MOORPARK COLLEGE GALLERY PRESENTS
JILL NEWMAN
THRIFT PRODUCERS/SUSTAIN AND TRAVEL
November 17 – December 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 17
Artist Lecture: 3:00 – 3:45 pm in FH 116
Gallery reception to follow: 6:30-8:30 pm
Moorpark College Gallery, Administration Building, 7075 Campus Road, Moorpark, CA
Jill Newman is a Los Angeles based artist with an investment in reconsidering architecture and site for their symbolic potential. Working in painting, sculpture and installation, her subjects range from politically-charged derelict constructions to structural relics of performative art works. In Thrift Producers/Sustain and Travel, Newman draws timely parallels between methods of resourcefulness found within and outside of the art world, exploring tensions between utopist initiatives and lost idealism in today’s landscape of economic and environmental uncertainty.
In Newman’s paintings, improvised constructions take central focus in subjectively infused landscapes. The dreamy quality she evokes conjures a desire for seemingly unobtainable lifestyles that exist outside of the confines of a market-driven society. By shifting their original context and rendering these subjects fantastical and romanticized, Newman taps into the historical trajectory of referencing the sublime in American landscapes. These paintings challenge viewers to consider the symbolic potential of their subjects in new ways.
Other works include functional linen curtains that act as a painting and a framed flag repurposed from a former sculpture. These pieces utilize architectural embellishments from her subjects as points of formal departure for non-representational investigation. The resulting abstractions take a more linguistic approach to the imagery, exploring the ability for isolated gestures and graphic elements to carry similar meaning to their representational counterparts.
Newman received her MFA from CalArts and her BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has exhibited throughout Los Angeles at venues such as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Armory Center for the Arts, Glendale College Gallery and Taylor de Cordoba Gallery. Newman attended the Figure in a Mountain Landscape thematic residency at The Banff Centre. She has lectured at Woodbury University and UC-Riverside. She and Bari Ziperstein recently formed Survey West Collaborative, which received a grant from the City of Pasadena Department of Cultural Affairs for an upcoming installation at Side Street Projects, Pasadena. In addition, Survey West will curate Site as Symbol at the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles’ Chinatown neighborhood in 2011.
Location: Moorpark College Gallery, 7075 Campus Road, Moorpark, CA 93021. Gallery is located in the Administration Bldg (A). Gallery Hours Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Directions: I-5 N. CA-118 W exit. Exit 19B for Collins Dr. Turn right at Collins Dr. Turn right at Campus Park Dr. Continue on Campus Rd. Park in P-Lot A. Machine for parking is in the lot (ONE DAY $2.00).
Contact: Lara Bank (323) 445-4015 or lbank@myvcccd.edu |
