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Scarlett Rouge
In The Womb: Death, Birth, and
Everything In Between
Opening reception September 2, 6 to 9 pm.
Antebellum Gallery
1643 N. Las Palmas Ave. Hollywood, CA 90028
+ 1 323 856 0667 /
antebellum@earthlink.net
Hollywood, CA--Antebellum gallery is
pleased to present “In The Womb: Death,
Birth, and Everything In Between,” the
first US solo exhibition by Los Angeles and
Paris-based artist Scarlett Rouge. “In The
Womb” is a multi-media installation which
continues Rouge’s interest in archetypal and
alchemical symbologies and the metaphor of
birth as it relates to society’s capacity to
communicate and evolve.
“In The Womb” creates a narrative
questioning our most basic assumptions and
deep-seated fears through a series of
sculptures materialized in oil paintings
inside ostrich eggs, which rest upon
hand-sculpted steel pedestals. The
creations are unions of the earthly and
celestial, strength and fragility.
Accompanying the sculpture installation is a
short video art work, “Magic Trauma
Sprinkles.”
Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 6-9pm.
Please join Scarlett Rouge for additional
salon events at Antebellum:
September 10th, 7-10pm: Film Night: Magic
Trauma Sprinkles and other video art works.
September 12th, 10:30am: Yoga with Rouge
($15).
September 19th, 10:30am: Yoga with Rouge
($15).
SCARLETT ROUGE is a multi-medium
artist who lives and works in Los Angeles
and Paris. Her first performance was at age
4 holding a sign that read “Nepotism” as she
and the band “Visiting Kids” opened for Nina
Hagen in Hollywood. Over the next 23 years,
she sang, acted, painted, sculpted, modeled,
cooked, and performed. As a child, her art
practice began with a quest to discover what
God really is. She became interested in
metaphysics, quantum mechanics and Eastern
philosophies while furthering her spiritual
development through yoga and magick rituals.
Rouge says, “If I found myself in art, it
was a combination of my father’s own art
practice and my mother saying in her heavy
French accent, ‘There are no more
philosophers, only artists.’”
ANTEBELLUM is located in the heart of
Hollywood. Founded by Rick Castro in 2005,
Antebellum is steeped in Victorian nuances
with a salon style and is a casual space for
art and engaging conversation. The gallery
is intended as a hybrid of artistic,
cultural, and political iconoclasm.
Antebellum is the only fetish art gallery in
America, and perhaps the world.
Antebellum approaches the subject of fetish
as something personal to each artist. What
is their driving force? What moves their
soul?
Antebellum presents art as fetish.
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