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Los Angeles native. Currently the Show Producer on G4's TV show, "Web Soup," I am also a freelance screenwriter, fine arts journalist, and blogger. In my spare time I love getting lost in Amoeba Records, hiking Griffith Park, growing veggies in the community garden, taking pics, and going to Dodgers games.
August 2009 Archives
C E R A S O L I Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of
extraordinary works by Roy Nachum on view in Gallery 1 & 2 at the Cerasoli Gallery.
Exhibition opens August 22, 2009, and remains on view through September 16, 2009. Opening reception For the public is Saturday, August 22, from 6pm - 9pm.
Suffused with the divine light of the Renaissance masters, Roy Nachum's texturized, surrealist paintings are scaled to life size, but his images resist the conventions reality imposes on both wilderness and civilization. Partially nude women crouch next to kneeling elephants to peer into their eyes and stroke their nubile trunks. A boy, blinded by the heavy crown which has slipped over his ears to cover his eyes, runs through a house of mirrors with a red balloon tied to his wrist. Nachum's photo-real figures inhabiting fantastic worlds are overlaid with a texture of raised 'pixels' of paint, each one painstakingly hand-made by the artist. The result of this unexpected topography is a feeling of glimpsing a stranger's dirty little secrets through an inky, rain-spotted windowpane or finding pages torn from a book of exotica, left outside to decompose like so many dead leaves and abandoned desires. Perhaps intended to serve as a kind of mirror caught between two worlds, Nachum's geometrically patterned paint daubs reflect the atomic building blocks of life while mimicking the tell-tale thumbprint of a digital printer. The viewer instinctively draws in for a closer inspection and is reminded of the abstraction which exists behind our veil of reality. This duality goes beyond the canvas' surface quality, revealing itself in Nachum's mix of the imaginary world and real life, memories and fantasies, found in his startling, dreamlike imagery. Explorations of submergence and emergence, naivete and maturity, the real and unreal, Nachum's paintings invite the viewer into a dualistic experience combining the virtual and psychic in a single, focused, artful moment.
Nachum is also well known for his work as an interior designer, which has appeared in restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels in the United States and Europe, including Club Door, TAO Nightclub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Cafe Bari,SoHo, 1Oak, Lower Manhattan, Southern Hospitality and Destino both Upper East Side owned by Justin Timberlake.
Educated in Jerusalem at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and New York City's Cooper Union, Nachum is interested in recreating psychological turning points in his subjects' lives with a cinematic sense of framing movement and emotion. Currently living and working in New York City, Nachum's work has been exhibited in France, Israel, and the United States, and collected by prominent art collectors, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Timberlake.
C E R A S O L I gallery 8530 - b Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Tue- Sat 11am - 6pm / Tel. 310 954 5974 / contact@cerasoligallery.com / Directions: http://tinyurl.com/orxf8p
this Saturday, August 15 @ Crewest
6PM-9PM
Crewest
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 627-8272 ph
info@crewest.com
Live in-store signing by featured artists:
David Flores, Jesse Hernandez, Marka27, Angry Woebots, and Ritzy Periwinkle
Grooves by Dj Phyz Ed
Refreshments provided by:
Jarritos and Roaring Lion Energy Drink
Bic Plastics Brings to you their first Platform Series "BUDDY" designed by Marka27
BIC BUDDY ARTIST SERIES 1 Features some of today's most talented artists:
Cope2
Jesse Hernandez
Mad
Kano
Ritzy Periwinkle
Indie84
David Flores
Marka27
Sket
Angry Woebots
Andrew Bell
Scribe
Brandt Peters
Opening Reception Thursday, August 13 from 8PM to 11PM
RESERVE is located at 420 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
(directly across from Canter's Delicatessen)
Refreshments and music will be provided.
This event is free. No registration is needed. Bring your friends!
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About John Downer
John Downer is a sign painter by trade with a specialty in gold leaf
lettering. He's also an accomplished swimmer and water polo player. He
has both an M.A. and and M.F.A. in painting from The University of
Iowa. His interest in letterforms began at a young age. In 1983 he
began a career as a freelance type designer. He has since designed
faces for renowned type publishers such as the Font Bureau, Bitstream,
Emigre, and House Industries. John possesses both an acute sense and an
eye for the crafts of lettering and type design. He also writes about
type and type history for Emigre magazine, House magazine, and other
publications. He lives in Iowa City, and travels widely in the United
States and Europe, always on the lookout for interesting letterforms.
About Reserve
Reserve opened in 2006. While
serving as a flagship store for The Freshjive Manufacturing Company and
it's various labels (including Freshjive, Warriors of Radness, and
RMK), Reserve also specializes in unique vintage books and magazines
related to photography, graphic design and all things related to pop
culture. Exhibitions are held at various times throughout the year.
**some of john downer's tee's can be seen here:
http://www.freshjive.com/propagandist/25/john-downer
http://www.colorescience.com/1280x1024/flash/index.html
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