Black Rabbit, White Hole at Samuel Freeman in LA

Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles is presenting
Black Rabbit, White Hole
, a group exhibition featuring artists based in and outside of Los Angeles, including
Chapman art
professors
Michael Dopp
and
Isaac Resnikoff,
Saturday, March 2 – Saturday, April 6, 2013. Opening reception is on March  2 from 6 – 9 p.m.

This art exhibit spans from photography, painting, sculptural, and mixed media works. The exhibition takes on—and reverses—the common literary tropes of the black hole and the white rabbit.

Much has been said about
black
holes.  As a conundrum of space-time and literary metaphor, it is well accepted that a black hole pulls light and matter into eternal oblivion.   Far more perplexing than the black hole’s endless void, however—and almost never referenced—the theoretical ‘white hole’ is its perfect inverse, with matter and luminescence endlessly escaping, but no point of entry or starting point for that light, whatsoever.  In a similar fashion, within the realm of magic, folklore and symbology, the rarely mentioned black rabbit gets overlooked in favor of its docile, omnipresent white counterpart, yet should be considered a more intriguing foil.  Fast, elusive, sometimes ominous, and easily camouflaged into darkness, the black rabbit is slippery.

For additional information, please contact director Amy Thoner at
amy@samuelfreeman.com
or call 310-425-8601.