Julia Schwartz tenderly cradled and lavishly flung Visitor Welcome Center Through August 11th By Lorraine Heitzman It is a well-known axiom that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The same may be said for our emotions. Such is the experience of seeing Julia Schwartz’s poignant show at Visitor Welcome Center. What…
Drawing Lines: The Only Way Out Is In at Citrus College Art Gallery Written by Jacqueline Bell Johnson In The Only Way Out Is In, line becomes something more than a mere tool, a basic art element. Line is composition, line is form, line is process. The exhibition makes line physical, its materiality articulates…
Black Mirror at Charlie James Gallery Fighting for Survival By Jacqueline Bell Johnson Through May 13th In the bunker-like basement space of Charlie James Gallery resides the exhibition, Black Mirror. Curated by Julia Schwartz, it is easily labeled a political show. However, the collection of works can be seen another way: an exploration of how…
2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial at the San Diego Art Institute By Richard Gleaves Through January 29th First, some preliminaries. SDAI has 10,000 square feet of exhibition space, making it comparable in size to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. The institutional scope is mega-regional, with shows regularly including artists from Los Angeles to Baja…
Within the Cave Opening reception September 12, 2015 1-4pm Durden and Ray 1950 South Santa Fe #207 Los Angeles CA 90021 “Plato’s famous philosophical Allegory of the Cave from his book The Republic is the study of how we really come to know things. If one exists seeing only shadows how can one…
