Structural Integrity is a group exhibition featuring Los Angeles based artists who reveal and obscure meaning through constructed forms and layered surfaces.
Working three-dimensionally, both David McDonald and Jennifer Vanderpool use additive processes to build high and expand volumes. McDonald’s progressive transitions with painterly colors show the measure of time and create luscious places. Vanderpool’s obsessive approach, that employs a range materials and a wild color palette, produces fragments of morphing gardens made from imaginary terrain.
The two-dimensional works of Barbara Kerwin and Christopher Pate are composed with irregular grids. In Kerwin’s acrylic, oil and wax on panel pieces topographic perspectives of rectilinear planes appear to hover in a color-field atmosphere. Pate uses painting and collage to playfully distort the order of found maps and silkscreened patterns and to build narrative tension; his reorganization of imagery creates a new experience out of familiar notions.
Barbara Kerwin has exhibited in Santa Monica, Atlanta and San Francisco; Kerwin is represented by Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica. Christopher Pate has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Los Angles; his recent October 2008 exhibition at Jail Gallery, Los Angeles was reviewed in Art Forum magazine. David McDonald, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient, has exhibited in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Jennifer Vanderpool has received international awards and has exhibited in Copenhagen, Denmark; Csopak, Hungary; Kalmar, Sweden and Culver City, CA.
