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For Immediate Release – Los Angeles, October 2, 2007

Boston Based Artist Premiere Los Angeles Solo Show with Painting Installation

Pixnit – “Pollination”

Reception for the artist: October 27, 2007  
6pm – 10pm
Show Ends: December 1, 2007

PIXNIT’s 2007 international street-art project culminates with a solo exhibition at Gallery Revisited. We are very excited to host this emerging international artist and to promote this fresh approach to an already vital and important part of the Los Angeles artistic landscape.

This project and exhibition proposes to cross the boundary between the ephemeral urban exterior and the semi-permanent gallery setting. PIXNIT’s solo show is comprised of wall paintings and smaller integrated works on canvas. These mixed media paintings on canvas speak to grotesque beauty and refined excess using contrasting gestures and an unapologetic color palette. Also on view will be the “Flora File”, the on going photo-documentation of PIXNIT street installations. Visitors to the show will be invited to take a stencil home and participate in the project.

Using ironic means of expression, PIXNIT's work transcends graffiti sociopolitical traditions by embracing and practicing the urban guerrilla sensibility using covert installation methods. Furthermore, the imagery used solidifies the concept of reconfiguring iconic notions of beauty.  The main components of the work called “Spores” are intricate ornamental floral patterns that are based on imagery traditionally used in interior design dating back to the 1800’s. The Spores propose an irony by literally bringing the interior to the outside, challenging our understanding of the urban landscape. Her work confronts us and questions what we believe to be threatening or what we feel is comforting in our environment.

Using a combination of large hand-cut stencils and stickers, PIXNIT made marks this past Spring/Summer in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Italy. In Basel Switzerland, she was invited to install a 30-foot painting titled “L’Etat C’test Moi (I am the State)” for the SCOPE Art Fair, pictured here.

PIXNIT is a formally trained artist based in Boston who has been painting since 1989. A January 2007 feature article in the Boston Globe profiled her work and sparked repeated commentary and dialogue. PIXNIT is participating in the Boston Superheroes Project proposed to hit Basel Miami this year.

Gallery Revisited focuses on content driven accessible art. November celebrates our 4th year of launching emerging artists with an emphasis on curated newsworthy shows.