Botanic Geometry with Karen Hochman Brown through April 6 Crain Art Gallery, Crowell Public Library, San Marino By Kathy Zimmerer Akin to looking through a kaleidoscope, Karen Hochman Brown’s deconstructed flowers printed on aluminum unfold and expand, revealing and obscuring colors and shapes. Each one is modeled after a flower, but these beguiling images are…
Gisela Colon: New Sculpture, Experiencing Light through March 10 Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles By Sydney Walters The “New Sculpture” exhibit at Diane Rosenstein Gallery showcases the renowned work of Gisela Colon, a master of her craft specializing in pushing three-dimensional objects into light-space. “New Sculpture” highlights Colon’s recent innovations that comment on the material…
Breaking Illusions: Artist as Scientist Claremont Graduate University’s Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont By Jacqueline Bell Johnson It is a growing trend for art and science to be paired together: usually from a scientific and technological standpoint. But it is less often discussed within fine art, especially without the accompaniment of some qualifier, like…
Glen Rubsamen The Disguise Was Almost Perfect Christopher Grimes Gallery By Jody Zellen Through September 1st What constitutes iconic Los Angeles imagery: ocean sunsets, palm trees, the Hollywood sign? In many ways it is easy to imagine the black silhouette of a palm tree against a sky colored gradient, and think, classic Los Angeles.…
Nicolas Hunt’s Caliber Abstractions Mugello Gallery By Kathy Zimmerer Through July 16th Paintings with bullet holes by Nicholas Hunt seem to echo the headlines as gun violence became even more political with the GOP baseball practice shooting, and another gun fueled rampage devastating the UPS workplace in San Francisco. Hunt’s brilliantly colored metal paintings have…
Everywhere But Nowhere, Virtual and Augmented Reality Art: Immersive Pop Up Experience By Genie Davis Just a few weeks ago, the immersive pop up Everywhere but Nowhere, Virtual and Augmented Reality Art took viewers quite literally into a new dimension. A project of District Gallery sponsored by the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space,…
Sabrina Gschwandtner’s “Hands at Work” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery By Sydney Walters Through August 26th This month, Shoshana Wayne Gallery presents “Hands at Work,” a solo show by multi-medium artist Sabrina Gschwandtner who literally dissects films to comment on the evolution of maker and renegotiates historic women’s craft as liberating rather than divisive. In…
