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MINDY SHAPERO LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions presented Not Really Here, an exhibition of new paintings by emerging Los Angeles-based artist Mindy Shapero. An opening reception took place on Saturday 10 November 2001 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. For images and additional information please call 323.957.1777. Mindy Shapero, an emerging, Los Angeles-based artist, creates paintings that are populated by curious, otherworldly creatures that seem to hide from view and peer out from the edge of the surface on which they appear. Other paintings, characterized by delicate lines punctuated by specific, amorphous shapes, seem to depict the habitats in which these creatures reside. The work of Shapero has qualities that are at once surrealistic, dreamy, and slightly sinister, as if representing the dark underbelly of a sweet and rosy fairy tale gone awry. Derived intuitively and spun together like a good yarn, loose narratives unfold within each piece, with story lines suggested through image and occasional text. Shapero's show at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions consisted of new painting and sculptural work and was her first solo presentation in this city. Support comes from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation Arts Funding Initiative, Getty Grant Program, Thornton S. Glide, Jr. and Katrina D. Glide Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the members of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
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