FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pepin Moore is proud to present its inaugural exhibition
Emilie Halpern
Eclipse
September 17th through October 23rd 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 17th, 7-9pm
All that is now
All that is gone
All that’s to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
“Eclipse”, Pink Floyd
Pepin Moore is pleased to announce Eclipse, an exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Emilie Halpern. Halpern has divided the gallery into opposing microcosms of space and time. One room represents the East and the birthplace of the sun. The opposite room represents the West and the origin of night. The work featured in Eclipse is influenced in part by Ancient Egypt, most significantly the belief in the Nile as the causeway from life to death and the afterlife. The land east of the Nile was thought to be a place of birth and the land west, a place of death. Halpern addresses this division by placing works of hope, devotion, and life in one gallery and of loss, distance, and longing in the other. The connection between these two worlds is suggested with a pair of sound works, Atlantic and Pacific, two 30-minute loops of the crashing waves from each ocean. Atlantic and Pacific originate from opposite ends of the galleries. When standing in the center of Pepin Moore, the sound of these two bodies of water can be heard in unison.
Emilie Halpern (b. Paris, France) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She holds a BA from the University of California Los Angeles and MFA from Art Center College of Design. Halpern’s work has been exhibited at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles; Art Palace, Houston; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Leo Koenig, New York, among others, and is represented by Pepin Moore, Los Angeles.
For further information, please contact the gallery at gallery@pepinmoore.com
