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Tuesday Gallery Picks




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Myth and ephemerality play a large part in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. A group show with a throughly playful vibe at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
2. Saner’s works are heavily influenced by traditional Mexican customs and folklore. ForPrimitivo, the artist created lively portraits of characters wearing Nahuale masks reminiscent of those found on the streets of Mexico and according to legend, have the power to transform human beings into animals at Jonathan Levine Gallery
3.Integrating memory, literature, art history, and contemporary culture, Heidi Howard deftly paints portraits with loose, lively, gestural brush strokes, full of color, pattern, line, and a figuration, abstract to defined, reminiscent of old masters such as Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard, Botticelli at Nancy Margolis Gallery
4.On the theme of the artist as mythologist, in her series ‘I remember Paradise’, Lakwena Maciver uses the relationship between myth and adornment to explore the possibility that myths – expressed through films, paintings, songs, advertisements – carry ‘echoes’ of paradise, pointing to a past and a future glory which we only see glimpses of in the present at Papillion Art
5. The Making of Personal Theory: Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, and Jim Shaw is a three-person exhibition that takes notions of “the mystical” as an entry point to consider daily encounters that are marked with eccentricity, the surreal, and a dream-like passage of time at Armory Center for the Arts
6. Yellena James’ ethereal ecosystems at LeQuiVivre

January 27, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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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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