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LAMONTAGNE
GALLERY is pleased to announce two new exhibitions: LIA HALLORAN and MICHAEL VELLIQUETTE. MAY 10 - JUNE 21, 2008 Opening Reception: MAY 10, 6 - 8 pm |
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  Lia Halloran, Dark Skate/ Upland Full Pipe, 2008, C-print, 48 x 48" ed. of 5 + 2 AP LIA HALLORAN'S painting and photography experiment with human interaction and various forces of gravity, light, magnetism, vortexes, and movement. Halloran's contemporary landscapes document the strange shapes and creative forms found in skate parks through use of light and shadows, which become exaggerated abstractions of these concrete structures and architecture. Painted loosely and combining abstraction with perspective, the landscapes are closer to portraits than they are accurate descriptions. The long exposure photographs in the series Dark Skate explore a combination of universal and personal relationships of the body and space. The photographs are taken at night in various Los Angeles locations ranging from skate parks, backyard ramps, the LA River, and other spaces appropriated (or re-appropriated) by skateboarders. Halloran creates self portraits by using light to trace the gesture of trajectory of her movements on a skateboard through these different venues. The lines behave at moments like physical objects, and in others they break apart into a flurry of abstraction. The images possess ghost-like connotations, showing action with no trace of a figure, leaving an after image of where but not of whom. HALLORAN is a 2001 MFA graduate from the Yale University School of Art and a 1999 BA graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at DCKT in New York, Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles and Space is the Place, a traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International through September 2008. |
  Michael Velliquette, Serpent (Gold), 2007, Cut paper and glue, 12" x 12" MICHAEL VELLIQUETTE'S paper dioramas are composed of hand-cut card stock shapes that are glued, working from background to foreground, in successive layers. An intuitive use of color supports his interest in the handmade. The intricately crafted constructions are set in deep shadowboxes to heighten their three dimensionality. His narratives, ranging from the intimate to the epic, address ongoing philosophical quandaries of the human condition including questions of self, other, place, transformation and transcendence. Both the paper works and his recent graphite and wood sculptures are manifestations of a personal totemic language, and are channeled with subjective power through the aesthetic visions from which they emanate. They are also informed, in part, by the artist's interest in enchanting and visually-driven traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism, Southern Folk Art, Symbolism, Art Brut, The Cult of Saints, Mannerist and Baroque painting, and Yogic philosophy. VELLIQUETTE was the recipient of an artist residency and one-person exhibition at Artpace (San Antonio) TX in 2004. He has previously had one-person exhibitions DCKT Contemporary in New York and at galleries in Dallas and San Francisco and has been in included in group exhibitions at Western Bridge (Seattle) and Deitch Projects (New York). |
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