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| October 2009 Our current exhibtion, In Readable Ardor, featuring work by Cheryl Sorg has been reviewed by Robert Pincus of the San Diego Union Tribune. Click here to read the review. Cheryl Sorg has also been juried into a show titled ZOOM at the Torrance Art Museum. The show will open on November 21 with an opening reception from 6pm - 9pm. More details are available by clicking here or visiting www.torranceartmuseum.com/future.php |
| October 2009 Eric Phleger Gallery is proud to welcome Claire Williams as our Gallery Assistant. She graduated from East Anglia University, England, in 2005 with a BA in Art History. Claire has been working on luxury barges in France as a gourmet chef. SHe has travelled in New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Mexico. We're proud to have her on staff and invite you to come and meet her during our new gallery hours: 1pm - 6pm, Wednesday through Saturday. |
| September 2009 in readable ardor book artist cheryl sorg takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey through great works of literature and the creative process WOW – how many hours did that take to make?! This is the most frequent initial response to text artist Cheryl Sorg’s huge, intricate works constructed from books, and the answer is hundreds. Sorg is a booklover, to put it mildly. And her love of literature manifests itself in an obsessive cut-and-paste process in which she takes a book (two copies of a book, actually, in order to get both sides of each page, and therefore the book in its entirety), dissembles it line by line (then, often, word by word) and re-configures the text - in readable order - with a mother lode of clear tape into a variety of large-scale and complex forms inspired by the themes and imagery within their stories. “A humble but passionate translator” she calls herself, using books to create art in which a viewer can get lost, as in a well-told tale. Several of these huge pieces, along with photographs and sketches documenting her arduous process, will be on exhibit in September at the Eric Phleger Gallery in Leucadia in a show entitled ‘in readable ardor’. The two largest and most ambitious pieces included take us on journeys through ancient Greek and Roman mythology - “Bodies, I have in mind and how they can change to assume new shapes….” ( Metamorphoses), and “Sing in me Muse, and through me tell the story…” ( The Odyssey). The Metamorphoses piece consists of fifteen text spirals, one for each chapter of the book, morphing from a circular spiral in the first to a butterfly spiral in the last. The text of The Odyssey takes a long and meandering journey, much like Odysseus himself, the winding lines finally creating two eight-foot diameter circles mounted on plexiglass that hang one in front of the other. Also featured will be a new piece, destined to be the largest piece in Sorg’s oeuvre to date, an optical journey down a deep well, through a vortex of words increasing in size from just millimeters high in the center to over an inch high at the outer edges, increasing just one percentage point in size per page between. The text is that of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a story in which the image of a descent into a deep, waterless well plays a central role. The piece will be displayed in-progress, and what size it will have reached by show’s opening is anyone’s guess! Sorg’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States, including WorkSpace in New York City, The Copley Society of Art, The Photographic Resource Center and Forest Hills Trust in Boston, Massachusetts, and the San Diego Art Institute and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California. She is one of six artists in a recent exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art entitled “Novel Constructions: Contemporary Artists Create Monumental Books”. Her work is also included in the esteemed Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection in New York City, and her first major bookwork “Surely all this is not without meaning.” ( Moby Dick) is referenced in the book A Companion to Herman Melville edited by Wyn Kelley, in the chapter entitled “Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture’, written by Elizabeth Schultz. She is the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, juror’s awards in numerous group exhibitions, a travel grant from the Massachusetts College of Art to create work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and publication in the fall 2008 issue of Studio Visit Magazine, an ‘exhibition in print’ from the Open Studios Press (publishers of New American Paintings). Cheryl Sorg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1967 and received a B.F.A., graduating with honors, from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts in 1999. She moved to Encinitas from Boston almost six years ago, and lives here with her husband, Xavier, their three-year-old son Hugo, and their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Esmé. The exhibition takes place at the Eric Phleger Gallery September 19th - October 31, with an artist’s reception Saturday, September 19 6:00-8:00 p.m. There will be events for kids, book clubs and others during the run of the show – please see the web site for details. |
| August 2009 Raul Guerrero: Bars, Women and Fast Food For almost a decade artist Raul Guerrero has been creating a body of work that examines the culture of California, Southern California in particular. His most recent body of work juxtaposes three of the salient, visual and metaphorical icons of the Southern California social fabric: bars, women and fast food. Appropriately enough, “Bars, Women and Fast Food” is the title of Guerrero’s new show opening at the Eric Phleger Gallery August 7 and running through September 12, 2009. The opening reception will be Saturday, August 7, 2009 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. The history of California and its neighbor to the south has always fascinated Guerrero who was educated at the Chouinard School, and is currently a professor of art at UC San Diego. For young Americans the journey to Tijuana was a rite of passage in which bars, women and fast food played a major role. At first the paintings may appear humorous and familiar, but as we look closer a less innocent undercurrent is revealed. Women and paintings of women took on a special importance inside the bars of the west. They lured customers to stay a while longer, have another libation and forget their worries. Guerrero thinks of bars as temples of contemporary California society which become like the church where people go to meditate and reflect. The words of Raymond Chandler and his noir perspective intrigue the Guerrero, “ I like bars just after they open for the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny and the barkeep is giving himself that last look in the mirror to see if his tie is straight and his hair is smooth. I like the neat bottles on the bar back and the lovely shining glasses and the anticipation. I like to watch the man mix the first one of the evening and put it down on a crisp mat and put the little folded napkin beside it. I like to taste it slowly. The first drink of the evening in a quiet bar, that is wonderful.” Fast food, ubiquitous throughout the landscape of the southwest, is representative in the sense that we are what we eat. Humorous, reflective and iconic, images of fast food appear throughout this body of work. Bars, Women and Fast Food is an attempt by the artist to bridge cultures and time in order to present a more graphic and poignant picture of the culture of California. Come view Raul Guerrero’s recent paintings at the Eric Phleger Gallery located at 828 North Coast Hwy 101 in Leucadia, California. Contact the gallery at 760-436-1440 to schedule an appointment. |
| June 20, 2009 Eric Phleger Gallery will have a booth at the Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair September 2 through September 4 2009 The fair will be at The Grand Del Mar Resort. Plan on coming, this is the first international art fair in San Diego and it should be a fantastic event. Click Here For Event Info |
| June 2009 The Eric Phleger Gallery is proud to announce a new show of photographs opening Saturday June 27 and continuing through Saturday July 25, 2009. Jacques Garnier will be showing a body of work entitled “Passages” and Liz Cockrum will be showing her new work entitled “Sirens”. The artists’ reception is Saturday June 27, 2009 from 6 until 8pm. Painterly, sparse and often formal, Jacques Garnier’s transcendent photography documents the passage of time. With intuitive framing, the images from “Passages” convey a sense of history and space left to its own demise. Fragile yet bold, these intimate details of interior landscapes reflect an era where the past is pushed into the background, where shadows and memory replace a presence that is no longer here. What is left is a world of “becoming” that has not yet found its way into the future. Over the past decade, Garnier has concentrated on imagery of urban redistribution in the American landscape, vestiges of populations gone and all to quickly forgotten. Garnier’s work is part documentation, part voyeurism and as it develops a reconstructive history begins to unfold. Garnier credits the influential psychiatrist R. D. Laing who said “ we live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing”. Disappearing landscapes and mans’s relationship to his environment are ongoing themes in Garnier’s work. This theme is emphasized in his work as part of the Legacy Project, a 15 year documentary of shuttered military bases. With the Legacy Project Garnier was a co maker of the world’s largest photograph, which was made by turning an abandoned aircraft hanger into a camera obscura. “Sirens”, Liz Cockrum’s new series of photographs celebrate women in modern society who surf. Through portraits, landscapes and details she explores a little-seen side of surfing and attempts to focus the viewer’s attention on the women who are an integral part of this unique culture. Born and raised in Chicago, Il. Cockrum earned her BFA in photography from Columbia College in 2006. She recently moved to San Diego bringing with her a sound technical expertise as well a fresh perspective on surfing. The Eric Phleger Gallery is located in downtown Leucadia at 828 North Coast Hwy 101. The gallery is open Saturday’s from 12 until 5 pm and by appointment. To schedule an appointment or to contact the gallery please call 760-436-1440. |
| April 2009 Eric Phleger Gallery is proud to announce “In a Different Light,” an exhibition of paintings on view at the gallery from May 2 through June 6, 2009. An artists’ reception will be held Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 6-8 pm. The artists included in this show represent the most creative and independent of Southern California’s artistic gene pool. Unique perspectives on art, culture and place are evident in the work’s treatment of light, color, form and subject matter. The artists included are: Charles Arnoldi Wolfgang Bloch Robin Bright Ned Evans Herbie Fletcher Dibi Fletcher David Lloyd Andy Moses Ed Moses Alex Weinstein
Eric Phleger Gallery is located in downtown Leucadia at 828 North Coast Hwy 101. The gallery’s focus is on contemporary Southern California painting and photography by emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery is open by appointment. For further information or to schedule an appointment please call the gallery at 760-436-1440. |
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