Art Meets Architecture and Alicia Coppola are pleased to present, Yarek Godfrey’s The French Connection at Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, in participation with French Restaurant, Les Noces Du Figaro. The French Connection explores the human psyche, motivations and sex.  Dark, emotional undertones are confronted, relenting at times to beauty, light and the like. The duality of Godfrey’s female figure demands a reckoning while allowing for fantasy. Set in Downtown Los Angeles, on famed Broadway Street, The French Connection engages in the theater of life. Godfrey explains:

 “The almost primitive, and for me, the natural need to express the mix of joy, anguish and solitude is always emotional and magical, like an initiation rite. It is the way to communicate without words and to share profound feelings with the risk of revealing too much… of becoming weak by exposing one’ s own nature.”

As a classically trained artist, Godfrey studied for 10 years at the College and Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. Along with his technical mastery, Godfrey is a student of humanity, building dramatic narratives of figurative subjects that are revealed through a subtle, monochromatic palette. In totality, Godfrey’s willful artistry arrives in its ability to blend past and present into one, creating a timeless subject.  Born in Poland, Godfrey is a French citizen, and since the 1980s has worked from his studio in Paris. Internationally well received, he has a celebrated realm of exhibitions in Krakow, Paris, Strasbourg, Monaco, d’Angers, Cannes, Montreal, Hanover Germany, New York, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Godfrey’s The French Connection, at Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, is on Thursday, April 4, 2013 from 6 to 10pm and is free and open to the public at Les Noces Du Figaro, 618 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. For additional information, please contact Artist Representative, Alicia Coppola, at 310-904-3686 or amc2255@gmail.com.

About Les Noces Du Figaro:

Les Noces Du Figaro is a family venture of the Mgaieths, which has earned a popular following at their flagship Figaro Bistrot in the Los Feliz District. Les Noces Du Figaro is located at 618 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA and is open daily for lunch and dinner. For additional information visit www.figarobistrot.com or call 213-622-2116.

 About Art Meets Architecture:

Art Meets Architecture is a gallery concept committed to presenting international 21st century art in extraordinary architectural settings. For additional information visit http://www.artmeetsarchitecture.com or contact, Lisa Ames at 805-217-2186 or lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com.

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Interview with artist, Yarek Godfrey

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