October
23 - November 13, 2004
Opening reception Saturday, October 23rd, 6 - 8 PM
ROBERTS & TILTON
6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tel: 323.549.0223
Fax:: 323.549.0224
info@robertsandtilton.com
Gallery hours : Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00am to 6:00pm
Marlene
Dumas
Wendell Gladstone
James Gobel
Eberhard Havekost
Salomon Huerta
Chris Johanson
Karen Kilimnik
Craig Kucia
Matt Leines
Alan Michael
Paul McCarthy
Barry McGee
Faris McReynolds
Kori Newkirk
Paulina Olowska
Raymond Pettibon
Elizabeth Peyton
Wilhelm Sasnal
Dana Schutz
Elif Uras
Kehinde Wiley
Ai Yamaguchi
A personfs true experience is an enigma.
Based upon a diversity of cultural, historic and intellectual factors,
an artistfs perception is subject to continual reevaluation and reinterpretations.
Artists, challenged with depicting reality, spend their lives constructing
and interpreting their own internal points of reference -- places from
which to begin, only to return there to re-qualify their identity. This
process of creating a work of art derives essentially from a series of
combined experiences realigned and reinterpreted over time. While some
artist recapitulate experience, others evolve their own intellectual system
of interpretation and assimilation, drawing from a variety of sources,
including moments of fractured experience, memory and thought. This process
derives from an imaginative synthesis of life, a continual exploration
that combines facts and ideas transformed into fictive truths.
The artists in Eye of the Needle have developed a new way to understand
and synthesize images drawn from an amalgam of intellectual and visceral;
interests and concerns that combine art history and cultural history.
This work is socially driven and springs from the acceptance of an implied,
rather than a literal history. These works constitute a new translation
whereby the artists subvert their own heritage based on a variegated reality,
driven by contemporary culture and the inherent desire to translate cultural
implications into artistic and human experience.
(text by ROBERTS & TILTON )
