ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY: Brian Bress and Michael Rey

Cherry and Martin is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of new works by emerging Los Angeles APT artist Brian Bress and Michael Rey.

Brian Bress’s HD monitors show a soundless loop in which isolated actors perform, obscured by sculptural suits. Through the creative processes of drawing, sculpting, etching, cutting and assembling, the frontally facing performers acknowledge not only the traditional fourth wall, but also amplify the existence of the very object that contains their actions. As the creative process unfolds and reveals, tension is wound and unwound through the endless act of making and erasing.

Michael Rey's painted Plasticine-on-panel forms avoid categorization; in doing so, they provoke us to talk about the language of painting and sculpture, our sense of our own bodies, and modes of representation. Rey’s use of shape and color has evolved toward a non-hierarchical relationship within his compositions; his attentiveness to surface insists on the ‘objectness’ of the wood panels on which he layers Plasticine and oil paint.