Come see the show!  Open Friday an Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or by appointment, (310) 614-3351.  Exhibition runs through Saturday, September 28, 2013.

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Linda Parnell and Stevie Love
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 7 – 28, 2013

“Any metaphysical experiment will therefore consist in an act of consciousness, that is, in an effort repugnant in the highest degree to human laziness.  And that is why it is preferred in general to regard such an experience as impossible.”   (You’ve Always Been Wrong, René Daumal)

Please join us Saturday, September 7, 6:00 to 9:00 pm for the opening reception for Linda Parnell and Stevie Love’s two person exhibition.  New works by each artist explore the act of consciousness through a creative process whose main objective is to stay open to intuitive recognition, or a re-cognition of the intuitive.  The resulting artworks; painting, collage and sculpture, are crisp and luscious, presenting diagrams and theaters of the mind.

Linda Parnell
knowing the coordinates were accurate the raven waited for the spaceship to return the butterflies

“If we are going to be able to perceive another dimension we will need to reconfigure our
brains and I imagine that to do that we’d need to scramble up the world as we currently
know it?  Sort of like an extremely wonderful acid trip in a little 12″ x 12″ collage/drawing.”

Starting out in the thrift stores, Ms. Parnell collects instructional manuals like The Chemist’s Handbook, Dictionary of Musical Themes, Battles of the Medieval World, and New Yorker magazines (cartoons).  This material becomes the stuff of meditation. Imagining the finished works as two-dimensional diagrams of vast three-dimensional rooms, the artist’s diagrams echo particle tracings – with surprising graphic elements and delicate line.

Ms. Parnell also presents two small sculptures; a mass of concrete snowballs (homage to david hammons), and a resin rock with DNA, from a series in which the artist explores issues of spirit and privacy.

Stevie Love
Delusional

According to Stevie Love, just recently her artwork became purposeful, “ideas bubbled to the surface in the paintings and said, ‘Here, look at this, it’s what you’ve been living’”.  Expanding her painterly vocabulary of stains, dots and scratchings to include spatial and architectural elements, Ms. Love’s new paintings describe metaphysical visions while undergoing heightened consciousness.

“What about the corridors, theaters, skies?” asks Susan Joseph.

They are all metaphors for our existence on this earthly plane.
There are many dimensions, realities, other than this one of the five senses where we find
ourselves. The world of the senses is the surface veil hiding other deeper realities.

Ms. Love also includes sculpture, two hanging webbed ‘veils’ of pearlescent acrylic paint.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call 310 614-3351.
Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033

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Plastic Sunshine:  Closing Reception: Saturday, August 17, 6 to 9 pm

Please join us for the Closing Reception of the summer long exhibition Plastic Sunshine.  Plastic Sunshine, curated and installed by Jaqueline Bell Johnson, is the first curatorial venture by Ms. Johnson who is the founder of LGT! an artists’ collective composed of recent graduates from Claremont Graduate University Art.

Plastic Sunshine includes a variety of art works by 12 artists: Adrian Culverson, Kristin Frost, Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Takeshi Kanemura, Mihyang Kim, Kelsey Kimmel, Clarke Latta Henry III, Mike McLain, Julie Orr, Christine Marie Salama, Conchi Sanford, and Yoony Takeuchi.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call 310 614-3351.
Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Saturday, August 17, 6:00 to 9:00 pm: Closing Reception for “Plastic Sunshine”

September 7 – 28, 2013
Two-person exhibition by Linda Parnell and Stevie Love.
“knowing the coordinates were accurate the raven waited for the spaceship to return the butterflies”
“Delusional”
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

October 12 – November 2, 2013
Solo exhibition by Alex Kritselis: “Imperial Eden / After the Dissent”
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

November 16 – December 7, 2013
April Durham and Pam Strugar, (a version of Multipoint)
Collaborative Installation: “The Hunt in the South: A Venture Unsolicited”
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

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tried to nap on a cloud but i fell to the ground: katie grip/stephanie meredith/dan taulapapa mcmullin

Gtroundspace Project, project space
Reception: Saturday, July 13, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
This exhibition will be open for viewing Sunday, July 14, 1:00 to 6:00 pm.

Summer, 2013 Groundspace Project is pleased to host two exhibitions by recent graduates of Claremont Graduate University Art.

tried to nap on a cloud but i fell to the ground: katie grip/stephanie meredith/dan taulapapa mcmullin consists of three artist whose primary practice is painting, but also augmented with poetry, photography, sculpture, installation, and digital art.  They use these other avenues to explore ideas to further their practices.

The reception will also be a preview of Plastic Sunshine, an exhibition of twelve artists to be held in the main gallery of Groundspace Project.

Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call 310 614-3351.
Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033  – groundspaceproject.wordpress.com

Plastic SunshineExhibition Dates: July 5 to August 17, 2013
Preview: Saturday, July 13, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Performance: Takeshi Kanemura, Sunday, August 4, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Closing Reception:  Saturday, August 17, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

LGT! is pleased to present Plastic Sunshine, a group exhibition at Groundspace Project.  Join us for the closing reception August 17th from 6-9pm. For a taste, a soft opening will transpire on July 13th from 6-9pm and there will be a performance by Takeshi Kanemura on August 4th from 1-4pm.

Participating Artists include: Adrian Culverson, Kristin Frost, Jacqueline Bell Johnson,  Mihyang Kim, Kelsey Kimmel, Clarke Latta Henry III, Mike McLain, Julie Orr, Christine Marie Salama, Conchi Sanford, and Yoony Takeuchi.

LGT! is a Southern California Arts Organization pulling from the resources of its individual members to create exhibitions, collaborations, and alternative presentations of art in the LA Metro Area.  LGT! brings together work by the individual contributions of twelve contemporary artists who activate the space in the show Plastic Sunshine.

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About the Artists:

Adrian Culverson splices sculpture and painting to create hyper-real and imagined worlds that bring to the foreground the psychological reasons and impulses behind consumer choices.

Jacqueline Bell Johnson’s sculptures are a record of her daily observances of both organic and architectural forms; their tension balanced by the use of craft processes.

Initially painting scenes from her memory, Kristin Frost then explores how those memories fade over time through the destruction and reassembling of those paintings into sculptural collages.

Performance artist Takeshi Kanemura combines eastern and western ideas into a single cohesive object through the use of paint and dance.

For Mihyang Kim, the precarious state of nature and the human environment impact work, which she considers to be records of her personal experience.

The digital and virtual worlds are the interest of artist Kelsey Kimmel, who makes installations and video projections that celebrate the glitch, errors that for her, function because of their imperfection; creating unpredictable tensions to initiate new perceptions of space and place.

Clarke Latta Henry III uses multiple images and/or objects as a means to pose questions, the work is an example of his own arbitrary logic, implicating a possibility of any number of experiences and perspectives.

Mike McLain uses color and texture in his paintings to create illusions that challenge our normal habits of observation.

Julie Orr explores the attraction/repulsion impulse by using disposable goods such as plastic containers and cosmetics to create images, sculptural paintings, and installations that embrace the excessive.

Christine Marie Salama uses the ancient medium of encaustic to create works of modern history exploring themes of a contemporary self amidst a traditional cultural past.

Conchi Sanford uses plastic and tape to create interactive pieces which displaces the viewer as they enter, allowing for a moment of tranquility and peace in her latest confrontation with ephemerality and subjective analysis of her own beginnings as an artist.

The fashion culture is inescapable in Los Angeles and Yoony Takeuchi captures it while using it as a visual platform for examining the fallacies of society.

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Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call (310) 614-3351.
1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033.

www.groundspaceproject.wordpress.com

“Groundshifts:Anita Bunn, Anne Hars, John O’Brien, Erin Payne”
Curated by Kristi Engle, the works in this exhibit explore the notion of ‘landscape’ in site and situation. Open Friday and Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 pm through June 22.
Exhibition hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call 310 614-3351.

Ground Shifts: Anita Bunn, Anne Hars, John O’Brien, Erin Payne
Curated by Kristi Engle
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – 22, 2013
Curated by Kristi Engle, Ground Shifts: Anita Bunn, Anne Hars, John O’Brien, Erin Payne is an exhibition featuring four Los Angeles-based artists whose work uses the landscape as its central theme. Each artist employs different tactics to manipulate, alter or otherwise transform their works from traditional landscape treatment both artistically and conceptually.

Groundspace Project, 1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm or for an appointment call 310 614-3351.

– groundspaceproject.wordpress.com

Young An: 365 through Saturday, May 18.  Groundspace Project exhibition hours are Friday and Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 pm.
Groundspace Project is an alternative exhibition space located in downtown Los Angeles.
1427 E. 4th St. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90033
310 614-3351