Soulful Self-Portraits: Cecilia Paredes at MOLAA Museum of Latin America Art Through December 30th By Evan Senn Although history has shown us the significance of self-portraits to our collective humanity and the personal spirit, there are not many contemporary artists that specialize in self-portraits anymore, and even fewer that do it with as much…
International Artists Exhibit in Santa Monica in Between Two Seas/LA International at Arena 1 Gallery Curated by Luigia Martelloni and Transmission in the Hangar Galleries, MART Gallery and Studios Dublin Through November 17th By Genie Davis Two very different, internationally focused exhibitions inhabit galleries at Santa Monica Airport — a particularly apt location considering many…
Making Lightly: a communal residency Atche Art Space By Genie Davis A communal art residency is a living organism. It shifts, changes, alters its appearance and alters those that come in contact with it, whether through creation or observation. When Diane Williams, Arezoo Bharthania, Nicole Stirbis, and Sophia Allison invited artists to work together in…
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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…
