Stop by!  Exhibition hours are Friday and Saturday, 1-6 pm, or join us for the closing reception Saturday, 4-6 pm, March 8!

Groundspace Project: Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 15 – March 8, 2014

Groundspace Project is pleased to present Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas, an exhibition that takes three different approaches to abstraction.  Ranging from Sharon Bell’s edgy colorist, graphic topologies, to Kerry Kugelman’s mystical and fluid lyricism, to Michael Maas’ geometrically concise undulating patterns; all the works in this exhibition share a visceral feel for paint, form and color.

Please join us for the opening reception of “Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas” Saturday, February 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Artists’ Statements:

Sharon Bell

Slicing up some old Thomas Guides to make collages, I noticed that many of the pages themselves were lovely compositions.  So I thought to interpret them as 24” x 30” paintings (about nine times the size of a TG page). The collages incorporate actual pages and printouts of them as well as other stuff. Mapping is the theme here; or transformation of maps. And hey, just as painting was/is considered obsolete, so too are paper maps, especially ones designed for use in the car. It’s good to know, then, that Thomas Guides are still being published.

Kerry Kugelman

My current body of work is a visual exploration of mysterious atmospheres punctuated with light and color. Hazy, diaphanous layers of paint imply an experience of time, history, and memory, an ephemeral visual experience.

Grounded in a language of organic abstraction, my work is also informed by landscape painting, from the sublime power of Nature in 19th-century landscapes to the dappled and euphoric vistas of California Impressionism, and decidedly bleaker depictions of contemporary landscape as well. However, there is an interior landscape at work in my paintings as well, an abstracted, intuitive world.

Luminosity and abstraction suffuse these paintings, as well as a brooding tonality. In the tension between light and dark, spatial illusion and the flattened surface, I explore the territory of the mysterious and the ominous, where the unknown has a sense of wonder, but possibly dread as well.

Michael Maas

I became a full-time artist in 1996 after having been, among other things, a bicycle racer in France, a meat-cutter in Illinois, and a life insurance salesman in Newport Beach, California. Primarily self-taught, my paintings are in collections in Australia, Canada, England, France, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, and throughout the United States.  I currently have a studio in the Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, and another in Fallbrook, California, where I have lived since 2007.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm.Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033

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Groundspace Project: Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 15 – March 8, 2014

Groundspace Project is pleased to present Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas, an exhibition that takes three different approaches to abstraction.  Ranging from Sharon Bell’s edgy colorist, graphic topologies, to Kerry Kugelman’s mystical and fluid lyricism, to Michael Maas’ geometrically concise undulating patterns; all the works in this exhibition share a visceral feel for paint, form and color.

Please join us for the opening reception of “Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman, Michael Maas” Saturday, February 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Artists’ Statements:

Sharon Bell

Slicing up some old Thomas Guides to make collages, I noticed that many of the pages themselves were lovely compositions.  So I thought to interpret them as 24” x 30” paintings (about nine times the size of a TG page). The collages incorporate actual pages and printouts of them as well as other stuff. Mapping is the theme here; or transformation of maps. And hey, just as painting was/is considered obsolete, so too are paper maps, especially ones designed for use in the car. It’s good to know, then, that Thomas Guides are still being published.

Kerry Kugelman

My current body of work is a visual exploration of mysterious atmospheres punctuated with light and color. Hazy, diaphanous layers of paint imply an experience of time, history, and memory, an ephemeral visual experience.

Grounded in a language of organic abstraction, my work is also informed by landscape painting, from the sublime power of Nature in 19th-century landscapes to the dappled and euphoric vistas of California Impressionism, and decidedly bleaker depictions of contemporary landscape as well. However, there is an interior landscape at work in my paintings as well, an abstracted, intuitive world.

Luminosity and abstraction suffuse these paintings, as well as a brooding tonality. In the tension between light and dark, spatial illusion and the flattened surface, I explore the territory of the mysterious and the ominous, where the unknown has a sense of wonder, but possibly dread as well.

Michael Maas

I became a full-time artist in 1996 after having been, among other things, a bicycle racer in France, a meat-cutter in Illinois, and a life insurance salesman in Newport Beach, California. Primarily self-taught, my paintings are in collections in Australia, Canada, England, France, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, and throughout the United States.  I currently have a studio in the Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, and another in Fallbrook, California, where I have lived since 2007.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm.Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Closing Reception, Saturday, Feb 1, 4-6 pm!
Join us for the closing reception or stop by Friday or Saturday, 1-6 pm.

Come see the show!  Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 pm.

Groundspace Project: Jonna Lee and Churchill Co.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 11, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 11 – February 1, 2014

Groundspace Project is pleased to start the new year off with “Jonna Lee and Churchill Co.” a two person exhibition of sculpture and prints.  Rich in material and process, both artists explore their personal insights on social subjects we try to overlook: Churchill Co. looking outward to Los Angeles’ ever increasing numbers of street people; Jonna Lee looking inward to human sensuality and sexuality.

Please join us for the opening reception of “Jonna Lee and Churchill Co.” Saturday, January 11, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Artists’ Statements:

Jonna Lee: “Sand in the Vaseline”
When I began working with silicone rubber I was led down a path of sensuality by the material itself, giving rise to Ideas of touch, feel, and excess.
Human sexuality is present, but is overwhelmed by the broader theme of sensuality.
Consider the satisfaction of stroking soft skin, contrasted with the feeling of sinking ones feet into new wet grass. Both are immensely satisfying, for different and concurrent reasons. Both are present.
Elements of humor abound in these plastic yet ultimately human works.
Churchill Co.: “LA Vagrants”
LA Vagrants revolves around my interest in Los Angeles as a city and, by extension, the city’s lack of a football team.  My aim is to propose themes and equipment design to commissions trying to bring a team to LA.  This particular proposal is meant to look at the realities of LA but also to look at the fantasy of football, especially where it concerns themes and mascots.  I feel that homelessness and vagrancy capture more of an essence of Los Angeles than other sports teams here.  The Vagrants are surely a more apropos mascot than the Laker, Dodgers or Kings.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm.
Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033
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GROUNDSPACE PROJECT STARTS OFF THE NEW YEAR!

Jonna Lee and Churchill Co.

A two person exhibition of sculpture and prints.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 10, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
January 10 – February 1, 2014

Three Painters: Sharon Bell, Kerry Kugelman and Michael Mass

Opening Reception, Saturday, February 15, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
February 15 – March 8, 2014

Fred Hoerr: River Systems: Photography

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 22, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
March 22 – April 12, 2014