SKIN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHEN: NOVEMBER14 - DECEMBER 31, 2006
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
WHERE: KLAPPER GALLERY, 8759 Beverly Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90048

Klapper Gallery is extremely proud to present an exhibition of three veteran L.A. artists, Peter Liashkov, Pierre Picot and Harrison Storms, who have each developed and maintained a well-defined presence in the L.A. art scene. They are grouped together in an exhibition called SKIN, which runs from November 16th – December 31st 2006. These three artists offer different solutions to the depiction of the body surface as a container of the human essence.

Working from live subjects, Liashkov executes his pieces in charcoal, acrylic, powdered pigments and oil on a vellum-like translucent fiberglass called Synskin. The artist invites the viewer to look at his large figures (4 x 8 feet) as individualized entities that reveal a range of universal emotions.

Pierre Picot’s monochromatic drawings in ink on rice paper are obsessive improvisational meanderings, which resemble everything from the wall reliefs of Ankgor Wat to a child’s flattened view of human anatomy.

Harrison Storms inscribes anatomical references of single bodies into monumental wooden panels layered with gesso and limestone sand. The surface of the panels is painted, and then ground repeatedly leaving the effect of a physical form, which calls to mind weathered frescoes.

Please join us for the opening reception of SKIN and meet the extraordinary artists on Saturday, November 18th, 2006, 6 – 9 pm. For more information please call 310.652.6552 or visit htttp://www.klappergallery.com.