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Time Machines and Paranoid Landscapes
542 S. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013-1708


April 7th, 2007 - June 16th, 2007
 
Untitled (Landscape),Justin MooreJustin Moore, Untitled (Landscape),
2007, ink on paper, 30 x 40 in
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WEBSITE:  
http://www.cirrusgallery.com/
NEIGHBORHOOD:  
downtown/east la
EMAIL:  
cirrus@cirrusgallery.com
PHONE:  
213.680.3473
OPEN HOURS:  
Tue-Sat 10-5
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Moore continues to explore monumental landscape and the relationship bet ween nature, technology, and human experience. His work allegorizes aesthetic experience through visceral and disorienting representations of nature and architecture.

In this exhibition, the viewer is drawn into the space by the optical gravitation of a pulverized moon, while a video projection invokes the mech anized gaze of the Mars Rover.

Delicately rendered ink wash drawings represent ecological cataclysms that combine the vocabulary of Chinese landscape painting with the Surrealist's paranoid-critical method.

Inspired by the Japanese kaijin, or humanoid monsters, a series of paintings depict ecological monstrosities on a human scale through a time-sensitive process of pouring and removing oil paint from a smooth surface, while skyscrapers struggle with the nature of their verticality in ten foot-tall ink drawings.

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