Featureless, animal-like characters populate the works of Brendan Monroe. He renders them with visceral textures and biomorphic shapes that evoke some sort of primordial goop from which life emerged. While the Oakland-based artist is known for creating paintings, drawings and wooden sculptures, he recently collaborated with Los Angeles studio Heath Ceramics on a series of ceramic works that will be exhibited in “Blobography,” his solo show opening on November 1 at the same location.
In Heath Ceramics’ workshop, Monroe created molds of his wooden sculptures to cast the ceramic pieces. A novice to working with clay before the collaboration, the artist says he found the process to be as enjoyable and intuitive as drawing. While tight, illustrative line work is a prominent feature of his drawings and paintings, his work in clay appears much more freeform. “Blobography” will feature drawings and paintings as well as Monroe’s new ceramic sculpture series.
“Blobography” will be on view November 1 through November 30 at Heath Ceramics in LA.
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Kim Yun Soo is a Korean multi media artist whose work spans from mixed media sculpture and installations to photography, but perhaps her most compelling work is an ongoing series of PVC footprints, dramatically transformed into surreal mountainscapes. Since 1999, Soo has been collecting the fingerprints and footprints of her close friends and acquaintances, recording their unique shapes and spirals and giving them a new dimension inspired by the natural world. Many of her works resemble a wave, where a single footprint ripples out into stacked shapes and contours, forming a sort of topographical map of their owner that she arranges in simple displays.