Shizu Saldamando’s Solo Exhibition
Steve Turner Gallery – LA, CA
1/2/10

Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to present There is a place…, an exhibition in its project room featuring new works by the Los Angeles based artist, Shizu Saldamando. Her show entitled, There is a Place is taken from a popular Morrissey song, “There is a Place in Hell for me and my Friends” and it documents Shizu Saldamando’s friends, who are also artists. In her work, Saldamando translates her snapshot photographs into drawings and paintings that depict her friends in social situations that she observes in bars, dance clubs, backyard parties and art galleries. She simplifies, and in some cases, completely eliminates the background to decontextualize the specific setting. In so doing, she has created multi-layered portraits that are both spare and complex.

Please drop by the gallery between 6 and 8 pm for solo exhibitions by Maya Schindler (The Two-Body Problem) & Shizu Saldamando (There is a place…). Two food trucks (India Jones Chow Truck & The Sweets Truck) will be parked in front of the gallery and there will be cold drinks inside. See you tonight as The Steve Turner Gallery opens their 2010 exhibition schedule.

Shizu Saldamando was born in San Francisco in 1978 and grew up in its Mission district. She received her B. A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture, 2000 and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, 2005. Her work was included in Phantom Sightings, the traveling exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.

Steve Turner Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles that represents the work of emerging and established contemporary artists. The mission of the gallery is to present works by artists of under-represented communities, and to help promote their careers within the mainstream of contemporary art.

Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11– 6.

Steve Turner Contemporary
6026 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(across from BCAM at LACMA)
http://steveturnercontemporary.com

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Please contact the gallery for further information:
Steve Turner, steve@steveturnercontemporary.com, 323.931.3721

via Sylvia Adams, 31 December 2009 2:33pm | |