PROJECT ROOM
Robin Ward :: Snow Blind Water Drop

Main space: Echo Eggebrecht

April 15 – May 13, 2006
Reception: Saturday, April 15 from 6-9pm

For our April project room exhibition, sixspace is proud to present Snow Blind Water Drop by San Francisco-based artist Robin Ward. In her first Los Angeles exhibition, Ward features works on panel (gouache and pencil) and paper (mixed media, acrylic, and ink) depicting animals such as flamingos, horses, and monkeys inserted into the negative space of subtle landscapes of ice, water, and snow.

Robin Ward's delicately rendered imagery is sourced from historical photographs, medieval manuscripts, consumer photos, and/or personal photography. She juxtaposes these selected images with the background environment to create, what she calls, "counter-poised effects" - rage, yearning, melancholia, whimsy – that then construct layers of humor and complexity. In Snow Blind Water Drop, the creatures express, transform, struggle, float hazily, procreate, in a primordial soup where the boundary between liquid, solid, and air has evaporated, but where these confusions question the fundamental order of things, and the way living beings are positioned within that order.

Robin Ward received her MFA (2004) in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and her BA (1990) at New College, Honors College of the University of South Florida. Ward has shown her work throughout the Bay area: she has held solo exhibitions at Lisa Dent Gallery in San Fransico as well as group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York and in Close Calls at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito. Reviews of Ward's work have been published in Art in America, Art on Paper, ArtWeek, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Images from the exhibition