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| Moira Hahn, Tessar Lo (with a mini show by Bill Blair) |
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| Click HERE to see the whole show online |
Preview HERE
Tessar Lo
" my love, it's on we "
new paintings and installation
Moira Hahn
"Soba Blues"
new paintings
Bill Blair
"Recuerdos De Mexico"
hand painted /digital works
Opens Friday November 7th 6-9pm
Tessar Lo and Bill Blair will be in attendance
show runs through December 6th 2008
Roq La Rue is thrilled to show three artists working within various cultural themes for the gallery's November exhibition.
Born in Indonesia and raised in Canada, Tessar Lo (Los Angeles) brings a very eastern influenced style into his work. Lo has been influenced by artists such as Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and by japanese ukiyo-e printers and other traditional asian techniques. He juxtaposes these traditional influences with current pop culture and music to create his own unique view of the world around him. His is known for his emotionally evocative paintings of young people with giant totemistic animal guardians, most notably tigers. Rather than one note narratives, there is always an ambiguity in each scene, and the viewer never really has a clear sense of who is actually guarding who. The symbolic, majestic creatures are as vulnerable, and as able to achieve a painful sort of transcendence, as we are.
Moira Hahn (Los Angeles) paints incredibly detailed, masterfully painted watercolors heavily influenced by the Ukiyo-e ("Floating World") woodblock prints of Japan's Edo period. Moira often switches out human characters for animal ones and uses their archetypal characteristics to create visual puns within the narratives. For this show, themes subtly addressed are global warming, species extinction, and the economic climate in general.
Canadian artist Bill Blair creates funny, playful works that are heavily based off vintage "tall tale" postcards ubiquitous in the 50's and 60's in North America. For this series, Bill was influenced by the magical realism and surrealistic tendencies of the Oaxaca school of artists in Mexico. His photomontages are created digitally culling from a vast source of vintage imagery. An image is printed out in black and white, and then photographed. This photograph is then entirely hand-painted by Bill in photo inks to emulate cards from the first half of the 20th century. Each "print" is an edition of one only. They are not duplicated, so each image has only one signed and numbered print ever available of it.
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