FELIX ART FAIR
February 13 - February 16, 2020
BAIK + KHNEYSSER presents artists Ross Rudel, Carol Kaufman, Lies Kraal, Syagini Ratna Wulan, and Michael Brewster in the Felix Art Fair.
Ross Rudel has a BA from Montana State University and an MFA from UC Irvine. Having forged an intimate understanding and relationship to natural materials and phenomenon, his works, often carved from re-claimed wood, examines the interconnections of the human experience and our organic surroundings. His work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions including, Baik Art (2017); the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2014); Jack Shainman Gallery (2010); Angles Gallery (2005); Otis College of Art and Design (2004); Ace Contemporary Exhibitions (1992); and the University of California Irvine (1985). Notable collections include, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano (Switzerland); Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Italy); the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach); The Panza Collection (Switzerland); and Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, (Varese, Italy).
Carol Kaufman grew up in Boston Massachusetts and went to Boston Museum School of Fine Arts for one year and received a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California. Her artistic practice has centered around repetitive organic gestures and gridded lines which create abstract surfaces that are experiential in and of themselves. Her process involves labor-intensive mark making with materials primarily consisting of graphite and oil paint. Works by Carol Kaufman have been included in the permanent collections of the La Coleccion Jumex Museum (Mexico City), and the Panza Collection (Milan, Italy). Her solo exhibitions have been hosted by various institutions, collectives, and galleries with highlighted venues being, Kiyo Higashi Gallery (Los Angeles, 2003); Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1980); and the Feminist Studio Workshop Gallery (Los Angeles, 1974).
Lies Kraal was born in Rotterdam and has been based in Los Angeles since the 1950’s. She has worked as a monochrome painter for decades and prefers the quiet side of life (except for some jazz and indie rock). She began practicing Zen Buddhism in 1988 which has informed her approach to minimalist painting. Since 1980 she has been showing her work both nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries including, Cmay Gallery (2017); Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles (2016); Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus Museum (Germany, 2014); La Colección Jumex Museum (Mexico City, 2002), and Kiyo Higashi Gallery (1998). She has also been included in featured permanent collections such as, The Panza Collection (Milano, Italy); the Jumex Colección (Mexico City); and the Weisman Collection (Los Angeles).
Syagini Ratna Wulan a.k.a Cagi (b. 1979) is an artist based in Bandung, Indonesia who received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Art and Design from the Bandung Institute of Technology (2001) and a Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005). She works with a non-linear visual approach throughout her career as an artist and moves around many different mediums and methodologies of presenting her ideas. More recently, she has been focusing on interplays of light, color, and perception. Syagini has been involved in numerous exhibitions domestically and abroad, such as Art Jakarta 2019 in Jakarta and ARTJOG 10: Changing Perspective (2017) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia , Art Stage Singapore 2017, as well as recent solo exhibitions Susurrus (2019), Spectral Fiction (2016) at ROH Projects, at Jakarta and ahead-of-itself-already-beingin (2017) at FOST Gallery, Singapore.
Michael Leslie Brewster was born in Oregon in 1946 and was raised as an ‘expat’ child in Brazil. He graduated from a Sao Paulo high school where he developed a love of the theatre and set design. In 1964, he returned to the United States and attended Pomona College earning a B.A. in sculpture. Brewster then obtained his M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate School in 1970. Brewster’s forty-year practice centered around acoustic works which have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at venues such as, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2002); Smith Center (Pomona College, 2000); Orange County Museum of Art (1999); Santa Monica Museum of Art (1988); and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 1985).