Opening Reception: Sunday, January 8, 2-5pm
Bianca Kolonusz-Partee: Countries of Origin
Megan Madzoeff: Cut It Out!
Bianca Kolonusz-Partee
Countries of Origin
January 8 - February 12, 2012
Offramp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Bianca Kolonusz-Partee: Countries of Origin from January 8 - February 12, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Sunday, January 8, from 2-5pm and a closing reception on Sunday, February 12, from 2-5pm.
Bianca Kolonusz-Partee's constructs intricate landscapes of Asian container shipping ports, using recycled product packaging from the sites themselves. Delicately cut, folded, and pinned to the walls with multi-colored map pins, Kolonusz-Partee's constructions become panoramic pastiches of buildings, roadways, cranes and ships. By exploring these industrial landscapes Kolonusz-Partee hopes to better understand where all the "stuff" demanded by the west is really coming from. The environmental and human sacrifices being made in the East’s efforts to rapidly develop are harshly criticized, but demand for their products continues to come from the west.
Bianca Kolonusz-Partee earned her BFA in studio art from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She lives and works in Guerneville, CA.
Megan Madzoeff
Cut It Out!
January 8 - February 12, 2012
Offramp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition, Megan Madzoeff: Cut It Out!, from January 8 - February 12, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Sunday, January 8, from 2-5pm and a closing reception on Sunday, February 12, from 2-5pm.
By pouring paint onto polyester film, Megan Madzoeff frees herself from the constraints of traditional canvas or panel and explores the energy, transparency and movement inherent in liquid. Her paintings present the formal and the informal with a dichotomy of serious and humorous perspectives. On the one hand, they refer to color field painting with their graphically aggressive, high-contrast swatches of color. However, simultaneously, their cut edges, bloopy shapes and drips play to the comic spirit. When the work is attached directly to the wall, it produces an absolutely flat painting that appears to hover, physically confronting the viewer to strike up a conversation.
Megan Madzoeff has a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Offramp Gallery • 1702 Lincoln Avenue • Pasadena, CA 91103 • 626.298.6931
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