Featuring Los Angeles artists Lisa Adams, Amir H. Fallah,
Wendell Gladstone and Greg Rose
POMONA, Calif. - PEDERSEN projects will be
holding an opening reception for PRELUDE TO AN APOCALYPSE © Saturday, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 from 6:00 -
10:00p.m.
Art critic, curator and historian James Scarborough says the
following about the
exhibition:
Prophecy is central to the work of the
four artists that comprise Prelude to an Apocalypse:
Landscape in an Era of Diminished Expectations at
Pedersen Projects.
Each of the four artists administers a Rorschach test on the
world around them. Subjective as can be - each artist has a distinct aesthetic -
the show as a whole nonetheless seems like the most obvious, inevitable thing in
the world. The overall tone of the work seamlessly balances cartoony playfulness
with an overarching sense of unease and disquiet. The forms are lyrical but
they're colored in a minor key, acknowledging a disagreeable status quo while,
at the sametime, laughing at it in a non-judgmental manner. The show is firmly
rooted in the landscape tradition: bands-of-color creating horizon lines abound,
as do variously rendered skies and species of floral and fauna. But it¡¯s not
Audubon naturalistic, to say the least. It¡¯s more a case that the landscape is
an occasion in which the assembled artists convene to collectively thumb their
noses at whatever imminent sense of doom the future ¨C hell, the present, too -
presages.
This spectacle of unease ¨C of an artist¡¯s ability to find
inspiration and humor but not much comfort in the landscape tradition ¨C as well
as the peculiar circumstances that have engendered these conditions suggests
that the best artistic recourse is to ask, as Okakura Kazuko does in The Book
of Tea, ¡°How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so
ridiculous?¡±
For more information about the opening or exhibition please
contact Kirk
Pedersen.
