TODAY: Marie Jager - The Big Nowhere

Hi Everyone,

So, I love Los Angeles.  I love learning about Los Angeles. I despise driving my car. Hence, I'm excited for this exhibit.  The François Ghebaly Gallery near Pasadena is exhibiting a collection of Marie Jager's blueprints of Los Angeles.  The means by which she develops and alters each of her blueprints are meant to represent the various elements in L.A. living.  Sun, smog and Cars. I love it. Here's a little summary of what you'll see...

"In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes visible the invisible combustion and sediment that defines the city's landscape. Playing off LA's varied reputation for car culture, inevitable sunshine, and smog-induced sunsets, Jager placed canvases in the outdoors and retrieved them a month later as readymade landscape paintings.... In contrast to these durational portraits of the urban environment, the instant of ignition that defines everyday life in Los Angeles—turning over the engine in your car—is captured repeatedly in Jager's Starter paintings where the burnt oil discharged when the motor engages makes an instant oil-on-canvas landscape of the city's mobility and automobile reliant citizenry."

Where:
François Ghebaly Gallery   
510 Bernard St
Los Angeles, CA 90012     
323.221.2300

When:
12PM - 6PM