As the year comes to a close, I want to thank my audience for being there and hope that your holidays are artful and joyful. December offerings include several group shows and of course there are many noteworthy museum exhibitions to check out. Happy Holidays!!! IN THE GALLERIES New Paintings by Astrid Preston will be featured […]

It is hard to believe that it is November already. In the last 2 weeks we have had to pack up our precious and important paper and possessions to prepare for evacuation due to the looming fires. Many of those treasured items included our art collection and family photographs. It allowed me time to contemplate […]

Each fall semester I teach a course on the history of Women in the Visual Arts. This week in particular we are focusing on the French and English female Academicians, reminding me of the many struggles women artists had and continue to have. With that in mind, I am especially grateful to have exhibited some […]

My latest out of town art adventure was to Seattle, Washington. At the top of my itinerary was a visit to the Seattle Art Museum to view the exhibit Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites (PRB) to the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was a very comprehensive exhibit with works ranging from those by Dante Gabriel […]

I was just watching a terrific documentary on KCET about Edith Heath. She was quite a visionary and achieved amazing things with the medium of clay. I learned that the exterior of the Norton Simon museum is clad in Heath Ceramics and that she was the first non-architect an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal […]

I recently returned from nearly a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I visited many galleries, several museums, the art installation MeowWolf and Georgia O’Keefe’s home in Abiquiú. One particular exhibition stood out was at the expansive Peter’s Projects Gallery, Karen LaMonte: Embodied Beauty. The breathtaking show brings together LaMonte’s most recent series of works—Floating World […]

This art historian/artist has had an art-filled weekend. I attended a course at LACMA on the Bauhaus, an important and highly influential center of education and ideas that existed in Germany from 1919-1933. (Note that a comprehensive exhibition Bauhaus Beginnings in celebration of the 100thanniversary of the opening of the school will be at the Getty […]

Spring is here and it brings some delightful art. This coming Saturday is the closing reception of Unfettered, an exhibition of work by members of the So. California Women’s Caucus for Art at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park. My work in honor of Women’s History Month, Honoring Virginia remains on view. See below. 4/06/19; 2-4 p.m. […]

I had mixed feelings when I read that SFMOMA was planning to sell a Mark Rothko painting valued between 35 and 50 million. I have sat in front of this work many times getting lost in his floating rectangles of pigment, and I will miss it. Then again, would it not be more satisfying to […]