FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, May 24th, 2017
5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036
Tuesday, June 13th - Saturday, July 8th
Go Woon Choi - Daldongne
Paul Ivanushka – Carrizo Plain
Camey McGilvray – My Favorite Things
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 17th, 2017 from 5 – 8PM
Artist Panel Discussion:
Saturday, July 1st, 2017 at 3PM
Go Woon Choi – Daldongne
Artist Go Woon Choi’s newest exhibition at TAG Gallery entitled Daldongne explores
the beauty and possibilities of every day objects. Analyzing the mundane and often
overlooked, Choi’s artistry is drawn from the interesting forms of the common objects
around her. Her sensibility has now led Choi to find purpose and beauty in what she
calls ‘the town of shacks’. Exploring and expanding on her interest in the structural and
sometimes abstract nature of architecture, the town of shacks symbolizes `the warm
memory of my childhood` and `vanished things that will not exist anymore’. Buildings
and apartments filled out the city, and she painted this in various ways from her
perspective.
Choi’s interest in mundane, everyday items is rooted in her ideology that “even
common objects can appear strong and fantastic under different light conditions and
environments, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary visual experiences with
repetition and variation. The light changes on the surface to give an impression of
constant motion, sharing the process of its becoming. Henceforth ordinary objects can
provoke intense emotions of strength and energy.
Paul Ivanushka – Carrizo Plain
“The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles long and
up to 15 miles across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about 100
miles northwest of Los Angeles.”
Over the last 3 years it has provided artist Paul Ivanushka with a studio allowing him to
scratch the itch of a passion for landscape photography.
Once a major producer of grain from 1890 to about 1950, agricultural economics and a
alkaline water supply found farming the Carrizo Plain to be no longer viable and its
equipment and buildings no longer needed and subsequently left behind…. abandoned
and left to the elements to decay.
Ivanushka found the aging process of rubber, wood, and metal on 30 to 80-year-old
farm equipment naturally created interesting textures, tonalities and design. Switching
recently from black and white to color (film) opened a whole new world of visualization.
To this end, he now uses the subject as a vehicle for color rather than the color as an
augmentation to the subject.
Most important recent legislation is opening the Carrizo Plain, a National Park, to
development, off road vehicles, oil drilling and such. Through this body of work,
Ivanushka is attempting to record its last days as a sublime and remote grassland plain.
Camey McGilvray – My Favorite Things
Artist Camey McGilvray’s Favorite Things is a collection of wood and metal wall
sculptures and freestanding sculptures. McGilvray’s artwork is primarily evocative rather
than representational, challenging the contemporary viewer with the subtle play of the
literal and the illusionistic. The components of these assemblages are specifically
created or selected to advance the narrative of each piece. Components are created
from scratch using sheets of plywood, aluminum, or salvaged from McGilvray’s large
treasure trove of found objects and subsequently recycled into new creations.
Favorite Things continues the artist’s strong focus on line and the employment of color
fields (mostly primaries) in her work. Ideas are always started as line drawings or purely
imagined geometric shapes. McGilvray then translates said concepts into wood and
metal to form the hard edges of the composition. Rich, broad fields of solid colors are
applied to the components in a flat, shaded manner then assembled into the final piece,
always taking advantage of light and the shadows formed by the juxtaposition of each
piece’s individual parts.
McGilvray feels a personal relationship to all of these Favorite Things, as they represent
the coming together of the idea and the reality. The joy of creating art is, after all, in the
process, which she refers to as a beautiful journey that gives outward expression to
what was once only imagined.
TAG Gallery
Established in 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation, TAG Gallery is a member-owned
community of forty artists. Through the physical gallery in Miracle Mile as well as
lectures from exhibiting and visiting artists, TAG Gallery has become a valuable
resource for launching the careers of both emerging and mid-career artists based in the
greater Los Angeles area. For more information about TAG Gallery, please visit
www.taggallery.net.
CONTACTS
TAG Gallery – www.taggallery.net
Rakeem Cunningham, (310) 829-9556, [email protected]