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Kopp Kordansky, a Los Angeles based collaborative, has organized Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground. This exhibition is being co-presented by Detour888 and POND, taking place at POND, 214 Valencia Street in San Francisco. The show opens April 19th, 2002 and will run through May 19th.
Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground presents the work of eight Los Angeles based artists who utilize simple materials and processes to rupture and articulate issues of interior/ exterior relationships. This binary is primarily discussed through the use of surface. Shifting from the self referential modernist task of embodying flatness, here surface operates as a screen, one that is projected onto and is inclusive to what is absent and speculative. The fantastical, as borrowed from literary tropes, is utilized to interpret spaces between the real and imaginary; between natural occurance and magic. Domestic spaces appear but their inhabitation is concealed. The viewer is presented a window into a privatized world, where they are invited to conjure a theater where projections and fantasies are played out.
The exhibit features work by:
Kopp Kordansky
 Kopp Kordansky is a collaborative working since 1997 who recently attended Calarts together. They have exhibited nationally at such venues as Thread Waxing Space in New York and Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art. Up coming projects include "Kopp Kordansky, John Williams" at Hot Coco Lab, in Venice, CA (www.hotcocolab.com), and "Portal," a performance at ACME., los Angeles. Their work in Out of the Ground Into..., includes new sculpture exploring mythic narratives and fantasy. They are the organizers of the exhibition.
Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse is a sculptor represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, and Murray Guy in New York. She was included in SF MOMA's "010101: Art in Technological Times," and recently featured in "First Take: New Art, New Artists" (Ralph Rugoff, Artforum, January 2001.) "The Hong Kong-born, Los Angeles-based artist transforms Bubble Wrap, Styrofoam, and polyurethane into pullulating constructions whose sagging and dented surfaces alternately suggest organic growths and abject industrial architecture[....] The work neatly collapses all kinds of seemingly contradictory elements: Its precisely scooped out negative forms, carved with a router, fuse an aesthetic of the machined and the handmade, while its wraparound sequences conjure a narrative that is both linear and circuitous." She has made a new sculpture for Out of the Ground Into...
Katie Grinnan
Katie Grinnan received an MFA in Sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles, and is represented by ACME. in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include "Snapshot," UCLA Hammer Museum, "Boomerang;" Exit Art, New York; and "Sharing Sunsets," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona. By combining photographs, found objects and artificial materials she creates sculptures that mimic and exploit natural environments. She has made a new sculpture for Out of the Ground Into...
Alice Konitz
Alice Konitz received an MFA from Calarts. Her recent show at Chicagoprojectroom recieved reviews in Artext (Malik Gaines, no.73 may-july 2001 ) and Artforum (Bruce Hainley, April, 2001, pp 143-144). " Like many of the best young sculptors in Los Angeles, Konitz uses the medium to investigate the relation between actual space and represented or mental space, to
diagram and coordinate these different but complexly related kinds of space. Developing what could be seen as an idiosyncratic vocabulary of materials (Styrofoam, candles, wax drippings, cardboard) and concerns (architecture/sculpture, chance accumulations/grids), Konitz pitches her formal investigations to allow her work to resonate poetically..." She has made a new sculpture for Out of the Ground Into...
Violet Hopkins
 Violet Hopkins has recently exhibited at Three Day Weekend in Los Angeles; Emultion, New York, and is in the Flat File Collection at Pierogi, New York. For Out of the Ground Into... she will exhibit drawings from Glow, a series of colored pencil drawings based on postcards of tourist caves. "I am interested not in the physically direct experience of being in an actual cave, but the internal fantasy of this experience. By translating a photographic representation, the space is negotiated with strokes of pigment. Using hallucinatory mark making, I am concerned with the fantasy of a singular experience and the inevitable cultural, social echoes that reverberate throughout it."
Nicolau Vergueiro
Nicolau Vergueiro recently exhibited in "Soup," New Wight Gallery, UCLA; anthropomorphic disincorporation, The Smell, Los Angeles; and at Black Dragon Society, Chinatown, Los Angeles. For Out of the Ground Into... He has made a new sculpture. "My work investigates what forms the existential bond between the body and its physical surroundings. Through the comparison and collision of their defining units (clothes, architecture, anatomy...) and their different modes of representation and display, the work examines the body, as a spatial marker, and its intrinsic relation with the territory in which it inhabits."
Chistopher Russell
Chistopher Russell is a photographer who recently exhibited in "Geographically Motivated," Gallery 825/Anomie Gallery, Los Angeles; "Gaze: The Art of Looking," Intersect Gallery, Palm Springs, CA and will be featured in "Behind Closed Doors," Works Gallery, San Jose, CA. For Out of the Ground Into... he will exhibit photos from an untitled series, in which went into the homes of exhibitionists to photograph them, but in end, displays images of domestic interiors, focusing on archetectual/ornimental details, and the residue of lived in spaces.
Mark Flores
 Mark Flores is a painter who recently exhibited in "Soup," New Wight Gallery, UCLA. His new paintings take their source from 3-D images of bedroom interiors from the 1960's and 70's.In becoming paintings, the glamorous decor and ornamentation of the not-yet inhabited abodes forfeit their dependence to a specific era, and in turn find themselves adrift in a dreamy, theatrical space, with potential for horror and eroticism, yet confined to our own supposition.
John Espinosa
John Espinosa pinpoints precise moments of clarity and wondrous states of being that reference his experiences as a once devout JehovahÕs Witness and avid surfer raised amidst the fantastic landscapes of Florida. These perfect moments and euphoric states of mind appear as the fundamental ingredient to objects and images that meld abstraction with representation and at times performative elements. John Espinosa, a graduate of Yale UniversityÕs Graduate Sculpture Program [2001], has most recently exhibited his work at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; Galerie Muller DeChiara, Berlin; Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
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