Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery

727 S. Spring Street

Los Angeles

"Cusp"
&
Johny Darko
"The Alchemy Collection: Time Devours All Things"

GALLERY RECEPTION
Saturday, October 22nd from 6 - 10 pm.
"Cusp"
Painting, Digital Composition printed on Aluminum, Mixed Media Collage & Sculpture.

Participating Artists: Mark Brosmer, Gronk, Karen Hansen, Cheryl Hrudka, Stan Johnson, Suki Kuss, Kathe Madrigal, Rick Robinson, Linda Stelling & Robert Toll.

Time transitions threefold – color, temperature and feeling. Our experience of time is an extension of these three - plus experience. In this exhibition, we celebrate these glorious demarcations in our psyches – unique in our impressions, expressions, and experience. As we move into Fall, we invite you to luxuriate in all your feelings, temperatures, and colors... all that is unique to you.


Johny Darko - "The Alchemy Collection: Time Devours All Things"

Since 2005, British artist, Johnny Darko, has been creating unique, one of a kind pieces with gold, copper and genuine silver leaf.

“The art of gilding in and of itself, is something that I have enjoyed for many years, however, it’s the Alchemical process of oxidizing such fragile leaf with various acids at various strengths which really excites me as an artist! The gold and copper burn, changing color and depth and a wonderful 'tarnished' effect remains... reminiscent of an old worn Chateau panel one might see throughout Europe”. When asked what inspires his work, Darko replied, “There is something very ancient inside of me. I like to refer to my art as reverse alchemy- as opposed to taking a base metal as an Alchemist would to transmute into gold, I start with a precious metal and strip it back to something much more base or dense, leaving only a trace or glimmer of the gold or genuine silver to create art that looks like it has been here for a very long time!” - Johnny Darko