Press & Community Preview: Thursday, September 11, 5pm to 9pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 6pm to 10pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 27, 6pm to 10pm
Featuring work by Rick Robinson's, Jonna Lee, Rick Mendoza, and Kathryne Layne Paxton
My favorite is Kathryne Layne Paxton who appropriates family photos. By digitally inserting animals and other surprising ingredients, Kathryne adds the element of shock, wonder, and horror into images that are normally thought of as innocent and nostalgic. Kathyrne is a multimedia artist who lives and works in LA. She has a B.F.A. in photography and Imaging, with a minor in Studio Art and Art History.
She chose a quote by Joseph Campbell to describe her work:
"In the context of a traditional mythology, the symbols are presented in socially maintained rites, through which the individual is required to experience, or will pretend to have experienced, certain insights, sentiments, and commitments. In what I am calling “creative” mythology, on the other hand, this order is reversed: the individual has had an experience of his own-of order, horror, beauty, or even mere exhilaration-which he seeks to communicate through signs; and if his realizations have been of a certain depth and import, his communication will have the value and force of a living myth-for those, that is to say, who receive and respond to it themselves, with recognition, uncoerced. "--Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God IV
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