Posts Tagged ‘Tarryn Teresa Gallery’

I’ve always been interested in knowing what’s beneath the surface.  That hard surface of a crème brulee, for example, just begs to be broken into; the custard needs to be explored.  In a slightly more intellectual way, palimpsests are the ultimate source for digging deeper.  The word palimpsest refers to a text that has been written on previously used paper, on which there are still faint, recognizable traces of what came before.  What was once a feat of iambic pentameter could now be a list of ingredients for crème brulee.

On now through October 29 at Tarryn Teresa Gallery is an exhibit, called Palimpsests, highlighting three artists focused on the idea of discovering what’s hidden behind the words you see or what further meaning they have when associated with what had been written there before.  The artists, Christine Wong Yap, Cara Barer, and Annie Vought, were all faced with the challenge of creating something entirely new with items that had already existed in some other capacity.

On one wall, you’ll find a work by Yap in which what you see is, of course, not what you get – read closely and behind a more important text, you’ll find a very day-to-day grocery-shopping list.  Vought took a slightly more physical approach, cutting into papers with text and creating entirely new forms – with some as large as six feet tall.  Barer took yet another approach by soaking books in order to make their pages easily manipulated and photographing the results.  All in all, this exhibit, guest curated by Elizabeth Williams, shows just how many different and efficient ways there are of diving deeper, of digging beneath what you see, or of cracking a hardened sugar surface.

Palimpsests is on view through October 29 at the Tarryn Teresa Gallery.  For more information, please call (213) 627-5100 or click here.

Every year in every city, starting around Halloween, lights become a free and instant mood-enhancer catching your eye everywhere you look.  Between New Years Eve and Halloween, however, all the dazzling lights are taken down and put away.  To tide you over until October is Lights on LA – an event on display now through September 15 in Pershing Square in Downtown LA… for free! 

An event that celebrates LA-based artists was organized by Tarryn Teresa Gallery and features a creative scene of individually decorated light bulbs strung up in a temporary exhibit.  It was coordinated to enhance the area’s free summer concert series and each evening, as the street lamps are turned on, the light bulbs start to dazzle.  Finally, a romantic, interesting, lit path to walk on after one a Pershing Square summer concert or after a romantic, interesting, dazzling dinner nearby.  Think of all the possibilities! Head downtown, choose your favorite, and send us a photo of it – we’d especially love photos of you with your favorite light bulb. 

Lights on LA ends September 18, 2009 and coincides with Pershing Square’s summer concert series (also free).  For more information, please call (213) 627-5100.