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2011 SOIRÉE MATINÉE WORKS ON PAPER BY BERLIN & LA ARTISTS

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition space in Los Angeles with an exchange double group show between Berlin & Los Angeles. Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin and its new satellite in LA will open at the same time on Friday July 15th 2011. Berlin will show a collection of LA based artists and a selection of Berlin artists will be shown in Los Angeles. There will be a live stream via skype. Wonderloch Kellerland Los Angeles: Lutz Braun, André Butzer, Katharina Copony, Isabel Fein, Thilo Heinzmann, Alexander Hoepfner, Heike Kelter, Elke Krystufek, Liu Anping, Catherine Lorent, René Luckhardt, Manfred Peckl, Katrin Plavcak, Janne Räisänen, Bob Rutman, Bettina Sellmann, Sophia, Andrea Stappert, Katrin Thomas, Ulrich Wulff Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin: Alex Becerra, Erik Bluhm, Tom Harding jr., Julia M Leonard, Chris Lipomi, Florian Morlat, Robert Olsen, Jonah Olson, Adam Stamp, Hans-Peter Thomas aka Bara, Henry Vincent, Louis Waldon, Jeremy Yoder

http://www.wonderloch-kellerland.org/coming-soon-2011-matinée-soirée.html

New work just sent off to Berlin for 2011 Matinee Soiree

Untitled (Pages torn from a book), 2011

Paper collage on paper

Current group show in San Francisco

Erik Bluhm- Untitled (cross 1), 2011, Untitled (cross 2), 2011

both paper collage on paper. 18" x 26"

Bullet Train

Curated by Ruby Neri and Julia Leonard

Erik Bluhm, Chris Lipomi, Ruby Neri, Torbjorn Vejvi,

Michael Rashkow, Ashley Gallagher, Kyle Field,

Paul Gellman, Will Rogan, Julia Leonard,

Nicholas Pittman, Lauren McKeon, Christopher Lux,

Alicia McCarthy, Josh Lazcano

March 12-April 16, 2011

Luggage Store Gallery

Garden Grove Creative Community

Click here for a video from the play at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Three Tall Men group show-Erik Bluhm, Paul Gellman, Peter Harawik at Space 1520, Los Angeles

Erik Bluhm with Untitled (totem with rubble)

Erik Bluhm, 6'3" is the shortest in the group of Three Tall Men. "I'm not sure if the show will invite folks to question height," he shares, "but maybe there's something in the scale of the work that will address that..." For this show at Gallery Space, Bluhm constructed two large-scale collages and two life-size sculptures.

Bluhm's sculptures explore mythology and the human form. An inanimate figure is tucked in a hand-sewn sleeping bag. Close by lays a shrine at the foot of a mighty god-like form. Meanwhile, Bluhm's collages are formal, emphasizing color and shape. Thin strips of colored paper are arranged geometrically, taking on the effect of a woven rug. The canvases, one in a warm color palette, the other cool, are seemingly contentless, but small, encoded image outlines, text and symbols - broken circles and disconnected lines, the letter "M," the numbers "173" remove the collages even further from reality.

In conjunction with the Three Tall Men show, a special screening of a New Energy Encounter Group video will be held inside Gallery Space, tomorrow, October 21st from 7 - 9 pm. New Energy Encounter Group is an ongoing collaboration between Bluhm, Gellman and friends. Click here for event details.

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Erik Bluhm is an artist, writer and deejay born and raised in Los Angles. He has shown at David Patton Los Angeles, Las Cienegas Projects, Atelier Cardenas Ballanger Gallery, Paris, and Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo. He is the co-founder of the New Energy Encounter Group, a troupe of actors, musicians, and artists that have performed at the Hammer Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, and Sundown Salon.