artist
Dave Bondi received his BFA in Industrial Design and Sculpture from the University of Michigan. He has over fifteen years of experience working as an artist and animator for such notable entertainment companies as Mattel, Activision, Electronic Arts and the television comedy “South Park”. Over the past few years, he has been involved with the designer/art toy movement as a sculptor for cult favorite Kid Robot in collaboration with Joe Ledbetter and Luke Chueh. His first vinyl toy "akashi" is nearly complete. He also serves as an adjunct professor of art at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills.

Reception: June 27, 2009 6-8pm
Exhibition runs through July 30, 2009

Heure de début :	27 juin 2009 à 18:00
Heure de fin :	30 juillet 2009 à 20:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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CASTILLO - LOS ANGELES

Aligned Through the Generations

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Castillo art exhibit challenges viewer to regard the intensely personal “unfamiliarly”


Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present Strand, a solo exhibit by Los Angeles-based artist Castillo. Castillo’s work combines a celebration of ancestry and mixed cultural heritage. Castillo is exhibiting three installation pieces, which combine natural and commonplace materials such as hair and rope. Despite presenting these materials in ways new to the viewer, each installation preserves the integrity of the chosen material while cultivating a different recognition of the material in the viewer.

Ecliptic Eccentricity is comprised of five spheres made entirely of hair and suspended from the ceiling. Each sphere has an imposing physical presence- it hangs at eye level and is approximately three feet in diameter. The viewer confronts the installation and must rationally engage each sphere as both a member of a set and as an individual. In this way, it works as a metaphor for humanity-every human is a product of and thus inextricably linked to their parents, and ancestors, as well as a unique and entirely irreproducible being.

For many people, hair is an intensely personal part of their body- and for Castillo, hair embodies many aspects of personal identity. She writes: “Legends, rituals, folktales, identities, DNA sampling, stereotypes, value, sacredness, care and attachment are centered around our hair.” By presenting the viewer with a familiar part of themselves that is at once larger than life and incredibly simple, Castillo’s art challenges us to reflect on and adjust our personal perceptions that color our interpretation of reality.

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About Castillo
Castillo is the professional pseudonym of Jane Castillo. She studied Art Education at California State University at Fullerton and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University. She has exhibited at California African American Museum and Bandini Art. Castillo is the recipient of both the 2009 C.O.L.A. City of Los Angeles Individual Art Fellowship Award and the 2009 Visions from the New California Award.

About Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Tarryn Teresa Gallery is a contemporary gallery dedicated to exhibiting conceptual art in all media. The gallery seeks to recognize artists whose statement reflects a refined and perfected process in the service of larger conceptual framework. Tarryn Teresa Gallery is committed to pursuing public art projects and installations.

Heure de début :	16 mai 2009 à 18:00
Heure de fin :	18 juin 2009 à 17:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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ALL UNDER ONE ROOF - LOS ANGELES

Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition by guest curator Yasmine Mohseni. The themed exhibition examines interpretations and representations of homelands. Adopted homes. Native lands. New homes. Temporary homes. The 10 exhibiting artists of varying ages and backgrounds examine this personal theme in different media and aesthetics. Where we are and where we are from are inextricably linked to our identity and the way we see the world. And all these artists live under one roof, the city of LA.

Artists: Amir H. Fallah, Carrie Jardine, Claressinka Anderson, Doug Busch, Gabriela Anastasio, Irving Greines, Kimberly Brooks, Kristin Jai Klosterman, Roya Falahi, Susan Anderson (1)

Artist Reception and Two Year Anniversary Party, April 10th, 7pm-11pm

Exhibition runs through May 8th , Mon- Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat: 11am-4pm

Heure de début :	vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 19:00
Heure de fin :	vendredi 8 mai 2009 à 17:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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ABSTRACTED REMAINS - LOS ANGELES

Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present Abstracted Remains, a joint exhibit by Andrea Cote and Etsuko Ichikawa exploring the fluidity between an artist’s conception and action.

Featuring works on paper and installations by both artists, this exhibit celebrates the “theatrical” process of each artist and explores the theme of the work as the “remains” of these processes. Both Cote and Ichikawa regard their works on paper as “drawings”, but their processes are anything but conventional. The viewer’s initial reaction may dwell on the aesthetic similarities between the work, but further examination reveals that each piece is very distinctly a product of the individual artist.

Artist Reception, March 7th 6pm-8pm
Exhibition runs through April 3rd Mon- Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat: 11am-4pm

Heure de début :	samedi 7 mars 2009 à 18:00
Heure de fin :	vendredi 3 avril 2009 à 05:00
Lieu :	Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Adresse :	1820 Industrial Street #230
Ville :	Los Angeles, CA
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