FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA.
The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present “Face to Face” a long awaited exhibition by Los Angeles artist Bobbie Moline-Kramer. The series is an in-depth exploration of the seven human emotions in their varying degrees. “Face to Face” will open on February 11th and run through March 11th, 2006. A catalogue will be available. A reception will take place on Saturday, February 11th from 6:00 to 8:00pm. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is located at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, just west of Fairfax.
One of the deep and lasting pleasures of a really good painting is that it defies easy classification. So it is with the paintings of Bobbie Moline-Kramer. Their seductive images and surfaces grab the eye immediately, and the mind says: “Portrait.” It seems obvious, doesn’t it? But wait. There’s something distinctly unsettling here. It’s not about likeness, and certainly not about flattering anyone’s ego, but it is indisputably subordinated to the capture the ever-shifting, ever complex life of feelings. In her paintings we find ourselves confronted by them, as she says, “face to face.” Or even, perhaps, as the current idiom has it, “in your face”, for we gaze into these images and we know that they are us.
To achieve her effects, Moline-Kramer first documents her subjects with a camera, registering the range of their emotions as they express them. From hundreds of images, she selects virtually at random—often inviting friends or strangers to make the selection for her. To make things harder, she eschews the simple rendering of a single image, but combines two or more selected images as she “translates” them into paintings. Then she brings her remarkable technical skills to bear, rendering these “in-sights” meticulously in oil on board, creating those seductive surfaces that initially grab the eye and retain its attention.
Explore the impeccable craftsmanship of these surfaces keenly, and you’ll be rewarded by the discovery of details that mime the creative tension between the eye’s expectation and what it actually sees. Moline-Kramer keeps her sharp visual intelligence to the fore as she works, and requires the same from her observer. What the artist offers us, as artists do, is the essence of her humanity; what she asks of us in return is the recognition—and deepening—of our own humanity in response to hers.
- from the catalogue essay by Peter Clothier
Education
Cal State University, BA Fine Arts & Illustration, Long Beach, CA
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Teaching
California Art Institute, Thousand Oaks, CA
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Selected Exhibitions
Patricia Correia Gallery, 825 Gallery, LAAA, Solo Exhibit, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, Ca – 2003
825 Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association, Open Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA – 2002 & 2003
Diane Nelson Fine Art Galley, Solo Exhibit, Laguna Beach, California – 2001 & 2002
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island - 2001
Salmagundi Club 23rd Non-Members Juried Exhibit, Salmagundi Club, New York, New York – 2000 & 2001
Atelier 14, National Association of Women Artists, Chelsea, New York, New York – 2000
Phippen Museum, Prescott Arizona – 2000
Carnegie Art Museum, Solo Exhibit, In The Minds Eye; 2000, Oxnard, California – 2000
San Diego Art Institute’s 44th International Juried Exhibit, San Diego Museum, San Diego, California – 2000
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, New York, New York – 1999 & 2000
Allied Artists Annual Exhibit, National Arts Club, New York, New York – 1999
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California – 1999
Arts on the River, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia – 1999
(Juror, Paul Gordon, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Cover Competition, Manhattan Arts International, New York, New York – 1999
Realism ’99 International Juried Art Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska – 1999
Bausch & Lomb National Exhibition, Rochester, New York – 1998
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California – 1998-1999
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York – 1997 & 1999
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California – 1997
California Art Club, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California –1997
World Financial Center, New York, New York – 1997
Horwitch, Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona – 1995 & 1996
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California – 1995 & 1996
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California - 1995
Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, California – 1994 & 1995
Riverside Museum, Riverside, California – 1994
Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery, Los Angeles, California – 1989 & 1991
California State University, Alumni Exhibition, Long Beach, California – 1989
El Canejo Museum, Thousand Oaks, California – 1988
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California – 1986
San Diego State College, San Diego, California – 1975
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois – 1973
Awards
825 Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association – 2003, Artist Award
San Diego Art Institute’s 44th Exhibit – 2000, First Place in Show
Salmagundi Club, New York, New York – 2000, The Joseph Hartley Memorial Award
Carnegie Art Museum – 1998 & 1999, First Place in Painting
Bausch & Lomb 7th Annual Exhibition – 1998, First Place in Painting
California Art Club – 1997, Exhibit Award Winner
Society of Illustrators – 1991, Judges Award
Society of Illustrators – 1989, Gold Medal, 1991 Judges Award
Juried Memberships
National Association of Women Artists Salmagundi Club California Art Club 825 Galley, LA Art Association
Selected Private and Public Collections
Warner Brothers Studios, Los Angeles, California
The Wall Street Journal, New York, New York
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Kellerman, Los Angeles, California
Carnegie Art Museum, Ventura, California
Howard Tullman, Chicago, Illinois
Carrie Horwitch, Seattle, Washington
John Kerr, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Other Private and Corporate Collections