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DO NOT AVERT YOUR EYES

DO NOT AVERT YOUR EYES

Traver Gallery Artists Exhibition

Sep 3 - Sep 26

Traver Gallery is excited to announce our September exhibition, Do Not Avert Your Eyes. With this exhibition, we are thrilled to announce our representation of Scott Fife and Patti Warashina, two beloved and renowned artists from the Pacific Northwest. Fife and Warashina will be exhibiting sculptural works alongside Jamex and Einar de la Torre, and Lynn Whitford, artists who have long been part of the Traver Gallery family. All the artists in this show use sculpture, figuration, and language to explore and comment on current social and political issues.

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JAGUAR | 32406
JAGUAR | 32406, 2020
archival cardboard and ink
14"h x 16"w x 24"d
$12,500
WERE WULF | 32407
WERE WULF | 32407, 2007
archival cardboard, ink, and red pencil
25"h x 25"w x 34"d
$15,000
ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EZRA POUND IN SLEEPING BAGS | 32408
ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EZRA POUND IN SLEEPING BAGS | 32408, 2016
archival cardboard and ink
$24,000 each
CALIFORNIA CONDOR, LAMB AND BALD EAGLE | 32410
CALIFORNIA CONDOR, LAMB AND BALD EAGLE | 32410, 2020
ink on paper
84"h x 54"w
$3,500
BALD EAGLE TALONS | 32409
BALD EAGLE TALONS | 32409, 2020
ink on paper
55"h x 51"w
$2,000
RABBIT TEST | 29664
RABBIT TEST | 29664, 2013
mixed media
31.5"h x 12.5"w x 11"d
$15,000
CROSSROADS | 32401
CROSSROADS | 32401, 2018
low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, steel
65"h x 28"w x 28"d
$52,000
THE FIRE THIS TIME | 32413
THE FIRE THIS TIME | 32413, 2020
copper, wood shelf
15.5"h x 19"w x 11.5"d
$3,600
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  • JAGUAR | 32406, 2020
    archival cardboard and ink
    14"h x 16"w x 24"d
    $12,500
  • WERE WULF | 32407, 2007
    archival cardboard, ink, and red pencil
    25"h x 25"w x 34"d
    $15,000
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EZRA POUND IN SLEEPING BAGS | 32408, 2016
    archival cardboard and ink
    $24,000 each
  • CALIFORNIA CONDOR, LAMB AND BALD EAGLE | 32410, 2020
    ink on paper
    84"h x 54"w
    $3,500
  • BALD EAGLE TALONS | 32409, 2020
    ink on paper
    55"h x 51"w
    $2,000
  • RABBIT TEST | 29664, 2013
    mixed media
    31.5"h x 12.5"w x 11"d
    $15,000
  • CROSSROADS | 32401, 2018
    low-fire clay, underglaze, glaze, steel
    65"h x 28"w x 28"d
    $52,000
  • THE FIRE THIS TIME | 32413, 2020
    copper, wood shelf
    15.5"h x 19"w x 11.5"d
    $3,600
  • About
    Scott Fife

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Scott Fife follows in the footsteps of Pop artists from the 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the fads and fascinations of American culture and using non-traditional materials to create his sculptures. Beginning with commercial products, he turned to objects from everyday life and also created a series of portraits of celebrities all fashioned using archival cardboard, glue, and screws. To give these simple things greater cachet, Fife often recreates them at an exaggerated scale making them literally larger-than-life.

  • Einar and Jamex
    de la Torre

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Mexican-born artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre are brothers and artistic collaborators, who moved to the United States from Guadalajara, Jalisco in the early 1970’s.  Leaving behind the academic, religious and social rigors of an all-boys Catholic school in 1960’s Guadalajara, the de la Torre brothers ended up in the small Southern California surf town of Dana Point, where they discovered the unbridled joys of co-ed public schools.

While attending California State University at Long Beach in the 80’s, they studied sculpture and glass blowing, during which time the artist-brothers began a flame-worked glass figure business.  This business was quickly eclipsed when their artistic collaboration began in earnest in the late 1980’s with small mix media works.  In the late 1990’s, they began to do large-scale sculptural installations, eventually branching out into commissioned site-specific and public art projects.

Currently, the brothers live and work on both sides of the San Diego-Baja California border, enjoying a bi-national life style that very much informs their art.  Einar and Jamex de la Torre have worked, taught and exhibited both nationally, as well as internationally. Their distinctive three-dimensional work can be found in galleries, museum collections, Museum catalogs, as well as in various public art installations.

  • Patti Warashina

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The human figure has fascinated ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina for most of her 55+ year art career. Her sustaining interest in the human figure is likely due to the fact that her own body is the closest resource from which she draws her ideas. The use of the body gives affirmation to Warashina’s own daily existence, and serves as the subject of her own “visual diary” which, for Warashina, is a reminder, reflection, and observation of personal time and the civilization in which she lives. Warashina draws from her daily life and has an abnormal interest in the absurdity and foibles of human behavior, in which her figures have become the actors in her introspective narratives.

  • Lynn Whitford

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I have now been doing hollowware – hammering 3D forms out of flat sheet metal – for nearly 30 years. It is a very slow process but satisfies my need to do something expressive, which involves both mind and body in a kind of conversation.  What has remained constant in my work is an interest in the beauty of ordinary objects, and in the way objects can seem to have a life of their own and to connect us to fragments of our history.  I usually conceive of the bottles in relationship to one another:  as we are highly social, so are they.  Some are explicitly stand-ins for humans, others less so. What is different in this new work is the addition of words to many of the bottles.  The relationship of objects and language has always interested me, but the only evidence of this in my work was in the titles.

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