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Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to be participating in ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY

Opening Preview Thursday, January 19
Barker Hanger – Santa Monica, CA

Work will be on display by PETER ALEXANDER | ADAM BELT | MEL BOCHNER | KELSEY BROOKES | JOHANNES GIRARDONI | THOMAS GLASSFORD | FRANCESCO LONGENECKER | JEAN LOWE | LEE MATERAZZI | RYAN MCGINNESS | EVE SUSSMAN | THÓR VIGFÚSSON |

Art Los Angeles Contemporary – now in its third year, is the International Contemporary Art fair of the West Coast.

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750 West Fir Street
San Diego, CA 92101

Look forward to celebrating with you all soon!

Quint Contemporary Art will be participating in this year’s ART SAN DIEGO | Contemporary Art Fair. Come by and visit us at booths 25 & 33!

September 2 – 5, 2010
Hilton San Diego Bayfront San Diego, CA

ADAM BELT | MEL BOCHNER | KELSEY BROOKS | STEPHEN P. CURRY | ROMAN DE SALVO | MANNY FARBER | THOMAS GLASSFORD | JAY JOHNSON | JEAN LOWE | KIM MACCONNEL | RYAN MCGINNESS | JOHN MCLAUGHLIN | ROY MCMAKIN | TAVARES STRACHAN | and more!

Kelsey Brookes intricately assembles large iconlink images from countless minute paintings of beings and things that maybe related to the central subject or may not. Inside the form of a trumpeting elephant’s head or a dancing female figure, the viewer may come upon cartoonish creatures with boxy mouths and big ears, snippets of text, eyeballs with links to Buddhist and Hindu iconography, and a wide assortment of other curiosities. The overall effect is pleasingly maximalist.

Brookes’s technique suggests affinities with Ryan McGinness and Shepard Fairey. And like those artists, Brookes is a crossover figure. Straddling the worlds of graphic design and art, he has attracted a fan base from the surf and skate cultures for his illustration work. But this exhibition, “Bigger, Brighter, Bolder,” with 12 large paintings and an assortment of tiny ones, demonstrated that Brookes isn’t content simply to adapt his established style to canvas. The imagery here was looser, more painterly and the array of symbolic forms more expansive.