CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONAL ART

PHOENIX RISING: OUT OF ASHES
Max Almy and Teri Yarbrow are award winning multi-media artists who have exhibited in major museums and alternative art spaces throughout the world, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MOCA Geffen Contemporary; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the New Museum, the Whitney Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the ICA, Boston; the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Center, Paris, the Kitchen, LACE, the Prix Ars Electronica, Austria; the Landesmuseum, Austria; SIGGRAPH; the Long Beach Museum; the Australian Center for Contemporary Art; the American Film Institute; the Hirschhorn Museum; the World Wide Video Festival, Den Hague, Eileen Braziel Fine Art, New Mexico.

Their collaborative project "Phoenix-Rising: Out of Ashes," is from their series of mixed media installations. Using painting and projected video, each work is unique and site specific. The concepts were inspired by the artists' personal experiences with the massive fires in California, the tsunami devastated areas in Thailand and the war ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The alternative project space Shack Obscura at Klaudia Marr Gallery on Canyon Road provides the perfect space for the Phoenix-Rising theme, which symbolizes Renewal and Hope. The installation includes four mixed media paintings with projection above and on the floor in front of the paintings. Birdcages flank the paintings and each has a small LCD screen with a DVD of fluttering wings.