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Press Release • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • Media Contact: David B. Smith | Gallery Director T: 303.893.4234 | [email protected] Gregory Euclide, Paul Jacobsen, Kris Lewis PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Los Angeles | Booth A-7 L.A. LIVE Complex Event Deck | 1005 West Chick Hearn Court, Downtown Los Angeles, California September 30 – October 3, 2011 The David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Los Angeles, from September 30 through October 3, 2011. The Gallery will be presenting work by Gregory Euclide, Paul Jacobsen and L.A.-based artist Kris Lewis. Euclide, Jacobsen, and Lewis each respond to historical art movements, while pushing traditional boundaries in order to achieve contemporary cultural relevancy. Gregory Euclide creates complex and engaging dioramas which contain a mixture of landscape images painted on paper, that have been shaped into three-dimensional sculptures. The battered and wrinkled sheets of paper that are the foundation of these works, carry a blend of imagery containing picturesque landscapes drawn from memory, photo transfers based on nature photography, and abstract areas of raw paint. Euclide uses actual artifacts from the land, such as pine needles and bark, and places them in juxtaposition with found, weathered, manmade materials. His work explores the tensions, confusion and contradictions between pristine nature and the culture in which we live, and he continues to ask how we can simultaneously preserve the environment and yet maintain the benefits of a modern lifestyle. Euclideʼs work has recently been included in the exhibition Otherworldly at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; and will be featured in the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, in the October exhibition Deconstructing Nature; and in the exhibition Small Worlds at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, opening in November 2011. Kris Lewis studied at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, before relocating to Los Angeles where he lives and works today. His reverence for the old masters is apparent in his depiction of the human figure, which he uses as a vector for hidden stories, delicate emotions, and universal truths. Lewisʼ paintings are a response to both historical portrait painting and popular culture, powerfully combining traditional art practice with contemporary subject matter. His paintings have been featured in galleries in cities around the world, including L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Miami, London, and Hong Kong. His work has also been seen in the publications Juxtapoz and Modern Painters, and featured in the books Copro/Nason: A Catalogue Raisonne and Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture. Paul Jacobsenʼs work, informed by the idea that civilization is destroying our planet, visualizes the collapse of the industrial world. His paintings depict ideas surrounding our civilizationʼs demise as a pastoral, post agricultural, future primitive fantasyland, post-industrial collapse. Jacobsenʼs paintings acknowledge the seemingly immutable societal cues and rigid standards present in our culture; he paints a utopian dystopia through the lens of our current social and consumer driven forward march to self-destruction. Please visit the David B. Smith Gallery booth, A-7, at PULSE in the Event Deck at the L.A. LIVE complex, September 30 – October 3 in downtown Los Angeles or visit our website at davidbsmithgallery.com. More information is available on our website and on the PULSE Art Fair website at pulse-art.com. About PULSE PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Through its annual editions in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, PULSE provides a unique platform for diverse galleries to present a progressive blend of renowned and pioneering contemporary artists, alongside an evolving series of original programming. The fairʼs distinctive commitment to the art community and visitor experience makes PULSE unique among art fairs and creates an art market experience that is both dynamic and inviting. About David B. Smith Gallery David B. Smith Gallery is Denver's venue for compelling contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring work from some of today's most dynamic artists with growing international reputations. Through participation in leading art fairs and extensive media coverage, David Smith has cultivated a strong regional, national and international collector audience. In August 2008, The New York Times hailed the gallery as offering "an exciting contrast of cutting edge works." In addition to its curatorial program, David B. Smith maintains an active publishing division, Limited Addiction, which produces limited edition artist prints and monographs. .
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