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Reflections...An Art Show
5803 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232


June 23rd, 2007 - July 21st, 2007
Opening: 
June 23rd, 2007 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
 
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WEBSITE:  
http://www.sixspace.com
NEIGHBORHOOD:  
culver city/west la
EMAIL:  
caryn@sixspace.com
PHONE:  
323.932.6200
OPEN HOURS:  
by appointment only
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Sixspace is proud to present the collaborative exhibition Reflection...an art show by Los Angeles artists Sarah Cromarty and Salvatore Salamone. Involving integrated painting (Cromarty) and sculpture (Salamone), Reflections…an art show encompasses the gallery to create a fantastical and dark diorama of a world that deals with magic, kitsch, and bizarre landscapes. As sculptures flow into paintings and paintings influence the sculpture, these mutually influencing, corresponding works essentially act as conversations between the two artists. And though each artist's work is clearly distinctive, they share a similar palette that is at once opposing and complimentary.

Salvatore Salmone's sculptures consist of diverse compositions - animal molds, wood, epoxy, clay, resin, glitter, glass, Plexi, and stone - to create captured scenes of an unnatural nature. For example, one piece consists of found driftwood from his parents' east coast farm that he then transforms into an unconventional object of "nature" by altering its color, encasing with resin, and adding glitter. With a solid career background in prop-making, each component of the piece is hand-made and placed on custom-made, painted pedestals. Influenced heavily from elements of dark magic, familiars, witchcraft and the primordial, Salamone often utilizes animal molds of creatures such as salamanders and bats as the basis for his pieces. Balancing between the line of the absurd and an actual landscape, Salamone creates three-dimensional dioramas of a familiar world turned on its side.

Salvatore Salmone received his B.A. in Fine art at Williams College, Massachusetts in 1993. Salamone has collaborated with the artist group "The Yes Man" over the past five years with exhibitions including 6 Million Perps Held Hostage at the Andy Warhol Museum (2007), The Culture of Fear at Halle 14/Stiftung in Federkiel, Liepzig (2006), and The Interventionists at Mass MOCA (2004). Other projects have included commercials for Visa, MTV, and Honda as well as the television programs Six Feet Under, Yes Dear, and Nip Tuck. Reflections…an art show is Salamone's debut Los Angeles exhibition.

Sarah Cromarty's work deals with the displacement of traditional notions of painting and sculpture, figure/ground relationships, and the authentic and the copy; she plays with illusory space of two-dimensional objects (prints, vintage architectural books, nature books, and album covers) by making them three-dimensional. Cromarty achieves this by removing, replacing, revealing, and adding elements to these objects - this playing with spatial relations concepts of depicted images enhances the overall understanding of the picture. Her recent work furthers this ongoing interest with the three-dimensional by incorporating an installation-based approach. By using pedestals and custom-holders designed as extensions of the art, Cromarty integrates the work even more into our physical space. Sarah Cromarty received her BFA (with distinction) from the Art Center School of Design in 2005. The same year she was included in the first annual L.A.Weekly Biennial State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art World Infrastructure curated by Doug Harvey and was selected as an Artist in Residence for the Cultural Service of the Consulate General of France. Recent exhibitions include The Books and Records Show (solo project room exhibition) at sixspace (2007) and a two-person show at Bucket Rider in Chicago (2006). Her work has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Artnet Magazine.

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