NeoNatural

Claude Collins-Stracensky
Gustavo Godoy
Eben Goff
Ethan Greenbaum
Edgar Orlaineta
Letha Wilson

November 17 – December 15, 2012

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NeoNatural, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Gustavo Godoy. Vacant Marker, 2012. Cast concrete, 24 x 34 x 23 inches

Letha Wilson. Black Foliage, 2012. Concrete, c-print transfer, paint, 12 x 12 x 12 inches

Letha Wilson. Black Foliage, 2012. Concrete, c-print transfer, paint, 12 x 12 x 12 inches

Eben Goff. Sandur, 2012. Oil and wax on aluminum, 18 x 13 x 2 inches

NeoNatural, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Claude Collins-Stracensky. Untitled (fountain), 2005. Archival inkjet print, 16 x 13 inches, Edition AP #1

Claude Collins-Stracensky. Untitled (sex), 2006. Palm husk, steel, wood, paint, beeswax, cheesecloth, 48 x 68 x 32 inches

NeoNatural, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Ethan Greenbaum. To an Ending, 2012. Double-sided print on acrylic panels, 48 x 288 inches, triptych (48 x 96 inches each)

Ethan Greenbaum. To an Ending, 2012. Double-sided print on acrylic panels, 48 x 288 inches, triptych (detail)

NeoNatural, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

NeoNatural, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Edgar Orlaineta. Partial Venus, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Letha Wilson. Two by Four, 2011. C-print and wood, 24 x 16 inches

Eben Goff. Sluice Gate, 2012. Oil and wax on aluminum, 16 x 21 x 2 inches

Eben Goff. Flood Cube, 2012. Chromed steel, detritus from the Los Angeles River on concrete base, 52 x 52 x 36 inches

Eben Goff. Flood Cube, 2012. Chromed steel, detritus from the Los Angeles River on concrete base, 52 x 52 x 36 inches

Eben Goff. Flood Cube, 2012. Chromed steel, detritus from the Los Angeles River on concrete base, 52 x 52 x 36 inches (detail)

Eben Goff. Channel, 2012. Pigment and wax on aluminum, 16 x 20 x 6 inches

Eben Goff. Channel, 2012. Pigment and wax on aluminum, 16 x 20 x 6 inches

Edgar Orlaineta. Partial Venus, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Edgar Orlaineta. Partial Venus, Installation view, Steve Turner Contemporary, November 2012

Claude Collins-Stracensky. Untitled (her sex in one as apear), 2006. Cast and painted urethane, oiled walnut, 5 x 5 x 5 inches

Claude Collins-Stracensky. Untitled (fallen vine. Jefferson blvd, Los Angles), 2005. Archival inkjet print, 17 x 21 3/4 inches, Edition AP #1

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Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to present NeoNatural featuring the work of Claude Collins-Stracensky (Los Angeles); Gustavo Godoy (Los Angeles); Eben Goff (Los Angeles); Ethan Greenbaum (Brooklyn); Edgar Orlaineta (Mexico City) and Letha Wilson (Brooklyn). NeoNatural is curated by Doug Crocco.

For these six artists who live in the most populated cities in North America (Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City), nature is often contained and regulated by man. NeoNatural, while incorporating elements from nature, also reflects nature as it has been altered by urban existence.

Claude Collins-Stracensky’s Whitman-esqe, romantic understanding of nature is evident in his photographs, whether an image from a hike in the Angeles National Forest or a view of a geyser-like broken sprinkler on a city street. His work, while stemming from formalism, utilizes such natural elements as a palm frond; the arist has perched it atop a sculpted steel rod base.

Gustavo Godoy’s concrete sculptures evoke the boulders used ceremonially in ancient cultures. Constructed in Godoy’s style of hard abstraction, they fall somewhere between organic and man-made forms. Part residue from urban landscapes and part minimalist sculpture, they lay claim to two worlds.

Eben Goff’s “flood” cubes place modernism in juxtaposition to the forces of nature. These cube frames are bolted in the Los Angeles River, capturing the dross that accumulates and flows through the river, especially during rainstorms. The results are dynamic, a combination of man-made and natural debris.

Ethan Greenbaum’s work often begins with photographs of building materials or architectural surfaces found in his travels throughout New York City. This straightforward imagery is then transcribed through various abstracting filters including digital editing, flatbed printing and vacuum forming. Through this working process, Greenbaum draws connections between the blunt materiality of his sources and the imaginative space of art.

Edgar Orlaineta uses man-made objects that he finds in his everyday life as his starting point. He then manipulates them in order to re-contextualize their function and meaning. Items such as egg crates and medicine bottles are reconfigured in ways that change the objects’ forms. The results often appear as if they were naturally recurring patterns such as those found in seashells, beehives or barnacles, but they are not: the artist has created them all.

Letha Wilson’s photographic sculptures explore the contrasts between the natural world and the man-made. Wilson embeds photographs of nature into materials such as concrete, wood and Styrofoam-or conversely, those materials into photographs. These physical elements form combinations that strike a balance between abstraction and representation, landscape and architecture.