It’s All Around You, a group exhibition of Los Angeles based artists whose work examines natural and synthetic elements of our environment.
The paintings of Samantha Fields and photography of Anita Bunn present natural landscapes with distinct individuality. The atmospheric surfaces of Fields’ disastrous forest fires and turbulent storm clouds glow with a sense of beauty and danger, while Bunn’s colors of changing chlorophyll and textures of cotton soft clouds radiate with optimism and mystery.
Lucas Reiner’s oil on canvas paintings and Devon Tsuno’s works on paper are fueled by photographed images of nature in the urban Los Angeles environment. The carefully rendered trees in Reiner’s work confidently exist in an abstract time and place: a re-ordering of reality. Tsuno’s densely layered imagery employs a rich artificial color palette to interweave silhouettes of leaves and foliage.
An artificial flower installation by Roland Reiss and a fake fur sculpture by Jared Pankin excite the senses with slyly synthetic representations of organic color, form and texture.
Reiss has assembled a collection of plastic flowers to inhabit the gallery; the caricature and exaggerated colors of the faux flora animates the concrete floor. With seamless techniques of integrating fake fur surfaces and glass eyes, Pankin invites viewers to look closely at a creation that appears to be looking all around you.
