JTAG Presents Joshua Tree Highlands artist Residency Exhibition 2012

Aug. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency 2012

Joshua Tree Art Gallery Presents JTHAR Exhibition 2012
August 17th -19th Opening Reception Saturday August 18th 6 -8PM
61607 29 Palms Hwy. Joshua Tree, Ca.
www.joshuatreeartgallery.com
www.jthar.com

2012 Recipients:

GER GER - Media Artist and Photographer
www.gerger.com

My works here are very site-specific. It's all about the place and the process. Being part of the environment for a point in time, creating ephemeral sensor based playgrounds but also working on many smaller conceptual works. The biggest impact on my body of work here might be the ever present (even though blurred) borders between human and nature. I try to have a very childish and naive view on things and to forget about every single detail I might already knew. It also means seeing Joshua trees as people. I fell in love.

RACHEL OSTROW – Painter
www.rachelostrow.com

Rachel Ostrow's paintings use the relationship between abstraction and representation to be suggestive; to provoke thought and to engage the viewer's imagination.  Her process is like an improvisational dance.  It is activated by intuition and relies on chance.  She combines the movement of mark-making with layers of activity and reduction to ultimately create form and space.  The peacefulness of the desert and the vastness of the landscape have invigorated her paintings with a spirit of calm and openness.  

LAURA FRANTZ - Painter
www.http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/laura-frantz.

Laura Frantz is an artist based in New York City.  During her time in Joshua Tree, she has been making paintings that synthesize her daily observations of the landscape  into abstract compositions.  These paintings bring together many contradictions: illusionistic space versus the flatness of the canvas, organic tones versus synthetic colors, the contained versus the infi