Meaningful October 22 - November 30, 2009
Adam Silverman | Alexis Hartman | Katsuo Design | Mike Piscitelli

Press Release & Artist Bio

Inaugural Group Exhibition:

Meaningful
October 22 – November 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 7-9pm.

POPgallery is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition, Meaningful, a multi-media group show featuring works by:

Adam Silverman
Alexis Hartman
Katsuo Design
Mike Piscitelli

POPgallery officially opens its doors with Meaningful, an exhibition highlighting four artists that inspire us in our work here at The POP Studio. In these strange and uncertain times, we are all searching for a deeper meaning. Above everything, friends are meaningful to all of us, and our inaugural artists are all friends from our past, present & future.

Meaningful will be on view at POPgallery (3505 Helms, Culver City, CA 90232) from October 22, 2009 through November 30, 2009. Gallery hours by appointment, please feel free to contact us Monday through Friday, 11am to 5pm.

About POPgallery:
We love art. We love imaginative thinking, organic experimentation, collaborative environments and the incubation of new ideas. Art inspires everything we do, and inspiration is a vital element of our daily needs. POPgallery provides an environment dedicated to artists, both emerging and established, whose work we are honored to present. Artists in all mediums are invited to show here, and our space functions as a vessel for the artist’s vision.  One hundred percent of the profits from the space go directly back to the artists.

For further information please contact Ann Gordon at tel. + 1 310 558 2080 or via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Artist Bio

Adam Silverman
Adam Silverman, born in New York, grew up in Connecticut and studied architecture, art and design at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1987) and BARCH Rhode Island School of Design (1988). After graduating Adam moved to Los Angeles where he practiced architecture, started a clothing company, and made pottery. Since September 2008, Adam has been the Studio Director of Heath Ceramics.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Nature Morte, TKG Daikanyama : Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2008); High Function, Play Mountain, Tokyo (2008); Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (2007); Lightbox project room : Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA (2007); TKG Editions : Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2006); Play Mountain Villa, Tokyo, Japan (2006); Solo Show, Flux Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2006). Group exhibitions include:

Museum of Contemporary Craft, The Ceramics of Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Portland, Oregon, USA (2008); 100 BOWLS OK, Los Angeles, CA (2008); CADESIGN07, California Design Biennial, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (2007); The Pasadena Museum of California Art, California Design 05, Second California Design Biennial (2006).

Alexis Hartman
Los Angeles-born and based artist Alexis Hartman is intrigued with the people she meets and encounters around her. Hartman’s portraits capture her subjects in a straightforward and reductive pose, letting each face’s subtleties and intricacies gently come into focus.  A lifelong obsession with visual details unfolds in Hartman’s delicate watercolor portrait studies. Alexis has contributed illustration work to Chronicle Books and the Taunton Press as well as concept catalogs for various clothing companies.

Katsuo Design
Born in Chiba, Japan, he has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2001.  As an artist, his design collaborations include working with Cosa-Nostra by Jeffery Sebelia, Habitual, Beams T, 2K by Gingham, Commonwealth Stacks, The Quiet Life, North Face, among others. His artworks and illustrations have been featured in Arkitip (US), Swindle (US), So-En (Japan), 55dsl(US), This-is-a-magazine(Italy), Re:Up (US), and +81(Japan). Most recently, his artwork has been shown at exhibitions at Beams (Japan), Paul Smith (Japan), New Image Art (US), Mu foundation (Netherlands), and Rocket Gallery (Japan). He is also the Art Director of Pencil on Paper Studio.

Mike Piscitelli
Spawned from the San Fernando Valley, Mike Piscitelli dropped out of ninth grade to pursue skateboarding, hardcore music and teenage girls. He ended up working as an assistant on porn films, which spurred his interest in photography and film. At age eighteen he moved to New York and proceeded to shoot editorials for Dazed & Confused, Another and i-D magazine. He went on to direct the SoCal Summer Campaign for MTV, which earned him a coveted Art Directors Club Award. In 2003, he moved back to Los Angeles to focus on film work and surfing. He soon found himself directing music videos for Iggy Pop, John Frusciante, Linkin Park and The Walkmen, among others. In 2006 he won Pitchfork Media's "Video of the Year" for Bonnie "prince" Billy and Matt Sweeny's "Superwolf"; in 2007 he was voted one of Print magazine's New Visual Artists. He is currently finishing work on a feature length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne, as well as shooting various editorial, advertising and personal projects.