[inter/meta/trans] Fwd: SLBG: Rochelle Botello, Michele Jaquis Opening 3/16

[Michele Jaquis]

SOUTH LA BREA GALLERY
presents


Rochelle Botello: Under the Yellow Wood


Michele Jaquis:  we do not have to inherit everything they leave for us


DATES: March 16 - April 7, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 7pm – 10pm

LOCATION: South La Brea Gallery 208 S. La Brea Avenue Inglewood, CA 
90301 310.486.0266

GALLERY HOURS: Saturday 11am - 5pm, and by appointment


South La Brea Gallery is pleased to present two solo exhibitions, 
Rochelle Botello’s new series of sculptures and drawings, Under the 
Yellow Wood, and Michele Jaquis’ video and digital photography series 
entitled we do not have to inherit everything they leave for us.

Rochelle Botello’s third solo exhibition at SLBG,  Under the Yellow 
Wood, brings together both her sculptural works and idiosyncratic 
drawings. Together the sculpture and drawings construct scenes that 
question and challenge the psychological underbelly of everyday 
existence by playfully blurring the lines between experiences, both 
real and imagined. Using humor and the absurd, Botello crafts stories 
that tease the viewer’s sensibilities about identity, sexuality and 
desire. Constructed in bright color combinations, decorative patterns 
in unexpected juxtapositions and often pieced together with everyday 
materials such as paper, duct tape and cardboard, the works are imbued 
with wit and humor as they explore the contradictory and complex nature 
inherent in the deeper, darker corners of the psyche.

Michele Jaquis’ work, we do not have to inherit everything they leave 
for us, uses Super 8 and VHS home movies and old family photographs to 
investigate family dynamics and the complex relationships between the 
individual members. Applying the style of cinéma vérité as a way to 
capture situations that already exist, the collection of images and 
added information re-contextualizes each relationship from a vantage 
point that is simultaneously inside the family yet outside the specific 
relationship. The titles and added text use no names, only pronouns, so 
as to keep the stories anonymous. This is the artist’s family, yet the 
viewer does not have to know that, and can find their own familiar 
relationships within the narratives.

South La Brea Gallery is located in the city of Inglewood - just east 
of the Los Angeles International Airport at the corner of La Brea and 
Manchester. Gallery hours are Saturday 11am - 5pm and by appointment. 
For further information, please contact South La Brea Gallery at (310) 
486-0266 or by e-mail at southlabrea at yahoo.com

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  email:  southlabrea at yahoo.com
  phone:  310.486.0266
  web:  http://www.southlabreagallery.com


Michele Jaquis
Rise Industries: Interdisciplinary Projects
http://www.rise-ind.com
http://www.rise-ind.com/michelejaquis