Michelle Lopez / Shirley Shor April 6 - April 30, 2023 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce a new exhibition of works by Michelle Lopez. The artist's first show at the gallery will feature drawings and sculptures in a variety of shapes, materials and colors. They reveal a process of association of common shapes from toys, machinesand the body carried through experimentation with materials common to industry and play: ceramic, fiberglass, leather and silicone. The interest generated by the layers of Lopez� process and experimentation are key: "I'm trying to create multiple narratives within a single object yet allow them to remain pretty elusive�hence the mixture of recognizable forms that are turned on their heads into something else." Michelle Lopez was recently included in the Orange County Biennial and has been invited to the San Francisco biennial exhibition Bay Area Now, and will present another new sculpture, Death Star. The product of research into the production of body prosthetics, the space-station-like sculpture opens to reveal a microcosmic landscape. Michelle Lopez received much acclaim for her body of shaped leather sculptures, developed during her residency at the Fondazione Trussardi in Milan, Italy, and shown at Deitch Projects, PS.1 and the Public Art Fund in New York. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley. Further images of Michelle Lopez' work can be seen on her website www.michellelopez.com Image above: Michelle Lopez, A Little Girl That Says Wow (detail), 2004, mixed media In Gallery II Shirley Shor will present new works in digital media, her raw material. Shor has received attention for her video screens and projections that are infinitely evolving. Her imagery is produced by computer programs. "In my work, I think about space as a verb, as an action, as a dynamic process that we are all taking part in. I recreate space by constantly changing it. I do so by injecting real time virtual elements into physical space and physical objects. The raw moments are a synthesis between the code and the territory." Shirley Shor's work was a strong feature of the Orange County Biennial where she showed new work both at the Orange County Museum of Art and its satellite video gallery, the Orange Lounge. An MFA graduate of San Francisco State, she currently maintains her studio in San Francisco. Further images of Shirley Shor's work can be seen on her web site www.shirleyshor.net Image above: Shirley Shor, Split, New Media installation, 2003 A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, April 7th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.