Lost In _ _ _ _ _
October 23 - November 27, 2004
Opening October 23rd. 6-9pm

4-F
977 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA. 90012
Tel: (213) 617-4948
Email: ilove4f@hotmail.com
www.4-fgallery.com

4-F is pleased to present Lost In _ _ _ _ _, a show that gathers the work of two Los Angeles based painters, Christofer Chin (Tofer) and Amir H. Fallah.

Although disparate in the stylistic delivery of the imagery to their canvas each artists paintings attempt to deal with the notion of presumably fantastic environments, which act as a background for elusive activities and narratives that fill the foregrounds of the work. The formal qualities of the paintings attempt to draw the viewer into the compositions. Once lured, the viewer is offered the opportunity to determine the relationships existing between the multiple layers of each composition.

In some of the large and small-scale paintings by Christofer Chin (Tofer) random limbs and faceless figures seem to disappear and re-surface while eerily moving through murky fog filled landscapes. These scenarios allude to dream states where somnambulists roam undisturbed through anonymous locations. In this body of work Chin is exploring how dreams are utilized as a way to grasp onto the fragments of childhood memories often repressed in the processes of ones cycle of maturity.

Amir H. Fallah’s work takes the form of tableaux dealing with the convergence and often the collisions of multiple coming of age issues. In multiple large and small scale paintings, flat, graphic passages are mixed with faux, expressionist swatches of paint; Morrissey lyrics are side by side with detailed patterning; and love notes to female painters, professing his love for their work, are clumsily stacked on top of one another. Like Tofer’s work, Fallah’s paintings deal with adolescence and adulthood and the regressive / progressive commute between both stages.

4-F is located at 977 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 6 pm. For more information about exhibitions please visit our website at www.4-fgallery.com. If you have any questions or would like to receive an exhibition packet please contact John Souza or Brienne Arrington at (213) 617-4948 or email ilove4f@hotmail.com.