Contact: Ashley McLean Emenegger
ashley@bandiniart.com

Jennifer Vanderpool
Hysterical Paradise
November 1 – December 6, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 6pm – 8pm

BANDINI ART
2635 S. Fairfax Avenue, Culver City, CA 90232
Open Tuesday thru Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Phone – (310) 837.6230
http://www.bandiniart.com

Opening November 1, 2008, Bandini Art is proud to present Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Vanderpool’s Hysterical Paradise, a Technicolor, varied media, indoor garden installation that germinates a dialogue between allure and entrapment, seduction and demise.

The potential polarizing of ideals and realities is exemplified both in form and content in Hysterical Paradise. The conceptual compost heaps in her garden are collections of the artist’s past. From the heaps of refuse and memory emerge her topography of flowers made of plastic bags, duct tape, and bubble wrap blooming among towers of bedazzled Starbuck’s cup holders and to-go containers that extrude viscous trails laden with glittery treasures and shiny beads.

Her playful and vivid compositions serve as pleasant distractions to the daunting realities of wanton consumption. A darker truth lurks in the bushes of this Fool’s Paradise as the piles of discarded remnants threaten to overtake us. However the capacity for renewal lies in transforming the wisdom of our errors into a new mythology.

Jennifer Vanderpool is critically-acclaimed and highly awarded artist, most recently the prestigious international artist grant from Kunstrådet, Danish Arts Council. Her work has been shown at museums and galleries around the world. This is her second solo show with the gallery.

For the artist’s biography, statement and jpegs please contact Ashley McLean Emenegger: ashley@bandiniart.com