David Meanix Artist s Statement. Biography

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1 David Meanix Artist s Statement Common Sense Titled in reverence to the revolutionary results of Thomas Paine's pamphlet of the same name and Peter Kingsley's navigation of philosophers Parmenides and Empedicles' meditational awareness of common sense originally a way of pointing to that which, common to all the senses, both perceives and is reality. The more photosculptures I create, the more I see perceptions become reality and create worlds anew. These new works identify how things; shape and reshape, are internalized and externalized, and reflect destiny manifest. Biography Born February 8, 1969, the eighth of nine children, David was raised Irish Catholic in the suburbs of Philadelphia. His passion for dance led from winning talent shows to exploring dance photography in high school. While studying Art at Pennsylvania and San Francisco State Universities, he experimented more with photography and dance as well as sculpture and cinema. When the one vantage point and two dimensionality of photography seemed to fall flat, he began to sculpt photographs of the human form into three dimensions.

2 David Meanix David Meanix s work combines photography and sculpture, a technique that he calls photosculpture. Meanix makes original three-dimensional portrait sculpture out of prepared photographic images, then re-photographs the sculpture in new surroundings. The resulting images powerfully transform image, identity, and place. Viewers are inevitably compelled at a personal level by his images, as they raise unexpectedly intense subconscious responses by shattering preconceptions. Meanix has pioneered a technique whereby he shoots one shot per every plane of the subject, inch by inch until I've covered all of the subject I want to sculpt. Next, I print each picture to 'actual size.' Then I match and cover the original subject with paper maché photocopies of those pictures. He then uses the finished sculptures as a mask prop, which becomes a character in a photographic tableau. Unlike traditional characters, these are charged with additional contradictions of context and authenticity. Recast using various techniques of commercial photography such as portraiture, fashion, and advertising, the resulting tableaux convey a truly remarkable sensibility. Bert Green Bert Green Fine Art

3 Born 1969 West Chester, Pennsylvania David Meanix Resume Solo Exhibitions 2008 This City, Leo Kesting, New York, NY Common Sense, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Everything Changes, Capla Kesting Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY Second Nature, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Paper Thin, Group Exhibitions 2008 Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Truthiness, Photography as Sculpture, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA The HIV Law Project Benefit Auction, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY Vitamin W: The Altared State of Wonderment, cwow, Newark, NJ 2006 Royal University of Fine Arts, Regeringsgatan 31, Stockholm, Sweden Adventures in Illegal Art, Los Angeles, CA Create/Fixate, Los Angeles, CA Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Millicent Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art Coalition, North Hollywood, CA Vision, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, CA Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, CA The Wagner Show 2, Los Angeles, CA

4 2000 Echo Park Arts Festival, Echo Park, CA Photo 12, APA (Advertising Photographers of America), Los Angeles, CA Organic Gallery, Silverlake, CA LA Gay & Lesbian Center, The Advocate Gallery 1999 Echo Park Arts Festival, Echo Park, CA 1994 Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA Education 1995 San Francisco State University, Interdisciplinary Arts Awards 2nd Place, New Photography Competition, Millard Sheets Gallery, LA County Fair, Pomona, CA Bibliography OOTN Content Blog System, David Meanix Bear Medicine, January 10, Institution, The Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Communication Arts Photography Annual 46, August, Salon.com, Six Feet s Muse, September 10, Super Magazine, Role Play, Edition #2, Winter, Eyemazing Magazine, #3, Cover artwork and interior spread, Summer ArtScene, review of Paper Thin at Circle Elephant Art, by Shirle Gottlieb Works and Conversations Magazine, #7, August Film and Television Artwork for the television series Six Feet Under, Los Angeles, CA Meanix, Short Film Documentary, directed by Craig Parish for The Creator s Show, screenblast.com

5 Selected Collectors Ken Saunders, Chicago, Christian Eimer, Mainz, Germany Pal Bylund, Stockholm, Sweden Aric Lasher, Los Angeles Frank Helmer, Los Angeles Brian Krinsky, Los Angeles Robin Ellis, Los Angeles Mark Helf, Los Angeles Gene Darnell, Los Angeles Elise Long, New York City Raymie Monaugh, New York City Gerald Saunders, Los Angeles Kevin Rettig, Los Angeles Mariko Braswell & Frank Troise, Los Angeles Paul Zaloom, West Hollywood Tony LeRoy, New York City Kenneth A. Nelson, Los Angeles Jerome Miller, New York, NY Mark Grischke, New York, NY

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ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES HELEN PASHGIAN BORN: 1934 PASADENA, CA LIVES AND WORKS IN PASADENA, CA EDUCATION: 1958 M.A. BOSTON UNIVERSITY 1956-57 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1956 B.A. POMONA COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CA AWARDS: 1995 HALL OF FAME,