Hagop Najarian; Atonal Chromatics at Rio Hondo College Art Gallery Through October 2, 2018 By Lorraine Heitzman Step inside Atonal Chromatics at Rio Hondo College Art Gallery and you are suddenly enveloped in the exuberant, colorful world of Hagop Najarian. This recent body of work originates from the artist’s interest in atonal harmonics and…
Astrid Preston; Between Earth and Silence “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “…like a night wind in the pines or like the sea in the dark the echo of everything that has ever been spoken still spilling its one syllable between earth and silence” ~W.S. Merwin By Gary Brewer When words fail…
Tomory Dodge at Cherry and Martin By Lorraine Heitzman Through January 16th Tomory Dodge has opened with a strong hand in his first show at Cherry and Martin after his former gallery, Acme, abruptly closed their doors in June. The Culver City gallery was quick to sign up an artist they had admired for…
Ian Francis: Artificial Winter at Corey Helford By Genie Davis Through November 25th Both figurative and abstract, Ian Francis’ Artificial Winter turns its own graceful constructions inside out. The U.K.-based artist works in acrylic, oil, charcoal and ink, creating works that are both socially aware, jolting, and beautifully, in some ways traditionally, rendered. The canvases are…
Ruth Root at 356 S. Mission Rd. By Genie Davis on view through November 12th Now through November 12th at 356 Mission, New York-based artist Ruth Root offers a vibrant mixed media exhibition that is both visually and materially textured, created on Plexiglass and fabric. The color is intense, visually imprinting itself on the…
Monique Prieto, Luster Chimento Contemporary By Anna Garner Through October 28th Abstract paintings draw viewers’ attention to the surface, gleaning content and narrative not from representation, but from the exchange between color, brushstroke, and texture. In “Luster”, Monique Prieto’s current solo exhibition at Chimento Contemporary, these essential ingredients coalesce to generate pleasing and layered…
William Leavitt “Cycladic Figures” Honor Fraser By Jody Zellen Through October 23rd Depending on how one enters William Leavitt’s installation Cycladic Figures, one either first confronts paintings or tableaux that in many ways are three-dimensional realizations of Leavitt’s two-dimensional worlds. Leavitt’s mixed media works— Lennie‘s Set, 2016, Faraday Cage, 2015 and Time Granule Generator,…
