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Yvette Gellis on Katharina Grosse

Yvette Gellis on Katharina Grosse

Jul 20, 2018 |

The soul of French painting in the 1860’s and 1870’s was indebted to Diderot who, a hundred years earlier, wrote about theatricality in painting. He advanced the idea that a viewer’s experience of a painting should be that of a fluid, ongoing occurrence, rather than about witnessing a dramatic set up, as in the elaborate [...]

ArtScene

ArtScene

Apr 23, 2018 | ,

By Genie Davis Perfectly paired, artists Ty Pownall and Yvette Gellis offer large- scale, abstract mixed media works that seem to have slipped from the walls and onto the loor on their own. Gellis has created stunning wall work in oil, acrylic, graphite, and original photo-transfers. These large pieces are paired with the polyurethane foam, [...]

Liminal Spaces are Mind-Blowing Places

Liminal Spaces are Mind-Blowing Places

Apr 23, 2018 | ,

By Genie Davis Liminal: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. “Liminal Spaces” at Jason Vass gallery, which opened Saturday night, occupies a position of cool, whether the boundary is mixed-media wall art, free-standing sculpture, or something in between. Perfectly paired artists Ty Pownall and Yvette Gellis drew lively, [...]

Liminal Spaces: Yvette Gellis and Ty Pownall at Jason Vass

Liminal Spaces: Yvette Gellis and Ty Pownall at Jason Vass

Apr 23, 2018 | ,

By Jody Zellen What is a liminal space? Liminal refers to something transitional, as if at a boundary or threshold. In their exhibition, aptly titled Liminal Spaces, Yvette Gellis and Ty Pownall have filled both the walls and floor of the gallery. Works by these seemingly unrelated artists are interspersed in the space to create [...]

JASON VASS PRESENTING: LIMINAL SPACES – YVETTE GELLIS, TY POWNALL

JASON VASS PRESENTING: LIMINAL SPACES – YVETTE GELLIS, TY POWNALL

Feb 5, 2018 |

Opening Reception: March 3, 6-9PM

February 1, 2018, Los Angeles, CA. Jason Vass is pleased to present Liminal Spaces – an exhibition featuring Yvette Gellis & Ty Pownall. Liminal Spaces will run from March 3 – April 14, 2018.
In Liminal Spaces, Gellis’ large-scale, mixed media paintings & Pownall’s floor sculptures and wall works interact to create a singular installation space; one that explores “liminality”, including themes of spirituality, the threshold of time, transitioning forward, memories and ephemerality.

Pasadena Museum of California Art exhibit offers more boldly immersive feminine perspectives on nature and the environment

Pasadena Museum of California Art exhibit offers more boldly immersive feminine perspectives on nature and the environment

Jan 23, 2018 | ,

By Bliss Bowen “Has there ever been a better time to discuss women and the environment?” So asks artist Constance Mallinson in conversation about “The Feminine Sublime,” an exhibit she curated that opens at the Pasadena Museum of California Art this weekend. Addressing themes of feminine perspective, environmental degradation and the artistic concept of the sublime, [...]

The Feminine Sublime

The Feminine Sublime

Oct 20, 2017 |

January 21, 2018–June 3, 2018 Historically, depictions of the sublime were reserved for men whose rationality and order were posed against nature, the imagination, or the female “other.” The Feminine Sublime presents a counter-narrative that upends previous ideas of the sublime in painting with a unique feminist perspective. Exhibition artists and Los Angeles-based painters Merion [...]

Yvette Gellis: Movement and Duration, Seeking the Ineffable…

Yvette Gellis: Movement and Duration, Seeking the Ineffable…

Aug 2, 2017 | ,

By Gary Brewer “First of all, on the surface on which I am going to paint, I draw a rectangle of whatever size I want, which I regard as a window through which the subject to be painted is seen.” ~Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura, 1435 Studio Visit with Yvette Gellis. Photo Credit Gary Brewer. [...]

“Abstraction in the Singular”

“Abstraction in the Singular”

Mar 3, 2017 |

BENTLEY GALLERY - Phoenix, Arizona, http://bentleygallery.com -ART DETOUR 29, 2017.  -Part 1: February 17th to March 22nd -Part 2: March 29th to April 19th   -Curated by Grant Vetter   - Abstraction in the Singular is a two show survey of painters from the West Coast and Arizona that have had a significant impact on how we [...]

CAMAC- Centre d’art Marnay Art Center – Exhibition

CAMAC- Centre d’art Marnay Art Center – Exhibition

Sep 8, 2015 |

Yvette Gellis, Without Time, 2015. Mixed media, 548.64 x 426.72 cm. CAMAC-Centre d’art Marnay Art Center “Somewhere Without Time” with YVETTE GELLIS (Los Angeles) And REBECCA BOURNIGAULT(Paris) EGLISE SAINT-JACQUES 10370 DIVAL FRANCE September 17th – October 4th Opening Reception Thursday, September 17TH, 2015 7:00 pm www.camac.org Somewhere Without Time marks the first collaborative project between Yvette Gellis (Los Angeles) [...]