Mixed Media Lost & Found August 8, 2009

Please join us at the opening reception for Mixed Media Lost & Found featuring the artwork of Deborah Baca, Jane Brucker, Ursula Kammer-Fox and Leslie Sutcliffe.

Reception: Saturday, August 8, 6-9 pm

Mixed Media Lost & Found highlights the work of four Southern California artists working in a variety of media to explore themes of memory, loss, rebirth and the significance of objects. Baca’s mixed media drawings and assemblages utilize found photographs and textual narration to give new life to forgotten images. Brucker’s precious metal castings of everyday objects give them a permanence and weight not usually accorded to the objects themselves, forcing us to reconsider them as vessels for meaning. Her Memorial Project uses swatches of clothing to tell stories about their deceased or unidentified owners. Kammer-Fox uses a variety of found objects to create figures that invite viewer interaction and the invention of narratives around each piece. Sutcliffe’s mixed media paintings and drawings incorporate obsolete text and images from books; these familiar pictures and words are thus given an opportunity to convey new meanings independent of their original context.

Scott Heinzerling, a professor of dance at Loyola Marymount University, in collaboration with artist Jane Brucker will present a performance piece at intervals during the opening reception on Saturday, August 8. Works choreographed by Heinzerling have been presented internationally and at local venues such as the University of California Los Angeles, California State University Long Beach, and the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. As a dancer he has performed throughout the world and with the Ohio Ballet Company and Dennis Wayne and Dancers. Brucker and Heinzerilng will work with selected clothing from Brucker's Memorial Project (2001-2009) to create through movement an additional tribute to the work's narrative.

Official Website: http://www.brandlibrary.org/MixedMediaLostFound_080809-091109.asp