HERE NOW: Six Works by 6 LA Artists

Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to announce Here Now: The LA Show, a group exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artists Kristin Calabrese, Noah Davis, Ian Pines, Fran Siegel, Ali Smith and Etienne Zack.

Here Now: The LA Show will be on view March 21 - May 2, 2015 and features five large-scale paintings including new works by Davis and Zack and a mixed media sculpture by Fran Siegel. The exhibition is the gallery's first show dedicated to Los Angeles artists and represents a wide variety of styles and impulses.

Kristin Calabrese received her MFA from UCLA in 1998, she lives and works in Los Angeles. Her paintings are imbued with multiple layers of meaning. Intentionally and intensely charged with psychological implications, the canvases eerily resonate on a subconscious level. Calabrese has exhibited with Gagosian, Leo Koenig, Saatchi Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter, amongst others, and is represented by Brennan & Griffin in New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, WA, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, and the San Francisco Art Institute, CA. and is included in such prestigious collections as the Neuberger Berman, Saatchi, and the Armand Hammer Museum.

Noah Davis was born and raised in Seattle. He studied painting at Cooper Union and has lived and worked in Los Angeles since leaving school. His work explores the sadness and uncertainty of everyday life and African American history. Based on vintage photographs, art historical references, and his vivid imagination he creates psychological figurative paintings. He has an ongoing non-profit project titled Underground Museum. His paintings are in the collections at the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Rubell Family Collection in Miami, SF MOMA, and LACMA.

Fran Siegel investigates place through the activity of drawing. Sprawling collaged and spatial constructions are depictions of time, movement, and change. Siegel's drawings have recently been acquired by LACMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She represented the United States in the IX International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador. Other exhibits include the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Muzeum Stzuki in Lodz, Poland, and Nuova Icona in Venice, Italy. In the US Siegel has recently exhibited with ACME, LA Louver, and Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles, and in NY her work was included in "Slash" at the Museum of Art and Design, "Extravagant Drawing" at Dorsky Curatorial Projects and a solo exhibition at Lesley Heller Workspace. Siegel is now working with the Fowler Museum at UCLA on a Fowler in Focus exhibition in coordination with the Getty city-wide initiative PST- LA/LA and was recently awarded a Fulbright to Brazil for this project's research.

Siegel holds a Masters in Painting from Yale University School of Art and a Bachelor of Art in Art from Tyler in Philadelphia and Rome. She is currently a professor in The School of Art at California State University Long Beach.

Ali Smith lives and works in Long Beach, CA. She uses the canvas as an open space of exploration; an empty landscape that serves as the starting point for investigation into abstract terrains. Smith weaves together fleeting thoughts, moments of time, the fine lines between fact and fiction and subjective desires within her canvases, which in turn present the hopeful attitude of the artist, in the face of the realities of life and experience. Smith received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach (CA), and has since had solo exhibitions in New York, Houston and Los Angeles. She has been included in numerous group shows, including those at the Laguna Art Museum, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, and Riverside Museum. Her work is included in the collections of the Laguna Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, and Progressive.

Etienne Zack is a Canadian artist based in Los Angeles. His work considers how our collective writing of history is shaped by a reflection of those who write it, and is no less a conscious construction than the architectures which he paints and sculpts. Zack studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and Concordia University in Montreal.

Zack has been included in numerous group exhibitions internationally and his work can also be found in corporate and private collections in the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Ireland, the UK and across Canada. Solo exhibitions have been mounted at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary, Montreal, Canada; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England; Marina-Miranda, Madrid, Spain; Vision Machine, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada; Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada and Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.

His work is in institution and museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Bank of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, National Fine Arts Museum of Quebec, Surrey Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, City of Montréal, Zabludowicz Collection (London, England) and The Model Museum (Sligo, Ireland).