Patrick Painter Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica
310.264.5988
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Won Ju Lim: Baroque Pet Shop at Patrick Painter
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May 8, 2010 – July 3, 2010
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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“Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art, often combining elements of both into elaborately conceived and painstakingly executed mixed media work. Her new exhibition at both Patrick Painter spaces in Bergamot Station presents one set of sculptures and collages and a single larger-scale installation, both centering on her hybridized conceptualization, Baroque Pet Shop. Having traveled extensively throughout European capitals famous for their Baroque architecture, but thinking locally about what a nearby pet store business might look like, she combines her interests and skills sets in a whimsical, surreal spatial delight.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
Patrick Painter says:
Patrick Painter, Inc., is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Won Ju Lim, made possible with support from the Media Arts Fellowship, a program of the Tribeca Film Institute founded and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. For her fifth solo show at the gallery, Lim will be presenting a large-scale installation in the West gallery and in the East Gallery she will exhibit a series of new sculptures and collages. Lim's work consistently explores the body's relationship to space, time and memory through the terms of architecture, sculpture and atmosphere. As a part of the Media Arts Fellowship, she traveled to five European cities, each of which uniquely evokes the Northern Baroque architecture style: Dresden, Munich, St. Petersburg, Prague, and Vienna. The memory and the impression of her experience abroad was one of the direct inspirations for her new body of work. This, combined with her unique vision for a local Highland Park pet shop, resulted in Lim creating an experience where the interiors of the pet shop and the architectural motifs of the Northern Baroque intrude and interrupt one another, and as a result they ultimately come together.
