CERASOLI gallery Presents;Gallery One
Ryan Kapp ‘Familiar Distances’
Gallery Two
Michele Carlson 'Recent Memories of Future Dreams'
April 12 - May 3, 2008
Opening Reception : Saturday April 12, 6-8pm
CERASOLI gallery ____________________
8530-B Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
T. 310 558 0911 E. info@cerasoligallery.com
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Ryan Kapp’s 3’ x 6’ ‘Tulips’ (2007) oil on linen, on view in his ‘Familiar Distances’ solo exhibition is an outsider’s highway glimpse of the dark exterior of an anonymous suburban home. This, and other of his mid-sized oil paintings on canvas, panel, and linen, conjure images of middle America suspended in the empty hours after dinner, basking in the dim glow of the TV. Born in 1973 in Valdosta, GA, and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Kapp’s works are evocatively midwestern with their earthy tones and the geometry and loneliness of plowed fields. Kapp holds his BFA degree from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH, worked as an illustrator before moving to Evanston, IL to attend graduate school and complete his MFA at Northwestern University. He currently lives in Chicago, makes work in his studio and teaches at the Harrington College of Design.
Michele Carlson’s ‘Recent Memories of Future Dreams’ is a catalogue of alarming anecdotes, telling us something about the historico-culturally shaped experience at the “intersections of history and memory, hip hop, pop culture, Asian American Studies, transnational adoption and racial melancholia.” Carlson’s ink on paper drawings are social, political and domestic critiques rooted in her fascination with pop culture, history, and contemporary media and focused on the way images function in a world inundated with images of every kind. Carlson works against fixed modes of representation based in cultural stereotypes to weave new allegories, deliberately edging in on our collective memory. Carlson holds her MFA in Printmaking and MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts, her BFA in Printmaking and BAs in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and American History from the University of Washington. She has exhibited at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Kearny Street Workshop, and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
