Artworks Gallery
59 W Del Mar Ave
626.229.0700
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Michael Kalish at Artworks Gallery
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Saturday Mar 13, 2010 (6–10pm)
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“Pasadena's nickname is the City of Roses, and its famous Rose Bowl Parade features all manner of images and objects crafted out of real flowers. In The Rose Collection, Artworks Gallery and Michael Kalish present a series of mixed media sculptures that invert that whimsical formula. Kalish's roses are forged from reclaimed metal, mostly from cars and trucks; the cut-out, peeled back petals show all the scars and surface distress that landed them in the salvage yard in the first place. The delicacy, naturalism, and poetic symbolism of "that which we call a rose..." endure in these gentle, post-apocalyptic blooms, and is only heightened by the narrative of decay, destruction, and unlikely beauty they impart.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
