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Rhea Carmi
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Passionately Un-objective:
Rhea Carmi
September 9 – October 7, 2006
Opening Reception Saturday, September 9, 6-10pm
5820 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Contact, James Panozzo
323-935-9100, Fax 323-935-9113
E-mail: james@lawrenceasher.com
Web site: http://www.lawrenceasher.com
Gallery hours, Tuesday – Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday, 12noon - 5pm
Rhea Carmi, “Carnaval II”, 2006, mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.
Lawrence Asher Gallery is proud to present “Passionately Un-objective” a special exhibition featuring Los Angeles’ most adept painter. Rhea Carmi manifest her supremacy of verve and ardor on canvas, board and paper. Student of life as well as student of painting, this scholar have ensnared lessons while discharging masterstrokes. The works displayed here speak in familiar, guttural tongues while enlightening us of worthier lessons. They prompt reflection thus arousing reaction.
Lawrence Asher is proud to join several local galleries and public exhibition venues celebrating The Riverside Art Museum’s major exhibition for the fall of 2006. “Conceived and organized by RAM Senior Curator Peter Frank and RAM Associate Director Andi Campognone, “Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980” provides a succinct but thorough survey of non-objective painting in southern California during the postwar decades – the thirty years during which Los Angeles (and its surrounding region) came of age as a major American art center – and began its emergence into the international art scene.”
Please join us for the opening reception of this fall 2006 showcase on Saturday, September 9th, 2006, 6 – 10 pm. Lawrence Asher Gallery is located at 5820 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and adjacent to the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Free parking is available on Wilshire Blvd. and behind 5858 Wilshire Boulevard, enter on Stanley Ave. For more information please call 323.935.9100 or visit http://www.lawrenceasher.com
The Artists
“Rhea Carmi - has focused on the human condition in three ongoing parallel series of paintings. Interestingly, a great deal of stylistic variation maintains within each series – more, perhaps, than even maintains between the three. This is partly a result of the three series’ endurance in Carmi’s practice, engaging her concentration for an extended time: over the decade or more she has “fed” the three strains; she has thought and re-thought, worked and re-worked her approach(es) to the intricate act of inventing and elaborating upon visual metaphors. But we can also justify what might seem inconsistent formal language within each series as an expression of the discontinuity that pertains in the human condition… If color thus embodies the impulse of perception for Carmi, line embodies the basic coherence of life – not just the structure, but the pulse of life’s meaning, its logic (however opaque), its spiritual as well as physical skeleton. Her engagement with language and writing makes self-evident Carmi’s dependence on line; but line-based imagery, even free of verbal notation, appears constantly throughout her oeuvre. Streaks, stripes, and the vertical (and horizontal) edges of rectangular forms comprise rhythmic networks whose architectonics are equally capable of fluidity and rigidity.” Peter Frank, 2005
Rhea Carmi was born in Jerusalem in 1942. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces where she met her husband, Meir, of 44 years. Rhea studied visual art at Tel-Aviv Open University (1974 – 1976) and then attended Ramat-Gan Institute for the Arts (1977 – 1979) Her mentors in the formative years of her career were noted Israeli artists Arie Aroch and Moti Mizrahi . In 1981, Rhea, Meir and their two children left Israel for a new start in Los Angeles. She paints daily, often late into the night, in her attic studio. The past twenty-five years have produced many diverse works shown here and abroad to the delight and approval of her blossoming audience.
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