Art and Cake’s weekly art calendar has changed. Facebook was getting too tedious trying to cull through so many events each day with their new feature of adding many days to an event. We have decided to post only that weeks events and add more in depth information to help you decide where to go…
Mark Steven Greenfield’s “Love and Loathing” Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery on view through November 16th An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.~James Baldwin My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic…
Polychromatic Mojo / Color as Content Curated by Hagop Najarian at Cerritos College Art Gallery Through December 7 By Lorraine Heitzman Color and the vibrant possibilities of paint are the organizing principals behind the expressive and joyful show, Polychromatic Mojo, at Cerritos College Art Gallery. As curated by Hagop Najarian, an artist and Professor…
Rachel Kaster: The Shape of Memory Fused into Sculpture Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 through November 30th By Genie Davis Rachel Kaster’s solo exhibition, Anamnesis, now showing at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 is an intricate installation of pendants, photographs, transparencies, and heirlooms. It glows and fascinates, mesmerizing viewers with her large-scale recreation of…
Sadie Barnette: Black Sky Charlie James Gallery, Chinatown Through December 1, 2018 By Shana Nys Dambrot The wide front windows of the gallery are sheathed in pink cellophane. At night, with the lights left on, it’s a beacon of welcoming mystery; inside during daylight hours it’s a bit like another world, a fine mist…
Tahiti Pehrson at Joseph Gross Gallery Through November 17 by Jenny Begun As you walk into Joseph Gross Gallery in Los Angeles, you come to face a large sculptural tapestry that immediately transports you from Chinatown to the Middle East or the Ancient Greece or Rome. The hanging white cotton rag looks like a facade of…
Studio Visit: Ron Athey, Undoing the Morbid Body of Christian Guilt By Gary Brewer “…I am nothing but love all my branches burn if I darken the day then the shadow recoils within me…” -Jean Genet, Funeral March Dionysian pleasure – a world freed from the sins of the father – awakening in the…
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer: The Chiefest of Ten Thousand Nino Mier Gallery Closed on November 3, 2018 By Shana Nys Dambrot Paintings by Celeste Dupuy-Spencer are wicked and fraught, elusive and dense, saturated and shadowy tableaux. She wields an edgy, folkloric style that is both naive and sophisticated, depicting figures in landscapes and interiors enacting versions…
Art and Cake’s weekly art calendar has changed. Facebook was getting too tedious trying to cull through so many events each day with their new feature of adding many days to an event. We have decided to post only that weeks events and add more in depth information to help you decide where to go…
ONE WORK: Nancy Youdelman, Fashioning a Feminist Vision, 1972-2017 California State University Northridge Through December 8th By Betty Ann Brown While women have spent decades, if not centuries, batting away the narrow definition of what is expected of them, the clothes they wore helped make their intentions known. What causes society to panic isn’t different…
Amy Elkins: Photographs of Contemporary Masculinity Orange Coast College, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Through December 1, 2018 By Liz Goldner Photos of men as objects of beauty, athleticism, vulnerability and aggression have a special fascination in a world saturated with images of elegant women. This surprising series of portraits, many of them carefully posed,…
Judy Dater, Only Human Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University Through December 8 By Jody Zellen What does it mean to be human? Human beings have the capacity for feeling, sensitivity and compassion. The phrase ‘only human’ often refers to an acceptance of vulnerability and imperfection. Photographer Judy Dater is interested in what makes people…
