From the press release:
On December 11, highly-collected Los Angeles artist Sylvia Ji returns to Corey Helford Gallery to unveil her third solo exhibition with the gallery entitled, “Shapeshifter”.

Sylvia Ji is internationally recognized for capturing beauty in its most exotic forms. For “Shapeshifter”, Ji continues to evolve her elegant style, combining her narratives with elements of Native American mythology, designs and motifs. Shapeshifting is a theme that appears in Native American folklore, where a being acquires the ability to alter its physical appearance – such as a human changing into a wolf. Depending on whether the being is the subject of a curse or spell, the transformation may be intentional or not.

Employing Carolyn Niethammer’s book Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women as her muse, Ji adopts a more organic narrative style, adding to her stunning portraiture of the past. Ji’s figures are graceful and flowing. Foregrounds and backgrounds merge, working together symbiotically and adding movement and pattern to her graceful subjects. Twelve large-scale paintings make up the collection of new works, which will introduce orange and blue hues to Ji’s red and gold leaf palette.

The reception for “Shapshifter” is open to the public and will take place on Saturday, December 11 from 7 to 10pm. Opening night will feature a complimentary 8 x 10” mini giclee of one of Ji’s new exhibition pieces for the first 500 guests. The show will be on view until December 31, 2010.

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