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Echo Park Gallery Brings Together Five Emerging Artists
"Advance Guard" exhibit at Sancho focuses on the notion of "Art as Experience"
CHOOSING TO EXHIBIT IN ECHO PARK
Sancho continues its eclectic arts programming with a one week exhibit featuring five emerging artists. “Advance Guard” will open to the public with a reception on September 16 from 8PM-12AM. Curated by former Echo Park resident and artist Samuel Partal, the exhibition came together after a conversation he had with Sancho’s owner Dani Collins. "I felt confident that this would be a fantastic place to exhibit our work...The space hosts a interesting mix of events that really resonates with my own sensibility. Sancho has some of the most stimulating exhibitions on the eastside of Los Angeles.”
INSPIRATION FOR THE SHOW
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Asked about the inspiration for the show, Partal explained, " I am an artist who reads too much, who is preoccupied with the notion of art as experience, art as mysticism." For “Advance Guard” he invited four friends and fellow artists in whose work he found a common thread dealing with "abstraction as a language with which to explore and represent the human attempt at transcendence, the desire of the individual to establish their connection to and participation with an otherwise indifferent universe"
ABOUT THE ART
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The works on exhibit have in common an abstract aesthetic, and find a way to “reassert the primacy of the beautiful and the sublime and to reestablish, in a contemporary context, the ancient traditions of art as an instrument of mystic celebration and worship.”
Silver Lake artist Brian Overend's earnest psychological introspection is evident in his somnambulistic photographic works, while complex mythic narratives of death take shape in Lina Janusas’ lush canvases. Evocative and lyrical textures can be found in both Carrie Schreck’s paintings and prints and the “re-imagined hermetic Neoclassicism” of Damo Kardokas’ intaglio etchings. And the oddly compelling photographs of Partal are created in a style the former Echo Park resident enigmatically calls “biological mysticism.” The show runs September 16-24.
