Anneke Eussen
Anneke Eussen
Anneke Eussen
Closing January 29 - Anneke Eussen: Close to What's Real at Highlight Gallery. Christy Chan in The Bold Italic recently wrote a piece about the awesome alternative art spaces Bay Area residents have created within their own homes to show art, among them 667 Shotwell, Unspeakable Projects, and Highlight Gallery. I had just had Highlight strongly recommended to me by an acquaintance as well, so I made the pilgrimage out to Pacific Heights during the gallery's open hours last Saturday. Owners and curators Amir and Emmanuelle Mortazavi were literally running out the door to attend Art Los Angeles Contemporary when I arrived, but they paused to welcome me and show me a few of Anneke Eussen's pieces in their downstairs exhibition space. Highlight is concentrating on artists from Belgium in its first year (future countries will also get a year each), and Eussen joins an exhibition roster that has included Filip Dujardin, Christophe Coppens, and Renato Nicolodi so far. Eussen herself is not constrained by any one genre, displaying oversized colored pencil drawings tinged with shadows and unexpected textures in one room and an installation of a linked chain net draped over a floating metal pipe in another. Her Guests photographs, documenting sculptures composed of hotel room contents and of the hotel guests themselves, play with vision and perception. She has mounted the photos as transparencies on mirrors so that the people within the images seem to float, slightly displaced. Her work is like that: it attracts you, draws you closer, and then cleverly tweaks the plot.
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