Amy Stein, Trasheaters
The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of five young artists, who are each showing three works (hence the title of the exhibition, '3 x 5').
In "Half-Empty" Matthew Jordan photographs himself in reflective surfaces and then purposely removes himself from the image. These images are face mounted in a manner that creates a reflective surface for the viewer to see the image and their reflection simultaneously, forcing the viewer to confront a ghosted reflection of themselves in the place of the removed photographer. This work is juxtaposed with Matthew Jordan's series "Tonight" which explores social communication through the visual means of billboards in an urban landscape.
Photographer Andrew Miksys' series "Buses" consists of haunting portraits seen from outside Lithuanian bus windows looking in. These moody and dark pictures capture ephemeral moments in the streets of Lithuania and the people that inhabit them.
Amy Stein's photographic series "Domesticated" explores our paradoxical relationship with the "wild." Within her work primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance play out in images of direct and hidden confrontations between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania, which borders a state forest.
In her piece, 'Double Headed Babies: Push Me, Pull Me', ceramic artist Dana Weiser uses very racialized doll heads and porcelain "Asian" skin clay to explore the history of Asian Americans stereotypes.
3 x 5: Three images each by five emerging artists
Until 3 February
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
T: +1 323 937 0765
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