The Shape of Sound, Michael Brewster Claremont Graduate University East and Peggy Phelps Galleries Until September 28, 2018 By Jenny Begun Michael Brewster dedicated his life to making sculpture with sound. He believed that sculpture “is an inner as well as a visceral awareness that evokes sensations in mind and body.” Indeed, as you walk…
Artist Profile: Cia Foreman, Works that Explore Ambiguity and Perception By Genie Davis Artist Cia Foreman explains that her approach to making art is both experimental and conceptual. “When I think about my work over the past 40 years, it’s mostly about ideas.” The abstract photographic images in Foreman’s recent exhibitions are mysterious and haunting,…
Art Influencer: Astri Swendsrud Embraces Non-Traditional Routes of Art Presentation By Sydney Walters Los Angeles is notorious for a vivacious arts and entertainment scene. Yet it can be daunting for artists as they muse upon the many places that may be a good launch pad for his or her work. Many artists regard Blue Chip…
Artist Profile: L. Aviva Diamond By Genie Davis “My work is how I process the world. It’s how I see, how I feel, how I heal myself,” L. Aviva Diamond, says. The artist creates astonishing photographic art work that is painterly in style, cosmic in nature. She also draws, both black and white and color…
Studio Visit: Jodi Bonassi, Stories of the Persona “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” Joseph Campbell “Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls…” Alice Neel By Gary Brewer Painting is a spiritual discipline; it is a space and an…
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…
Studio Visit: Tm Gratkowski, The Word – Space, Time, Memory By Gary Brewer “Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” Marshall McLuhan “Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with…
