Gallery Pal gets an art review
LA Times gave gallery pal, Jennifer Celio some nice remarks on her work. Included in the 2-person show is Laura Ricci, whose work is equally amazing, albeit different than Jennifer's.
Laura Ricci and Jennifer Celio, both showing at Bandini Art, approach the same general subject — the L.A. landscape — from distinctly different angles.
Ricci, who was born in the Midwest and professes in her statement to have "an admittedly uneasy relationship with habitation in Los Angeles," is the skeptic. Motivated by "the general political climate, looming prospects of cataclysmic earthquakes" and her intuition that nature is getting angry, she envisions in her paintings a sort of revenge: trees crushing freeways, binding up automobiles and stretching their limbs across vast empty spaces. Loose and whimsical, the works — acrylic, ink and pencil on paper — have a storybook charm.
Celio, born in Burbank, is considerably more sympathetic, viewing the city's roads and freeways not as spaces of absence but as windows into her own history. Her beautifully articulated graphite drawings, executed on large gesso-covered boards, present snapshot glimpses of roadside landscapes floating in fields of white. The scenes are banal at a glance but rendered with such affection and care that they come to feel almost hallowed.
Laura Ricci and Jennifer Celio, both showing at Bandini Art, approach the same general subject — the L.A. landscape — from distinctly different angles.
Ricci, who was born in the Midwest and professes in her statement to have "an admittedly uneasy relationship with habitation in Los Angeles," is the skeptic. Motivated by "the general political climate, looming prospects of cataclysmic earthquakes" and her intuition that nature is getting angry, she envisions in her paintings a sort of revenge: trees crushing freeways, binding up automobiles and stretching their limbs across vast empty spaces. Loose and whimsical, the works — acrylic, ink and pencil on paper — have a storybook charm.
Celio, born in Burbank, is considerably more sympathetic, viewing the city's roads and freeways not as spaces of absence but as windows into her own history. Her beautifully articulated graphite drawings, executed on large gesso-covered boards, present snapshot glimpses of roadside landscapes floating in fields of white. The scenes are banal at a glance but rendered with such affection and care that they come to feel almost hallowed.
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