Women Around Town, December 2023 I am looking forward to this holiday season. I will be celebrating my mother’s 95th birthday, spending time with my grandsons, having my artwork included in the upcoming Beloved Planet exhibit at the Makery gallery and to hopefully seeing the biopic of photographer Lee Miller starring Kate Winslet coming out […]

Women Around Town, September 2023 The Bergamot Station Fall Open House is Saturday, September 9th from 1-10 p.m.  You can stop there on your way to or way home from the SCWCA  exhibit, A Keen Eye: The Artist’s Perspective at Range Projects. IN THE GALLERIES Craft in America presents an exhibition of the wonderful California […]

Women Around Town, August 2023 I want to begin by recommending the current exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art: O’Keeffe and Moore.  I found this to be an outstanding exhibition in terms of its installation and curation. The exhibit is organized thematically, rather than chronologically, which allows for wonderful comparisons between these 2 […]

Women Around Town, July 2023 It appears that there is lots to see this month. IN THE GALLERIES First up is Brand 51, the 51st  Annual Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper that opens July 8 at the Brand Library.  This year’s juror is a local resident, Ara Oshagan, who has selected close to 100 […]

Women Around Town, June 2023  My column this month includes the exhibitions that I feel are “don’t misses” for June.                IN THE GALLERIES An exhibition of ceramic sculptures produced between 1990 and 2013 by Betty Woodman is now on view at David Kordansky Gallery.  “Woodman (1930–2018) was a […]

Women Around Town, May 2023 Here are the gallery and museum exhibitions that I am recommending this month. IN THE GALLERIES Roberts Projects presents  Tidal Wave of Colour, a new body of work by Wangari Mathenge.  This series is composed of nine paintings that range from the intimate to the immersive. “The title takes its inspiration […]

Women Around Town, April 2023. Spring has apparently sprung???? IN THE GALLERIES   La Plaza Cultura y Artes is a wonderful So. Calif. locale. Currently, a retrospective of local artist, Margaret Garcia is on view. Here is a description from their website: “Garcia is the fifth of seven generations of Americans whose Mexican, Indigenous, and Chicana/o […]

Women Around Town Go out and “march” around this city and enjoy! IN THE GALLERIES Recently, I had the good fortune to see the current exhibit  Alison Saar: Uproot at L.A. Louver Gallery. Saar never disappoints. She culls from history representing women carving, stitching, and cobbling. One piece, Shear’d (2023), called for the hammering of 1,000 […]