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Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks explore relationships, dialogue and documentation.

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1. Han Bing’s painting practice is informed by the daily experience of walking through cityscapes, construction sites and architectural exteriors. Often reconstructed from the arbitrary and unpredictable forms that develop in industrial residues, the shapes and textures in her paintings are accumulated in layers between transparent and opaque marks, and then sealed with pronounced, defined edges. In this process, building facades and surface treatments become flat, foundation at Night Gallery
2. Giving form and color to the complexities of intimate relationships and personal moments of great change, Kristine Moran’s paintings draw on her observations of the social dynamics at play within a childhood clique at Daniel Faria Gallery
3. WACKing the Piñata strikes up a dialogue about how Feminism and The Feminine is evolving, non definable and uncontainable at ltd los angeles
4. Influenced by nature and popular culture, Von’s artwork is both detailed and abstract, flawlessly walking the line between surrealism and documentary portraiture capturing a mood in what appears to be a fleeting moment in time at Stolen Space
5. Each artist featured in Contexture shares a commitment to a deeper exploration of texture and surface through a variety of source material and media. Paper, textiles, beads, paint, and found objects are intricately and painstakingly worked into compelling narratives and manifestations of broader commentaries on contemporary culture, identity, and modern life at Jane Lombard Gallery
6. Robert Hardgrave’s Blues Blues, Slower than my Heart Beat at Gallery 16

July 9, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists experience the world through a lens.

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1. Land and Sea features painting, drawing and photography by artists who provide illuminating and unexpected responses to aspects of the natural world at Danese/Corey
2. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s acclaimed photographs of masked figures set against a deteriorating Southern landscape, and his somewhat lesser known, yet equally dynamic portraits—primarily of American writers at The Blanton Museum of Art
3. Rose Marcus photographs the Seagram Building and Central Park, then prints those photos and adheres them to the ready-made materials of architecture – sheets of plywood, aluminum, and acrylic at Night Gallery
4. Cathleen Naundorf’s Noah’s Ark features a series of taxidermy animals alongside unique haute couture pieces by leading fashion designers.  These elaborate sets embody a sense of extravagance – the dresses, headpieces and models posed against painted backdrops in a photo studio or on location – juxtaposed with the Biblical story and quest for a better life at Hamiltons
5. “See and discover the world with the wonder of a child” is a founding credo for Marc Riboud, who looks for a fleeting relationship interposed by viewfinder and lens at Polka Galerie
6. In her day, Frida Kahlo was photographed as much as, if not more than any Mexican movie star, and the portraits left behind are evidence of the limelight that surrounded her. Those same photographs that captured her magic and drew the public to her continue to seduce, and today, Kahlo’s allure and exotic beauty have become an intricate part of the universal conscious at THROCKMORTON FINE ART

June 2, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

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