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1UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY
8/17-8/31 Pasadena, CAT
his summer, Arcadia Contemporary
will host one of its most anticipated
exhibitions of the year, Five and Under.
The show, on view from August 17 through
31, will feature artwork from international
artists all priced at $5,000 or less.
“While the gallery seeks out talent that
may not yet be recognized in addition to
presenting work by its roster of artists, it
also makes great efforts to present works
from artists who have not previously exhib-
ited in the United States,” says gallery
president Steven Diamant. “The exhibition
provides our collectors with an opportu-
nity to ‘discover’ artists that may become
their new ‘favorites’ and allows them the
opportunity to see this work firsthand as
opposed to on a computer screen.”
Among the artists exhibiting this year
are Lee.K of Korea; Israeli artist Dana
Zaltzman; Russian artist Alexander
Chistov, who lives in the United States;
Julio Reyes, Jesse Stern and Cesar
Santander of the United States; English
artist Edward Povey; Hans van der
Leeuw of the Netherlands; and Australia’s
Loribelle Spirovski.
Stern’s drawing Impulse Response IIdepicts hands holding open scissors
around one finger—the outcome is left up
to the viewer’s imagination. In explainingthe piece, Stern says, it is about “dangerous
impulses.” He adds, “Impulses that run
contrary to our natural instinct for self-Great Discoveries
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