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DIANNA COHEN: shine
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new
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NICOLE STRASBURG: water
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new
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25 January - 23 February 2002
After nearly a month
of renovations, the Lisa Coscino Gallery is pleased to announce a new
exhibition format. After 18 months of group shows which have exposed the
Peninsula to a wide variety of artists both local and from other areas,
the Gallery will be focusing on one-person shows. The Gallery has been
renovated to include a small 'front' gallery and a 'main' gallery and
will feature two concurrent one-person exhibitions.
Under this new format,
the Lisa Coscino Gallery announces the first of many exciting solo shows.
The MAIN GALLERY will feature Los Angeles artist Dianna Cohen and the
FRONT GALLERY will feature Santa Barbara artist Nicole Strasburg. The
exhibitions will open on Friday, January 25th and run through February
23rd. Both Artists will be attending the Reception which will be held
on Friday, January 25th from 6-8pm. The Gallery is located at 171 Central
Avenue in Pacific Grove.
DIANNA COHEN: shine:
new work in plastic will feature both large and small format work made
from bits and pieces of a multitude of plastic bags meticulously sewn
together. Her work suggests that 'humankind is the consumer': that we
create, package, market, sell, use and throw away. Living in a synthetic
bounty, we use plastic for just about everything today, eventually having
it end up as landfill. It is Cohen's hope that through creating art with
these materials, she can have some small impact on the environment as
well as provoke the viewer to examine alternative ways to conserve, reuse
and recycle. On the tail of several successful exhibitions in Los Angeles
in 2001, Cohen has created some extremely beautiful pieces for her first
solo show on the Peninsula. She continues to push our understanding and
interpretation of art by bringing the work out of the frame and making
it three dimensional, evoking a reference to drapery, fabric and fashion.
In addition to her use of specific imagery and words that originate in
the bags she collects from all over the world, this new work implores
you to get up close and touch it or to wrap it around yourself like a
blanket, which begs the question: can plastic be cuddly?
NICOLE STRASBURG:
water and sky: new paintings will feature all new paintings on wood. Strasburg
is a studio painter who paints land, water and sky from memory. Living
in Santa Barbara, she spends much of her time outside observing the changing
landscape, the sky and the water. After hours in close commune with the
environment, Strasburg returns to the studio to paint her interpreted
vision of where she's been and what she's seen. These internalized landscapes
become almost abstract at times as they are filtered through the colored
lens of her experience. Painted on wood panel with no frames, the paintings
literally float off the walls and flicker in the viewer's mind her/his
own memories of the beauty of their own special places: visited perhaps
only once in reality but frequently revisited in dreams.
Gallery Hours are:
Tuesday - Wednesday: 11-3
Thursday - Saturday: 11-5:30
And by appointment.
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