Film Review: Gloria’s Call, a short film by Cheri Gaulke by Betty Ann Brown I am an ardent fan of feminist scholar Gloria Orenstein. I respect and admire her writing, especially her courageous mix of spirituality and academic concerns. I also adore her on a personal level. What’s not to love about that fiery red…
Marisa Merz: The Sky Is A Great Space UCLA Hammer By Nancy Kay Turner Through August 20th “The Sky is a Great Space,” exhibited in New York at the Met Breuer last spring, is the first and long overdue retrospective of the sculpture, installation and paintings of the prolific ninety-one year old artist Marisa…
Cece Caro, Katie Shanks, and Stephanie Sherwood Examine Gender Bias in an Experimental Installation at Shoebox Projects By Genie Davis Material Identity: Artmaking on the Gender Continuum holds a closing reception Saturday, June 3 from 3-7 p.m. at Shoebox Projects in DTLA. Cece Caro, Katie Shanks, and Stephanie Sherwood who’ve been in residence at…
Yvette Gellis: Movement and Duration, Seeking the Ineffable… By Gary Brewer “First of all, on the surface on which I am going to paint, I draw a rectangle of whatever size I want, which I regard as a window through which the subject to be painted is seen.” ~Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura, 1435…
Rebecca Campbell Represents Women Artists One Portrait at a Time By Jennifer Susan Jones Through April 6th British professor of art history Simon Schama, who wrote a portraiture book last year called The Face of Britain, makes the observation that “all portraits are really — or most of them — triangular relationships.” This means…
Kyla Hansen at Five Car Garage Written by Lorraine Heitzman Not long ago, a friend and I visited Five Car Garage, an appointment-only art project space in Santa Monica. Following the enigmatic instructions, we parked on a quiet residential street, walked down a steep hill and found ourselves in a tidy, upscale alley. Immediately to…
Claire Falkenstein goes Beyond Sculpture at the Pasadena Museum of California Art Written by Jacqueline Bell Johnson One thing you don’t expect when going to see a retrospective of a prolific sculptor are works hanging on the walls. That is entirely the point of this exhibition. Claire Falkenstein got into art by way of…
