AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Artworks by Laura Hipke, Farzad Kohan and Lois Ramirez
December 1, 2007 – January 25, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 1st

Meet the Artists: 4-5 pm
Refreshments: 5-7 pm

Location:
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, California 91201-1200
818-548-2051
818-548-5079 FAX

The Brand Library Art Galleries is pleased to present the exhibition The Human Element, featuring the work of Laura Hipke, Farzad Kohan, and Lois Ramirez. The three artists showcased work in mixed media, employing the human figure to create narratives that speak of individual lives as well as the human condition. Viewers will be challenged to unravel the tales told in Kohan’s installations of gender-neutral figures, Hipke’s mysterious portraits, and Ramirez' intricate collage vignettes.

Farzad Kohan
(Glendale, CA) is an active member of the Iranian-American community in Los Angeles. Kohan’s experience of living and working on several contintents informs his work in which he strives to explore the common ground shared by human beings everywhere. His delicate, featureless figures, braided from a mixture of clay, wood chips, and string laid over a wire frame, clearly represent our human core, free of gender, race, and culture. Each figure, whether displayed in a group or confined to act out a small drama in a black painted box, expresses fundamental aspects of human nature, including the desire for both kinship and individuality. In this exhibition, Kohan will also debut the River of Life installation piece, comprised of hundreds of paper boats made expressly for the exhibition by contributors from around the world. Kohan has most recently shown his work at Seyhoun Gallery, West Hollywood, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

To learn more about Farzad Kohan’s work visit
www.farzadkohan.com

Farzad Kohan