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Marion Lane

The assertion: Abstract painting is more exciting than TV. The reason: It entertains you but won't make you buy useless things (except for the painting itself maybe..). The question: What about abstract painting that looks like the screenshot of some mind-boggling magic TV-Show?

Get all the answers (or more confusion) at the opening reception of L.A.-based artist Marion Lane's solo exhibition "Chasing The Rabbit" at the renowned BLK/MRKT Gallery. Marion Lane who is featured in the dgv-publication BLK/MRKT ONE creates hypnotically liquid-like images. Images that might make you feel like you have mistaken your dinner mushrooms for, erm, real mushrooms. And that is exactly what she wants to happen: "Image drives us into the future, and as we chase down the best image experience possible we are lulled into buying everything from talking soap bubbles to the war in Iraq..."

The idea of mixing the real with the unreal to find the real thing is the basis of Lanes beautifully composed and skillfully crafted paintings. Her technique itself involves pouring and dragging acrylic pigments into a compendium of individual appliques which are then choreographed into aggregate clusters. The warning: Enjoying the abstract paintings of Marion Lane may lead to willful addiction and wonderful confusion. Like Alice in Wonderland chasing the rabbit.. But it might also show you how to use your illusion in real terms.

July 7 - July 28, 2007, BLK/MRKT Gallery,
6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232