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5790projects is thrilled to announce its second quarterly pop-up group exhibition, Ground Control, featuring five unrepresented LA-based artists working in the medium of painting, sculpture, and installation. Engaged with notions of space, the artists in Ground Control interpret and challenge various physical and conceptual landscapes through bodily and psychological navigation of our environments.

In a society dominated by domain names and high-rise apartment buildings, space has become increasingly theoretical. Oftentimes, invisible or political factors shape our perception of territory and assorted realms, and prescribe a highly personal human experience. The historically analogous correlation between space and power has adapted to our prodigal lifestyle, and has become a relationship manifested in visual and psychological dominance.

5790projects focuses on providing an exhibition platform for emerging artists based in Los Angeles. Through a combination of selected artist submissions and invitations, the entity curates local pop-up and hosted exhibitions throughout Southern California. The artists included in Ground Control encompass a diverse miscellany of practice and exhibition history. Sarah Awad graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (CA) and has since exhibited in Rotterdam, Chicago, Miami, and Seattle. Philip Espinoza (CA) will graduate from Claremont Graduate University this fall. Michelle Carla Handel (CA) studied at Claremont Graduate University, and has been included in shows at WEEKEND Gallery, Durden & Ray, and California State University, Long Beach. Dylan Palmer (CA) graduated from RISD (RI), and has been shown at the Torrance Art Museum (CA), Santa Ana College Art Gallery (CA), and POST (CA), among others. Aili Schmeltz conducted her graduate studies at the University of Arizona (AZ) and is the 2009 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has also exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (DC), Torrance Art Museum (CA) and the Hammer Museum (CA), among others.

For more information on the artists included in this exhibition, please email 5790projects@gmail.com.

Pop-Up exhibition Courtesy Design Loves Art at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.

Opening Reception: March 20th, 5-8:30pm

On view through March 23rd, 2012

Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave., Suite B208

West Hollywood, CA 90069

p 714.783.8310

This quarter, 5790projects will be hosting its second pop-up exhibition! Featuring work by Los Angeles-based artists including Sarah Awad, Philip Espinoza, Michelle Carla Handel, Dylan Palmer and Aili Schmeltz, this group show will focus primarily on notions of space and the bodily navigation of environments.

More details on location and dates to come soon…we like to keep you on the edge of your seat.

After an incredible opening at the R&R Gallery, 5790projects’ first pop-up group show is closing THIS FRIDAY, October 14th! If you missed the party, and haven’t found yourself in Downtown LA yet, make sure to hustle over to see new works by Irina Alimanestianu, Allison Cortson, Lester Monzon, Nano Rubio and Nicolas Shake!

To visit the gallery, please email hello@therandr.org – and the fine folks at the R&R will take you through!

In the meantime, check out the Facebook page for last weekend’s photos and upcoming events! You can also join our mailing list or submit works for consideration by emailing 5790projects@gmail.com!

Thanks to everyone who came out last Friday – and here’s to many more!

5790projects is thrilled to announce its inaugural pop-up group exhibition, Get Lucid, opening on October 7 from 8p-12a! Exploring the whimsical, volatile, erratic and beguiling nature of the subconscious, Get Lucid taps into the vivid recollection and impact of dreams – and how we keenly harness their influence.

Lucid dreaming refers to a lifelike hallucination, in which the dreamer can manipulate their experience through conscious acknowledgement of the dream state. The abstract intersection between latent and manifest, asleep and awake, structure and chaos, lucid dreaming can sometimes clarify the psyche while obscuring the physical. Conjured and encountered imagery becomes nebulous and unhinged from its source, forging a fluid relationship between fate and will as well as truth and fiction. The artists in Get Lucid demonstrate the alluring qualities of mercuriality – as present in the dreams of day and night – and the visceral characteristics that make each intellectually affective.

Hosted by The R&R Gallery in Downtown LA, Get Lucid will feature the work of five incredible LA-based emerging artists that are diverse in both practice and background. Visit their websites to learn more about them by clicking on the links below:

Irina Alimanestianu

Allison Cortson

Lester Monzon

Nano Rubio

Nicolas Shake

Get Lucid will remain on view through October 14th. Join us for the opening reception at the R&R Gallery on October 7  from 8pm to 12am – complete with a live set by Ghostkick and beverage service!

5790projects is thrilled to announce their inaugural pop-up group exhibition, on view October 7 – 14th at The R&R Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a selection of remarkable local artists, the show will toy with notions of dreamscapes and the projected self. With additional curatorial support from Kathy Grayson of The Hole (NY), the exhibition will showcase wondrous contributions by Irina Alimanestianu, Allison Cortson, Lester Monzon, Nano Rubio, Adam Tullie and others! Get into it.

More details to come soon…

5790projects and Mark Moore Gallery are pleased to have artist Kiel Johnson curate the July edition of 2nd Fridays film series. Every 2nd Friday this summer an artist will curate a group of short films to be screened at Mark Moore Gallery. July’s edition kicks off July 8th @ 8pm with a great group of shorts by artists Kiel Johnson, Travis Millard, Billy Kheel, and others. The night will also feature DJ MoreDillon, complimentary refreshments  and the Grilled Cheese Truck so you can get your grub on. This is going to be a night to remember and is made possible with the help of the following sponsors: LA Canvas, Flavorpill, RogerLA and The RandR. You want to be here…

2nd Fridays

5790projects is pleased to announce the addition of Christopher Davison to the exhibition schedule for late February 2012. Christopher will also be exhibiting this September at PULSE LA with Mark Moore Gallery along with gallery artists Feodor Voronov and Ali Smith. Check out the image of Christopher’s work below.

Mining the subconscious for evocative imagery, Christopher Davison meanders through garish dreamscapes rife with fantasy, phantasmagoria and myth. He seamlessly entwines delicate ink lines with pools of dense gouache to create compositions versed in both printmaking and painting; a hazy ambiguity also articulated through his sundry figuration. Fragments of primitivism, realism and absurdism are wed in a visual stream of consciousness that spans the graphic surrealism of Odilon Redon and the playful non sequiturs of Max Ernst. In exploring the sublime depths of the latent mind, Davison demonstrates a contemporary mastery of synesthesia that grapples with intrinsic desire, terror, hope and lust in its most primal forms – a Rimbaudian narrative that celebrates the nonsensical allure of human psychology and mortality.

Davison received his MFA in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art (PA). He has been included in exhibitions in New York, Miami, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, Boston, Rome, Los Angeles and Brussels. His work can be seen in the public collections of the Rose Art Museum (MA), University of Alabama (AL)