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Women Around Town, February 2020

January 31, 2020 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

Happy Galentines Day! There certainly is a lot to see this month. Enjoy!   IN THE GALLERIES My husband and I stopped by Walter Maciel Gallery on a Saturday afternoon to view the exhibit,  A Conjuring of Conjurers by Lezley Saar. We were fortunate that the artist was there so I could chat with her […]

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Women Around Town, January 2020

January 2, 2020 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

Happy New Year! Hope your year is filled with great artful experiences. Upcoming Noteworthy Events The Annual Women’s March is on Saturday, January 18th from 10-4 p.m. and begins at Pershing Square in downtown L.A. Another compelling event is the conversation between Jill Moniz and Alison Saar at the California African American Museum on Thursday, […]

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Women Around Town, December 2019

December 2, 2019 By Karen Schifman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Women Around, November 2018

November 4, 2019 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Women Around Town, October 2019

October 3, 2019 By Karen Schifman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Women Around Town, September 2019

September 3, 2019 By Karen Schifman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Women Around Town, August 2019

August 3, 2019 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Women Around Town, July 2019

July 1, 2019 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Women Around Town, June 2019

May 30, 2019 By Karen Schifman 3 Comments

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 […]

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Women Around Town, May 2019

April 24, 2019 By Karen Schifman Leave a Comment

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 […]

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