Overduin and Kite Gallery, Los Angeles CA, November 17th 2007.
At the Overdune and Kite Gallery, once finding it, was a little less interesting then I would have hoped. However, the pieces in this one room gallery were none the less fascinating because they resembled a certain pictographic feel to it. They kind of reminded me of a cave man or ancient indigenous culture’s sacred realms. The exhibition of work is by the American artist Ree Morton (1936-1977). This is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of Ree Morton’s work and includes sculpture, painting and drawings from 1973-1974. With its theme words, “Regains its natural liberties through neglect,” across a drawn out banner, it gave me the idea that these pieces were supposed to represent things that were naturally over looked, or no longer given praise to. In her sculpture piece “See-Saw” (1974), a long wooden plank balances horizontally upon a tree stump. Wooden panels at each end of the plank support small drawings and the entire object is encircled by blocks, creating a compass or clock-like form. According to the gallery’s press release article, this would be among her final works to incorporate wood as a sculptural material, which appeared in different forms in almost all of Morton’s earlier pieces. The other piece was titled, “Untitled”,(1973) which included a large canvas and a wooden plank. Most of her “Newfoundland Drawings” which were made during a summer Morton spent with her children in Newfoundland, Canada, is what she considered the happiest summer of her life.
This is probably one of the harder to find gallery, because it doesn't have any sign at front nor the address number was large enough, we spent about a good 20 min at least trying to find the place. Large seesaw like sculpture inside a circle made of rocks, I have to say it is probably the most interesting piece in that gallery in my opinion.
We are a group of Art students from the University of California Riverside who are attending a series of Art Galleries in several parts of Southern California. We have decided to use Blogger.com to post the pictures we take, and record our thoughts and opinions about the work we visit. You can find our critiques and thoughts on the work in the "comments" field, which appears below the pictures of the art.
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Overduin and Kite Gallery, Los Angeles CA, November 17th 2007.
At the Overdune and Kite Gallery, once finding it, was a little less interesting then I would have hoped. However, the pieces in this one room gallery were none the less fascinating because they resembled a certain pictographic feel to it. They kind of reminded me of a cave man or ancient indigenous culture’s sacred realms. The exhibition of work is by the American artist Ree Morton
(1936-1977). This is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of Ree Morton’s work and includes sculpture, painting and drawings from 1973-1974. With its theme words, “Regains its natural liberties through neglect,” across a drawn out banner, it gave me the idea that these pieces were supposed to represent things that were naturally over looked, or no longer given praise to.
In her sculpture piece “See-Saw” (1974), a long wooden plank balances horizontally upon a tree stump. Wooden panels at each end of the plank support small drawings and the entire object is encircled by blocks, creating a compass or clock-like form. According to the gallery’s press release article, this would be among her final works to incorporate wood as a sculptural material, which appeared in different forms in almost all of Morton’s earlier pieces.
The other piece was titled, “Untitled”,(1973) which included a large canvas and a wooden plank. Most of her “Newfoundland Drawings” which were made during a summer Morton spent with her children in Newfoundland, Canada, is what she considered the happiest summer of her life.
-Rebecca L.
This is probably one of the harder to find gallery, because it doesn't have any sign at front nor the address number was large enough, we spent about a good 20 min at least trying to find the place.
Large seesaw like sculpture inside a circle made of rocks, I have to say it is probably the most interesting piece in that gallery in my opinion.
~Carol Huang~
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