Image: "Curious" by Moline Kramer, 2009, Oil & Graphite on paper, 24" x 36 ½"
MOLINE KRAMER
ALL THAT REMAINS
MARCH 18 - APRIL 20, 2010
Opening Reception : THURSDAY, MARCH 18th, 6 - 9 p.m.
Public Welcome
A Solo Exhibition of New Mixed-Media Paintings,
Sculpture and Installation by Los Angeles Artist
Bobbie Moline-Kramer
What thou lovest well remains,....
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none?
-Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI
LEFT COAST GALLERIES
All that Remains shows Los Angeles-based artist Bobbie Moline-Kramer breaking
new ground in an exhibition of paintings, three-dimensional work, and installation.
Moline-Kramer has long been admired for her hyper-realistic drawings and
absorbing portraits of intense emotion, as seen in the 2008 contemporary portrait
show, "About Face" at the Long Beach Museum of Art. She now takes a bold
departure in both medium and theme in a new body of work to be shown for the
first time at Left Coast Galleries in Studio City from March 18 - April 20, 2010. The
exhibit includes powerful, expressionistic mixed-media paintings on paper,
sculptural artifacts constructed of delicate bird bones, and a symbolic family tree installation, where the intricately rendered branches are not only painted, but
burned and carved into the wooden panels.
The crow, along with other birds, appears as a subject throughout the series in
varying degrees of abstraction, anthropomorphism, and entropy. Artist Moline-
Kramer writes, "The work is narrative and symbolic. It is about conflict, about
wanting to belong, wanting to fit-in, wanting to be part of a whole even as that
whole fragments into individual units. It's about a family tree, but a family tree
whose parts are no longer connected with each other; a family tree that has
begun to disintegrate." And as the tree fragments, symbols from the past connect
the individual birds into a family that comes alive.
For those unfamiliar with Moline Kramer's earlier work, as well as for those familiar
with her 25-year dedication to realism, the exhibition is rewarding in both its'
expression and execution. It is work born of a lifelong skill in observation and
rendering, and of a quest for the intrinsic, undeniable power that abides in the
human soul. Mysterious in its narrative, virtuosic in its execution, and penetrating
in its subject matter, All that Remains is an exhibition not to be missed.
Moline Kramer's exhibition All That Remains runs from March 18 - April 20, 2010.
The artist will be in attendance during the opening reception to be held on
Thursday, March 18th, 2010, from 6 - 9 p.m.
Exhibition catalog will be available.
High-resolution images available on request.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm , Sunday 12-5pm, or by appt.
For more information please contact Left Coast Galleries at
info@leftcoastgalleries.com or call (818) 760 7010
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