Art - Culver City

No Bogging Until the Spring of 2009

2008-12-03T17:23:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately, all of our blog postings are being put on hold until the Spring of 2009. There are several reasons for this, but the main reason is family priorities. We'll continue to keep our websites and art resources current and blog again next year.

Best Wishes for the New Year!

Dan Fear
http://art-collecting.com
http://art-support.com

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Culver City Artwalk - May 31st

2008-05-30T06:23:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, May 31st will be the Culver City Artwalk.
Hours are 12 - 8pm. Spend the day viewing over 40 galleries in the Culver City Artwalk. Last year over 10,000 people attended. Many galleries have created special exhibitions just for this event, so you see lots of good contemporary art.

For a map of the galleries and visit:
www.ccgalleryguide.com/

Another Culver City Gallery Guide is located on art-collecting.com:

Walter Maciel GalleryAndrea Cohen New Work

2008-05-14T10:50:00.000-07:00

Walter Maciel Gallery is presenting a new body of work by New York based artist Andrea Cohen. The exhibition will be on display until June 21st.

Andrea Cohen installation view
Courtesy Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City

Andrea Cohen installation view
Courtesy Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City

Cohen’s new sculptures continue to take their cues from the formal complexity of Chinese landscape painting and Chinese rock gardens. For her second solo show with Walter Maciel Gallery, Cohen presents five free standing sculptures and several small pedestal pieces. Three of the five large works, like her previous sculptures, are quirky yet carefully articulated hybrid landscapes made from materials such as tree branches, hand-dyed vinyl, Styrofoam, popsicle sticks, origami paper and numerous other materials. Within them, Cohen uses provisional materials and an economy of means. Each detail of these compositions is highly asserted and yet her sculptures appear to be on the verge of collapse.

Cohen received a BA from New York University in 1993 and an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1999. She is currently an adjunct professor at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Cohen had her first solo exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery in June of 2006. A series of the larger sculptures was featured in the show The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC that same year. She was also ARTnews magazine’s Critic’s Pick in the October 2006 issue. Her work is included in many important private collections.

Andrea Cohen
Overlook, New Sculpture
May 10 - June 21, 2008

Walter Maciel Gallery
2642 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310 839 1840

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00am - 6:00pm

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Walter Maciel Gallery

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Corey Helford Gallery - Vanity Bonfire

2008-04-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

A new exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and mixed media opens on Saturday night at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. Opening Reception: April 26th, 7-10pm

Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 287-2340

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 6:00

Please contact the gallery for additional information.
Their website is http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/

Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art Ynez Johnston Paintings, Prints & Sculpture

2008-03-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

A survey of work from the late 1940’s to the present by
Ynez Johnston is currently on display at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art. The exhibition will continue through April 12th. Here are a few of the works on display.

Ynez Johnston Exhibition
Installation View
© and courtesy Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

Ynez Johnston
City of Flight, 1963
Mixed Media, Oil, Liquid Metal on Canvas, 50”x 30”
© and courtesy Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

Ynez Johnston
Green Square, 1963
Oil and Liquid Steel on Canvas, 40”x 50
© and courtesy Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

Ynez Johnston
Dynastic Scene, 1963
Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, 59”x 48”
© and courtesy Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

Ynez Johnston
Palace of the Snow Leopard, 1971
Mixed media on board, 21”x 30.5”
© and courtesy Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

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Ynez Johnston
Paintings, Prints, Sculpture
March 15 — April 12, 2008

Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
8568 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.815.1100

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm

For additional information contact the gallery or visit
their website Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

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Taylor De Cordoba / Claire Oswalt Exhibition

2008-03-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Trustfall, a new series of sculptural drawings by Los Angeles-based artist Claire Oswalt. The exhibition will run from March 15 through April 19, 2008. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Saturday March 15th from 6-9pm. This is the artist's first solo show with the gallery.

Claire Oswalt
Eternal Introduction, 2008
Graphite, paper, wood, 13 x 13 inches
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City

Claire Oswalt
Title and demensions n/a
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City

Claire Oswalt
For Right Now, 2008
Graphite, paper, wood, 54 x 40 inches
© Claire Oswalt, courtesy Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City

With her puppets made from wood, twine, and graphite on paper, Oswalt explores an increasingly complex adult world with a childlike simplicity and curiosity. The push and pull between control and freedom is pervasive throughout her series: from a girl being blown away, to the clothes that have fallen on the floor, to a man falling out of his chair. Her puppets demonstrate a sense of restricted movement, while the title of her series suggests an unrestrained freefall, made possible only with trust. Oswalt ensures that each fall is a fall in the right direction, or to a safe place. And although they are put into a position that lacks control, the puppets put their trust in the artist and subsequently the viewer. In this sense, the puppets welcome us into their world as we explore the trials and tribulations of "falling" in love and falling through life. Though Trustfall is theatrical with its changing backdrops and Pinnochio-esque qualities, its characters instill a quiet sense of realism that prompt the viewer to ponder the simple aesthetic quality which propels these puppets into our world.

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Claire Oswalt
Trustfall
March 15 - April 15, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15, 6-9pm

Taylor De Cordoba
2660 S La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
310.559.9156

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 - 5:30pm.

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website. Taylor De Cordoba

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Nonor Fraser / Rosson Crow Exhibition

2008-03-02T19:09:00.000-08:00

Honor Fraser, is currently showing Night at the Palomino, an exhibition of new paintings by Rosson Crow. The exhibition will continue through March 29th.

Rosson Crow is celebrated for her exuberant large-scale depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend historical allusion and theatrical illusion. The paintings evoke the good times of yesteryear, with lush interiors that are always deserted, yet speak eloquently — if obliquely — of recent use and inhabitation. The work also stands out for its hallucinogenic spaces, with interiors fracturing and distorting from realistic representation into abstraction and surrealism, and “teetering,” as she puts it, “between claustrophobic and agoraphobic.”

Rosson Crow, exhibition
Night at the Palomino
Installation photo courtesy of Honor Fraser

Rosson Crow, exhibition
Night at the Palomino
Installation photo courtesy of Honor Fraser

Rosson Crow grew up in Texas, and studied at Yale and the School of Visual Arts in New York before serving a one-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work has been widely published, and exhibited in solo shows in New York (CANADA Gallery) and Paris (Galerie Nathalie Obadia) as well as in a number of group shows.

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Rosson Crow
Night at the Palomino
Janurary 26 - March 29, 2008

Honor Fraser
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310.837.0191

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Honor Fraser.

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Sandroni Rey / Johan Nobell Exhibition

2008-02-24T22:39:00.000-08:00

Sandroni Rey is exhibiting "Acres of Pain" an exhibition of new work by Johan Nobell. This will be Nobell’s first solo show with Sandroni Rey.The exhibition will continue through March 15th.

Johan Nobell
Sky Tinted Water, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 24 3/4 " (47.9 x 62.9 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City

Johan Nobell
Feeder, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 23 5/8 " (47.9 x 60 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City

Johan Nobell
Battlefield, 2007
oil on linen, 18 7/8 x 24 3/4 " (47.9 x 62.9 cm)
© Johan Nobell, courtesy of Sandroni Rey, Culver City

In this new body of work Nobell continues to explore landscapes through intricate narratives conjured from both imagined and real events. He juxtaposes vibrant color and cartoon-like imagery with apocalyptic themes to create paintings that are ominous yet amusing as machines and natural elements merge and take on lives of their own.

Nobell creates organized chaos in a degenerated paradise where he plays out the life cycles of political struggle, violence, hunger, sexuality and death. While his work does not necessarily fit within traditional landscape genres, Nobell borrows from a wide variety of art historical references in order to evoke intense emotion and conflict through anthropomorphic beings—acknowledging and interpreting human relations to nature in a contemporary society where natural and man-made worlds collide.

The gallery is also showing the artwork of Farrah Karapetian, in the Project Room.

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Johan Nobell
Acres of Pain
February 16, 2008 - March 15, 2008

Farrah Karapetian
Shipping Container
February 16, 2008 - March 15, 2008

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Sandroni Rey
2762 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310.280.0111

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Sandroni Rey.

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David Gallery / Stephen Wilkes Exhibit

2008-02-15T16:21:00.000-08:00

Through March 22nd, the David Gallery in Culver City will be presently photographs of China by Stephen Wilkes.

Traveling through old and new China, Wilkes has expertly portrayed a nation amidst rapid and vast transformation. Focusing on both rural and urban industrialized settings – and the increasing number of areas where these two collide – the artist draws our attention to a changing way of life. The large spectacular imagery speaks of not only a new era in China, but also a shift in global economies already felt in the United States.

Stephen Wilkes
Factory Girls in a Row
© Stephen Wilkes, courtesy of David Gallery

Stephen Wilkes
Lone Girl Factory, China
© Stephen Wilkes, courtesy of David Gallery

Stephen Wilkes
New Construction, Shangai, China
© Stephen Wilkes, courtesy of David Gallery

Wilkes is a leading contemporary photographer whose photographs reside in several prominent museum collections. His work has also graced the covers of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine and Time Magazine.

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Stephen Wilkes: China
February 2 - March 22, 2008
Gallery hours: 11 - 6 Tuesday through Saturday

David Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
323 939-9079

For additional information contact the gallery or visit their website David Gallery.

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Corey Helford Gallery - Chris Anthony

2008-02-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present “I’m The Most Normal Person I Know”, a solo exhibition of new works by Los Angeles photographer Chris Anthony. For his second solo show at Corey Helford, Anthony transforms his childhood daydreams and obsessions with Lilliputia into a series of otherworldly narratives and haunting portraits. Employing his personal collection of vintage lenses that span from 1870 to 1910 and a medley of cheesecloth, papier mache, velvet, doll parts, dress forms, mannequins and tattered clothes, Anthony creates a unique world fi lled with his signature fantastical aesthetic and technical artistry. Accompanying “I’m The Most Normal Person I Know” will be a limited-edition book of 1,000 copies under the same title, which features photographs from the exhibition as well as additional images.

Chris Anthony
Fear of Emotional Chemistry, 2007
C-Print
Edition of 3, Size 33 X 50 inches
Edition of 5, Size 21 X 32 inches

Chris Anthony
Chivalry Towards Ladies, 2007
C-Print
Edition of 3, Size 33 X 50 inches
Edition of 5, Size 21 X 32 inches

Chris Anthony
Sleep Still In Your Eyes, 2007
C-Print
Edition of 3, Size 33 X 50 inches
Edition of 5, Size 21 X 32 inches

Chris Anthony is an internationally recognized photographer who was awarded this year’s Grand Prize in American Photo’s Images of the Year Competition for his “Victims & Avengers” series, which was shown in its entirety for the first time at Corey Helford Gallery in January 2007.

Exhibition continues through February 16th

Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

Open Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 6:00

Please contact the gallery for additional information. Their website is http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/.

Los Angeles Art Show

2008-01-25T19:51:00.000-08:00

This is a terrific week to see and purchase fine art Southern California. Two major art fairs are open in Santa Monica, plus the local galleries and museums are displaying wonderful works of art.

The Los Angeles Art Show, one of the most prestigious expositions in America, showcasing a variety of fine art from the 17th century to the present. In addition, this year the Los Angeles Art Show will be joined by the IFPDA’s 23rd Annual Los Angeles Fine Print Fair. Over 125 distinguished international and US galleries will come together to showcase the finest examples of works in the year’s most anticipated art show.

Here's a partial list of participating galleries. From New York, Charles Cowles Gallery, J. Cacciola Gallery, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Peter Findlay Gallery, Spanierman Modern, Marlborough Gallery, Pace Prints, and Yossi Milo Gallery.

From Chicago, Aaron Galleries, Armstrong Fine Art, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, and Worthington Gallery.

From New Mexico, Bellas Artes, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Gebert Contemporary, Richard Levy Gallery, LewAllen Contemporary, and Robert Henry Adams Fine Art.

From Seattle, Greg Kucera Gallery, Davidson Galleries, Carolyn Staley Fine Prints and Winston Wachter Fine Art.

From California, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Frey Norris Gallery, George Billis Gallery LA, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Peter Fetterman Photography, Trotter Galleries, and William A. Karges Fine Art.

General Show Hours
Thursday, January 24 noon-7pm
Friday, January 25 noon-8pm
Saturday, January 26 noon-8pm
Sunday, January 27 noon-6pm

Advance sale tickets may be purchased online for general show hours through Acteva.com. Tickets purchased in advance online are $14. Tickets purchased at the event are $20. Tickets valid for single day entry only. For Day of Event Tickets, you can download and print the discount coupon and present it at the door for $6
off the admission price.

The Los Angeles Art Show website is:
http://www.laartshow.com/

Art LA 2008

2008-01-25T19:45:00.000-08:00

ART LA, the New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, takes place at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, January 25th – 27th, 2008.

The fair will feature 60 international and Los Angeles based galleries representing contemporary art. The exhibiting galleries at ART LA are an even balance of established blue chip and emerging galleries, all presenting the most progressive, international artwork being produced. 30 exhibitors hail from the immediate Los Angeles area, 30 are from the rest of the United States and abroad.

Partial list of Los Angles area galleries exhibiting: Ace Gallery, Cherry and Martin, China Art Objects Galleries, Mary Goldman Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Kontainer, Ooga Booga, Patrick Painter, Regen Projects, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art.

Partial list of national and international galleries exhibiting: Bortolami, Eleven Rivington, and Reena Spaulings (New York), Ratio 3 (San Francisco), Fredric Snitzer Gallery (Miami), Taka Ishii Gallery and Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo), Kurimanzutto (Mexico City), and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin (Paris and Miami).

Fair Location
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street

Fair Dates and Hours Friday, January 25, 12 - 8pm Saturday, January 26, 12 - 8pm Sunday, January 27, 12 - 6pm 1-day pass $15, or a 3-day pass for $25. Tickets are available for purchase at the box office during the run of the fair.

This week you can also visit the Los Angles Art Show, also located in Santa Monica.

Useful Links:
Art LA 2008

Santa Monica Gallery Guide
Bergamot Station Gallery Guide

http://art-collecting.com/

Welcome Message

2008-01-25T17:59:00.000-08:00

Welcome to "Art-Culver City" a blog about art in Culver City, California, one of the fastest growing art districts in the United States. It will cover news related to fine art in and around Culver City. Our goal is to present local art news, exhibition information and to show some of the artworks being exhibited.

Since this blog is accessed primarily through our online Culver City Gallery Guide, it will have a strong focus on gallery news.

If you'd like to share interesting art news or stories, please contact us via email at art-support@att.net. Also, if you're associated with a gallery or other art related business, please add us to your press release, email mailing list.

Thanks for looking, check back soon and help spread the word about this new art blog.

Dan Fear
http://art-collecting.com/