FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“Relation-Reformation” a group exhibition, featuring four contemporary sculptors:
Edith Brian, Joseph L. Castle, Lynn Creighton, Molly Schulps
Dates: June 1– 26, 2004
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 6 – 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-6pm, and by appointment
Contact: Gallery Director

Absolute Art Gallery is very pleased to announce a group exhibition, “Relation-Reformation” featuring four contemporary sculptors: Edith Brian, Joseph L. Castle, Lynn Creighton, Molly Schulps. The exhibition opens June 1st and runs through June 26th, 2004. The opening reception will be held from 6-9 pm on Saturday, June 1st, 2004, and is open to the public.

1. Edith Brian, “Lady,” Terra Cotta, 10” x 24” x 9”
2. Joseph L. Castle, “Relationship Series VI,” Bronze, 17” x 27” x 24”
3. Lynn Creighton, “Orchid,” (Reclaiming the Sacred Source), Bronze, 12” x 5” x 6”
4. Molly Schulps, “Got Mil [1],” Ironic Tiles, 6’ x 3’

Edith Brian, a Hungarian-born bronze sculptor, started doing art in Argentina where she lived for ten years. Her inspirations are the human form and organic relations. Through Brian’s talented creations, universal elements, human figures, and many other living things merge into elegant modernistic forms and contemporary organic shapes, redefining the meaning of life. She has had numerous shows in Southern California, especially Los Angeles. Due to the long illness and death of her husband, Brian did not participate in exhibitions until 2001.

For over ten years, Joseph L. Castle has been designing bronze sculptures that have found their rightful homes in parks, foundations, and private residences. Through his artwork, Castle is exploring inner spaces and the relationships in which they are defined. The Relationship Series, begun as a forum for testing shape and interconnectedness, continues to grow as a means for pushing the contrast between dynamic energy and reflective contemplation, continuity, and dichotomy. The Relationship sculptures are calm and meditative, yet never static. The juxtaposition of individual serenity and collective activity is what he is actively pursuing with this series, which in turn invites exploration from various vantage points.

Lynn Creighton’s bronze work is about women learning to celebrate their own lives from a deep inner connection to the creator. Women eternally and profoundly sense this union with the creator because the creator creates through them. From this place, women experience their lives from the source of all energy in the realm of the sacred. From this place, women discover who they are and what they are meant to be and do in the joyful enactment of life. “The forms I am creating are women experiencing the vibratory force of their inner core.” They are metaphors for woman awakening to the gift of her own energy and what it is meant to do. This energy is required to redirect the behavior of humans into harmony with all life and the vibrating forces of the universe. As long as women slumber and are unaware of what they have to offer, we will continue to veer toward distress and disaster. The matter is urgent. Men and women all must become aware of the waste of human potential.

Molly Schulps’ series of large-scale tile figures depicts stories of women. They are iconic sculptures that exude power, sexuality, and sensitivity through their enunciated poses and exaggerated bodies. Each tile woman narrates a different story. The exterior surfaces of these tile women are rich with texture and color which relates to the interior psychological self or story that is brewing inside the form. Some of these tile figures have boxes, or hidden areas, which reveal another part of the story. There is strength and power that germinates inside of women. “The women I create express this solidity through their immense size and dynamic stature. I explore this territory by using clay and other media. These women are extremely sensual and empowering. Their beauty, grace, and inherent sexuality are my homage to women.”

Absolute Art Gallery invites architects, designers, and art fans who treasure the look and feel of bronze to join our wonderful reception and visit or contact us.

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For more information about Absolute Art Gallery and exhibitions, including images, please contact: Gallery Director at 626.285.8585 or info@absoluteartgallery.net