William Pope.L- Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid
Project Room 1: Sharon Levy: The Wood
Project Room 2: Lorem Holland: Black Magic Woman
http://www.smmoa.org/site/exhibits/onViewNow.html
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Bergamot Station- Santa Monica Museum of Art
A Forest of Symbols: The Historical and Social Palm Tree in Los Angeles
William Pope.L- Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid
Project Room 1: Sharon Levy: The Wood
Project Room 2: Lorem Holland: Black Magic Woman
http://www.smmoa.org/site/exhibits/onViewNow.html
William Pope.L- Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid
Project Room 1: Sharon Levy: The Wood
Project Room 2: Lorem Holland: Black Magic Woman
http://www.smmoa.org/site/exhibits/onViewNow.html
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The Wood is Levy's first solo Los Angeles exhibition. Levy has created a installation of large-scale sculptures depicting trees in numerous stages of existance and death. All are silhouettes with a range of articulated branches, jigsaw-cut from pine plywooda manufactured material returning to its original form. The Wood is an installation of grand scale demonstrating both the existance and remains of a tree's life. My first reaction when I entered the instatllation was a sense of solitude and array. Levy's piece, I think, is meant to resemble or evoke the viewer to feel amazed and at the same time feel repressed by the grand scale of things. For the viewer it creates a sense of being withdrawn from the confinements of rural life by being situated within an enviroment where trees ultimately become the life source.
-Danisa
William Pope.L- Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid
Dark, big and tall man made trees, William Pope, L made his space feels like an evil forest that's waiting for people to walk in.
As I walked through the trees all the sudden I saw a puddle of blood, follow by the blood is the back big movie screen, like an outdoor movie theater.
When I walked to front of the movie screen, suddenly it feels like I am in someone's house, with couches, baby's cradle, carpet, etc.. On the screen it is showing a lab or some sort with a film crew,an old man wearing lab coat, a directer or some sort pumping blood like substance through a tube making the old man look like he's bleeding.
As I walk out, I realized that we actually get little peek holes that look into the lab on the wall.
According to the description on the wall, the old man is resembling former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfield.
I find the artist used a very interesting way to present us his point of view. Creating a feeling of going to an outdoor movie theater, and suddenly landed in someone's home realizing all these are created probably in a lab.
I also found some more information about the artist and his artworks online: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-popel10oct10,0,535870.story?coll=la-headlines-calendar
http://media.www.laloyolan.com/media/storage/paper803/news/2007/09/13/Entertainment/Art-After.White.People.Time.Trees.Celluloid-2965841.shtml
~Carol Huang~
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