Los Angeles Art Shows- Irit Batsry at Shoshana Wayne Gallery

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May 032014
 

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Irit Batsry- Altered Sites

Currently at Shoshana Wayne gallery is Irit Batsry’s fourth solo exhibition. From the press release:

Altered Sites is a partial survey of Batsry’s photographic work from the last two decades illuminating key themes for the artist: the fragmentation of space, the construction of virtual space, and the dissolution of borders between photography, painting, sculpture, and the moving image.

Three different series of photographs are presented in the show. Neither There Nor Here is a series of photos taken from video material shot in Southern India. The Through the Looking Glass series, taken in Northwest Brazil, includes fun house mirror images of the sky and buildings, like the one seen above. Also shot in Brazil, the images from the third series, Caution, incorporate sculptures she built with security caution tape that she places within a coastal landscape.

This show closes 5/3.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Lew Thomas at Cherry and Martin

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Apr 262014
 
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“Throwing-Nikomat”

“9 Perspectives”

Lew Thomas: Structural (ism) and Photography (images via Cherry and Martin) 

In this exhibition of Lew Thomas’s photos, focusing on his work from 1971-1978, the mostly black and white images focus on different ways to use the medium to capture time and structure. Some of the work consists of multiple images of the same object put together to create an overall pattern, while others, like “9 Perspectives” (shown above), are several photos pieced together to form one single image. There are other explorations of photographic representation within the show as well, including “Throwing-Nikomat”(pictured above), and black and white photos of documents.  There is a charm and sometimes humor to Thomas’s work that make this not only an interesting exhibition to see, but also a fun one.

This show is at Cherry and Martin until 4/26.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Hannah Whitaker at M+B Gallery

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Apr 252014
 

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Hannah Whitaker– Arctic Landscape (Pink Sky) 2014

For Hannah Whitaker’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Cold Wave, at M+B Gallery, she combines photos of nature scenes, naked bodies and other images with a series of hand cut paper screens that together create abstract geometric forms and patterns. The images remain recognizable but are given added dimension through this process. Other work in the show concentrates more on graphic shapes and less on traditional imagery, but the strongest images are the ones in which something familiar is seen with a different perspective through this unique technique.

This show closes 4/26/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- D.J. Hall at Craig Krull Gallery and other shows at Bergamot Station

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Feb 222014
 

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D.J. Hall– Into Plein Air

D.J.Hall’s larger paintings as well as her smaller gouaches and watercolors of nature taken from her small notebooks are currently being shown until 2/22 at Craig Krull Gallery at Bergamot Station. Also being shown are Los Angeles photographer John Humble’s bright color photos of Pico Boulevard.

Also closing 2/22 at Bergamot Station:

Robert von Sternberg’s vintage black and white photos at dnj Gallery

Fielder Harper’s paintings of Los Angeles in Urban Mosaic at tag Gallery offer a unique perspective of the city

Augustus Francis’s shimmery abstract paintings are at Schomburg Gallery

Los Angeles Art Shows- Elias Hansen at Anat Ebgi and other shows in Culver City

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Feb 222014
 

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Elias Hansen: I’m a long way from home and I don’t really know these roads.

Anat Ebgi gallery is showing Elias Hansen’s new sculptures until 2/22. There are numerous beakers and other glassware combined with natural materials in setups that look, especially when lit with colored lights, like bizarre science experiments, or possibly something more suspicious.

Also in Culver City and closing 2/22:

Patrick Wilson’s geometric paintings in “Steak Night” seem to move the longer you stare at them- at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

Tony de los Reyes’s show “Border Theory” at Angles Gallery paintings and lithographs are both abstract and political as the lines within them follow the natural border between the United States and Mexico created by the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo).

Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis have a show called “Unexplored Territory” at Kopeikin Gallery that consists of video and photography that explores human’s desire to control natural elements like fire, and balances this concept with machines acting in ways that make them seem human. There is a video in the center room in which two fans on one power cord seem to be in a sort of dance/fight.

At LAXART, Brendan Fowler recreates photos with a commercial industrial embroidery machine creating a blend of photography and sculpture.

Los Angeles and New York Art Shows- Andrew Moore at Couturier Gallery / Yancey Richardson

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Jan 232014
 

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***************SUNDAY CALENDAR STORY FOR JANUARY 19, 2014. DO NOT USE PRIOR TO PUBLICATION.*************** 'Espera Cayo Granma Santiago'. Andrew Moore's photography exhibit "CUBA" will be on display through Feb. 15 at the Couturier Gallery. Photo Credit: Andrew Moore.

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Photographs by Andrew Moore (Bano Rojo, 2000 and La Espera, Cayo Granma, Santiago de Cuba, 2012 and Cash Meier Barn, Shadbolt Ranch, Cherry County, Nebraska)

The images from Andrew Moore’s show at Couturier Gallery are both beautiful and sad as they show Cuba as it is now, while at the same time the evidence of what it once was is all around.

The beauty of decay is also evident in some of the images from another of Moore’s subjects, Nebraska. These images are currently on view in New York at Yancey Richardson gallery.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Vivian Maier at Merry Karnowsky Gallery

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Jan 232014
 

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When I saw Vivian Maier’s work at photoLA in 2012, I was surprised to have never heard of her.  Amazingly, despite the quality of her work, she was only discovered, posthumously, when a man named John Maloof bought a box of old negatives for $400 dollars at an auction in 2007. Once he began looking through them, he quickly acquired more of her work from the same buyer. Through his research, it was revealed that Maier had worked as a nanny for over 40 years in Chicago and had taken over 100,000 photos.

Merry Karnowsky Gallery is currently showing part of the collection (a little over a hundred images) including some of her self portraits and color work. This show is open until Saturday, 1/25.

There is also a documentary Finding Vivian Maier coming to theaters in March.

Los Angeles Art Shows- “At the Window: The Photographer’s View” at the Getty Museum

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Jan 042014
 

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Arthur Rothstein– Gee’s Bend, Alabama (Artelia Bendolph)

At the Window: The Photographer’s View is also at the Getty Museum until 1/5. It showcases various famous photographers (including Gregory Crewdson, Éugéne Atget, Walker Evans, Shizuka Yokomizo and Uta Barth, among many others) who used windows as their framing device.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Abelardo Morell at the Getty Museum

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Jan 042014
 

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Images from Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door 

Morell’s camera obscura images are incredible. His current show at The Getty Museum closes this weekend (1/5).  The Getty site provides a lot of information about his process and his other works in the show.

If you miss this, he also has a show at Rose Gallery in Bergamot station until 1/18/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Helmut Newton at Annenberg Space for Photography

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Sep 082013
 

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This is the last weekend for the Helmut Newton show at Annenberg Space for Photography. If you go, make sure to watch the movie playing in the back room which is considerably more interesting than the one playing in the center of the gallery.

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