LA Louver Gallery
45 N Venice Blvd
310.822.4955
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Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Shudder, 2008, Courtesy L.A. Louver
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Opens Thursday Nov 20, 2008 (6–8pm)
Nov 20, 2008 – Jan 3, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic deliberation. Though depicting a loosely poetic series of figures — including human, animal, and plant life — his refractive, elusive works resist narrative inferences because they are composed of heavily worked, multi-layered abstractions. His sculptures — one a bronze of a deer towing a landscape and another a seated woman formed out of burnt wood — make similar use of the tension between what is pictured and the element used to compose the image itself.
