The following are individual images of works included in the show:

Lorna Macintyre
Spring, 2009
Silver gelatin print
17 3/8 x 12 ¾ x ¾ inches (44 x 32.5 x 2 cm) framed

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Greg Wilken
9 Bouquets for Kathy Fiscus, 2010
Framed litho film radiograph, book, case, and table
23 x 18 inches (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Series of 9
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Installation view of:
Greg Wilken
9 Bouquets for Kathy Fiscus, 2010
Framed litho film radiograph, book, case, and table
23 x 18 inches (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Series of 9

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Emilie Halpern
Phoenix, 2010
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper & fingerprints
13 x 14 inches (33 x 35.5 cm)
Edition 1/3
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Emilie Halpern
Sycamore, 2010
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
11 x 18 1/2 inches 27.9 x 46.9 cm)
Edition 1/3
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Emilie Halpern
Anonymous, 2010
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (29.2 x 44.4 cm)
Edition 1/3
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Lisa Tan
Deep Inside Inner Experience, 2009
C-print in artist’s frame
Two parts, 12 x 17 ½ inches (30.4 x 44.45 cm) and 12 x 10 inches (30. 4 x 25.4 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP

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Installation view of:
Lisa Tan
Deep Inside Inner Experience, 2009
C-print in artist’s frame
Two parts, 12 x 17 ½ inches (30.4 x 44.45 cm) and 12 x 10 inches (30. 4 x 25.4 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP

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Lorna Macintyre
Winter Sculpture, 2009
Branch, gold leaf, wood, steel
52 x 33 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (132 x 85 x 30 cm)
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Greg Wilken
Vanitas vanitatum; or 6 Interiors, 2010
Framed C-print, book, case, and table
17 x 20 inches (43 x 50.8 cm)
Series of 6
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Installation detail of:
Greg Wilken
Vanitas vanitatum; or 6 Interiors, 2010
Framed C-print, book, case, and table
17 x 20 inches (43 x 50.8 cm)
Series of 6

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Kris Martin
Endpoint of “Virgin Soil” (I. S. Turgenev), , 2007
Paper collage and pencil on paper
unique
22 x 17 inches (55.8 x 43.4 cm)
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Kris Martin
Endpoint of “De Architectonische Ruimte” (Dom H. van der Laan), 2007
Paper collage and pencil on paper
unique
22 x 17 inches (55.8 x 43.4 cm)
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Kris Martin
Endpoint of “Lotte in Weimar” (T. Mann), 2007
Paper collage and pencil on paper
unique
22 x 17 inches (55.8 x 43.4 cm)
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Emilie Halpern
Yoko, 2010
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
17 x 11 inches (43 x 27.9 cm)
Edition 1/3
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Copyright 2010 the Artist. Not for Reproduction.

All images Courtesy of the Artist and Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.

Emilie Halpern is represented by Pepin Moore, Los Angeles.

Lorna Macintyre is represented by Mary Mary, Glasgow.

Kris Martin is represented by Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf & Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.

Lisa Tan is represented by Andreas Grimm, Munich.

Greg Wilken is self-represented and can be contacted here. Website coming soon.

Richard Telles Fine Art

7380 Beverly Blvd.

Los Angeles 90036

323.965.5578

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

“SIGNS OF LIFE”

ORGANIZED BY GLADYS-KATHERINA HERNANDO

EMILIE HALPERN

LORNA MACINTYRE

KRIS MARTIN

LISA TAN

GREG WILKEN

JUNE 26 – JULY 31, 2010

Opening Reception, Saturday, June 26 from 5 to 7pm.

Richard Telles Fine Art presents an exhibition organized by Gladys- Katherina Hernando titled Signs of Life. The show is centered on five artists who explore photography, sculpture and ephemeral materials as representations of our cultural landscape and human experience.

We are collectors of things. Artifacts, books, ideas, they are the remnants of human existence. In our current society, we experience life not by reading the encyclopedia but through these intermediaries. The increasing speed of information and technology is impacting how humans interact with each other and with our recent past. The gathering of objects allows us to retrace our steps, whether in search of something lost, once understood, or the unknown.

The artist selected for this exhibition use discrete methods of art making to generate a pause to this momentum. The work does not seek to hide its sources; instead they retransmit our collective intellectual output in order to subdue the increasing amnesia of our history. Inspired by everyday events, meaningful texts and natural objects, the works are distilled from a mass of information into a focused meditation of formal structures and cultural fragments.

An online component will accompany the exhibition; the reader will explore the many influences and interests that have impacted the artist’s thinking and practice. The website will be accessible the on June 26^th, throughout the course of the exhibition, and as a permanent archive at www.SignsofLife10.wordpress.com.

Information on the Artists:

EMILIE HALPERN- Los Angeles-based Halpern’s evocative work examines seemingly simple treasures and objects with a keen eye for inquiry rooted in human experience. Halpern will exhibit works from a new series of discrete photographs where male and female figures are united by their interactions with natural objects and symbols found in nature.

LORNA MACINTYRE- Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Macintyre references the classical arts, fragments of the natural world, alchemy and literature in her elemental approach to sculpture and photography. Her most recent solo exhibition focused on symbolism and the representation of transcendence and transitional states, while experimenting with materials that left physical traces of change.

KRIS MARTIN- Lives in Ghent, Belgium. Martin explores faith and time through the use of drawing, photography, collage, and ready-made objects. His practice invokes a sentiment of melancholy and humor, while transforming the meaning of elements from their original function. The works presented will examine the significance of literature, dwindled down to its finest point and its inevitable ties to society and death.

LISA TAN- Lives in Brooklyn, NY and Stockholm, Sweden. Tan interprets an expansion and contraction between minor personal histories and wider public histories or contexts.  Much of her work has involved active displacement as a way of studying the relationship between lived experience and representation.

GREG WILKEN- A Los Angeles artist working predominantly in photography and film, Wilken uses forgotten historical subject matter of the “things that go missing” as his springboard. The works exist in the format of a portable book and case, as evidence of the collection of each project, shifting the creative act to the looking-for-something as opposed to the making-of-something.

For additional information, please contact info@tellesfineart.com or 323.965.5578.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5pm.

Richard Telles Fine Art

7380 Beverly Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90036

T: 323.965.5578

F: 323.965.5579

www.tellesfineart.com