FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bari Ziperstein
Perk
Curated by Janet Levy
September 24 –November 20, 2009
Opening September 24, 4:30-7:30pm
New location:
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, Suite B274
West Hollywood, CA 90069
See Line Gallery presents a solo exhibition ‘Perk’ by Bari Ziperstein at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
Ziperstein will premiere a site-specific installation that transforms an empty design showroom into an uncanny
quintessential model domestic space. Influenced by found objects, she will debut a collection of handmade altered
slip cast ceramic sculptures displayed in conjunction with reconstructed domestic furniture, as well as a series of
collage-based photographs.
Ziperstein is known for re-assembling once functional domestic objects and creating tableaux that waver between
the fantastically absurd and the uncomfortably commonplace. In varied ways, her work engages in our time directly,
mining the sites of Los Angeles local thrift stores and design stores, to create uncanny visual choices that address
current and precarious relationships between domestic spaces and economies by exploring specific ideas of place.
Ziperstein's previous series of photographs of site-specific sculpture in her apartment (2006), replicated the quality of
a high-end magazine spread thus was a comment on the utopian lifestyles proffered by home decor magazines. The
photographs illustrated decoration consumed by architectural outgrowths - an interior design gone very much awry.
The new work 'Perk’ uses the domestic end tables, ceramic figurines, and lamps themselves as a way to mutate and
collide with out relying on the host of architecture as a support. The politics of space are highlighted when she offers
an alternative to the proffered lifestyles that the surrounding showrooms at the Pacific Design Center display. In
addition, she has created a site-specific immersive environment in an enclosed mirrored space. A photograph of a
cluttered Rose Bowl Flea Market lamp vendor’s backroom will envelop a mirrored room creating an environment that
is overgrown and illusionary.
The artist, along with Minnesota-based architect Wade Ziperstein, will lead a public DIY lamp-building educational
workshop and an art historical/design history lecture open to the public in November.
Bari Ziperstein is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She works as a site-specific sculptor, photographer,
collage, and ceramic artist who is interested in activating space through intervention and organization. Her artistic
practice is engaged with the architectural history of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban
landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds her MFA from Cal Arts and a BFA in painting and
Women’s Studies from Ohio University. Recently Ziperstein’s work was featured in two group exhibitions this
summer: "Drama of the Gifted Child – The Five Year Plan" at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena and in
‘Bitch is the New Black’ at Honor Fraser, Culver City.
Janet Levy brings over ten years of curatorial, gallery, and marketing experience to her success in promoting and
producing significant projects by prominent contemporary artists. Demonstrating an intuitive talent for aligning
corporate interests with the skills of talented visual artists, in 2006 Levy founded See Line Gallery, an exhibition
space dedicated to supporting the work of exceptional contemporary artists. Since its launch, See Line has garnered
critical acclaim from local and national press outlets and quickly working to establish the careers of several emerging
artists including Ebony G. Patterson. In addition to working together with established artists and curators.
See Line Gallery hours Monday - Friday 12-5pm and by appointment. info@seelinegallery.com
For further information regarding the exhibition or lamp workshop details please contact Janet Levy cell 917 604 3114 |
