GOOD TIMES FOR NEVER

GOOD TIMES FOR NEVER is the first curatorial project by Los Angeles-based visual artist and musician, Eamon Ore-Giron. The artwork consists of photography, video, collage and sculpture that explore the theme of personal physiological mapping in relation to social space, image production and chaos. The artists’ forensic-like investigations illustrate the tribulations of the desire to achieve an understanding, not only of something specific, but also of the generalities of life. Ultimately these artists leave us with the evidence of a question, and in this way the artwork they give us is a map to their quest.

GINA OSTERLOH

Through the use of constructed sets Gina Osterloh examines the psychological and social spaces surrounding pleasure, the abject, and humor. The work she will present at QNA reflects our mediated experiences of war, love, alienation, and interpersonal relations. Figures camouflaged on a photo set and collapsed business women in front of an ideal sunset are some of the stark images that Gina leaves us with to contemplate. Osterloh, was born in 1973 in Columbus, Ohio. She received a degree in media studies from De Paul University in Chicago in 1996 and will receive her MFA in 2007 from the University of California Irvine. She has exhibited in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Luggage Store, New Langton Arts, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, ′Video Mixtape′ at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, and Ze Dos Bois, Portugal to name a few. In the summer of 2007, She will participate in an exhibition titled Trauma, Interrupted in Manila, Philippines.

JOE DEUTCH

Joe Deutch works in a labyrinth of self-constructed mythology. His work flows from sculptural, photographic, performance, and from time to time drawings. In the video he will present at QNA, Joe Duetch demands us to witness the brief moments of a man's desire to save his own life. Wherein those brief seconds he contemplates whether to do it or not. A video in which the biblical qualities of fire are unleashed upon the artist himself, an image of hell or salvation, or possibly both simultaneously. Joe Deutch received his BFA from Webster University in St Louis in 2001; he is currently finishing his graduate studies at UCLA. He has shown at Track 16, Cirrus both in Los Angeles, CSULB, Long Beach and Crowe T. Brookes Gallery, St. Louis.

BRENNA YOUNGBLOOD

Brenna Youngblood is a processor. Her work is made up of the accumulated images of her life and surroundings, family, friends, her mom's van, the Burger King Semi truck parked at the Von's on Venice and Fairfax streets. All of these images are cut up and reconstructed into elaborate collages that in some ways map out the texture and terrain of her life. In one such piece in this show the dark leather seats from a community center or ballroom or someplace communal are repeated into a visual rhythm that starts to morph them into a skin. The different shades and shine mimic human flesh. It's as if they've taken on the souls of all of their occupants. A community of people sits on a community of chairs. Her work has been shown extensively in Los Angeles at The Armand Hammer Museum, Margo Leavin Gallery, Carl Berg Gallery, and upcoming at Susan Veilmetter Gallery, this is her Bay Area debut.