IN THE GALLERIES: Gavlak Gallery is featuring work by two remarkable artists: Betty Tomkins and Marnie Weber. “Sex Works/WOMEN Words, Phrases and Stories” is a series of paintings and includes a survey of Tomkins’ early works on paper and large-scale Cunt, Fuck, and Pussy paintings. The exhibition places pieces from the beginning of her career in conversation […]
Women Around Town, October 2016
Marina Abramovic: Walk Through Walls. The celebrated performance artist discusses her new memoir. Tickets available 10/13/16 for the 11/15/16 @ 7:30 event at the Getty Center. Take note of the wonderful exhibitions of work by women artists in our area during the month of October. IN THE GALLERIES “Countenance Divine” is opening this Saturday at […]
Woman Around Town
This “Woman Around Town” was fortunate to see some awe-inspiring art this past weekend. It all began in the arts district at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel gallery. Several of the gallery’s spaces were filled with the work of the late Austrian abstract painter Maria Lassnig. This survey of Lassnig’s oeuvre provides work from the 1950s […]
Women Around Town, August 2016
IN THE GALLERIES I am sharing my experience at a talk given by Helen Molesworth (curator at MOCA) at the “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016” exhibit at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel gallery. I had viewed the museum quality exhibit and the magnificent behemoth of a gallery several weeks ago, but was […]
Women Around Town, June 2016
Women Around Town by Karen Schifman IN THE GALLERIES Lois Lambert Gallery at Bergamot Station presents Straight From Cuba: A Woman’s Perspective. This group exhibition features work by Alicia de la Campa Pak, Laura Carralero Morales, Belsy Cobiellas Cruz, Lisandra Isabel Garcia, and Adislen Reyes Pino. Each artist’s work reflects Cuba’s current cultural and political […]
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, April 2016
WOMEN AROUND TOWN by Karen Schifman IN THE GALLERIES: As you may know, a special exhibition of the work of Cindy Sherman will be opening at the Broad Art Museum in June. Make sure you are on their mailing list to be notified when tickets will be available. Micol Hebron’s “(En)Gendered (In)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project” continues at Los […]
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. […]
Dwora Fried’s Magnificent Boxes
It is such a pleasure to write about SCWCA member Dwora Fried and her wonderful assemblages. Fried will be having a solo exhibition this month at Gallery 825 entitled Big Box/little box. The upcoming exhibition offered an opportunity for me to visit her studio to view her current work and learn more about her art […]
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