LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery presents Crow’s Field by Siri Kaur. This exhibition marks Kaur’s first solo presentation with Kopeikin Gallery. On Saturday, March 11th a reception with the artist will take place from 6:00 – 8:00 PM and is open to the public.

Crow’s Field is the name Kaur and her childhood friends gave an unclaimed strip of farmland where she grew up in rural New England. Between the forest and the road, this acreage became a magical no-man’s-land where fantasy and reality blurred.

Since it now exists only in memory, Crow’s Field is impossible to document, yet Kaur accesses it by subverting the traditional photographic genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Through the process Crow’s Field serves as a metaphor for creating a new type of photograph, one that partially embodies both the real and the surreal. As they subtly dislocate time and space, these ephemeral images de-center classical narrative structures. The results are a group of atmospheric pictures that invite the viewer to participate in finishing each story.

Permeated by everyday natural elements, almost too strange to believe, Kaur creates an otherworldly stream-of-consciousness meditation on memory through the uncanny nature of photographs. A freshly caught octopus on a fishing boat becomes a still life; a girl and her dog morph into a chimera at rest; a sunflower transforms into a baroque abstraction. Underneath these familiar and lush exteriors a sense of uneasiness gnaws away at Kaur’s most cherished attachments. It’s not that she can’t go home again; it’s that home was never exactly what she thought it was.

Siri Kaur (b. 1976, Boston, MA) received her MFA from The California Institute of the Arts, and an MA and BA from Smith College. Solo exhibitions include Know Me for the First Time at Blythe Projects, Los Angeles; This Kind of Face at Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles and at 99¢ Plus, New York; Rob and Heather and Chris and Otto and Koral… at The Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, and Field Trip at 3001 Gallery, Los Angeles. Group shows include those at the Aperture Foundation, New York; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; The Camera Club of New York; The Torrance Museum of Art; and The California Triennial of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

Kaur’s work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, art ltd., Art Practical, Artillery Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, and has been featured in Marie Claire, Installation Magazine, Of the Afternoon, Photo District News, and The Huffington Post. In 2014 Leroy Press published Kaur’s first monograph, This Kind of Face.

Siri Kaur lives and works in Los Angeles, where she serves as Associate Professor at Otis College of Art and Design.