Francesca Gabbiani at Gavlak Gallery Through May 26 By Constance Mallinson In her current exhibition Francesca Gabbiani continues her longstanding practice of collaging evocative imagery intricately cut from multi-colored papers to create allegories of life and death. A “goth” aesthetic appropriately prevailed in her previous work as owls and skulls were intertwined with sensuous florals…
Jon Peterson: 12 Years of Painting Feb. 1-Feb. 25, 2018 LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles By Constance Mallinson Contemporary painting is still beholden to the modernist fixation of an artist producing a body or series of identical signature work, a strategy that ensures “product identification” and branding for insertion into what Theodore Adorno called “the…
The Feminine Sublime through June 3 Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena By Lorraine Heitzman Constance Mallinson has assembled a first rate group of women painters to address the concept of the sublime in art from a feminist standpoint. Each of the five artists in “The Feminine Sublime” at The Pasadena Museum of California Art explores…
ONE YEAR of Living Dangerously: Political Art Comes of Age in LA Opening at the Brand Library November 18th 6-9pm ‘In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. George Orwell, 1946 by Larry Gipe On the surface, the historically fabricated aura of Los Angeles’ art production has been drenched…
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.…
Constance Mallinson Unmade Jason Vass By Jody Zellen Through July 22nd Constance Mallinson is a collector and she has amassed a huge archive of discarded materials— fragments and detritus that has been lost, left behind and forgotten. To collect, Mallinson walks. She keeps her eyes down as she roams the streets, alleys, pathways…
Book Club: Going Native at Durden and Ray By Sydney Walters Through May 28th For Durden and Ray’s latest show, Book Club: Going Native, curator Stephen Wolkoff assembled artists he knew could take a bizarre novel and produce experimental and innovative art. He asked a bartender, a hair stylist, an architect and a composer…
