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…
DIVERTED DESTRUCTION at Loft at Liz’s Through August 20th By Betty Ann Brown Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (Nothing human is alien to me.) ~Terence, Roman poet Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. ~Carlos Fuentes, Mexican poet Remember, remember always, that all of us, and…
Randi Matushevitz and Diane Williams Confront Otherness Through Experience at LAAA/Gallery 825 through April 20th By Genie Davis Randi Matushevitz and Diane Williams both offer profoundly moving solo shows at LAA/Gallery 825. Matushevitz’ Conundrum continues the artist’s powerful, growing, large scale work with an experiential installation of paintings and found objects. Here she addresses both…
Feminism Now at Shoebox Projects: An International Collaboration Opening Sunday, February 25, 3-6 pm On view through March 11 by Genie Davis Opening Sunday, February 25th and running through March 11th, “Feminism Now” at Shoebox Projects is a collaborative exhibition of three groups: The San Diego-based American Feminist Image Group (FIG), the Swedish-based Krogen Amerika…
Window Dressing: Art Front and Center opening January 29 through April 20 Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk by Genie Davis Window Dressing, a series of week-long installations in the Cerritos College Art Gallery’s display window vitrine, debuts January 29th. Running through April 20th, the exhibition presents 10 different artists’ conception of a window display. The…
Diane Williams Weaves Multicultural Magic in “My America” Shoebox Projects by Genie Davis In the latest artist residency and exhibition at Shoebox Projects located in The Brewery arts complex, Diane Williams nails the immigrant experience with an installation that actively involves viewers and turns them into participants. And participants we all are: America is…
Art Stories: Personal Narrative at The Annenberg Community Beach House By Genie Davis Through June 4th Story telling is an art, and at The Annenberg Community Beach House Gallery in Santa Monica through June 4th, the story is profoundly rich, the art both political and indeed personal. Curators Diane Williams and Sheli Silverio have assembled…
