Paiement Curates "Facade" at Neo LA!
- paulpaiementart
- Apr 8
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Curated by Paul Paiement
February 22 – March 22, 2025
Reception: Saturday, February 22, 5-7pm
Neo L.A. Gallery
1020 South Los Angeles Street
Suite B
Los Angeles, CA 90015
LOS ANGELES, California, January 23, 2025 – Neo L.A. Gallery is pleased to present Façade, a new group exhibition exploring the influence of modern architecture and interior design on eleven contemporary artists. While art through the Romantic Era drew inspiration from the beauty, mystery, and infinite wonders of nature, movements like Constructivism, De Stijl, and Bauhaus in the 20th century shifted the focus to relevant abstract and analytical ideas emerging from the industrial era. These movements blended creativity with mass production principles and functionality, profoundly affecting fine art, commercial art, and architecture. The artists in Façade use diverse media to reflect the impact of these resulting design philosophies on their work today.
Façadefeatures the new and recent artwork of Isaac Aiden, Nicole Cohen, Alexander Couwenberg, Carleton Christy, Frido Evers, Christopher Georgesco, Paul Paiement, Richard Pasquarelli, Alyson Souza, Scott Troxel, and Stephen Wozniak.
ARTISTS
Isaac Aden (b. New York, New York) https://www.isaacaden.com/
Aiden creates large-scale, color field paintings that interact with their setting. Influenced by site-specific installation art, Aiden’s paintings are created on the location where they are displayed.
Nicole Cohen (b. Washington, D.C,) http://nicolecohen.org/
Cohen produces videos and collages that explore issues of how interior design and architecture reveal aspects of portraiture and social identity.
Alexander Couwenberg (b. Los Angeles, California) https://alexcouwenberg.com/
Couwenberg creates acrylic paintings that utilize language to create a balanced universe. His paintings draw inspiration from surf culture and modernist architecture prevalent in post-World War II southern California.
Carleton Christy (b. Salt Lake City, Utah) https://carletonchristy.com/
Christy’s medium-scale, monochrome photographic prints depict the facades of small, independent churches found in inner-city Los Angeles. Initially built as neighborhood markets, the buildings have been converted to serve the spiritual needs of the neighboring communities over time.
Frido Evers (b. Apeldoorn, The Netherlands) https://fridoevers.art/
Currently residing in Oslo, Norway, Dutch-born artist Frido Evers creates photographic montages that incorporate layers of transparent images. Inspired by the stained glass windows of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Evers’ images radiate with light that passes through the layers of images presented in his work.
Christopher Georgesco (b. Lincoln, Nebraska) https://georgescoart.com/
Georgesco creates medium to large scale abstract sculptures using traditional construction materials, such as welded stainless steel. His abstract forms are inspired by his father, Haralam Georgescu, a leading modernist architect working in Palm Springs, California during the 1950s and 1960s.
Paul Paiement (b. Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.paulpaiement.com/
Taken from his Nexus series of acrylic on wood panel paintings, Paiement’s images merge the linear, practical, mathematic architectural inventions of humans with the vast, infinite, holistic aspects of nature.
Richard Pasquarelli (b. Mount Vernon, New York) https://www.richardpasquarelli.com/
Pasquarelli creates highly realistic paintings of common interior design elements, such as light switches, air ducts, and cabinetry that reveal the intricate interplay between thought and reality. Blending seamlessly into their surroundings, viewers often overlook his art as the actual objects that they represent.
Alyson Souza (b. Western Massachusetts) https://paintwood.com/
Souza’s representational paintings in Façade are inspired by the gridded network of city blocks of downtown Los Angeles.
Scott Troxel (b. Lansdale, Pennsylvania) https://www.troxelartprojects.com/
Troxel creates wall hanging sculptures that are inspired by mid-century modernist structures. Using layered plywood, he cuts out organic shapes that once suggest a futurism that is now considered vintage.
Stephen Wozniak (b. Dover, New Hampshire) https://stephenwozniakart.com/
Wozniak utilizes lumber, solid surfaces, cabinet hardware and fine finishes to create elegant, minimal wall works that oftenexplore the tensions among abstract ideas, remote contemporary life and the tangible human world, encouraging direct viewer engagement.
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