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Offramp Gallery Newsletter
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December 2008
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Yikes! It's December already and the sprint through the holiday season has begun. Frugality will be the theme here at Offramp with an emphasis on family, friends and ART. As always, I welcome your feedback. Let me know what you would like -- or not like -- to see in this newsletter. You can contact me by clicking on the "Reply to the sender" link above or by e-mailing me directly at jane@offrampgallery.com. -- Jane Chafin, Director
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Upcoming
Rick Araluce: Fragments of a Life, West
Starting the week of January 12, 2009
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A miniature clock hidden in a building niche in the Chelsea arts district in New York City, from Fragments of a Life, East, 2008.
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Offramp Gallery is pleased to present Seattle-based artist and recent Pollock-Krasner grant recipient, Rick Araluce's Fragments of a Life, West, in conjunction with Rick Araluce: Constructions, at Offramp Gallery from January 11-February 22, 2009.
Fragments of a Life, West is the latest in a series of "treasure hunts" that have taken place in Seattle and New York City. Araluce will hide and photograph hand-crafted miniatures in Old Town Pasadena and the Culver City Art District, beginning the week of January 12, 2009. The photos and locations will then be placed on his website, allowing viewers to see the miniatures in place.
Since the items will not be permanently fixed in place, Araluce asks that you resist the temptation to pluck them from their locations so others might enjoy them. Click here for more information
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Upcoming
Linsley Lambert: Portraits
January 11 - February 22, 2009
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Majesty, 2006
oil on canvas
24" x 20"
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Linsley Lambert: Portraits kicks off at Offramp with an opening reception on Sunday, January 11 from 2-5pm. The exhibition dates are January 11 – February 22, 2009. Linsley describes herself as being preoccupied with the “power and universality” of the portrait. Her photoreal portraits are carefully crafted with built-up layers of oil paint and glazes giving her subjects an almost palpable plasticity and luminosity that adds to their emotional intensity. Her subjects are her contemporaries – artists, friends and musicians. Click here to learn more about Linsley's work
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Upcoming
Rick Araluce: Constructions
January 11 - February 22, 2009
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To Adhere to Instinct, 2001
mixed media construction
3" x 2.5" x 2.75"
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Rick Araluce: Constructions will be on exhibit at Offramp January 11 – February 22, 2009 with an opening reception on Sunday, January 11 from 2-5pm. Seattle-based Araluce creates miniature constructions: mysterious, unpopulated rooms of the subconscious. Everything in these works is meticulously hand-crafted by the artist. Closed doors, cut telephone lines, a clock that has stopped or a single light bulb hanging from a wire are typical of the motifs that give Rick’s work its sense of dark narrative. Rick is creating several new works for this solo exhibition.
Click here to learn more about Rick's work
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Notes (& Gossip)
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Congratulations to Rick Araluce for receiving a 2008-2009 Pollock-Krasner grant. You can meet Rick and his significant other, Kitty Kavanaugh, a Master Scenic Artist for the Seattle Opera, at Offramp's January 11 opening. Rick & Kitty will be staying in the guest room for a few nights.
We were pleased as punch when art critic David Pagel dropped by the gallery to see Anita Bunn: Blind Spot. Anita is a former student of David's at CGU. Bill Rabe, co-director of Haus Gallery in Pasadena, showed up on closing day with an entourage, including artist Gegam Kacherian. Chaz and I had dinner Saturday night (at our favorite Las Vegas restaurant, The Samosa Factory) with architects Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern. Nicole & Ralph have recently published a book which they co-authored, Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas. A review of the book in the Las Vegas Sun quotes writer and art critic Dave Hickey as predicting of readers who open the book: “They’re going to see what they’re used to seeing, but they’re not going to see what they’re used to looking at.” Congratulations to Nicole & Ralph. Click here for more information about Offramp Gallery
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