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Upstairs @ The Market Gallery presents:

a shadow of my former self

Works by Nat George

Also featuring Paintings by Nate Geare

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Upstairs @ The Market Gallery
1057 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles  90015
E-mail: Diana@CityMarketLA.com | www.citymarketla.com
Artists’ Websites:
Nat George: www.natgeorge.com
Nate Geare: www.nategeare.com

Opening Reception

Friday February 5th, 2010  |  7-10 pm

Refreshments will be served

We are open during the Downtown Art Walk, Thursday February 11, 6-9 pm

Show runs February 1st to 14th, 2010

Gallery Hours:

Monday to Friday, 11 am to 6 pm by appointment only.
For viewing before or after the reception, please contact the gallery or call 323-301-0057

Directions & Parking:

Exit the 10 freeway at San Pedro Street. Proceed North on San Pedro to 11th Street. Turn left on 11th and turn immediately right to enter the gate. Free gated parking is available there, steps from the gallery entrance in the back of the building.

This project is partially in satisfaction of an Art Development Fee obligation, Cultural Affairs Dept., City of Los Angeles.

Nat George

In this new series, Nat George takes a different approach to the lifeguard tower theme featured in her urban landscapes and explores the meaning of the structure in symbolic and metaphysical terms. In parallel universes, the object known as a lifeguard tower may be perceived as something entirely different, yet retain certain aspects of its core identity, or energy signature. The tower, personified as a guardian, transmits a reassuring message: 1) Someone is watching over you 2) A series of emergency response events will be triggered at the first sign of struggle or trauma. In another station of identity, the tower may be compelled to fulfill the same role but must do so with a different arrangement of atoms, resulting in forms which – as singular expressions – may appear ill-equipped to fulfill their destiny, yet as a whole achieve a greater purpose. In her iconography, the artist draws a sometimes humorous parallel between the tower itself and what we, as consciousness, may be trying to accomplish in a variety of different yet simultaneous expressions. Through the medium of ink on wood or paper, she tells a story about the nature of the soul and how our physical structure may expand or limit our ability to identify and fulfill our core purpose.

Nate Geare

Nate Geare has been living and making work in LA for 6 years. He is currently making oil paintings on large wood panels along with small scale collages. In both cases, the artist’s application of the work is as important as his content. To define Nate’s work is to look at it through a toilet paper roll. His humor should not be confused with a lack of sincerity; and sincerity does not necessarily take the form of stuffy writing, and banal imagery; for Los Angeles is easy to laugh at, but difficult to live in. The art that comes out of Nate Geare’s LA experience is as reflective on the viewer as it is a portrait of the artist himself.

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