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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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The art and artists that came before them are paramount to the resulting vibrant works in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Rebecca Kane’s work is a symphony of vibrant color and texture that explores ethereality of light and its balance with the structure of canvas. The work invites the viewers into a fantasy of prismatic color where walls are transformed into melting landscapes of the figments of imagination at Dacia Gallery
2. The high velocity color and fractured narratives explored in Danny Rolph’s recent paintings show an uncompromising commitment to explore the compositional potential on all the canvases and triplewall plastic that he works upon at 532 Gallery
3. Through the layering of abstract forms and her renowned use of color, Beatriz Milhazes creates compositions which are evocative of a multi-part musical score, where the sounds of each different instrument collide and coalesce with one another into a single harmonious whole.  at James Cohan
4. Rachel Rossin introduces her virtual reality experience alongside the oil paintings they inspire and are inspired by. Upheaving traditional notions of portraiture, landscape and still life, the paintings both inform and reflect the technological installation, an inversion of the most sacred of standards— age-old techniques with the flare of advance guard contemporaneity at Zieher Smith & Horton
5. Tomory Dodge has a long running interest in the notion of the elemental; that some deeper reality lies below the surface of things. The paintings in this show all began with some sort of geometry: a random masonry of colored shapes, or a regular grid. These patterns would then be obscured with layers of painting and scraping, revealing and concealing the matrix beneath until a kind of “phantom figuration” emerges, familiar but un-nameable at Acme Los Angeles
6. Emily Noelle Lambert makes intuitive, vibrant paintings and sculptures that draw from diverse art historical movements, cultures, and styles. The title of the exhibition, Idée Fixe, is a synonym for “fetish,” an object imbued with special power. It is a French phrase defined as a desire, obsession or fixation of the mind, and is a starting point for how Lambert considers this new body of work at Denny Gallery

October 20, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Exploring the interesting relationship between creation and destruction.

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1. Maja Lisa Engelhardt explores creation through great whales and winged fowl at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
2. Beguilingly beautiful, XOOOOX’s women convey a sense of melancholy and introversion and allude to the growing displeasure with the uniform, consumption-driven hype of the fashion industry at Mead Carney
3. Natalie Frank pictures people in various states of disintegration. Intimate portraits, surreal scenes, and large-scale constructed narratives poke at what it means to be human: the absurdity, desire, violence, and loss or claim of self at ACME Los Angeles
4. “I am interested in religion, gender and sex as each attempts to categorize the individual and define the individual’s place within a society: instituting roles, rituals and traditions. I am a painter that engages in sculpture and body performance for the making of objects” at Western Project
5. The multi-layered compositions of tilted bars and stripes in colorfully orchestrated cubistic spaces that have characterized Ned Evans’ recent paintings have been distilled in his latest work into more minimal equations at Craig Krull Gallery
6. Nina Tichava interested in the overlap of nature and culture and the patterns present in both; the tension between them drives my exploration of color, surface and materialit .at George Billis

October 22, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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The fine line between chaos and order reign in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Pavilion of the Blind is a freestanding structure that contains a colorful array of window blinds, panels and shades. Movement is triggered by a motion detector and controlled by a PLC (programmable logic controller) housed within the structure at Tierney Gardarin
2. Charline von Heyl’s paintings are not abstractions of objects or figures; rather, she is interested in creating abstract images that stand for themselves at Petzel
3. By physically and metaphorically cutting and bringing together disparate items and ideas in her paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Iva Gueorguieva’s works can be seen as assemblages of chaos and order, personal concerns and global issues at Acme Los Angeles
4. Growing up in Spain, with the hybridized eclectic sensibilities of Antoni Gaudi as a visual force in her early life, led to the collision in Susan Chrysler White’s work of nature, spiritual tendencies, and 3D form. The exploration of light, space, transparency, bilateral symmetry, and calligraphic drawing all play a part in her recent sculpture at Kim Foster Gallery
5. Omar Chacon’s most recent body of work continues to be influenced by the intricate patterns and weavings mirrored in the traditional folk art of South America at Fouladi Projects
6. Rosemarie Fiore uses the brightly colored smoke of live fireworks to create vibrant and bold abstract compositions. In this new body of work, Fiore introduces the use of rolling devices of her own creation to distribute the tinted smoke onto heavy paper.at Von Lintel Gallery

September 10, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Over the past few years, it’s been interesting to observe Pattern Pulp’s returning audience. We know you’re professionals working in creative fields, but one thing is clear- the art world falls high on everyone’s hierarchy. From the bountiful notes we get from our readers, galleries and animated publicists, we understand art inspires all levels of society and in an effort to share more concurrent exhibitions, we’ve started a weekly round up. So here goes…Tuesday’s Gallery Picks. Enjoy!

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1. Dieter Roth is a performance artist in all the mediums at Hauser & Wirth
2. Carol Ladewig’s Year in Color (52 weeks and a Day) at Slate Contemporary
3. Abstraction may be modernism’s greatest invention at MoMA
4. Cara Parravani’s portraits of her and her identical twin sister at Foley Gallery
5. El Anatsui converts found materials into new media at The Brooklyn Museum
6. Work/Space is a group exhibition by Phillip Estlund, Kirsten Kindler & Katie Sinnott at Acme Los Angeles

March 12, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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