FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 1, 2006, Pasadena, CA
McLean Fine Art in collaboration with Phantom Galleries Los Angeles presents
“Look In” – Four site-specific installations in two locations – Pasadena & Downtown Los Angeles
Public viewing for both spaces available all day, everyday through November 2006.
Pasadena- The former Homestead furniture shop - 680 E Colorado Boulevard @ El Molino in Pasadena
October 14 – November 30, 2006
Featuring: Michiko Yao, Miller Updegraff & Rise Industries (Michele Jaquis & Jeremy Quinn)
Reception: Saturday, October 14, 7p – 9p, in conjunction with the Pasadena Art Weekend
Downtown Los Angeles - 131 E. 6th Street at the Santa Fe Lofts @ the corner of 6th and Los Angeles (near Art Murmur Gallery)
Featuring: Dan Van Clapp (through October)
Reception: Thursday, October 12, 7p -10p, in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk
Look for Van Clapps’ Magic Militia Bus parked along the Downtown Art Walk route
Media contacts: Ashley Mclean Emenegger, Mclean Fine Art, 626.798.3136 / Liza Simone, Phantom Galleries, 213. 626.2854
McLean Fine Art in collaboration with Phantom Galleries Los Angeles will present “Look In”, a group exhibition of site-specific installations that will transform store front windows into microcosms that challenge the notion of home and belonging, as well as the private becoming public spectacle. “Look In” will feature the artwork of five McLean Fine Art artists: Michiko Yao, Miller Updegraff, Dan Van Clapp, and Michele Jaquis and Jeremy Quinn, curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger.
Yao’s Fancy House, investigates the hybridization of art, culture, and sexuality with a feminist point of view. Updegraff will extend the dimensionality of his traditional media of painting, transforming the space into the abandoned site of a rave, using patterned lights and spatial disruptions to activate and transform the 3-dimensionality of the space. Here, Together, by Rise Industries (Michele Jaquis and Jeremy Quinn) is a three channel, video installation documenting the artists’ interactions in an abandoned store. The work comes from a desire to interact with the building on a basic level, using projections of light and shadow that glided through the space, reflected from passing cars, and improvised short performances where their shadows merged into one. Exploring the unacceptability of some of society’s accepted notions, sculptor Dan Van Clapp will display his quirky, humorously provocative faux-weapons of mass destruction that look more like the refuse of a mad militia man than a reason to signal for an Orange Alert.
Phantom Galleries L.A places temporary art exhibits in vacant storefronts though out Los Angeles County. McLean Fine Art provides arts consultancy services, visual artist career coaching, and distinctive fine art exhibitions. For more information on Pasadena’s ArtNight & ArtWalk, visit www.pasadenaart.org.For information on the Downtown Art Walk visitwww.downtownartwalk.com.
