Margie Schnibbe, Honey Bunny @ CIRCUS GALLERY

Kate Barclay @ Confederacy of Creative Ephemera

A project space inside Circus Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 7 - 9PM

Saturday, May 17 - June 14, 2008

Tues - Sat 11AM - 6PM

Circus Gallery is proud to present Margie Schnibbe's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.  The show consists of paintings, drawings and fabric works that are displayed in multiple sets and back drops for an adult movie written and directed by Schnibbe that will be shot in the gallery during the show. 

Drawing and Painting.

Schnibbe makes abstract drawings, paintings and textile pieces that use bold colors and lines.  Her work often incorporates text and uses the letters as a starting place to build abstract forms.  In the mezzanine of the gallery will be displayed The Birthday Party, 112 drawings of the names of the actresses inducted into the Adult Video News Porn Star Hall of Fame.  The drawings will then be used as the backdrop for a girl on girl S and M scene in her movie.  Her work is often fueled by the id, the unconscious, an obsession with perversion, the preservation of innocence and the deification of desire.

Movies.

Schnibbe's visual art is used as the backdrops for her movies.  She started her career as an artist and as she puts it "adult films are a way to support and display my art."  The strong abstractions and the hard lines of her drawings work well as dizzying set piece for the action to take place in front of the camera. 

Margie Schnibbe is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker who directed the underground hit documentary DVD "Pornstar Pets." Ms Schnibbe also directs commercial porn under the name Vena Virago and is currently in preproduction on her next project for Vivid-Alt. 

Born in Yonkers, N.Y. Schnibbe received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute.  Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including Greece, Germany, Australia, and Canada.  Her work has shown recently in Figures curated by William E. Jones at David Kordansky in Los Angeles, and her videos have screened recently at LACE and Cinema OT31 in Amsterdam.