Black Cat Gallery
11523 W Washington Blvd
310. 313. 4931
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Sandow Birk: Night Surfing (48x48", acrylic on canvas, 1997).
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Opens Friday Dec 11, 2009 (7–10pm)
Nov 7, 2009 – Jan 9, 2010
Thursdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Darkwave is a group exhibition of local painters and sculptors who are more than just friends and neighbors — they are fellow surfers. Their approaches to art-making explode the paradigm of surf art, as the lads offer up work from the surreal to the abstract, elegant to raw, poetic and political. Sandow Birk's 1997 painting Night Surfing and Norton Wisdom's untitled ocean scene each depict a wide view of the open, beautiful, and dangerous sea; Timothy Williams' equally intriguing yet threatening mixed-media assemblages use bullet-riddled, aged surfboards as their foundation. Steve Olson's sculpture, based on a full-scale, disarmed bomb, flirts with ideas of destruction and death — but just when you might start to wonder how these surfers got so goth, Andy Moses' dappled and deliriously orbital paintings open up the space and catch the light, reminding everyone what they love about the ocean.
