LA-Based Artist Kristin Calabrese Opening Living Past Your Dreams Curated by Students at The Archer School for Girls

The Eastern Star Gallery, a unique art exhibition space located on the campus of The Archer School for Girls in Brentwood, is proud to present Living Past Your Dreams, a showcase of original work by Los Angeles-based visual artist Kristin Calabrese.

A free, public gallery opening and reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, December 4 at 6:30 p.m. at The Archer School for Girls.

Rachel Karasik, Archer student in the gallery class curating the exhibit, states: “My class and I really enjoy Kristin’s artwork. It describes one’s internal feelings. I believe our community will benefit from her insight.”

“When U live past your dreams”, is there any reason to go on? That is the sentiment of the monoprint that is the title of the exhibition by Los Angeles artist, Kristin Calabrese.

Also included are some trompe l’oil paintings of bubble letters comprising sentences that appear to be magically hovering over painting supports and other monoprints, which are usually a combination of words and images, similar to Calabrese’s sketch books. The text in the prints and paintings are real feelings, derived from actual situations in Calabrese’s life – oftentimes the kind of things that would be better left unsaid, but are nonetheless true.

Born in San Francisco in 1968, Kristin Calabrese is a Los Angeles-based painter who received her MFA from UCLA in 1998. Calabrese has exhibited with Gagosian, Leo Koenig, Saatchi Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter, amongst others, and is represented by Brennan & Griffin in New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, WA, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, and the San Francisco Art Institute, CA. and is included in such prestigious collections as the Neuberger Berman, Saatchi, and the Armand Hammer Museum.

Calabrese’s Living Past Your Dreams exhibit will be on public view at the Eastern Star Gallery at Archer by appointment from December 5, 2014 to January 22, 2015. The Archer School for Girls is located at 11725 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049. To make an appointment to visit the exhibition, please call 310-873-7000.

ABOUT THE EASTERN STAR GALLERY

The Eastern Star Gallery at Archer is more than a unique space to view contemporary artwork: it is the center of a vital dialogue between artists, students, teachers, collectors, gallery directors, curators and other art-lovers who are drawn to the Archer campus. Students with an interest in curating, exhibition planning, and museum and gallery management receive an introduction to the business aspects of fine arts through off-campus excursions and visiting guest lecturers and panels of experts.

HISTORY OF THE EASTERN STAR GALLERY

By definition, the Eastern Star Gallery at Archer is a place of transformation. The space originally served as a chapel in the 1930s, offering residents a place of worship for more than six decades. During its subsequent metamorphosis, the 300-square-foot room served as a classroom and theater staging area before assuming its current life as an art gallery in 2006. Since then, this space has housed some of the most prestigious contemporary art in Southern California. In 2013, students renamed The Gallery at The Archer School for Girls as the Eastern Star Gallery at Archer, honoring the building’s historic roots as the Eastern Star Home for Women.