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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT...
large scale sculptural and visual installations
Curated by Lilli Muller
September 13 through September 27
Press & Community Preview: Thursday, September 11, 5pm to 9pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6pm to 10pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 27, 6pm to 10pm
Exhibition Location: The dA Center for the Arts, 252 S Main St., Pomona Arts Colony, CA 91766 dacenter.org
Lilli Muller, curator and artist, was born in Coburg, Germany. After taking classes in fine art at the Kunstakademie in Nürnberg she chose to move to the United States in 1980 for reasons of "artistic survival".
Muller's approach to curating goes beyond showing art, she curates an experience of the senses. This show is a gathering of energy focused on our only constant, change.
Over the past twenty years Muller developed a uniquely recognizable collection of images through figurative casting in plaster/fiberglass.
Within the domain of Muller's new work the audience is given an invitation to play. She requests the viewer to interact and dare to touch the artwork. From this interaction, the audience begins to "see" the unnoticeable, or marvel a movement only discovered by their touch and handling. In essence Muller's work brings to light, for conscious contemplation, the unseen social contracts by which relationships are governed and the interdependence with ALL.
www.lillimuller.com
Rick Robinson's Herd of Women is all about natural instinctive yet orderly movement. Speed, grace, size, weight, the thundering herd. Imagine suddenly finding yourself in the midst of a small herd of naked happy women, all making a quick left turn in unison. Swift, smooth yet abrupt, decisive and unpredictable. Resonating energy, movement, control and yet freedom. Robinson's use of raw plywood as medium is an attempt to marry budget constraints with a natural organic medium. The increasing/decreasing size of 30-50 elements will generate a sense of dimension, scope and movement where none exists.
Jonna Lee dallied in the film industry for 10 years and was a regular fixture on television episodics, sit-coms and a few movies-of-the-week throughout the 80's. In the early 90's she turned in the grease paint for oil paint and headed on over to Otis College of Art where she grabbed a BFA and figured out she really preferred to sculpt. A quick jump to Claremont Graduate University reeled in a MFA and a love of performance, installation and collaboration with other powerful women. The collision between formal and organic and a love of the ephemeral are of continuing interest to Ms. Lee.
www.jonnalee.net
Rick Mendoza has been photographing his surroundings since age nine when he was given a Polaroid swinger camera to document his immigrant family outings on trips of discovery and reconnection. Making a livelihood from photography has been a fulfilling, voyeuristic and cross-cultural experience for a kid growing up in the transplanted bubble of a provincial family from the Yucatan. The selected images for the Change Is the Only Constant show are from a body of work called The Botanicals. They are an exploration of contrasts in natural forms rendered in traditional and arcane photo processes. The camera captures these subjects as spectacular or quietly sublime forms at various stages in their life cycle; the old photo processes infusing the images of leaves, pods, and flowers against human forms with a sense nostalgic and timeless beauty.
www.rickmendoza.com
Kathryne Layne Paxton is a multimedia artist who lives and works in LA. She has a B.F.A. in photography and Imaging, with a minor in Studio Art and Art History.
In the context of a traditional mythology, the symbols are presented in socially maintained rites, through which the individual is required to experience, or will pretend to have experienced, certain insights, sentiments, and commitments. In what I am calling “creative” mythology, on the other hand, this order is reversed: the individual has had an experience of his own-of order, horror, beauty, or even mere exhilaration-which he seeks to communicate through signs; and if his realizations have been of a certain depth and import, his communication will have the value and force of a living myth-for those, that is to say, who receive and respond to it themselves, with recognition, uncoerced. --Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God IV
www.kathrynelaynepaxton.com
The dA Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization that has been the heart of the Pomona Arts Colony for 24 years, known for community outreach and its fabulous gallery space.
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday, Noon to 5pm (and by appointment). http://dacenter.org
Additional information, and images suitable for reproduction may be obtained by contacting: Terry Castillo 909-868-8217
e-mail: artdujour242@gmail.com
