FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NonObjectivity
September 13 - October 7, 2006
Opening Reception and Downtown Art Walk: Thursday, September 14, 6-9 pm
Pharmaka Art
101 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
A non-profit 501 (c) 3 art space for painting
Media Contact: Fumiko Amano 310-418-5425 • atelierzero@belairmail.net
Gallery, 213-689-7799
E-mail, info@pharmaka-art.org
Web site, http://www.pharmaka-art.org>
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 12 – 6 pm
Second Thursday Downtown Art Walk: September 14, 12 – 9 pm
http://www.downtownartwalk.com
Christopher Monger "Val & Al", 2005, oil & tempera on masonite 16"x 13.5".
Featuring works by Fumiko Amano, Christopher Cousins, Tim Forcum, Shane Guffogg, Linda LaBella, Maureen Maki, Christopher Monger, Joe Novak, John Scane, and Alissa Warshaw. Assembled by Vonn Sumner.
PHARMAKA's exhibition NonObjectivity, will run in conjunction with the Riverside Art Museum's survey show Driven to Abstraction. The show at Pharmaka will focus on contemporary painters whose work might be called "non-objective"- meaning that the paintings do not refer directly to the "objective" reality of the perceivable world.
Instead, the artists in this show work from a subjective viewpoint and, through their respective processes, create objects that are their own reality. ?These objects- (the paintings themselves) - then exist in the physical world and become part of our shared visual landscape.
Other venues participating include Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles; Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles; Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica; d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City; Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; and the Parks Exhibition Center at the Idyllwild Art Academy, Idyllwild.
Fumiko Amano "Atmospherics 2006 Series 001", 2006, mixed media on panel, 18" x 24".
The exhibition and related programs at Pharmaka Art are supported in part by the Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation, the Getty Foundation, and the Joelson Foundation.
PHARMAKA is a Greek word that means to paint or an artist's colors. It also means a poison or remedy. ?The name was chosen because its roots are in ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, and it speaks to the duality inherent in all things. PHARMAKA Art has been incorporated as non-profit, and will also include exhibitions that might otherwise fall into the void between commercial Galleries and Museums. Respected curators and a variety (including internationally acclaimed artists) will be invited for curatorial collaborations.
All gallery events are free and open to the public. You are encouraged to forward this information to any and all interested parties.
The art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles conduct the Downtown Art Walk on the Second Thursday of each month from 12-9 pm.
More information and a map may be found at http://www.downtownartwalk.com.
