June 23 - July 28, 2007

Reception: Saturday, June 23, 6 - 8 pm

In the project space, Liat Yossifor presents paintings from her recent series titled The Dawning of an Aspect. Derived from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, the title refers to his theory of perception. Yossifor’s figurative landscape paintings require a slowed down viewing process to allow all aspects of the work to emerge. Her large canvases, monochrome in nature and done in a wet-on-wet technique, slowly reveal figurative masses rising from a singular color field. Inspired by cinematography and by paintings of Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, and Francisco Goya, these paintings both abstract and romanticize a landscape of war. They fuse the body and the landscape into a dramatic and pulsating union, appearing and disappearing based on the viewers movement in front of the canvas.

Liat Yossifor graduated with an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown in solo and two-person exhibitions such as: “The Tender Among Us” at Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; “Portraits of Yfat” at Angles Gallery, LA; “New Paintings” at Anna Helwing Gallery, LA; and “The Black Paintings” at Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. She has been included in group exhibitions at the: Torrance Art Museum, CA; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; Museum of Modern Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus; New Wight Gallery at UCLA, LA; University of Californian Gallery, Davis, CA; Claire Trevor School of the Arts Gallery at UCI, Irvine; Occidental College Art Gallery, LA; El Camino College Art Gallery, LA; and Deep River Gallery, LA.

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is located at 5795 West Washington Blvd in Culver City, between Fairfax and La Cienega. Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment. Directions: Coming from downtown, take the 10 frwy west, exit at the Washington / Fairfax exit, turn left, it's the second building on your right. 10 frwy coming from the west side, take the Fairfax exit, turn right on Fairfax, turn immediately right on Washington Blvd, the building is the second on your right, next to the Dunn Edwards store.