Exciting Art Opening This Week at Gallery C

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8 Under 28
Group show of young Southern California Artists
January 17 – March 1, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 17, 7–10 p.m.
Gallery C1225 Hermosa Ave.,
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Tel, 310-798-0102, Fax, 310-798-0039
Exhibition Director, Mat Gleason
E-mail, info@galleryc.com
Web site, http://www.galleryc.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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Gallery C is pleased to present 8 Under 28, a survey of eight important young Los Angeles-based artists. Many young artists are turning their backs on five decades of grandfather’s Pop Art and the aging pointlessness of Post-Modernism. These eight locals lead a generational shift with an art that embraces reckless certainty and conceptual purposefulness. Their work, in a variety of media, abandons both the tidy illustrations of academic theory and the cult of the well-made fetish object. 8 Under 28 is an affirmative leap away from two previous generations of artists serving the calculations of image-driven art styles and machinations of an art world out-of touch with life itself.
About the 8 Artists:
Erin Dunn subverts slacker art in her monumental doodles that border on the majestic.
Sarah Elise pulls photography back into the physical with hands-on, non-digital Polaroids depicting a contemporary, yet timeless cool Americana.
Asad Faulwell pastiches remnants of opposing cultures to create new dialogues beyond the conventions of good/bad, right/wrong that pass for political and aesthetic discourse these days.
Omar Gallegos has mastered a timeless Neo-Latin realism that is equal parts visits to cathedrals and circuses.
Stephanie Mercado populates an eerie, dramatic backdrop with characters as surreal as they are exquisitely illustrated.
Ian E. Pines paints bold abstractions that are defiantly anti-iconic yet paradoxically effuse optimism for art.
Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano is a sophisticated provocateur whose art critiques the nature of critical inquiry itself with a dry, unnerving humor.
Lorrie Waldie creates environments and installations that balance the ephemeral (fleeting) with the evocative (collectible).
Gallery C Exhibition Director Mat Gleason has concluded, “The search for a radical medium has inhibited the growth of art. When it comes to fine art, the medium is definitely NOT the message. The next generation of fine artists… they know this. I am excited about putting this much new creative energy under one roof.”