Liz Conlon

“My work investigates the practice of a non spiritual world where our external needs are placed before our internal need and people's needs for validation is prioritized.  Through installations, paintings, and photographs, I've created brands and advertisements based our culture of instant gratification and validation.  Threads of reconstructed logos, abundance of luxury brands, and symbols, worship logos like religion in which a saccharin coated world of desire is created where beauty commingles with the grotesque.”

Georgina Reskala

“A moment is alive each time we speak of it and remember it.  And each time we speak of it, we transform it.  Every time I replicate an image, I mimic memory making as I take a moment out of time, copy it, and reshape it.  Therefore, the same moment can exist many times, in many ways, all at once.  I am interested in the process of remembering and the language of images, not as a way to give meaning to the past but as a way to fill in the tracks and echoes.  Photographs may be phantoms but the memories are real.”

Steve Jakobsen

“I'm intrigued by the forms that define the urban array.  How structures, both physical and geographical, sometimes emotional, can set the rhythms of society.  I often find myself observing the intersects and overlaps of a city to create visual stories that capture the marks that remain and the marks we choose to cover up.  My intention is to express the emotional impact of our surroundings acknowledging the pull and push our society has on us as it remains constantly in flux, always developing with or with out permission.”

Michael Temple

“I approach painting in a non-objective way.  My imagery is often constructed with strokes which I refer to as ‘Lowerglyphics’, a written expression that speaks to the subconscious because they stop short of describing common, recognized symbols.  They encourage the mind to fill-in-the-blanks.  Lowerglyphics are the units I use to construct the non-objective/abstract cosmology that informs my work.  The viewer is often able to construct their own narrative; seeing abstracted objects, messages and events that are unintended by me."

“The Von Restorff Effect”

Opening Reception

June 2, Thursday  6–9 pm

LOS ANGELES, CA –  Trunk Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “The Von Restorff Effect.”  The exhibit of installation works, with the focus being the viewer experience and the experience intensity, will be on view from June 2 through June 19, 2016.  The Opening Reception will be held in conjunction with The Mar Vista Art Walk, Thursday evening,  June 2nd, from 6–9 pm.  

An eclectic group of artists has been assembled who create art in an array of media and disciplines.  For this show, they were each asked to present their work as a complete installation, as opposed to displaying separate, individual artworks (presented in an unusual manner an item is more likely to be remembered aka The Von Restorff Effect).  The work includes painting, photography, video, mixed-medium, sound and sculpture.

The exhibition hours will be Thurs, June 2, 6–9pm, Fridays 1–5pm, Saturdays and Sundays 11–5pm, through June 19th.