The Box Gallery

Lorem Ipsum: From the Permanent Collection

The Box gallery presents

Selections from the Permanent Collections of Gallerists
Christopher Hall and Johnny Sampson

December, 2010

In a unique one-time event, The Box contemporary art gallery presents Lorem Ipsum: Work from the Permanent Collection.  This exhibition of privately collected original works will be on display at the Costa Mesa gallery through Friday, January 7, 2011.

Gallerists Christopher Hall and Johnny Sampson have selected works from their private collections to hold the walls during the month of December.  Although the pieces come from two seemingly disparate bodies of work, the exhibition is striking in its overall gestalt.  Art works by Jeff Claasen, Jennifer Dunnett, Mickey ME Edtinger, Shepard Fairey, Blaine Fontana, Mary Elizabeth Ford, Ted von Heiland, Derrick Hess, Duane Hosien, Aaron Kraten, Matt Linares, Anthony Mangicapra, Matthew Miller, Jolanda Olie, Matthew Price, Jophen Stein, and Christopher Uminga create a remarkable dialogue which engages the viewer in a conversation of current events, technology, isolation, consumerism, fashion, innocence, love, and loss.

The title of the exhibition comes from the filler text of the printing and typesetting industry that has been in use from the 1500s.  It was then that an unknown printer created a template, or specimen book, using scrambled type--allowing the layout design to be the focus without the distraction of contextual meaning or empty space.   Although commonly thought to be a selection of random text, it is based primarily on Cicero’s de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, (The Extremes of Good and Evil), written in 45 BCE.

(“Lorem Ipsum.” lipsum.com. n.d. web. 30 November, 2010.)