Doris Cypis: Psycho, David Askevold: Works From The Past; Artists Reception March 1, 2007

MANDARIN is Pleased to Present

PSYCHO, photographic work by DORIT CYPIS, from 1983 to 1991, in suite #213

WORKS FROM THE PAST, photographic work by DAVID ASKEVOLD, from the 1970s, in suite #212

Exhibition Dates: March 2nd, 2007 – March 21st, 2007

Reception for the artists Thursday March 1st 6-8 p.m.

Dorit Cypis
Centipede, 1985
cibachrome
Psycho represents questions of corporality, seeing and being seen and the personal and social constructions which frame our bodies and our sight. In this formative work of Cypis’ career exploring subjectivity and social relations, identity, configured by cultural histories, becomes re-configured through the body as the repository of experience, memory, dream, fantasy and desire.
Dorit Cypis’ education as an artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1972-75, and at the California Institute of the Arts 1975-77, were informed equally by feminism, conceptual art and the questioning of representational forms. Her work moved seamlessly between photography, performance, cinema, and sculpture. In 1983 Cypis developed a strategy using multiple, overlapping slide projections to be interrupted by a moving body called “open spiral animation” that bridged live performance, cinema and photography.

David Askevold
One of the Ten States in the West, 1978-79
color c print

David Askevold, a resident of Nova Scotia, Canada, will be represented by a selection of photographic work from the 1970’s. Askevold is a pioneer of using narrative text and photographs in conceptual structures to represent possible scenarios located somewhere between dream, fantasy and memory, riding a thin line between interiority and social reality.
Askevold was a teacher at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design during that institution’s formative years between 1968-1974. He is a frequent visitor to Los Angeles, and has taught both at California Institute for the Arts and at Pasadena Art Center.

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