Studio Visit: Tanya Batura – Theater of Disquiet By Gary Brewer “Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “Pleasure only starts once…
The Desert Lighthouse: A Mojave Dream Come True by Genie Davis On an unnamed road in the middle of the desert, where the sky undulates like a wave in the heat and the desert floor could be a midnight black ocean at night, the Desert Lighthouse, 50-feet-tall and a graceful beacon of light, rises.…
“Article 16: Selected works by Lisa Schulte” at Porch Gallery Ojai By Jennifer Susan Jones on view through October 8th The sun was unreasonably hot the day folks gathered to attend the reception of Lisa Schulte’s “Article 16” and its guests were feeling it. Instead of inducing an irritable atmosphere, the oppressive heat had…
Cathy Ward’s “Phantasmata” at Good Luck Gallery By Genie Davis Through October 15th What’s black and white and transcendent? Cathy Ward’s Phantasmata at The Good Luck Gallery in Chinatown. The images seem to pull viewers into another world, down a tunnel, and into a different dimension. There’s a mystical, passionate, supernatural strangeness and energy…
“SELF RELIANCE 2017” at NowSpace By Sydney Walters Through October 1st While pondering what to create, many artists consider not only what he or she wants to create, but what they know will sell. After all, artists need to make a living somehow. It is this tension between desire, practicality, value and waste that…
Seeing SIGHT – Artist Pam Douglas by Genie Davis Working with ink, acrylic, and a variety of mixed media on Plexiglas, artist Pam Douglas has created lush and visually and thematically powerful poetic works in her new series SIGHT. On exhibit at TAG Gallery later this month, the show both follows and diverges from a…
What’s Hot in L.A.? Art Events You Should Check Out UPCOMING OPENINGS September 19th Circles and Circuits I: Opening Reception and Curators’ Talk California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California 90007 Opening September 19th 6-9pm For more information September 20th Janine Brown |The Wallflower Project – Artist Talk and Reception…
John Rosewall’s Gripping Exhibition at the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 by Genie Davis on view through October 13th John Rosewall’s Grip, now at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 (LAAA) through October 13th, is one of four beautifully rendered solo shows on exhibit and a compelling standout. Rosewall’s work here is based on photographs…
Vida, Pasión y Muerte: Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia at CB1 By Genie Davis Through October 21st Vida, pasión y muerte – Life, passion, and death – is a triumphant celebration at CB1 Gallery in DTLA through October 21st. Presented in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia’s exhibition offers a wide and honestly glorious range of works. From…
Mark Steven Greenfield: Mantras & Musings Lora Schlesinger Gallery By Shana Nys Dambrot Through October 14th Cotton is a strange plant, a mallow. A spiked armor cracks into spears, revealing how a soft cloud of white fiber densely billow-blooms, wooden stalks rise and curve like the thinnest of neck napes to hold aloft the sticky…
Forest Bathing at Launch LA By Betty Ann Brown On view through September 30th Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.…
kozyndan, The Golden State Gregorio Escalante Gallery By Genie Davis Through September 17th The Golden State, at Gregorio Escalante gallery in Chinatown through September 17th, is a beautiful, fanciful, and poetic series of works by the duo of kozyndan. The two artists, husband and wife team Kozy and Dan, have shaped a work that…
