[DowntownArtists] Nancy Evans sculpture and installation at Dangerous Curve

[events at dangerouscurve.org]

"Keeping Body and Soul Together"
sculpture and installation by Nancy Evans

One of LA's 100 Most Interesting Artists, LA Weekly, 2005

			
at Dangerous Curve
http://dangerouscurve.org

an Experimental Exhibition and
Live Art/Visual Art Performance Space

Voted 5th Most Popular Art Gallery
Best of Alternative L.A. Readers' Choice:
http://www.laalternative.com/index.php/2006/06/30/best-of-la



Exhibit Dates
November 11--December 16, 2006

Wednesday through Saturday
1:00 to 6:00 p.m.


The exhibition opening celebration
Saturday, November 11, 2006
7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
			
		
1020 East Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
			


Los Angeles, CA, October 24, 2006 - What happens when The Dark Side meets The Light Side?  Come see Nancy Evans' "Keeping Body and Soul Together," where you'll see the perfect balance---cast in bronze! And the walls will be singing with sounds by Doug Henry and Joe Potts.  Live music by Tek koo. The exhibition celebration is on Saturday, November 11, 2006, from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., featuring the usual great vegan food prepared by our master vegan chef, John Saslow.  The exhibit is up until December 16, 2006. 

We're located at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's (on the LA River side of downtown) two on/off ramps.  See our website http://dangerouscurve.org for directions, pictures, and updates.

Nancy Evans works in a variety of media, including acrylic paint, fabric and fabric dyes, plexi, wood, ceramic, and bronze.  The media is traditional, but her use of them is anything but.  If you've ever seen her paintings, you know she has always experimented with materials.  The show "Keeping Body and Soul Together" features Kali, the Indian goddess known as The Destroyer, cast in bronze using wax molds from natural objects.  The effect is similar to that of the Jan Svankmajer root baby: friendly things start to look very menacing. Thankfully, the Kali figures are counterbalanced by beings not so fierce.  A compelling Max Ernst-ish Surreal effect pervades all these non-multiple castings.  To top it off, Evans adorns the icons as she would dolls, hinting at strange, tongue-in-cheek rituals.  Over on the wall, the color and "images" of her paintings are echoed in dyed and manipulated fabric, which is intertwined with a sound piece by artists Doug Henry and Joe Potts.

Evans, a native Californian, was born in Los Angeles and raised in Fresno.  She studied sculpture at UC Berkeley, then continued to live in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years.  She started performing because of Tom Marioni's "Museum of Conceptual Art" in San Francisco. She moved to Los Angeles in 1982, after performing in LACE's Public Spirit Festival and befriending Mike Kelley, Megan Williams, and other recent CalArts graduates.  In 1986 and 1987, she received grants from National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, for her collaborative work in performance.

Evans has exhibited her visual work since 1982, at such venues as LAICA, LACE, San Francisco Art Institute, List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and the Ben Meltz Gallery at Otis School of Art and Design.  She has had solo shows at Sue Spaid Fine Art (1992--1996), Gasworks Studios in London (1995), Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside (1997), and POST Gallery (1999).  She's also been in two and three-person shows at NYC's Fawbush Gallery (1994), and Marc Foxx Gallery (1995). She was included in "LA Post Cool," curated by Michael Duncan for the San Jose Museum of Art (2002), "An Active Life," curated by Sue Spaid for the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati (2000), and "Sick Of Photography," curated by Michael Darling for the Contemporary Art Forum in Santa Barbara (1998). Evans' work has been reviewed in the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, Art Issues, and other local newspapers.  Evans was listed as one of LA's 100 Most Interesting Artist in the November 3, 2005 issu!
 e The LA Weekly.

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Dangerous Curve related events:

October 28: The Bushes, TrevandHammerhead, TBA.  Esperanza moved to November 19.

November 4: "Team Up" with Tatsuya Nakatani: Chris Heenan, reeds, Jeremy Drake, guitar, Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion.  Plus David Rothbaum, solo, on analog synthesizer, and Mitchell Brown, solo, on electronics.

November 19: Esperanza with TBA.

November 25: "Transplanted Locations" with Jessica Catron, Johnny Chang, Marc Nimoy, Michael Pisaro, and Marc Sabat.


More good things being added by the moment.  Check http://dangerouscurve.org for updates/changes and subscribe to our email list to get announcements.


Also:

Dangerous Curve can print your wide-format (up to 44") archival prints for you.  Call 213 617 8483 for information on affordable pricing. We also can frame your art: museum-quality and archival.

Kathryn Hargreaves teaches Body Awareness classes, incorporating Kundalini Yoga and actual artmaking, at Dangerous Curve for all types of artists: visual artists, writers, performers, musicians, dancers, you name it.  A new class is starting up on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., just after the Arts District neighborhood walk.  Call (213) 617-8483 if you need more information.

Take a look at our column, Dangerous Blurb, on http://eyespyla.com, where we write occasionally about art collecting and other things art-related.

Artists, submit your art for art-in-windows installations in Los Angeles County.  Dangerous Curve sometimes curates for Phantom Galleries LA http://phantomgalleriesla.com.  See the website for submission information.  This is an ongoing open call for installation art, sculpture, video or new media, 2D visual art, and even live art/visual art performance.

Check out the new free newspaper, The Arts District Citizen http://theartsdistrictcitizen.com, published in The Arts District and distributed throughout the city.  Tim Quinn and Kathryn Hargreaves contribute writings on art and other things.

Sign up for Kathryn Hargreaves's Kundalini Yoga workshops, with an emphasis on using that physical technology to enhance creativity at Bashtet Movement Studio, 201 S. Santa Fe, Suite 200, Los Angeles, 90012. (213) 680-YOGA.

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