Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S La Cienega Blvd
213.595.8017
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Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley: Survival-based Camp / Tanya Haden: The Thoughts and Feelings of an Elephant / Beatriz Monteavaro: We Saw Creatures
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Las Cienegas Projects
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Opens Saturday June 5, 2010 (7–10pm)
June 5, 2010 – July 3, 2010
Wednesdays–Saturdays (noon–6pm)
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Las Cienegas Projects says:
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley have engaged in a year-long, bi-coastal collaboration ultimately aimed at the installation of a fluid set of sculptures, performances and videos. Evolving from multiple points of departure, the collaboration includes the use of fragments of screens and sets, the allure of silhouetted construction sites, and the combination of functional sculptures with figures performing in relation to them. They took on notions of the hinge and its suggestions for performance, the ephemeral installations of Helio Oiticica, Land Art, the movable sculptures of Lygia Clark, and the resistance of a geographically distant partnership. The resulting formation, Survival-based Camp, stakes a claim for contingent beauty by setting up juxtapositions of objects, screens, and corresponding actions.
The drawings of Tanya Haden are steeped in pyschologically charged fantasy narratives. Working primarily with pencil and ink, her background as an animator lends to the creation of drawings that explore childhood memories, fears, and the boundaries in familial relationships. She often employs humor that skillfully represents the fragility and power of innocence, innocence lost, and general power structures in all aspects of life. For the Project Space, Haden will present The Thoughts and Feelings of an Elephant, an expansively scaled gouache work on paper. Continuing an ongoing series of animal drawings, this giant elephant’s insides are pictorially stuffed with elephant references and influences of increasing personal interest.
Inspired by dark carnival rides–particularly haunted houses–, album cover art, including the front cover of Pavement's recent Quarantine the Past LP, and pulp horror movies like The Haunted Palace and From Beyond, Beatriz Monteavaro's drawings depict glowing monsters and demons, vampires and giant brains, all residents of childhood nightmares. For Las Cienegas Projects, Monteavaro will create a destabilizing black-lit environment with drawings and sculpture, including transparent packing tape sculptures resembling amorphous shapeshifting specters, caught in a moment between materialization and dematerialization.
