Drive: LA

SHAPE SHIFT
Heather Lowe
Mike Savage
Chalavie
Installation View
Cloud Study #2 by Heather Lowe (top left)
New Order PDX by Mike Savage (top center left)
New Order Pico by Mike Savage (bottom center left)
Stack by Chalavie (bottom left)
Persian Dance by Heather Lowe (top right)
New Order by Mike Savage (bottom right)

1910 6th Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Welcome all!
The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday from 12 – 6 pm.
Now on view:
SHAPE SHIFT
The Art of Transformation
Apr 15- May 20
This exhibit showcases what artists do best: modify the mundane into materials for magic.
We bring together three unique artists who use simple materials like wood, paint and lenses to construct objects so brimming with frightened embarrassment and innocence, that it feels like life looking back at you. This sense of presence is all.
Birth, transition and death are all paid homage in their turn, reminding viewers that shapes are only temporary and shift is certain.

ALAN BRAY
Inside the Outside

Ghost Farms
by Alan Bray
Casein on Panel, 2020
Nature, keenly seen and unseen, is the subject in this American painter’s work. Bray works in casein on panel, a method perfected by 14th Century painters, which requires thousands of delicate brush strokes to achieve an exceptional clarity of light.
As Portland Museum of Art curator, Jessica Nicoll wrote, “Bray’s paintings are distillations rather than an actual representation of the natural world… Bray selects and combines elements to construct his slightly surreal landscapes. They are landscapes of memory. Veering away from the landscape tradition of the last one hundred and fifty years, with its emphasis on immediacy and epic sweep, Bray creates intimate vistas in his studio that are recollections of his experience in the world.”
Throughout his 40 year career, Bray has recorded the way time shapes landscapes and, distinct from plein air, paints unique meditations by braiding memory and rumination with the impression of the senses.

Frozen
by Alan Bray
Casein on Panel, 2017

ALAN BRAY
Inside the Outside
Wind Chill (left), Unburdened (center)
and
Winter's False Start (right)
All casein on panel.
Rory Devine Paintings
Nov 5- Dec 10

Untitled (Sound)
by Rory Divine
Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Chocolate Cake
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon espresso powder homemade or store-bought
1 cup milk or buttermilk, almond, or coconut milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil or canola oil, or melted coconut oil
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Prep.
Whisk dry ingredients.
Mix in wet ingredients.
Bake.
Frost.
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Untitled (I Stand, Corrected)
by Rory Divine
Oil on Panel, 2011

Untitled (Dream Someone Else's Dream)
by Rory Divine
Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
Peter Cohen on EDGE
Sep 24 - Oct 29

Doug Edge plays with the concept of ascension in this new series of paintings. They begin in a quiet corner before climbing out and covering entire canvases. In a clever take on art history, the artist complicates the idea first with value, then with color, and finally with configuration across a range of mediums including sculpture, canvases and prints.
LA minimalist fashion design Peter Cohen further develops the idea by bringing the paintings into fabric, allowing wearers to dress themselves and blur their own edges.
This show challenges the viewer to ask themselves:
Where does art end?
Where does life begin?
The edge is wherever you want it, baby!

Installation view
paintings by Doug Edge
clothes by Peter Cohen

Drive: LA
Jul 23 - Aug 27

Scheiss-Auto
by Manfred Zylla
Acrylic on brown paper
Drive: LA highlights the works of Manfred Zylla, Chris Sullivan, and Zeina Baltagi. The show examines urgent issues including the dark absurdity in environmental panic, neon signs of cleanliness and class, and the evaluation of roads themselves as cultural objects. Taken together they move us to appreciate the interrelatedness of our everyday lives as Angelenos, driving up and down roads designed to take everybody for a ride.

Transit by Zeina Baltagi, (2012, CMYK print on aluminum) and Roads, At Speed by Chris Sullivan (2022, asphalt slurry seal, road marking paint, reflective glass microspheres on canvas)
Peter Lodato
Apr 23 - Jun 25
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Yin and Yang and Pink and Black by Peter Lodato
(2002 and 2017, oil on canvas)
The gallery is proud to present Peter Lodato in our inaugural show. The artist uses layers of oil paint and varied brushwork to achieve a rich kind of abstract minimalism. Deceptively simple from across the room, they dissolve into a multicolored lavishness when seen up close. The paintings achieve a quiet kind of presence without clamoring for your attention. In kind collaboration with William Turner Gallery.

White and Blue by Peter Lodato
(2012, oil on canvas)