Louis Stern Fine Arts will open the exhibition Trilogy I: Dan Abramson, Diane Buckler, Anita Huffington on January 13, 1996. Trilogy I a diverse series of 3-artist exhibitions that Louis Stern has planned for 1996.
Dan Abramson, a Los Angeles-area collagiste, has created a series of collages in the “lost-paper” technique. Also included in the exhibition are a number of small-scale drawings. Abramson’s work is delicately abstract, with a dream-like quality, using pure color and sometimes appropriated images or text.
Diane Buckler is a Venice, CA-based artist who works in a process of transforming photographic images to stone relief. The human figure is included in the narrative of the images; Buckler’s art is a feminist project as well as an exploration of art historical issues such as the relationship of figurative sculpture to architecture. This new, large-scale body of work involves the concept of voyeurism, (the intrinsic nature of photography having to do with the pleasure of looking and not being seen) and the transitory qualities of pleasure, privacy, self, and other.
Anita Huffington is a figurative sculptor who lives and works in a log cabin in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks. Exhibited sculptures will include male and female nudes, executed in bronze and sandstone. “Working through the known to the unknown, I use the human form . . .to penetrate the mystery and express spirit.” Huffington has exhibited extensively throughout the United States.
The exhibition will open on January 13 and close on March 9. A reception for the artists will be held in conjunction with the other West Hollywood Gallery openings on Saturday, January 13th, from 5pm-8pm.