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Christopher Rodriguez At Maybaum Gallery
Inspired by writings of 19th Century naturalist Alexander Humboldt, Rodriguez explores the contemporary landscape genre in themes of color, abstraction and still life. His photographs consider our changing relationships with nature in order to more closely speak to the world we live in. In his latest series of photographs, he builds fictional landscapes with artificial…
Casper Brindle At Nancy Toomey Fine Art
Los Angeles based artist Casper Brindle continues his pursuit of the expressive possibilities of light and tone in his Recent Work exhibition. Known for high gloss resin surfaces achieved through layers of airbrushed automotive paint, Brindle’s current body of work embraces mediums that push pure color to new extremes. These iterations in linen, the Portal-Glyphs,…
Megan Murphy At PDX Contemporary
The ethereal images of waves, clouds, and bodies of water in Murphy’s paintings function both physically and metaphorically to illuminate history through the reflection and passage of time. It is through the refraction and reflection of the light, on and through the glass panels, that elements reveal themselves. The paintings take reference from Gerhard Richter,…
Existence Is Longing: Wong Kar Wai Streams Through BAMPFA.org
If you have been a reader of this site for awhile, you might know about my long drawn out love affair with the films of Wong Kar Wai. I even loved My Blueberry Nights which other people (who don’t know any better) dislike so much that it’s streaming for free on YouTube. Wong’s films are…
The Violets In The Mountains Have Broken The Rocks At Gallery 16
2020 has really taken its toll on us! We have weathered the Covid 19 epidemic so far, a forced 4 month closure and a divisive and faltering government. But, now we have lost our lease! So, the upcoming group exhibition, The Violets In The Mountains Have Broken The Rocks is going to be the last…
Chip Lord At Rena Bransten Gallery
Exploiting media and message with a critical eye and gentle humor, Lord often deconstructs American myths and associated nostalgia. He is equally known for his work with the alternative architecture and media collective Ant Farm, which he co-founded with Doug Michels in 1968, as for his teaching and on-going media practice. Chip Lord: Folding Back…
Laina Terpstra And Paul Bloch At Maybaum Gallery
Laina Terpstra’s background in modern dance informs her work, in her sensitivity to movement and gesture. The tactility of the paint and her acute awareness of touch evoke a kinesthetic empathy on the part of the viewer that draws one into the internal motion of both the evoked space, and the physical, tactile present. While…
Nobuyuki Takahashi At Rena Bransten Gallery
There is a precise, contemplative beauty to the work of Japanese painter Nobuyuki Takahashi. For this exhibition, Takahashi has focused on daily observations of his surrounding environment – scenes from a neighborhood walk, or a view out the train window. Yet rather than expressing the modern world’s chaos, through careful elimination of extraneous detail Takahashi…
