Kopeikin Gallery
8810 Melrose Ave
310.385.5894
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Artwork by Rebecca Bird, Courtesy of Paul Kopeikin Gallery
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Opens Saturday Mar 14, 2009 (6–9pm)
Mar 14, 2009 – Apr 18, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Note:
The exhibition Beautiful/Decay A to Z also remains on view at the gallery through April 18.
Brooklyn-based watercolorist Rebecca Bird takes an unlikely, poetic approach to her considerations of destruction. In this series of explosions, based on photographs of atom bombs and mushroom clouds, Bird reformulates the violence of the blown-to-smithereens events as almost organic, though no less volatile, evocations of natural chaos. Her painfully lovely palette, patience with the miniscule detailing of swirls, clouds, shards, and shadows, and caustic undercurrent of commentary on the absurdity of nuclear nihilism combine to devastating, sumptuously beautiful effect.
