For their second solo exhibition at sixspace, kozyndan (Kozue and Dan Kitchens) present new gouache and ink on paper works in Nirai Kanai.

Since the late 1990s, kozyndan's work has mirrored their "unease with and love of the modern world" and in Nirai Kanai they utilize ama, diving woman of Japan, as a vehicle to deal with the disconnected climate of our contemporary culture. "Nirai Kanai" is a remote world far out in the seas where gods exist that is the origin of all riches: wealth, fertility and life. Kozyndan keep this idealistic place in mind with their nostalgic and romanticized look to the ama culture, one very much in tune with the natural world and community - a way of life that has since passed...continue reading release

ANNEX
Sarah Cromarty :: The Books and Records Show
January 20 - February 17, 2007

Sarah Cromarty's work deals with the displacement of traditional notions of painting and sculpture, figure/ground relationships, and the authentic and the copy. In The Books and Records Show she is playing with illusory space of two-dimensional objects (vintage architectural books, nature books, and album covers) by making them three-dimensional. Cromarty achieves this by removing, replacing, revealing, and adding elements to these objects - this playing with spatial relations concepts of depicted images enhances the overall understanding of the picture...continue reading release

Sixspace presents reLAted at Pulse New York, a curated exhibition that explores how five artists working in Los Angeles deal with issues of "relating" and "relationships" within their work: Heather Cantrell deals with the relationship of identity; Wendy Heldmann details relationships to nature; kozyndan depict relationships to community and, as a collaborative team, to each other; D'nell Larson deals with familial and romantic relationships; and Chad Robertson digs into our relationship with our inner-self and society. The city of L.A. itself acts as an influence in their work because of how its unique and diverse sprawling landscape inherently affects resident's relationships to other people (strangers, family, friends) and nature (both in and outside of the city)...more about the project

Sixspace is proud to present Island of Relative Stability, the debut Los Angeles solo exhibition by Sean Higgins.

In his work, Sean Higgins explores how to image or create the unknown. By depicting purposely-vague environments where location and situation is left to interpretation, Higgins creates an environment where the viewer has no place to stand and no solid sense of place. (His vague landscapes are constructed from images, either found or taken by the artist, that are transferred to the back of Plexiglas via an acrylic transfer process - the front of the Plexiglas is then hand-sanded by the artist to produce the desired hazy effect.) He attempts to deal with landscape in the contemporary world of "Google Earth" where people interact with landscapes and place in a very different way than previous generations. He is interested in constructing a place where cold technology, dreams, and maps all combine - whereby through this remote satellite visions, remembrances will seek into our subconscious and affect how we remember play and time...more information and images

For her first solo exhibition at sixspace, The Middle Distance, Wendy Heldmann presents new series of paintings, works-on-paper, and video. The Middle Distance relates directly to a space found somewhere between the foreground and background but it also connotes the idea of compromise or neutrality (middle ground) between two positions. The paintings presented in this show fuse the rival subjects of the inherent danger and beauty of natural environments, the eerie calm and destruction after the 1964 Alaska earthquake, and the potential of muddled heaps of junk, while literally depicting the space between here and there...more


IN THE ANNEX

LAURA MOSQUERA :: ANOTHER AGAIN
In Another Again, Chicago-based Laura Mosquera will present a series of her intimate colored works-on-paper (colored pencil and graphite) and will also debut her first animation video. Laura Mosquera's work is grounded in contemporary human experiences, reflections of everyday life, and capturing frozen moments in time. Her images, constructed through the use of snapshots, have a film-still quality and explore the representation of reality and the perception of what's real in its construction. Her new series depicts her interest in the universal experience of fleeting moments as seen through the eyes of her protagonists...more

Sixspace is proud to present the debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles by Karin Weiner, So Many Daunting New Complexities, featuring a large-scale tornado installation made of craft/fiber materials and a new series of collages that reflect the contemporary experience by dealing with the reality and uncertainty of the present moment. The works depict various dissected and re-arranged situations and speculations about the future (whether that be utopian and/or apocalyptic) that act as evidence of the artist's questioning of convictions and strategies...more

IN THE ANNEX
Evah Fan :: Performance Art

In the Annex, sixspace is excited to present Evah Fan's second exhibition with the gallery, Performance Art. Featuring twelve new gouache-on-paper and collage pieces, Fan's new work explores puns, cliches, linguistic puzzles, humorous narratives, and the occasional pathos that create frozen moments or "still scenes." Don't be confused...Evah Fan's exhibition Performance Art isn't a deviation from her known medium of works-on-paper to literal performance art. Rather, it's Fan taking her ongoing interest with word-play (puns, literal sayings, etc.) into the realm of something quite absurd...more

The collaborative exhibition Reflections...an art show by Los Angeles artists Sarah Cromarty and Salvatore Salamone involves integrated painting (Cromarty) and sculpture (Salamone) that will encompass the gallery space to create a fantastical and dark diorama of a world that deals with magic, kitsch, and bizarre landscapes. As sculptures flow into paintings and paintings influence the sculpture, these mutually influencing, corresponding works essentially act as conversations between the two artists. And though each artist's work is clearly distinctive, they share a similar palette that is at once opposing and complimentary...more

IN THE ANNEX
Amy Chan & Jonathan Marshall :: Uncharted Territory

As the natural world becomes increasingly marginalized from the human experience and nature itself bares the burden of civilization, the relationship between man and nature is fractured and in place of that bond the new and looming threat of the unknown. Curated by sixspace's Assistant Director Alina Gatti, Uncharted Territory will feature works Amy Chan (Richmond, VA) and Jonathan Marshall (Austin, TX) exploring this tension and precarious balance...more

Sixspace is proud present newfoundland, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Carrie Marill. Newfoundland features a new series of gouache-on-paper paintings depicting threatened or endangered flora and fauna existing in an imaginary world...In this show Marill has familiarized herself with species (focusing primarily on plants and birds) whose status is either threatened, endangered, or extinct. Within her imagery she uniquely navigates and accesses the rich past of natural history illustration thus creating a modern re-interpretation of these threatened and endangered species...more

Heather Cantrell (Los Angeles, CA)
Sarah Cromarty (Los Angeles, CA)
D'nell Larson (Los Angeles, CA)
Russell Nachman (New York, NY)
Chad Robertson (Los Angeles, CA)
Par Stromberg (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Music has the ability to express, empower, shape, and define a generation. For the Year 07 London fair sixspace presents the curated exhibition Destroy Bablyon that explores/highlights the influence of music within contemporary visual art. Named after the seminal DC punk band Bad Brains' song "Destroy Babylon" on their 1982 "Rock for Light" album, the artists in this exhibition embrace their musical influences in styles from such as photographs of the indie-rock scene, acrylic paintings based on black-metal, oil paintings re-creating the pop-phenomenon of song mash-ups, watercolors depicting the death of the 1960s hippie utopia ideal, the re-appropriation of vintage album covers, and a video of lounge singers singing 1990s love songs.

The exhibition room will be a rock-n-roll lovers room with the art hung in a casual, interactive manner. There will be an old couch in the booth to re-iterate the lounge feel as well as an iPod station featuring song compilations by each sixspace gallery artist that can be listened to at the booth or purchased online at iTunes.

Bad Brains - Destroy Bablyon lyrics
Don't beat yourself upside the head. Don't beat yourself for this. Don't beat yourself upside the head, don't beat yourself for this. Oh, there is a way out. It's a natural plan, the natural. How many days do we sit around, while they keep on burying all our leaders in the ground. Organize, centralize. It's time for us to fight for our lives. Destroy Babylon. Oh there is a way.

SIXSPACE
Booth Number 22
Featuring works by: Heather Cantrell, Wendy Heldmann, kozyndan, D'nell Larson, Russell Nachman, and Karin Weiner.

AQUA WYNWOOD
December 5-9, 2007
Preview: December 4 from 4-9pm
Aqua Wynwood :: 42 NE 25th Street, Miami
Visit the fair website for more details

Sixspace is participating in the Aqua Art Miami's new Wynwood art fair. The fair will run concurrently with the Aqua Hotel fair we've done the past two years. The fair itself is in a warehouse in the Wynwood gallery district, just a few blocks from the Rubell Collection, and close to other important venues such as the Margulies Collection and the MOCA Goldman warehouse, and a number of other satellite fairs including NADA, Pulse, Scope Miami, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and The Photography Show.

Image:
Wendy Heldmann
If we met would you know me, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 in.

Sixspace is currently open via appointment only in our office space. Our mailing address is 6023 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232. We can be reached at 310.204.2522 and always by emailing at info@sixspace.com

Image:
Heather Cantrell
Nature Mort (Mary Anne Nichols), 2007
Archival ink-jet print w/ luster laminate
43 x 60 in.
Edition of 1 plus AP

After six years of being a part of the Los Angeles art community and nearly ten years since its inception as a small alternative space in Chicago, I must make the bittersweet announcement that sixspace is closing.

We are extremely proud of the exhibitions we've hosted and the artists we've had the pleasure of working with through the years, many of who have become life-long friends, and whose names I have no doubt you'll be hearing of more in the future. I would personally like to thank all of those who have supported us - collectors, writers, artists, curators, fellow gallerists, family, friends, and in particular Sean Bonner and Alina Gatti - for without you this incredible ride wouldn't have been possible or nearly been as much fun.

Fortunately, as one thing ends another invariably begins, and as part of that I will be beginning graduate studies in the MFA Curatorial Programme at Goldsmiths in London this fall. I feel absolutely privileged to have been a part of the huge development art in Los Angeles has recently gone through but look forward to my continued involvement in the art world in London and in a different capacity as curator and writer.

Sixspace.com will be modifying in the upcoming weeks to reflect the gallery's changes. We remain in close contact with our artists so please contact us regarding any questions you may have about them and their upcoming projects. Art.blogging.la will continue and look for a London art blog in the near future.

Thank you all!

-Caryn Coleman

Image: Reception image from our first sixspace Los Angeles show with Glen E. Friedman.