May/June 2010
Don’t miss Fierce Beauty: The Art of Linda Vallejo, a Forty-Year Retrospective curated by Betty Ann Brown at the Plaza de la Raza Boat House Gallery. The exhibit will feature drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures and installations dating back to 1969. A full color catalog including essays by Betty Ann Brown, Gloria Orenstein, Anna Meliksetian and others will document Vallejo’s artistic career. Brown is also hosting a panel on 7/10 with other events on 6/19 and 6/26. Galerie Anais in Bergamot Station will concurrently show The Electrics. Plaza de Raza opens 5/15 and runs thru 7/31 and Galerie Anais opens 5-22 thru 6/23.
Frank Pictures Gallery presents Motion Pictures: Hybrids and Paintings by California and Paris based artist Naomie Kremer. Kremer projects video onto her works mutating them into mysterious, luminous objects that challenge our perception of surface, space, depth, and materiality. Thru 5/12.
L.A. Louver Gallery offers a rare opportunity to view paintings by the late artist Alice Neel (1900-1984). Neel is best known for her portraits that often depict personalities in the art world. Neel said: "I like it not only to look like the person, but to have their inner character as well, and then I like to express the Zeitgiest." Runs 5/20-6/26.
A solo exhibition of abstract paintings using digital imagery entitled Bangalore by Kathy Grayson is on view at Kim Light/Lightbox. Thru 5/15.
Paintings by artist Linda Jacobson, Rhythms of Nature are on view at California State University Channel Islands Exhibitions Gallery in Camarillo. Thru 5/28.
Acme Gallery opens three shows with women artists this month. Lisa Borgnes utilizes traditional embroidery practices on a large scale to address plastic surgery and the recession through embroidered text in Stitching up the Noughties. Artificial Paradises, curated by Sarah Jane Bruce features the work of Kim Fisher, Alexa Gerrity, Allison Miller, Margo Victor and Mary Weatherford. Also at Acme is Home Sick, a series of domestic scenes on paper by Dawn Clements. From 5/1 thru 5/29
Impermanence, a series by SoCal artist Darlene Campbell at Koplin del Rio gallery in Culver City explores the ever-changing landscape as a metaphor for the passing of time. Thru 5/29.
Ruth Bachofner Gallery presents Visions by Audra Weaser, a series of abstracted landscape paintings based on the artist’s memories and experiences in nature. Thru 5/29.
Rosamund Felsen gallery is exhibiting Reading Dante II by renowned video artist Joan Jonas. Previously exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in New York, Jonas alters the work for each exhibition. LA will feature drawings, sound and video work as the artist reinterprets Dante and the soul’s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Thru 5/29.
Simultaneous Horizon features recent work by Diana Shui-lu Wong at ADC Contemporary Art Gallery in the Downtown Arts Complex. Wong’s exquisite images are sure to lift one’s spirits. Opens: 5/8 and runs 5/1=5/31.
Curated by Elizabeth Bloom, the Platt/Borstein Gallery at the American Jewish University presents Uncommon Threads, an exhibition of fiber art by Cathy Breslaw, Lois Ziff Brooks, Leah Danberg, Rosalie Friis-Ross, Merrill Morrison, Norman Sherfield, and Deborah Weir. Working with fiber as their medium these artists have created some powerful, personal and significant art. Opens 5/9 thru 7/14.
Self-portraits by Cuban artist, Aimée Garcia at Couturier Gallery on La Cienega investigate the role of woman in art and society. Her paintings are embroidered with either a circle, square or cross that serve to "represent time and space, the cycle of life, creation, communication and earth-sky energy in the universe." Photography will also be exhibited. Thru 6/5.
Goddesses Then and Now is a group exhibition at a relatively new gallery in San Fernando, La Galeria Gitana. Twenty-four artists including Linda L. Carlson, Therese Conte, Cheryl Duboucheron, Merrilyn Duzy, Gerardo Hacer and others present unique representations of goddesses “not as objects of worship, but as two and three-dimensional representations of the qualities and principles of all things feminine.” Thru 6/18.
Tobey Moss Gallery features Bonnie Stone: Balabustahs a series of vibrant watercolors. These archetypal images of women provide playful domestic commentaries.Thru 6/30.
ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Organized by senior curator Anne Ellegood, the sculpture of Diana Al-Hadid will be one of the Hammer Projects this summer. Al-Hadid’s project is inspired Renaissance Netherlandish paintings and by the Islamic astronomer and inventor Al-Jazari’s famous 13th century water clock. From 5/15-8/15.
A landmark exhibition at the Museum of the American West at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, Home Lands: How Women Made the West. It examines through photographs and artifacts the contributions women made in shaping the landscape of the western frontier. Thru 8/22.
Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender and Globalization examines the effects of globalization on personal identity at the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Included in this important show is assemblage by Betye Saar, mixed media sculpture by Alison Saar, a site-specific installation by Adia Millet and additional works by Kim Boekbinder, Gaza Bowen, Len Davis, Elizabeth Dorbad, Mildred Howard, Lucien Kubo, Willie Little, Douglas McClellan, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Monty Monty, Dominique Moody, Susan Tibbles, Flo Oy Wong, and Maggie Yee. Opens 5/22 thru 9/12
