Final Swing | Repeat

January 31 - March 11, 2023

The Coastine Art Gallery presents Final Swing | Repeat. The exhibition visually examines how far we can push things before everything collapses in on itself and we have to start all over again.

A pendulum loses its momentum over time, but like any kid knows if you pump your legs on the swing you can continue the ebb and flow of movement perpetually. Pushing the limits further can result in a failure of the whole system. How long until we have reached the horizon, that edge of possible? Eventually, our seat will collapse, and we have to start over from the beginning?

On view in the Coastine Art Gallery: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 10am - 2pm (or by appointment).

Opening Reception

• Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
• Time: 5 - 7pm (PST)
• Location: Coastine Art Gallery | 1515 Monrovia Ave., Newport Beach, CA 92663

Closing Reception

• Date: Saturday, March 11, 2023
• Time: 5 - 7pm (PST)
• Location: Coastine Art Gallery | 1515 Monrovia Ave., Newport Beach, CA 92663

Sneak Peek

Sample of artwork by Jorg Dubin, Jeffrey Gillette, Lawrence Gipe, and Andre Woodward.

Biographies

Jorg Dubin b. 1955

Jorg Dubin has had a four decade plus career as a working painter, sculptor, ceramist and a production designer. Dubin studied painting at the Art Institute of Southern California with LA based painter, Stephen Douglas, and sculpture and design with Kris Cox and Richard White. Dubin is currently a mentor and advisor in the MFA program at the Laguna College of Art and Design, where he formerly taught advanced figure painting. He has designed and fabricated over ten public art works and has worked as an art director and production designer on seven films for O Entertainment. He currently maintains a painting and sculpture studio in Laguna Beach, CA.

Jeff Gillette b. 1959

Jeff Gillette is known for his paintings that juxtapose Disney characters with dystopian landscapes rife with landfills and slums. His works blend 20th-century cartoon illustration and traditional European oil painting techniques while highlighting the global economic disparities caused by 21st-century capitalism. Gillette’s subversive style was crystalized in the 2010 solo exhibition “Dismayland,” widely credited as the inspiration for Banksy’s 2015 apocalyptic theme park installation “Dismaland.” The infamous street artist used Gillette’s painting Minnie Hiroshima (2015) as the official poster for “Dismaland” and invited him to participate in an exhibition at the so-called bemusement park alongside artists like Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer. Gillette draws inspiration from his travels throughout India and Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer. His works have been exhibited in Los Angeles, London, and Singapore.

Lawrence Gipe b. 1962

Lawrence Gipe’s work ranges across the disciplines of painting, drawing, curating, video and archive-driven installations. The narratives that bind them are themes of power, propaganda, and a desire to analyze semiotics and codes of meaning in visual culture. Gipe’s latest work, the “Russian Drone Paintings”, employs the visual style of “Manifest Destiny” canvases of the 19th Century, in a reference to the Industrial Revolution - the historical origin of all our ecological peril. The image sites and sources are contemporary, derived from screenshots of drone footage posted by the now-censored RT news service run by the Russian government. Gipe has had 60 solo exhibitions in US galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Munich, Berlin, Düsseldorf (Kunstverein Düsseldorf). Currently, he splits his time between Los Angeles, CA, and Tucson, AZ, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of Arizona.

Andre Woodward b. 1977

Andre Woodward’s work focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and humanity, using a mixture of man-made and natural materials, inspired by the unique dynamics of the Southern California landscape. Woodward received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine and a Master of Fine Art degree in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach. Woodward’s major recent exhibitions include those held at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, the Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga; the Huntington Beach Art Center and several collaborations with Californian colleges. In 2012 Sculpture Magazine dedicated its cover to the artist.