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 […]
Women Around Town, July 2019
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 […]
Women Around Town, June 2019
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 […]
Women Around Town, May 2019
IN THE GALLERIES Wendy White: Racetrack Playa is the current exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian gallery. The exhibit takes its name from a 3-mile dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park and features paintings, sculptures, pigment prints, and a site-specific installation. Using this scarred landscape as a metaphor for our current times, the works in the […]
Women Around Town, April 2019
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. […]
Women Around Town, March 2019
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 […]
Women Around Town, February 2019
We join the art world in mourning the loss of Lyn Keinholz, an arts advocate known for a fierce devotion to raising the profile of California artists. See the L.A. Times article. The film Feminists: What Were They Thinking? is now playing on Netflix. The Brand Library current exhibition Valley Girl gets a write up in the […]
Women Around Town, January 2019
The New Year is off to a great start with many appealing gallery exhibitions opening this month. I was so delighted with Christopher Knight’s Los Angeles Times article stating that “female artists finally outnumbered men in L.A. Museum Solo shows.” From what I see on the horizon, 2019 also looks like a year rich with exhibitions of […]
Women Around Town, November 2018
Fall is upon us and the days are getting shorter. No shortage though of women artists exhibiting their work in Los Angeles this month. Here are just a few recommended exhibitions. Let’s begin with 2 stellar exhibits curated by Jill Moniz at Roberts Projects in Culver City. Betye Saar: Something Blue. A selection of artworks by Betye […]
Women Around Town, October 2018
IN THE NEWS The Getty Research Institute (GRI) recently announced the establishment of the African American Art History Initiative with the acquisition of the archive of world-renowned artist Betye Saar (American, b. 1926). “Betye Saar’s pioneering assemblages and large-scale installations, grounded in unique materials and African American history, have had a profound and positive impact […]
