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Bergamot Station Holiday Open House with Saarinen, Lefkowitz and Cheng.

11 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Bergamot Station Holiday Open House with Saarinen, Lefkowitz and Cheng.

Bergamot Station Holiday Open House with Saarinen, Lefkowitz and Cheng.

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Gillian Lefkowitz show Portrayals opens at Frank Pictures Gallery

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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Gillian Lefkowitz, The Goddess, oil on canvas, 54″ x 54″, 2012

Gillian Lefkowitz: Portrayals

Artist Reception: Saturday, December 8th, 5:00-8:00 PM

Exhibit on view December 8 – January 15, 2012

Gillian Lefkowitz grew up in the Venice California home of artist parents Patricia Knop and Zalman King. Being surrounded by the wild and eclectic environment they created was the perfect breeding ground to give birth to her own passion for visual arts and interior design. She attended Crossroads High School and San Francisco Art Institute where she studied painting. While there, she became enamored by photography, which segued into an unexpected career in that field. She was blessed to travel the world at an early age as a professional photographer for film and print. Gillian’s work in photography then laid the groundwork for a return to painting and her first solo show at Miauhaus Gallery, which was a rare sold-out success. The complexity of human nature is primary to Gillian as she aspires to capture her subject’s rich and layered essence in her paintings and drawings. In her words: “In my portraits, I love to tell stories through my subject’s eyes and expressions. I love to combine whimsy, humor and sadness together with unexpected color choices. Color has always played a huge part in my work. In this particular series, ‘Social Archetypes’, I chose primary fun colors in contrast to the more complex emotional inner-landscape of my subjects. It’s about the roles we take on in our society and how we play out those roles. It’s about that double edge sword that lives in us all, the light and the dark, the yin/yang of human nature. Just as my work appears simple at first glance, my painted friends are way more complicated than meets the eye.” Recently, Gillian’s eye for color and form has translated beautifully into her work in interior design where she has done multiple projects for a client list in the entertainment and arts community. She lives and works in Los Angeles with her amazing son Max who is a constant inspiration.

 

Eliot Eames Saarinen’s show Rubber Tree opens tonight at Frank Pictures Gallery

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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Golden Gate, tea bags, ink, panel, 49" x 49", 2012

Golden Gate, tea bags, ink, panel, 49″ x 49″, 2012

Eliot Eames Saarinen: Rubber Tree
Artist Reception: Saturday, December 8th, 5:00-8:00 PM

Exhibit on view now through January 15th, 2012

RSVP to Laurie Frank: 310.828.0211
laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com

Saarinen’s work explores human rituals and habits as told through his manipulation of the familiar, elevating everyday objects into cultic ones in order to integrate them into his own ritualistic games in space. Eliot’s aesthetic was shaped by his family lineage that includes internationally renowned architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen their disciples Charles and Ray Eames, and as seen from the top of a skateboard. “When you skateboard, you see the world in a different way: You notice where the city is smooth. You notice potholes and rails and ramps. And you see, very intimately, how your interaction changes your little piece of the environment, says Saarinen. “When you skate a ledge every day, the ledge changes. It feels different and, scuff by scuff, looks different.” In Rubber Tree, Eliot shares that worldview through his paintings — at once scuffed-up and beautiful, perfectly symmetrical and in total disarray. Fueled by an unyielding curiosity, Saarinen creates panels made of crème brulee, steeped teabags, cotton swabs and reimagines them into scintillating grids. “By using conventional items in unconventional ways I change the process inherently connected to each – caramelizing sugar, steeping teabags – to translate these into new forms. I take this one step further by adding something very unnatural which holds the forms together — epoxy resin — to create a balance with the organic/natural materials. Adding a new unnatural element to a simple, original idea/material, changes its inherent purpose and meaning. Rubber Tree is Saarinen’s second exhibition at Frank Pictures, his first show occurred while he was still a teenager. Currently working towards his degree in Fine Art, Rubber Tree is Saarinen’s third solo show. An exhibition of his Grandfather, design giant, Eero Saarinen, the architect of JFK’s TWA terminal, Dulles International Airport in D.C. and the iconic Saarinen chair for Knoll International, is concurrent at the A+D Museum of Architecture and Design in Los Angeles.

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