FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FIELD (the architecture of infinite space)
Artwork by Michael Armstrong, Shan Chao and Andrea Wittenberg
Through September 14, 2007
Reception: September 8, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Bamboo Lane Gallery
424 Bamboo Lane, Chinatown Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 617-8137
(310) 985-4518
E-mail, bamboolanegallery@gmail.com
Web site, http://www.bamboolane.com
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am-5pm; and by appointment
Michael Armstrong, “Untitled,” oil on canvas, 56" x 36".
Bamboo Lane is pleased to present work by Michael Armstrong, Shan Chao, and Andrea Wittenberg. In the exhibition, the artists utilize spatial and color fields in different ways, creating abstracted moments and uncertain landscapes, and recovering time space lost and abandoned.
Michael Armstrong's heavily impastoed work is at once ordered and sensory laden, and appears to be landscapes of some intergalactic terrain. They are emotive maps to his history, and abound with pressure and reference points.
Shan Chao's trigram work is based on the I Ching symbology of the Earth. She delves into notions of war and its imminence in our times, and has connected them to her own physiology by using her physical body as her basic paintbrush. The body is placed symbolizing the intentional random folding down and unfolding of life.
Colors in Andrea Wittenberg's paintings collide and join in order to reveal her true subject; the expressiveness of a moment frozen in time, the human figure and abstract forms are made tangible by the dialogue with her materials.
