Susan Feldman and Axel Wilhite at Launch LA through January 6th, 2018 Launch LA, Los Angeles By Genie Davis Launch LA is home to two fine solo shows this month, Susan Feldman’s Crossed Sections and Axel Wilhite’s Virtual Memory. While Wilhite works with computer memory chips as his material, painting perfectly realized, minute works depicting…
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…
Ian Francis: Artificial Winter at Corey Helford By Genie Davis Through November 25th Both figurative and abstract, Ian Francis’ Artificial Winter turns its own graceful constructions inside out. The U.K.-based artist works in acrylic, oil, charcoal and ink, creating works that are both socially aware, jolting, and beautifully, in some ways traditionally, rendered. The canvases are…
Art, Architecture, and Collage at George Billis Gallery By Genie Davis Just closed at George Billis Gallery, two solo shows; Michael Cutlip’s first with the gallery, Transition; and Danny Heller’s fifth, Modern Leisure. Heller’s exhibition showcases the artist’s highly realistic oil paintings, images which focus on Mid-Century Modern residential architecture. But each of his works carries…
Studio visit with Bryan Ida. Thoughts on Origin Myths and Fate… By Gary Brewer Bryan Ida is a painter whose work conveys delicate spatial relationships of light and color. He achieves these through a long involved process of layering transparent pigment, a mixture of acrylic paint and polyurethane, on wood panels and then sanding…
