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Patrick Jackson “The Third Floor” at François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

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Patrick Jackson, ‘The Third Floor’ installation view 2013. Courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

Patrick Jackson
The Third Floor
9 November 2013 – 11 January 2014
at François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

For this exhibition Jackson has installed scaffolding that divides the gallery into three levels. Each floor is installed to different effect, creating an ominous and psychologically loaded space.

The basement level is set with a variety of oversized ceramic vessels. Most have a black cracking glaze that looks similar to burnt wood, but the giant mugs of the group come in an intense variety of colors, textures and patterns. Each mug holds an assortment of things, such as dirt clumps, soda colored epoxy and resin crystals.
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William Powhida “Bill by Bill” at Charlie James Gallery, LA

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William Powhida, Some Criteria for Evaluation, 2013. Graphite and watercolour. Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, LA

William Powhida
Bill by Bill
20 April – 8 June 2013
at Charlie James Gallery,
Los Angeles, USA

Dismissed Acclaimed provincial New York-based artist William Powhida is pleased to announce Bill by Bill, a new collection of art works fabricated exclusively for Charlie James Gallery and the fast-growing Los Angeles art market. Conceptualized and designed by William each work of art has been crafted by better highly skilled artists, designers, friends, family and fabricators under the artist’s supervision in a studio he visited at least once. After years of going to art fairs intensive market research Bill by Bill represents a decisive breakthrough for the artist into the fields of sculpture and painting by creating unique variations on some of the dominant formulas trends in contemporary art.
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