[NoHo Arts District, CA] – This month’s LA Art blog takes us to Kristin Posehn’s studio in East Hollywood for her open studio featuring the pop-up exhibition Epiphenomena as well as Ghost Pearls, a 9×8 foot sculpture. The cozy studio was packed with warm personalities and (mercifully) an air conditioning unit.
Drawing from research on historical forms of lace-making, Ghost Pearls is a sculpture comprised of 1,000 pieces of mirror, woven into a type of lace. Ghost Pearls equally sprung forth from research and reference to lace in collection at the Fairview Museum, UT; conversations with lace-makers; historical links between lace, value, and time; the 1964 digital artwork Ninety Parallel Sinusoids with Linearly Increasing Period by A. Michael Noll; works of Light and Space movement. Work was the subject of a recent solo exhibition at Granary Arts.
Ghost Pearls’ transparency and simultaneous reflection (due to the mirror medium) evoke the very dialogue Ghost Pearls is grounded in – connection and mediation.
On view at Posehn’s studio open house was a popup tabletop exhibition. Showcasing works from Rita McBride, Alice Könitz, Scott Benzel, and Tanya Brodsky, Epiphenomena features small sculptures that give rise to second-order phenomena.
From dry ice to a Scientology, thetan reader operated by microorganisms, to miniature sculptures which were casualties of the Artist Pension Trust, Epiphenomena hints at a larger phenomenon with no causal influence (but casual mental association).
Ghost Pearls + Epiphonomena’s open studio and respective popup are reminders of both the deep connectivity of the L.A. art community and global art scene at large.
Where:
Kristin Posehn’s Studio
When:
Saturday, June 10, 2-6pm
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