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L.A. Stories In Pacific Standard Time

Ed Rusha The L.A. stories told in Pacific Standard Time are not the stuff of Hollywood, but create a context for west coast art in our shared history. The Getty has created a platform for this narrative with events surrounding the theme of time and place.  Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980 opens on [...]

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Start with Art Begins A Dialogue Between Designers and Art Advisors at BLU in San Francisco

The intersection of art and design is an intriguing place where lines blur between interior decor and visual art.  Start with Art suggests crafting an interior from the art out, accentuating the elements that make a work of art unique.  I queried designers and art advisors about their practice, learning how each embarks on an [...]

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New Realities in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills offers crisp sunny January weather and a couple of differing views of reality embedded in contemporary art installations. Mike Kelly recreates a nostalgic fantasy at Gagosian Gallery (see above). At ACE Gallery Jeff Colson constructs what appear to be props within a film set. The array of objects at first glance appears to be authentic, but [...]

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Big "Money" at Miami Art Basel

In early December the art world gathered from all parts of the globe to converge upon Miami. It’s a time to see and purchase modern and contemporary art. Jack Pierson’s work from Art Basel Miami Beach captured the mood very well in “MONEY”. The event combines a great number of galleries, collectors and museums putting forward solo [...]

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Big “Money” at Miami Art Basel

In early December the art world gathered from all parts of the globe to converge upon Miami. It’s a time to see and purchase modern and contemporary art. Jack Pierson’s work from Art Basel Miami Beach captured the mood very well in “MONEY”. The event combines a great number of galleries, collectors and museums putting forward solo [...]

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Flower Mandala: Recognizing Beauty

Flower Mandala: Recognizing Beauty Inspired by the Tibetan sand mandalas, I have created temporary installations made of fresh flowers. In 2003 FLOWER MANDALA was a response to the events of 9/11. Living very near to Ground Zero, it was a compassionate intention amid the horror of that time. The JPMorgan Chase Project Space commissioned the [...]

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Heartfelt Abstraction in NYC Exhibitions

Mark Barrow at Elizabeth Dee Gallery collaborates with wife and weaver Sarah Parke using translucent geometric abstraction over-painting on hand loomed patterns. The result is moving, hitting the perfect blend of organic to geometric and ying/yang elements. This visually engaging work touches on human experience in a visceral way that words cannot fully describe. One [...]

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Text and Texture in San Francisco Art

Text meets texture in the San Francisco art season opening exhibitions. David Buckingham: Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful, opened with new metal sculptures at Cain Schulte Gallery. Here found text from advertising, film and lyrics POP off the wall with both personal and collective meaning. With the text we also see a recycled giant [...]

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Color in California Contemporary Art

Color, light and space play a strong role in the summer selections of California contemporary art. So Cal offers the color energies of Sohan Quari at the Sundaram Tagore gallery in Beverly Hills. Quari creates a mystical space though vivid color, subtle texture and the thoughtful use of pattern seen in the physically carved holes [...]

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East and West Coast State of Mind

By evoking a state of mind, American painters from the east and west coast excel in similar ways. Two modern masters draw equally on the emotive power of landscape, each with a unique understanding of their own relationship to the experience of space. West coast artist, Helen Lundeberg (1908 –1999) living in Pasadena since the [...]

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