Nan Rae Gallery at 麻豆社区app is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the sculptures of Miyoshi Barosh and paintings by Constance Mallinson.
Miyoshi Barosh鈥檚 sculptures are comprised of idiosyncratic combinations of forms and materials creating a humorous quality that centers on ideas that the artist describes as being concerned with 鈥渃ultural and individual 鈥淔ailure鈥� (the failure to make life better), Utopia and Ruins鈥�. The artist utilizes a wide array of materials, such as foam, fiberglass, paint, and found objects together with fabrics and yarn (to name only a few) 鈥渨ith both comic irony and heartfelt sincerity pointing to both material and emotional excess.鈥�
Miyoshi Barosh received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Cal Arts. She is a 2015 recipient of a City of Los Angeles COLA Grant and a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Miyoshi Barosh is represented by the Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles.
Constance Mallinson鈥檚 paintings of reconfigured detritus, accumulated/collected on her daily walks thru Los Angeles are re-arranged in her studio and painted from observation in the self described style of 鈥渓ush, near old masters technique.鈥� This body of work, titled 鈥淧icasso鈥檚 Bastards,鈥� is described by the artist as a way to 鈥渞eveal tensions between the humorous or silly and the apocalyptic, the strangely beautiful and the grotesque.鈥� These portraits of the landscape depicted in the guise of the human face are perversely humorous reminders of the artist鈥檚 observation of 鈥渙ngoing environmental degradation.鈥�
Constance Mallinson received her BFA from the University of Georgia in 1970.
She has had solo exhibitions at Pomona College of Art; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California; National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Ace Gallery, Los Angeles. In addition to numerous local and national group exhibitions Constance Mallison is a regular reviewer for Art in America since 1983.
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