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"Photography, painting, and discarded building materials collide in Kevin Appel's latest canvases, now on view at Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, California. In his most recent series, the artist grounds his work in photographs he took in the California desert, many depicting a tangled mass of what appears to be detritus from construction sites. Bent rebar seems to swirl amid dust and desert scrub, a strangely inorganic presence in a vast barren landscape. On top of these images Appel paints strips of color and gridlike patterns, each layer acting as a screen that muddles the original photograph. The process of entering Appel's paintings thus becomes one of dissection, as viewers traverse obscured visual planes to the wasteland beneath.\n\nThrough November 2 at Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California; cgrimes.com\n\nPinterestFacebook*Untitled (rebar 10),* 2013, Kevin Appel."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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