JF Chen
941 N Highland Ave
323.466.9700
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Yassi Mazandi
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Apr 27, 2009 – May 22, 2009
Mondays–Fridays (10am–5pm)
Saturdays (noon–5pm)
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JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call "pieces." But with its inaugural exhibition-proper, it makes the move toward more conceptual cultural presentations. Architectonic features the work of ceramicist Yassi Mazandi and furniture designer Michael Wilson, two very distinct voices who share one important sensibility: a respect for the raw properties of materials. Wilson's age-scarred wood furniture retains the contours and surface variations accumulated in its travels; he works with, rather than against, the organic beauty that makes each piece unique. Mazandi's sensual, fancy/primitive ceramics, meanwhile, revere the metaphor for skin and flesh that clay often suggests, making the perfect yin to Wilson's yang.
