FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Karyl Newman
"Hangar", pneumatic sculpture installation
July 3 - 24, 2004
Reception: Saturday, July 3, 7-11pm
Dangerous Curve
1020 E. Fourth Place (between Molino and Mateo Sts.), Los Angeles, CA 90013
Contact: Tim Quinn and/or Kathryn Hargreaves
213-617-8483
E-mail, <events@dangerouscurve.org>
Web site, <http://dangerouscurve.org>
Hours, Wednesday – Saturday, 1-6pm
Pneumatic Newman Blows Up Space at Dangerous Curve, the New Downtown Experimental Exhibition and Performance Art Space
Join the Community Opening Celebration!
Los Angeles, CA - It's official now: Dangerous Curve has been a legend in Downtown for at least six months. So come on down to our opening celebration of the pneumatic sculpture installation "Hangar" by Karyl Newman <http://karylnewman.com> on July 3, 2004. The party runs from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts (#102). As usual, we have amazing food by chef John Saslow. We'll also have performance art by the duo Jason Jenn and Nathalie Broizat, R. Sky Palkowitz and Tim Quinn, and Tania Hammidi. Live music will be by the Bay Area's Whiskey Hill Blues Band <http://whbb.gangus.com/index.html> and Los Angeles's favorites Demonika and the Darklings <http://www.antimatterproductions.com/DarklingMusic.htm>. There's no charge, and there's free parking across the street. The exhibit runs until July 24. Two weeks before and two weeks after openings, we generally have Performance Art and/or Experimental Music and Film Nights starting at 8:00 p.m. (See below.) See below also for other local openings and events on opening night. The gallery is open every Wednesday through Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. See our website <http://dangerouscurve.org> for directions, events, pictures, and updates.
Karyl Newman's current sculptures and videos pull you towards, up, up and away, through space and scale. This is why we love her work. She has the chops (a Tony for Scenic Design) to be formally elegant but, as with William Wegman or Robert Cumming, her formalism gives body to a sophisticated sense of humor. For instance, she shoots a time-lapse of the sun rising over the desert flats and, using mirroring on a split screen, turns the thing into a wacky Pong game. In another piece, she finds a monumental rock split in half out in the desert, so she paints the huge exposed interior a fresh blood red. Then she references herself by showing a neo-Oldenberg inflatable version of the painted split rock, installed up and over your head. Her wedding presents (large platters with strange chemical-distillation images on them that she actually gives as wedding presents) are enough to make one want to get married just to get one! At Dangerous Curve, she's building a hanger environment that you enter through the roll-up door. The hanger is filled with inflatable blimps, the mother ship of which projects images of visitors onto its fuselage.
Karyl has exhibited her work in Berlin, Prague, London, New York, Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Sundance (Utah), Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has an M.F.A. from Yale University.
Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person shows of risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor currently popular. In a time when other spaces have reduced their performance art programming, Dangerous Curve is a new venue for performance artists, with performance installations, monthly performance art events, and an annual performance art festival planned.
Other events (subject to change):
Performance Art and/or Experimental Music and Film Nights
8:00 p.m.
$5.00 suggested donation to the performers
July 17, 2004
Swinging Chandeliers (Joseph Hammer and Sayo Mituishi), tape loops and hypnotic ambidextrous projected drawing.
Drew Schnurr, experimental bassist
More TBA.
Also: August 14, September 11, 2004
