Christine Frerichs: Serenade Opening Reception

Klowden Mann is very pleased to present Serenade, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Christine Frerichs. The exhibition is Frerichs’ second with the gallery, and continues her focus on memory, relationships and the construction of personal identity, as expressed through abstract painting.  The exhibition centers around a series of paired canvases layered with thick oil paint, acrylic and wax, using subtle, bold, light and dark colors, and curving textured lines which ripple across each of their surfaces.  These formal qualities describe an abstracted representation of two figures, and the visceral experience of different landscapes as they relate to the physical and emotional self.  The exhibition will be on view from March 7th through April 11th, 2015, and will also feature several of Frerichs’ smaller individual 8.5 by 11 inch works in the gallery project room. The gallery will hold an opening reception on Saturday, March 7th from 6 to 8pm, and an artist talk on Saturday March 21st, at 4pm.
 
Christine Frerichs (b. 1979, Los Angeles) has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions at venues including ACME, CB1 Gallery, Young Art (Los Angeles, CA), Vincent Price Museum (Monterey Park, CA), Sweeney Art Gallery (Riverside, CA), Duchess Presents (Chicago, IL), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson, AZ), and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), and in art fairs with Klowden Mann in New York, Houston and Miami.  Solo exhibitions of her work include Klowden Mann and Kaycee Olsen Gallery in Los Angeles, and a solo presentation at VOLTA NY in New York.  Frerichs’ work has been reviewed by ArtForum, The Los Angeles Times, and published in New American Paintings, as well as being featured by Two Coats of Paint, Notes on Looking, and many others.  She received her B.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 2002 and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Riverside in 2009.  Frerichs is currently adjunct faculty at Otis College of Art and Design, East Los Angeles College, and Long Beach City College.