Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present new sculptures by Cecilia Z. Miguez. Born, raised and educated in her native Montevideo, Uruguay, with additional studies at the San Fernando University of Fine Arts, Madrid, this will be the first North American solo exhibition of her imaginative bronze and wood sculptures. Several successful exhibitions in Montevideo, Maldonado, and Buenos Aires, precede this much anticipated show. Using found wood objects, such as Chinese head rests, olive presses, and empty boxes, the artist combines unique castings of bronze figures into works reminiscent of a young mind exploring the carnival of the subconscious. In seeming contradiction to the materials of which they are composed, Miguez’ figures are ethereal, somehow in our world, but not native to it. These harlequins, acrobats, and jugglers, are creatures on the fringes of “real life”, whose role it is to play and to provoke, to trick us, but to delight us as well. There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 10, 1998, from 6:00-9:00pm.
The celebrated Columbian artist Mercedes Hoyos ppears in person at Louis Stern Fine Arts to sign her new monograph Hoyos Trópico, published by Enrique Michelsen Ediciones. Her recent drawings will be on display through February 28, 1998. The work of Ana Mercedes Hoyos has attracted more international attention than that of any Colombian artist since Botero. Born in 1942 in Bogotá, Hoyos has painted for over 35 years. Her work has been shown in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the world. A partial list includes: Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Yoshii Gallery, New York; Fuji Museum of Tokyo, Japan; School of Fine Arts, Paris, France; La Fundacion Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
The work of Cecilia Z. Miguez and Ana Mercedes Hoyos will be on display during gallery hours, January 13 - February 28, 1998. There will be an opening reception in conjunction with the other West Hollywood area galleries on Saturday evening, January 10, 1998 from 6:00-9:00pm.