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Drive: LA

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Burned Into Thought

by 

Kristan Marvell

1910 6th Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90018

Welcome all!

Plan your visit

The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday from 12 – 6 pm.

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Now on view:

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Nicholette Kominos
Stephanie Levin
Kristan Marvell
Julia Thornton
Craig Zaretsky


DOOM BLOOM
Nov 23- Dec 14

DOOM BLOOM

 It's an age old, elemental kind of rhythm.

First DOOM, then BLOOM

Come join us in our thriving little garden. 
Watch out for the pretty poisons.
Stick to something soft.
And let's remember that even roses have their thorns. 

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Nicholette Kominos (b. 1954, Chicago, IL) is a Los Angeles artist who makes wall-mounted constructions, paintings, and sculptures. Her practice reflects her interest in minimalism and psychology, with an emphasis on materiality and subtle gestures.

 

In 2023, her work was included in the exhibition “Expression through Diverse Materials” at the Seiriki Museum of Art in Okawa, Japan. Kominos has exhibited at galleries, alternative spaces, and cultural venues such as Roswell Space, LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Gallery 3331, Tokyo, Japan; and Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mt. Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles.  

 

Her work is held in the Broad Collection, Los Angeles; The Long Beach Museum, Long Beach; and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

Stephanie Levin  (b. 1978, San Clemente, CA) is a painter whose work is a vibrant exploration of emotion and intuition.  Her layered mixed media work is characterized by her use of unconventional tools to explore different kinds of mark making.

She creates dynamic abstract compositions across mediums, using full body movements and pairing the rhythms of poetry with the movement of her tools. Her work has been  exhibited at New York Art Center, Laguna Art Gallery, the D gallery Palm Desert and Perry Gallery, La Jolla.

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Kristan Marvell (b. 1952, Corvallis, OR) is a sculptor working across mediums. He has developed techniques of spontaneous carving, which results in distinctive subtractive and additive forms, often at imposing scale. In 2021, his work was included at NOMAD at the Torrance Art Museum. His numerous solo exhibitions include presentations at MaRS Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), Ochi Fine Art, Sun Valley (2004), and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica (1988).

 

Marvell ran Sculptural Services for 30 years, a full service foundry casting bronze and aluminum for many iconic artists, including Ann Hamilton, Mark Grotjahn, John Chamberlain, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, and Sterling Ruby.

Julia Thornton (b. Ipswich, UK) is a California based artist who paints large scale florals using soft pastels on fine grade sand paper. Her work reflects her passion for intense color, shape and contrast. Nature's infinite variations in form are the inspiration for her work. Striving to capture the life force and creativity she sees in plants, her work is an attempt to interpret the quiet intelligence she sees at work within each flower she paints.

She has exhibited previously at the Lindsay Museum.

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Craig Zaretsky (b. 1969, Forest Hills, NY) is a Los Angeles based artist, curator and musician. His compositions are rhythms of texture and color drawn from the subconscious. Using a process that begins without intentions, he embraces the primitive and instinctual use of color slowly and intuitively building texture and depth.  

This is his first show.

Come Through

1910 6th Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90018

213*493*7148

SPLENDOR KILN

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Nicholette Kominos (b. 1954, Chicago, IL) is a Los Angeles artist who makes wall-mounted constructions, paintings, and sculptures. Her practice reflects her interest in minimalism and psychology, with an emphasis on materiality and subtle gestures.

 

In 2023, her work was included in the exhibition “Expression through Diverse Materials” at the Seiriki Museum of Art in Okawa, Japan. Kominos has exhibited at galleries, alternative spaces, and cultural venues such as Roswell Space, LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Gallery 3331, Tokyo, Japan; and Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mt. Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles.  

 

Her work is held in the Broad Collection, Los Angeles; The Long Beach Museum, Long Beach; and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

Kristan Marvell (b. 1952, Corvallis, OR) is a sculptor working across mediums. He has developed techniques of spontaneous carving, which results in distinctive subtractive and additive forms, often at imposing scale. In 2021, his work was included at NOMAD at the Torrance Art Museum. His numerous solo exhibitions include presentations at MaRS Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), Ochi Fine Art, Sun Valley (2004), and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica (1988).

 

Marvell ran Sculptural Services for 30 years, a full service foundry casting bronze and aluminum for many iconic artists, including Ann Hamilton, Mark Grotjahn, John Chamberlain, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, and Sterling Ruby.

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When a fire burns through it affects the big and the small alike. None spared.

What does it look like in an enchanted forest that burns down?

What does it feel like to wander in the shadows of charred monuments?

What happens to the soft little weird things flitting in the shadows, when they're stripped bare in the clarifying fire?

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This exhibit plumbs the cauldron of catastrophe and asks the viewer to consider what comes after the devastation.

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It's a brave new world.

A possibility, not a promise.

Face the Fight

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Moments Within A Moment

(Installation View)

by 

Jim Krantz

This show explores the concept of mentorship through the lens of artistic lineage.

Based on the old atelier game called "The Flowering Staircase," in which art students standing at easels next to each other trace their artistic lineage back to Michelangelo through the master-apprentice relationships that link them across 500 years of history. This show takes as its point of origin the work of ceramicist and furniture craftsman David Bialac (b. 1905-d. 1978) and explores the effect on his artistic descendants long after his passing: photographer Jim Krantz, filmmaker David Smoler, photographer Milo Decruz, and sound artist David davis. Viewers are invited to explore the visual, sensual, and aural effects which can be fruited from a vigorous root.

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Biscuits I, II

by

David Bialac

ceramic glaze, brass

1965

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 Untitled

by

David Bialac

ceramic, framed

1969

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Moments Within a Moment 

(Installation View)

by

Jim Krantz

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Raven  and Mojave Rattlesnake

by

Milo Decruz

photograph, framed

2018

the horror
in collaboration with
Spunk Art & Perspectives

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Ysterkop

by

David Brown

Bronze

1999

This group exhibition showcases work that is explicitly transgressive, and explores contemporary themes that touch on body horror, splatterpunk, psychological horror, and the abhuman. 

Curated by Aaron Tilford, founder/ publisher of the independent literary art journal Spunk Art & Perspectives. Work by the artists in the exhibition is  featured in Spunk no.15. 

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Golet

by

Gerald Collings

oil on canvas

2014

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 Curse of the Witch

by

Adam Miller

archival pigment print, framed

2023

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Burnt Cacao, Really

by

Daniela Soberman

plaster on polystyrene

2022

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Var. Works 

by Zak Smith

acrylic and ink on paper and board

2017-2019

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Sim-Ya

by Svetlana Shigroff

fabirc, fabric dyes, metl charms, latex

2019

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Best Friends

Remember

by

Robert Hickerson

photograph, framed

2018

SHAPE SHIFT

The Art of Transformation

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Installation View

Cloud Study #2 (Stereo Painting) by Heather Lowe, top left

New Order PNW by Mike Savage, center top left

New Order Pico by Mike Savage, center bottom

Stack by Chalavie

Persian Dance #2 by Heather Lowe , top right

New Order Portland by Mike Savage, bottom right

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This group exhibition showcases work what artists do best: modify the mundane into materials for magic.

We bring together three unique artists- Heather Lowe, Mike Savage, and Chalavie- 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 only shift is certain.

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Monster Machine

by

Chalavie

acrylic on canvas, 2021

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LCW Red Blue Yellow Black

by

Mike Savage

 

acrylic and gesso on board, 2019

Heather Lowe Clouds Over Winslow (Stereo Painting) 14 x 11 (framed) Acrylic on Bristol and

Clouds over Winslow

(Stereo Painting)

by

Heather Lowe

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acrylic on Bristol and canvas, 2017

ALAN BRAY
Inside the Outside

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ALAN BRAY

Inside the Outside 

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Wind Chill  (left), Unburdened  (center)

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Winter's False Start  (right)

 

All casein on panel.

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.

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Frozen

by Alan Bray

Casein on Panel, 2017

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Ghost Farms

by Alan Bray

Casein on Panel, 2020

Rory Devine Paintings
Nov 5- Dec 10

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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
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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

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Untitled (Dream Someone Else's Dream)

by Rory Divine

Acrylic on Canvas, 2020

Peter Cohen on EDGE
Sep 24 - Oct 29

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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

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Drive: LA
Jul 23 - Aug 27

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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.

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White and Blue  by Peter Lodato

(2012, oil on canvas) 

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