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Presenting Dual Abstraction, a two-man show featuring Los Angeles contemporary abstract artists Justin N. Kim and Justin Michell.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. & LOS ANGELES - Californer -- Preview our latest exhibition in conjunction with Fourth Friday, Perez Art District's monthly Art Walk featuring over 30 art galleries, art studios, and shops.
The Opening Reception for this exhibition will be on Friday, September 27 from 4-7pm. The exhibition will continue through November 17, 2024.
About Justin N. Kim
"I paint gridded environments and abstract paintings that acknowledge everyday human
encounters and elements from visual culture. Concepts and designs derived from
architectonics, cartography, fashion, people-watching and technology as well as machinery
and weightlifting depend on underlying systems of order and structure; each functions within
a dedicated set of rules to establish a sense of logic and functional relationship.
In my paintings, I re-contextualize the visual elements drawn from these subjects and from
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quotidian human encounters, and I reconstruct and reorganize them. Comprised of lines
and shapes, the colorful, geometric compositions undergo a countless procedure of
create-and-destroy, resulting in a cause-and-effect phenomenon; each layer interacts and
communicates with the others, creating its own connections and relationships."
About Justin Michell
Michell's paintings often use a simplified set of elements. Comic strip speech bubbles become semi figurative stand-ins for imaginary interlocutors. Colored blocks function like the bars blotting out redacted text in classified documents or 'black boxes' in electrical schematics, acting as placeholders in structural arrangements. Wiry lines of acrylic paint squeezed by the artist from cake decorating bags snake between and link together these elements. Despite being stripped down to simple elements, lacking obvious textual or figurative reference, they still hint at associations with familiar fragments of our own visually coded landscape. Patterns resembling brick walls, video test patterns, stacks of medal ribbons on military uniforms or vintage video game graphics tempt us to ascribe narrative to these scenes that are paradoxically both noisy and mute. The reduced visual code becomes a kind of musical notation for everything about individual styles of speech that eludes a written transcription: rhythm, degree of verbosity, volume, pitch, texture and timbre ('tone color'). Wires between the different abstract speakers and their discourses are linked together with wires resembling the patch cables used to connect components in the modular synthesizers.
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https://www.objectculture.com/exhibitions
About Object Culture
Barry Bryant and Johnny McLendon are owners of this unique 3000 sq. ft. gallery located in the Perez Art & Design Center in Cathedral City, California. High ceilings and dramatic spaces dominate this former industrial building, and present a welcoming, casual environment. The gallery features a unique and eclectic mix of vintage and contemporary modern art and design.
Visit http://www.objectculture.com for details
The Opening Reception for this exhibition will be on Friday, September 27 from 4-7pm. The exhibition will continue through November 17, 2024.
About Justin N. Kim
"I paint gridded environments and abstract paintings that acknowledge everyday human
encounters and elements from visual culture. Concepts and designs derived from
architectonics, cartography, fashion, people-watching and technology as well as machinery
and weightlifting depend on underlying systems of order and structure; each functions within
a dedicated set of rules to establish a sense of logic and functional relationship.
In my paintings, I re-contextualize the visual elements drawn from these subjects and from
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quotidian human encounters, and I reconstruct and reorganize them. Comprised of lines
and shapes, the colorful, geometric compositions undergo a countless procedure of
create-and-destroy, resulting in a cause-and-effect phenomenon; each layer interacts and
communicates with the others, creating its own connections and relationships."
About Justin Michell
Michell's paintings often use a simplified set of elements. Comic strip speech bubbles become semi figurative stand-ins for imaginary interlocutors. Colored blocks function like the bars blotting out redacted text in classified documents or 'black boxes' in electrical schematics, acting as placeholders in structural arrangements. Wiry lines of acrylic paint squeezed by the artist from cake decorating bags snake between and link together these elements. Despite being stripped down to simple elements, lacking obvious textual or figurative reference, they still hint at associations with familiar fragments of our own visually coded landscape. Patterns resembling brick walls, video test patterns, stacks of medal ribbons on military uniforms or vintage video game graphics tempt us to ascribe narrative to these scenes that are paradoxically both noisy and mute. The reduced visual code becomes a kind of musical notation for everything about individual styles of speech that eludes a written transcription: rhythm, degree of verbosity, volume, pitch, texture and timbre ('tone color'). Wires between the different abstract speakers and their discourses are linked together with wires resembling the patch cables used to connect components in the modular synthesizers.
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https://www.objectculture.com/exhibitions
About Object Culture
Barry Bryant and Johnny McLendon are owners of this unique 3000 sq. ft. gallery located in the Perez Art & Design Center in Cathedral City, California. High ceilings and dramatic spaces dominate this former industrial building, and present a welcoming, casual environment. The gallery features a unique and eclectic mix of vintage and contemporary modern art and design.
Visit http://www.objectculture.com for details
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