A WINTER FOLK ART SHOW
Gin Stevens
December 3, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd; 8-11 PM
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With this current exhibition Gin Stevens looks at and reinterprets his 2001 exhibition with La Luz De Jesus Gallery in which he traced the history of the Blues tradition in 30 portraits and culminated in a large scale work tracing the history with a tree dotted by small portraits of the three distinct genres of Blues music: Chicago, Delta, and Texas. With this new body of work Gin focuses even more on the portrait and images of these icons. Gin creates a photo-realist quality to the work, while at the same time using small intricately drawn vignettes of times gone by to create his own romanticized view of these musicians and hardships they went through creating their art. Gin Stevens works and lives in Los Angeles and has exhibited with La Luz De Jesus Gallery on a number of occasions. When he is not working for The Man, Gin likes to relax with his lady and dabble in witchcraft and board games.
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