AROUND TOWN: The Galleries at Bergamot Station are Here to Stay! On Tuesday, June 13 the City Council voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan that will keep the galleries at Bergamot and add new cultural uses, including spaces for a museum, community arts center, performing arts, and other non-profits. The galleries consider this a great […]
Women Around Town, Mid-April 2017
IN THE GALLERIES: “POWER” is an exhibition at Spruth Magers gallery that surveys the work of various African-American women artists from the 19th century to the present. This show includes work by 37 artists beginning with those born soon after the Civil War. The examples provide some understanding of how these women artists dealt […]
Women Around Town, February 2017
IN THE GALLERIES: The current group exhibition of paintings at Laura Korman Gallery are quite exquisite. “Submerged” features works by Katherine TzuLan Mann, Yukari Kaihori and Tatyana Murray. Thru 4/8/17. (image below) Located in the mid-Wilshire area, the new artist-run Brainworks Gallery presents “State of the Union” curated by Erin Adams, Kristine Schomaker and Diane Williams. The artists participating […]
Women Around Town, May 2016
WOMEN AROUND TOWN by Karen Schifman IN THE GALLERIES: Ruth Bachofner Gallery presents Margaret Lazzari,“Energy, Matter and Light” (image right). Her abstract paintings have a rich palette, delicate line work and thick bursts of viscous paint. Lazzari states: “Rich color and complex surfaces are important in these paintings. I like spaces that are somewhat familiar – there may be […]
Women Around Town, March 2016
Women Around Town, March 2016 by Karen Schifman IN THE GALLERIES There will be an “Art and Feminism” Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by LACMA on Sunday, 3/6/16 from 11 am to 4 pm. For those who wish to participate in this one or sometime in the future, click on this link: wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism California State University at Channel […]
Women Around Town, February 2016
IN THE GALLERIES: *SPOTLIGHT: Nurit Avesar SCWCA member Nurit Avesar will be exhibiting a new series of work at the Neurtra Institute Museum of Silver Lake. The show, “Elemental Energies” is curated by Dulce Stein. Avesar was born in Israel and came to the U.S. in the 1970s. She began her career as a figurative artist, focusing on illustration and graphic design professionally. […]
Paper and Drawing Elevated…
Last Saturday evening (Sept. 26) I went to two extremely well attended openings: one at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and one at Loft at Liz’s on La Brea. Both exhibitions were filled with art and viewers. Both exhibitions offer work by local artists. These exhibitions complement each other quite well. At CAFAM, Paperworks […]
Photography in the Age of Anxiety
Photography in the Age of Anxiety I recently came across a paper I had written in graduate school about noted art critic Robert Hughes’ (1938-2012) views on art in the “Age of Anxiety.” According to Hughes, “The nightmare of Vietnam cast America into an age of anxiety…and the art will reflect that…” In my paper […]
Here Comes the Bride and Other Nightmares
Last year the very talented visual artist Freyda Miller released a book of her photographs. In conjunction with this event, she requested that I write about her work from the art historical perspective and that is what I am sharing with you here. Freyda Miller’s photography combines historical references with contemporary art making practices as […]
