I am so thankful for so many things, and especially to all my readers out there. IN THE GALLERIES Days of Reverie opens this weekend at the Descanso Gardens’ Sturt Haaga Gallery. showcasing new bodies of work by four Los Angeles-based visual artists: Catherine Ruane, Debbie Korbel, Jason Jenn, and Jill Sykes. This project was […]

This fall, there are so many fascinating exhibitions that include women artists. One in particular is in San Francisco.  The first major survey of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka’s (1894-1980) oeuvre is the highlight at the De Young Museum this fall.  Lempicka is known for her portraits of women, in particular idealized female portraits of […]

Keep your eyes out for all of the exhibitions associated with Getty-led initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide which will open this September. For example, Plugged In: Art and Electric Light at the Norton Simon Museum. September 20, 2024 thru February 17, 2025. IN THE GALLERIES David Zwirner gallery is featuring At Home: Alice […]

Women Around Town, June 2024 My husband and I just returned from one week in Montreal and Quebec City.  The highlights included visits to their  2 main art museums. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts featured the “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” exhibit which I had already seen in San Diego. It was still fantastic […]

Spring has sprung! IN THE GALLERIES Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park  presents its annual  COLA exhibition. Artist Jane Brucker is one of five recipients of the City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP) grants in design and visual arts. Brucker’s new work for the COLA exhibition prompts us to […]

Women Around Town, March 2024 March is Women’s History Month, now march out there and support women artists and (some) candidates! IN THE GALLERIES The Box Gallery is currently exhibiting Utility Fatigue, works by Linda Franke. In her sculptures, the artist poses the question “what if objects could be peeled away from their function”? Here […]

Women Around Town, 2024, a blog by Karen Schifman. IN THE GALLERIES Harmony is Fraught  is the current exhibit of Catherine Opie’s work at Regen Projects. The gallery has installed over sixty photographs never shown publicly before, drawn from over thirty years of making pictures in and of Los Angeles. These include photographs of freeways […]

Wishing you all a fabulous 2024! IN THE GALLERIES  Noted feminist artist Nancy Youdelman will be exhibiting her photography from the 1970s  in  Dream Work at asis.la gallery. January 6 thru February 17, 2024. L.A. Louver Gallery’s upcoming exhibit is JOJO ABOT: A God of Her Own Making. This will be amultimedia experience consisting of […]

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 […]