Miran Kim, Danni Shinya Luo, Kim Scott, Transmission Atelier at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Miran Kim
Danni Shinya Luo
Kim Scott
Transmission Atelier

Feb. 5 - 28, 2010
Artist reception: Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 ~ 8 pm - 11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

Miran Kim “Uncomplicated Treats”
Miran Kim creates haunting imagery, which is luminous, beautiful and insightful. Her most recent body of work, titled “Uncomplicated Treats,” gives expression to the ties between the living and the dead. She opens a door to the world beyond, delves deep into the uncharted waters of her imagination, and finds joy in the mysterious transmigration of souls. The work grants us access to the tender yet sometimes terrifying landscape of this other, hidden world.

Miran’s work has been included in several group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Her talent for visual storytelling is revealed in numerous comic book projects, most recently “Tales From the Crypt #8” and an exclusive insert in the companion book to feature film “Trick ‘R Treat.” She has an established reputation as a cover artist for The X Files comics, and other projects such as Hellraiser, Animal Man, The Crow, The Predator, Candy Man and her graphic novel “The Fallen.” Miran’s work appeared in the Absolut Vodka campaign and was titled “Absolut Kim.” Additional images and details can be found at boyinthewater.com

Danni Shinya Luo - “Spiritual Deficiencies”
Danni Shinya Luo’s main subjects are meditations on the beauty of female figures, and the psychological tension that exists between them. She acquires her inspiration from a variety of topics varying from human fears, obsessions, and desires to elements of nature, cosmology, neurolinguistics and high fashion. Her main medium is watercolor with ink, and few other eclectic mediums. Overall, Danni Shinya's work can be described as fluid and organic, full of feminine romance with hidden conflicts and symbolic elements. “Spiritual Deficiencies” is a strong collection of stand-alone works each exploring weakness of a psychological nature. Figurative characters become living, breathing sigils — enriching the surface narrative while revealing a series both beautiful and iconic.

Originally from Shanghai, China, Danni Shinya Luo moved to California in 1995. She fell in love with art in grade school and after a few years of private study (and an apprenticeship with an old Chinese watercolor master Ding Ha) was accepted into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She majored in illustration and graduated with honor in 2006. Shinya has assisted artists Gary Baseman, Karl Handael, and has exhibited in galleries throughout North America. Her works have appeared in magazines like Bust and Initiativa, in books like “Eye Candy," and she has done designs for Nickelodeon’s Neopets. Shinya loves to support other talented female artists, and has been a member of Girls Drawin’ Girls since 2006.

Kim Scott “Peep Holes and Magic Windows”
Kim Scott’s oil vignettes are inhabited by unlikely feminine protagonists who may be spying on you, or are they just caught like a deer in the headlights of some dreamy potentates gaze? They live in a land much as ours, located somewhere between vanity, impermanence and the sublime. Scott depicts figures and objects sourced from monster and Sci-fi movies, comics and books she read as a child, mythology, high gothic, surreal, Tibetan and Mexican painters, travel to exotic places, dreams and meditation, hallucinations brought on by illness, nightmares, chemical ingestion and the ragged and beautiful artifacts seen in museums. Scott finds images and ideas in scientific studies of the past and mixes in joy, humor and beauty with the horrible and mysterious, because that is her experience of life. Her paintings are self portraits.

Scott has created art nonstop from the time she was a child, watching TV sci-fi and playing dress up fantasies in thrift store evening gowns. In her 20s, she figured out how to get out of the country and answer the call to adventure. She has traveled to 22 countries and set up a studio in India for almost two years. Scott has studied with several Photo Realist artists in the 70's, Including Gary Pruner and Mel Ramos. Her work is included in many collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, The Burkhart Collection, the Judy Barnett collection and the Lisa Maclaine collection in New Zealand, The Center for Celular and Molecular Study in Hydrobad India, The Bud Cort Collection, other collections in the USA, England, Germany and India. Scott currently teaches art at the Short Center North, an arts centered day program for adults with developmental disabilities located in Sacramento California.

Transmission Ateliter - If The Shadows Could March
(Anatomical illustrations and religious allegory, 16th - 19th Century)
In the spirit of the art printers of 19th century Europe, leveraging the most advanced - modern digital imaging methods, Transmission Atelier is a publisher and a fine art printmaker producing superior quality art and photo editions. Based in Chicago, the studio works with artists, galleries, museums, dealers and collectors. Transmission Atelier was founded by James Kay a native Chicagoan, James began as a commercially trained photo-engraver and Photo-lithographer at the age of 15. With over 25 years in the Graphics Industry, James has transitioned his expertise from the production of commercially printed graphic art to fine art photography, publishing, and digital pigment based print making.

"If Shadows Could March" will feature high end facsimile edition prints of antique anatomical illustration from the 18th and 19th century. Each edition is made from the original source material from the Transmission Atelier Library or from loaned works from private collectors. The engraving and printing techniches used by the artists on these original works is of astonishing craftmanship and is all but a completely lost art form. Transmission Atelier has retained all of the original detail, color and even the flaws in the antique paper. The overall quality of an Digital edition print, from color accuracy to fine to microscopic detail, is dependent upon the digital capture methodology. In this area Transmission Atelier is equipped with the most advanced digital capture and imaging technology as well as 3 decades of color communication, scanning and print premedia experience. In the spirit of European Print Making studios of the 18th and 19th century, Transmission Atelier will cycle through as many as 10 rounds of proofing to ensure that each edition is identical to and indistinguishable from the original source material.