Keystone Art Space is pleased to present DISPARATE SOURCES: Los Angeles Collage, an exhibition featuring the work of seventeen artists who utilize and push the boundaries of traditional collage through a variety of processes, methods, materials, and styles.

Ranging from flat surfaces to three-dimensional sculptures, DISPARATE SOURCES spans from playful, comical, political, fantastical, to deeply personal in content. Works pivot between abstract and narrative approaches, acting as vehicles to address larger cultural, personal, and societal issues. What connects the artists of DISPARATE SOURCES is their affinity for the raw physicality of the art form, and a tactile process that the viewer experiences through layers of information. Photographic imagery, paint, paper, resin, found objects, and a multitude of materials are employed to communicate disparate messages. Combined, the artists reinterpret and reimagine a collective past, present, and future, resulting in dynamic new realities.

DISPARATE SOURCES: Los Angeles Collage includes the work of Sacha Baumann, Rochelle Botello, Yasmine Diaz, Chelsea Dean, Lea Feinstein, Danielle Garza, Tm Gratkowski, Jennifer Gunlock, Michael Hentz, Bettina Hubby, Jay Lizo, CW Mihlberger, Cindy Rehm, Susan Sironi, Carly Steward, Toshee, and Essi Zimm. 
Keystone Art Space
338 S. Ave 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031

MERCHANT presents a solo exhibition by CHELSEA DEAN.

Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 24, 6-9 p.m.

October 24 - November 26

Chelsea Dean's work revolves around moments of passing perfection. Sometimes these moments are fleeting; sometimes they are dragged out and lost over decades. She discovers and salvages history by suspending Southern California architecture in time through a process of carefully controlled chaos. By combining her photographs with experimental printmaking, drawing, and collage techniques, Dean elevates the conflict between order and entropy while inserting her own sense of balance within the work. Whether in the subtle, mysterious, and sensuous qualities of nature, or in the enticing and elegant power of architecture, Dean utilizes an arsenal of diverse media that honors and investigates history and the allure of beauty and decay, culminating in a unique meditation between her and her subjects.

Image: A Cosmos Amidst The Chaos, Chelsea Dean, 2014. Hand-cut photographs, wood veneer, decorative paper, mat board, foam core, and found objects from abandoned Jackrabbit Homestead on monoprint, 30 x 22 inches.

Spectacular Subdivision

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, April 4-6, 2014, 10am-6pm
Two sites in Wonder Valley, CA
Site 1: 79017 El Paseo Drive, Wonder Valley, CA 92277
Site 2: Ironage Road, Wonder Valley, CA 92277

High Desert Test Sites, Monte Vista Projects, and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) present Spectacular Subdivision, a group project curated by Jay Lizo. This three-day exhibition invites artists to reflect on questions of housing and real estate in the aftermath of the 2008 housing market crisis. What does housing mean to artists in relation to their practice? How has the mortgage meltdown affected artists? How have forms of domesticity and shelter shaped artists' practices?

Spectacular Subdivision stems from the many conversations Jay had with other artists about purchasing a home. These conversations, ranging from the various types of paints used for interiors, to how to expand a house to incorporate a studio, and how to find balance between a living and working space, were simultaneously banal and fantastical. The project both engages and mimics the logic of real estate development as it has played out in the years since settlement began on the edges of habitable space across the Californian desert, e.g. California City in Kern County and Salton City, the failed resort adjacent to the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley. The call invites participating artists to explore their personal fantasies in tandem with that (il)logic.

The project takes place over one weekend at two sites in Wonder Valley, California, on the fringes of the high desert. Large-scale sculptures are installed in a cul-de-sac formation at the remote, undeveloped Ironage Road parcel. Additional works are on view at El Paseo Ranch, a rental cabin owned by the Sibley Family.

Participating artists include: Matt Allison, Katie Allison, Yuki Ando, Nicole Antebi, Annette Barz, Lara Bank, Allison Danielle Behrstock, James Cathey, Frank Chang, Chelsea Dean, Michael Dodge, Rebecca Bennett Duke, Ken Ehrlich, Patrick Gilbert, Joe Goode, Jenalee Harmon, Anastasia Hill, Dick Hebdige, Oliver Hess, Oree Holban, Olga Koumoundouros, Norm Laich, Jay Lizo, Candice Lin, Clare Little, Justin Lowman, Ben Lord, Nuttaphol Ma, Patrick Melroy, Anna Mayer, Megan Mueller, Ruchama Noorda, Noah Peffer, Nikki Pressley, Ben Pruskin, Nate Page, Carl Pomposelli, Colin Roberts, Marco Rios, Amy Russell, Sam Scharf, Ryan Taber, Emily Thomas, Matthew Usinowicz, Jesse Wilson, and Kim Yasuda.

More details from Monte Vista here.