"Learned Helplessness"
February 10 - March 10, 2007
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"Untitled" - 16" x 20"
Inkjet and acrylic on canvas
"Untitled" (If Friends Ask Questions) - 18" x 24"
Inkjet and acrylic on canvas
"Untitled" (Persistent Anxiety) - 16" x 22" (framed)
Inkjet, gouche and collage on paper
Steve Gorman
Learned Helplessness: A laboratory model of depression in which exposure to a series of unforeseen adverse situations gives rise to a sense of helplessness or an inability to cope with or devise ways to escape such situations, even when escape is possible.
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 2nd edition, ©2004, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Milo Gallery is pleased to exhibit Steve Gorman's first solo show in Los Angeles. He will be presenting a series of mixed-media works on paper and canvas using ink-jet printing, collage, acrylic, marker and colored pencil.
Pieced together from the fragments of the chaotic media landscape we all inhabit, Gorman's work is concerned with addressing the lapsed optimism and exhausted future promised by a space age that ended over thirty years ago. Cheated out of the utopian vision promised by technology, we now sleepwalk through a haze of media-induced numbness and sensory overload. The subsequent demand for psycho-pharmaceuticals, fueled by a pop psychology based on endless self-examination, has become the new frontier.
The pieces are first created as collages in a sketchbook using logos for drugs and other consumer products, diagrams from self-help books, photos of iconic media figures (such as Patty Hearst and Neil Armstrong) images pulled from the internet, as well as the artist's own drawings and photographs. The collages are then scanned and converted into digital images so that additional elements may be added or removed. They are ultimately printed on paper or canvas and subject to further intervention by hand. While striking a balance between the cool graphic design style of the 1950s and the more volatile abstract expressionist elements of the same era, (while evoking Saul Bass and Robert Rauschenberg), Gorman maps the move from outer to inner space.
Steve Gorman has exhibited in New York at White Columns and other alternative spaces, including several group shows organized by Kenny Schachter. Gorman currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
www.stevegorman.com
Featured in "Around the Galleries", LA Times, March 9, 2007, Holly Myers
Learned Helplessness: A laboratory model of depression in which exposure to a series of unforeseen adverse situations gives rise to a sense of helplessness or an inability to cope with or devise ways to escape such situations, even when escape is possible.
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 2nd edition, ©2004, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Milo Gallery is pleased to exhibit Steve Gorman's first solo show in Los Angeles. He will be presenting a series of mixed-media works on paper and canvas using ink-jet printing, collage, acrylic, marker and colored pencil.
Pieced together from the fragments of the chaotic media landscape we all inhabit, Gorman's work is concerned with addressing the lapsed optimism and exhausted future promised by a space age that ended over thirty years ago. Cheated out of the utopian vision promised by technology, we now sleepwalk through a haze of media-induced numbness and sensory overload. The subsequent demand for psycho-pharmaceuticals, fueled by a pop psychology based on endless self-examination, has become the new frontier.
The pieces are first created as collages in a sketchbook using logos for drugs and other consumer products, diagrams from self-help books, photos of iconic media figures (such as Patty Hearst and Neil Armstrong) images pulled from the internet, as well as the artist's own drawings and photographs. The collages are then scanned and converted into digital images so that additional elements may be added or removed. They are ultimately printed on paper or canvas and subject to further intervention by hand. While striking a balance between the cool graphic design style of the 1950s and the more volatile abstract expressionist elements of the same era, (while evoking Saul Bass and Robert Rauschenberg), Gorman maps the move from outer to inner space.
Steve Gorman has exhibited in New York at White Columns and other alternative spaces, including several group shows organized by Kenny Schachter. Gorman currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
www.stevegorman.com
Featured in "Around the Galleries", LA Times, March 9, 2007, Holly Myers