Sarah Cromarty and Karin Weiner – Forecast and conditions
April 2 – April 30, 2005

Reception: Saturday, April 2 from 7-10 pm (Artists will be in attendance)
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6pm

sixspace is proud to present the two-person exhibition Forecast & Conditions, the major Los Angeles debut of Sarah Cromarty (Los Angeles) and Karin Weiner (Brooklyn). Although the works of each artist vary in both scope and medium, Cromarty and Weiner are exploring the idea of appropriating something that already exists, such as a vintage painting, cut-outs of publications or books, and/or fabric, and re-constructing it into a entirely new creation and environment. Heavily influenced by the landscape, Cromarty and Weiner will each present work that explores ideas surrounding, and in relation to, nature.

Sarah Cromarty’s painting practice involves acts of re-appropriation, defacement and recreation. The foundation of her work is the landscape paintings acquired at second-hand stores as merchandise that then undergo transformations via the artist’s hand such as remounting, cutting, scraping, gluing, collage, varnishing, and the subtle additions of color. Through such interventions the paintings go through a dramatic recreation, one that displaces traditional notions of figure/ground relationships, the authentic and the copy, as well as painting and sculpture. In Forecast & Conditions, Cromarty presents a new body of work that includes snow paintings that function paradoxically (both ugly and beautiful, cynical and optimistic, attractive and repulsive), palm tree landscapes, and carved vintage “Time Life” nature books. Through her work, particularly the snow paintings, Cromarty is interested in transforming mundane spaces into something magical.

Cromarty is currently perusing her BFA at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Her work was most recently seen in Can’t See the Forest at sixspace and artLA.

Karin Weiner connects the contemporary aspect of life, with technology and the completely discovered world, with a historical past rooted in nature. She creates falsely constructed scenes of the landscape via cut-out images of birds, wolves, and flora from publications such as National Geographic (items that are indeed foreign to her within her everyday very urban landscape); these imaginary visual realms, created from real things, form a compelling narrative that allows the viewer to question reality. In Forecast & Conditions, Weiner presents these landscape works along with cut-out images of mid-century women, again re-inserting a historical image into a distorted and manipulated context, large-scale bird works on paper, and an installation featuring three clouds made of re-constructed fabric that will hang from the gallery ceiling.

Weiner received her MFA from Hunter College, New York and her BFA from the University of Vermont, Burlington. She has recently exhibited in her solo exhibition Shades of White at ZieherSmith. New York and in the group show Happy Medium at New York’s Clementine Gallery, curated by Meghan Dailey.

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