FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA.

The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present the inaugural exhibition of the Opus Projects, a new special projects program of video and film installations which is curated by Kaycee Olsen of the Paul Kopeikin Gallery. This inaugural exhibition featuresthe video and sound installation Anna Moore, by Julie Orser, marking her first Los Angeles solo exhibition.

The Opus Projects will be on view at the Domestic project space located adjacent to the Paul Kopeikin Gallery. This will be in conjunction with the extended exhibition of Jody Zellen’s new series of works on paper and video installation titled Of a Lost Utopia, on view at the main gallery space of the Paul Kopeikin Gallery.

These exhibitions open Saturday, June 30 and runs through July 28, 2007.  A reception with the artists will take place on Saturday, June 30, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  The reception is free and open to the public.  The gallery is located at 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, just west of Fairfax.  For information call (323) 937-0765.

In the video and sound installation, Anna is fractured across three video projections and one audio track engaging the viewer in the formation of character and her positions within a narrative. In one video projection Anna repeats everyday actions in an endless loop as the video frame slips back in time revealing glimpses of a mysterious and altering event. Another video portrays Anna in an unexplained cycle of fury and distress. At the same time a third video expresses Anna’s sexual desire in a slow colorful fantasy. Throughout the installation Anna’s disembodied voice addresses the viewer while recalling events past. The subjectivity of Anna Moore’s character is created through the combination of these components and the viewer’s cinematic imagination and history.

Anna Moore considers the subjectivity of Anna Moore as a character depicted within the post-war era genres of psychological melodrama and film noir. These films ranging from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s illustrated female characters in very distinct, yet contradictory, ways that echoed the larger issues and fears concerned with the roles of women in the post-war society. The characters within these films were frequently portrayed as compliant, sexually repressed, hysterical, or as independent, aggressive femme fatales, often within the same film. Anna Moore combines the film genre framework with structuralist investigations of cinematic codes, mise-en-scene, character, and narrative. The work explores how historic aspects of setting, camera movement, framing, costumes, props, lighting, gesture, music, and the voice-over influence our assumptions about character and story.

Anna Moore
Three-channel video & sound installation
6 min. loop, 2007

Director, Producer, Editor, Art Director, and Sound Design: Julie Orser
Cast: Anna – Sarah Kraft & Voice of Anna – Leelee Grant
Assistant Director: Jon Irving
Camera Assistant: Carol Gehring
Hair & Make-Up Artist: Kim Donohue
Voice-Over Script: Jon Irving
Crew: Carol Gehring, Jon Irving, Jennifer L.Porter, Matt Sobel, Natasha Subramaniam
Still Photography Assistants: Carol Gehring & Natasha Subramaniam
House Location: Carol Moore, Herb Thompson, Nina Thompson
Office Location: Studio 528 Spring Arts Tower - Deborah Martin
Additional Art Direction: The home of Herb Thompson & Nina Thompson
Music: Appropriated excerpts from Franz Waxman, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, Peyton Place
Appropriated excerpts from David Raksin, Laura
Special Thanks: Jon Irving, Matt Lipps, Jennifer L. Porter

Born 1974 in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2005 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1997 - 1998 Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Anna Moore, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Moore, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2005 Occurrence At Lookout Rock, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2004 The Upstairs Room, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Orange Coast College, CA
2003 Fracture Line, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
An Exchange, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2002 An Exchange, Interactive Media Arts Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2000 Water and Sound Installation, (collaboration w/ Katy Clove), Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Museum of Shhh, (collaboration w/ Katy Clove & Ken Fisher), Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Liquid Light Fragments, Garage Gallery, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles and Saint Petersburg, Galleriet G18, Helsinki, Finland
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Exhibition,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006 At Home in the World, Curated by Elise Barclay, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
Fair Exchange, Curated by Irene Tsatsos and Glenn Phillips, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Contemporary, Curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
TOMMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Curated by Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Action Adventure, CANADA, New York, NY
VideoMixTape5, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
SIGNAL CHANNEL: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Curated by Bari Ziperstein, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
11:59, Curated by Parker Jones, Compact/Space, Los Angles, CA

2005 A Single Channel Video Show, Glendale Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Dis/Connect, South La Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA
GREATER LA MFA: A Student-To-Student Invitational Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
Shipping & Receiving: The CalArts MFA Thesis Show, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
Supersonic: LA Design Center, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Sweet Substitute, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004 Soft Emergencies, VU Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
MID-RES, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003 Transit, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Stratum, Soundvision Gallery, Portland, OR
The Audible Still-Life, (collaboration with Jon Irving) Stasis_Space Online Exhibition
1999 Thesis Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

SCREENINGS
2007 Second Nature, Fette Gallery, Culver City, CA
Los Angeles Video Art, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia
Stranger than Fiction-Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2006 FilmLichter 06, International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany Contemporary Film Series: Spark Video Program, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Spark Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
Video Picnic, Me & You Variety Candy, Los Angeles, CA
Stranger than Fiction, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Signal Channel, Reel 1, Curated by Echotrope, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
The Visuals, Curated by Echotrope, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
5th PDX Film Festival, Peripheral Produce Invitational, Portland, OR
44th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Film & Video from Portland Oregon, Curated by Claire Fowler, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
Underground Art Mafia goes to…BED, Curated by Susanne Reichling, New York, NY
2005 No Heroics Please, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
You Promise, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004 RHZ Amateur Radio Network, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Los Angeles, CA
SFEMF, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), San Francisco, CA
Slipping, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Bijou Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 NEAMO, Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Portland, OR, & S.D.S.U., San Diego, CA
Eso Steel, irving + orser, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Soundvision Gallery, Portland, OR
A Night of Moving Images, Nada Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Charm Bracelet, Portland, OR
22nd Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
1999 Peripheral Produce at Cinema 21 and Peripheral Produce at The Lab, Portland, OR

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Visual Arts, Portland Mercury, by Chas Bowie, Portland, OR, Arts Calendar, January 18, p.36
2006 World Piece, Pasadena Star-News, by Priscilla Fleming, December 8 (reproduction)
A Play on Action at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, ArtWeek, by Annie Buckley, June 2006, p.18
I-80 Cultural Exchange, City Weekly Omaha NE, by Michael Joe Krainak, May 3
2005 Where’s the Crazy, It’s college: ‘Greater LA MFA’ should be more insane, OC Weekly, by Rebecca
Schoenkopf, Vol.10 No.52, September 2005
2004 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2004, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), The Wire, by Richard Henderson, Issue 248, October 2004, p.80
2003 Video molds lasting image, Santa Clarita Daily News, by Eugene Tong, Valencia CA, News,
December 28 (reproduction)
Visual Reviews, Portland Mercury, by Chas Bowie, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, April 10, p.35
2002 Eso Steel, irving + orser, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Willamette Week, by John Graham, Portland, OR, Electronic, December 18, p31                 
2001 Constant Chatter and Minor Interruptions (Film), Four Featured Portland Filmmakers, Jantzen Swim Wear Promotional CD, Portland, OR (reproduction)
1997 Julie Orser, Willamette Week, by D.K. Row, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, September 10, p63

CATALOGS
2007 Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles, CA (reproduction)
2006 Fair Exchange, The Souvenir Catalog to the Exhibition at the 2006 L.A. County Fair, Curated by Irene Tsatsos and Glenn Phillips, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA (reproduction)
Editorial, Filmlichter 06 International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany (reproduction)

LECTURES
2007 Artist Lecture, fem-in-art, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Talk, Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, March 31
Gallery Talk, Anna Moore, Feldman Gallery Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, January 31
2006 Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 28                 
Panel Discussion, A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, hosted by The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA, April 1
2005 Nomad & Residence, ART2102, Los Angeles, CA, May 21
2002 Visiting Artist, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR, March 12                 
2000 Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 10                 
1999 Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 8                 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 troooz, ART OFFICE at Show Cave Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Force of Nature, ART OFFICE in the Project Space, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Look, Win, Get It On, ART OFFICE at UCLA Department of Art, EDA, Los Angeles, CA

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007 Instructor, Beginning New Genres, UCLA Department of Art Summer Session
2006 – Present Co-Director of ART OFFICE for Film + Video, Los Angeles, CA
2005 – Present New Genres Lab Supervisor, University of California Los Angeles, CA
2004 – 2005 Lead Coordinator forShipping & Receiving: The CalArts MFA Thesis Show

RESIDENCES
2001 – 2002 Artist in Residence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2001 Filmmaker in Residence, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2006 1st Place Peripheral Produce Invitational World Championship V, PDX Film Fest, Portland, OR
Directors Citation Award, 24th Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ
2004 California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia, CA
2003 The Herb Alpert Foundation Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999 Stephen Swerling Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Julie Orser was born in Chicago in 1974. She received her M.F.A. in Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2005
and a B.F.A. in Photography at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1999. Julie currently lives in Los Angeles where she is
the New Genres Lab Supervisor in the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.

Her videos,photography, and multi-channel installations have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Rosamund Felsen Gallery,
Il Magazzino d'Arte Moderna (Rome), Royal College of Art (London), Kunstraum Innsbruck (Austria), REDCAT (Los Angeles),
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), The Armory Northwest (Pasadena), Philip Feldman Gallery (Portland),
Western Washington University (Bellingham), Glendale Art Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Cal State Long Beach,
University of Nebraska Lincoln, the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival, 5th PDX Film Festival, RHZ Amateur Radio Network,
the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and the 22nd Big Muddy Film Festival.
She received 1st Place at Peripheral Produce Invitational World Championship V.

Her work was recently included in the Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006 exhibition at
the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park. Julie is the Co-Director of the time-based arts collective ART OFFICE.