Art Share L.A. x Tishman Speyer | THIS TOWN HAS HEART
April 17 @ 9:00 AM - October 17 @ 6:00 PM
About
Art Share L.A. has curated an exhibition featuring artists Jackie Farkas and Essi Zimm as part of the THIS TOWN HAS HEART rotating gallery series in partnership with Tishman Speyer, installed at Maple Plaza.
This partnership is a part of Art Share L.A.’s Creative Careers Program, connecting artists to fair-waged art jobs and curating exhibitions highlighting emerging and experienced artists. Art Share L.A.’s Creative Careers Program adds to the local creative economy and assists artists on their path toward a career in the creative industries.
About the Artists
Jackie Farkas
Jackie Farkas
Jackie Farkas received her BA in Art with honors from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Studio Arts from Mills College. Jackie’s art has been included in various exhibitions, including Expand at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Terra Incognita at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, and Collect! at the Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley. Her paintings are featured in Curate LA and Saatchi Art. Her work is in individual and corporate collections both nationally and internationally. Jackie was born in Los Angeles, California where she currently lives and works. Her works are available at Saatchi Art, the world’s leading online art gallery.
Exhibition: This Town Has HeART
Essi Zimm
Essi Zimm
Folklore is the human attempt to pass on truths. Henry Glassie said it best, “it stresses the interdependence of the personal, the social; the aesthetic, the ethical, the cosmological; the beautiful, the good, the true. Practically, folklore is the study of human creativity in its own context” My art can be summed up as confessions of paper, a way to visually communicate truths, accessing the space occupied by folklore. Paper conceals and communicates meaning, and can be destroyed and overlaid in various modes. I begin a piece by abstractly representing an image in paint, which I then cover with paper: scraps found, created from pulp, or hand illustrated. I then peel away the paper, leaving a construction bearing a nonlinear but viscerally personal connection to its origin. The accumulated papers mimic the debris that sticks to memories; it mirrors waking life’s uncanny transfiguration in our dreams. Where realism trusts only what can be tested and seen, folklore presents a world vibrating with meaning, a morally charged and heavily fated universe that rejects logic in favor of the non-linear.
Exhibition: L.A. Abstracted, This Town Has HeART
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