EXHIBITION GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT | |
PRESENTED BY VISUAL ART SOURCE, THE DEMOCRACY CHAIN, and FABRIK | | |
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Selected Gallery and Museum Exhibitions
Throughout the Western U.S.
Week of January 4, 2023
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Christopher Murphy, “I Thought We Settled on Florals,”
2022, oil on panel, 29 x 42”
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Christopher Murphy: Tangle
January 7 - February 18, 2023
Artist Reception: Saturday Jan. 7, 4-7pm
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Billis Williams Gallery L.A.
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 838-3685
gallery@billiswilliams.com
www.billiswilliams.com/
Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
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Christopher Murphy’s paintings exist in a space between real and surreal. This new series is exquisitely painted figurative realism at first glance. At second glance, that reality splinters into questions about what is being depicted. Painted during the complicated last three years, these paintings are a visual representation of the lived experience of recent history. What appears at first glance to be groups of people, upon closer inspection reveals to be the same person repeated in different positions and at different angles. The paintings then become about an inner conversation — about the experience of being within a many-sided monologue. | |
Murphy spent his youth building elaborate miniature dioramas and scale models, and the restless attention to detail required for those pursuits translates to his meticulous realist oil paintings and drawings. Murphy’s subjects range from portraits to cityscapes to the occasional apocalyptic landscape, with themes of isolation, stillness, and a dark wit lending a disquieting oddness to them all. Murphy builds paintings in layered oils, allowing each layer to dry completely before applying another, with no mixing of wet paint on the canvas. Because this process is slow and labor intensive, he works from photographic reference, often employing found materials from family albums and estate sales. New realities are created by dramatically restaging the action or stillness, recontextualizing figures, or inventing scenarios only hinted at in the source materials. | |
Christopher Murphy, “Tangle,” 2022, oil on panel, 32 x 48” | | |
Connie Goldman, “Sight/Unseen II,” 2021, oil on panel, 17 x 19 x 2” |
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Connie Goldman
January 4 - February 4, 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 14, 3-5pm
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Connie Goldman tackles the same questions and curiosities that many artists do – pondering existence, and the interrelationships of all existing things. In her work, she uses forms of great simplicity to depict vast, complex concepts regarding space, life, science, and music. Specifically in Sight/Unseen, Goldman homes in on notions of expansion, duality, and definition, in regards to space. Space in Goldman’s work is a meditation on physical space in the tangible planes of her work, but also a meditation on outer space, the universe, and the expanse of the unknown in all its forms. |
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K. Imperial Fine Art
49 Geary Street, Suite 525, San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 277-7230
kimperialfineart@me.com
www.kimperialfineart.com
By appointment only.
Please contact kimperialfineart@me.com for inquiries
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Carlos Villa, “Untitled (CV1941),”
c. 1960s, felt tip pen on paper, 19 x 24”
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Gallery I | Caught In The Art | RYOL
Gallery II | Power Up | Shinnosuke Hariya
Gallery III | Anywhere & Here | Michael Polakowski
Gallery IV | Allergic Party | Abi Castillo
January 7 - 28, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7, 2023, 6pm-10pm
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Come kick off 2023 at Thinkspace Projects with its ample galleries and four new solo exhibitions, including two North American debut solo shows from Japanese artist and illustrator Shinnosuke Hariya, and Spanish ceramicist Abi Castillo.
Gallery I: RYOL (aka RYO LAKSAMANA) • “Caught in the Art,” a play on "caught in the act," the objects in these paintings appear to be cornered by the light.
Gallery II: Shinnosuke Hariya • “Power Up,” a new series of 14 graphite works depicting famous robots. The artist’s debut North American solo exhibition will evoke childhood memories.
Gallery III: Michael Polakowski • “Anywhere & Here,” paintings depicting a cast of protagonists grappling with the here and now, dreaming the potential of anywhere.
Gallery IV: Abi Castillo • “Allergic Party,” 30 new ceramic works from the Spanish artist, her debut North American solo exhibition.
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Arngunnur Ýr, “Onomea II,” 2023, oil on birch panel, 48 x 60” |
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Arngunnur Ýr , “Onomea”
J. John Priola, “Natural Light/Symbiosis”
January 5 - February 25, 2023
Opening reception
Saturday, January 7, 4-6pm
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Arngunnur Ýr’s botanical series "Onomea" is rooted in influences from the lush vegetation of Hawaii. The works reference the flamboyance and jubilation of floral glory but also suggest an intensity of introspection. The works are intended to evoke a feeling of complexity and confusion while alluding to a deeper experience.
J. John Priola: "Natural Light/Symbiosis" continues his love of the act of seeing into the natural world through innate happenings or natural disasters. This new body of work, about renewal, existence, and perseverance in the ever-growing human effect on nature, coincides with the release of his monograph, Natural Light.
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Anglim/Trimble
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 433-2710
info@anglimtrimble.com
www.anglimtrimble.com
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
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Franklin McMahon, “Anti-war Protest Iran
War at Devon Avenue in Chicago,” 2003
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Franklin McMahon,
“Resist: A Visual History of Protest”
“Children of War:
Art for port-trauma recovery of children in Ukraine”
Through February 12, 2023
Curated by Margot McMahon
West Gallery
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In the 1940s, Franklin McMahon was a cartoonist depicting conditions in WWII POW camps. He mailed his drawings back to Extensions Magazine in Chicago. In 1955 McMahon covered the Emmett Till Trial for Life Magazine in Sumner, Mississippi that transformed him into an artist-reporter. The 1960’s began with him drawing the construction of the Berlin Wall and continued with his art coverage of Dr. Martin Luther King’s peaceful protests, including the march from Montgomery to Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial. Five decades of social change are documented in his brilliantly painted graphite on paper images through to 2008 when Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton debated. In capturing historic events through art or major publications from the Chicago press to national publications McMahon chronicled current events that nudged society in a more just direction. |
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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 West Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
(773) 227-5522
info@uima-chicago.org
uima-chicago.org
Wednesday.-Sunday, 12-4pm
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Françoise Sémiramoth, “Caravage Créole, Version 1,”
serigraph print on paper, ed. 4/10, 87.4” x 65.35"
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Françoise Sémiramoth, “Color As A Territory”
January 14 - March 11, 2023
Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 14, 6-9pm
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Artist Françoise Sémiramoth is now living in Marseilles, France but is originally from Guadeloupe, where she was inspired by the history and vivid colors on the island. She uses flat color and stylized shapes as her vocabulary, seeking to eliminate all traces of brush and gesture. Sémiramoth sought to create shadow without darkness and began reinterpreting Caravaggio's compositions, using her own bright palette and infusing the works with the identity and history of the Guadeloupean people. |
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Lois Lambert Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave., E3, Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 829.6990
info@loislambertgallery.com
www.loislambertgallery.com
www.ourgallerystore.com
Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm
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Ruth Santee, “Pink Eyed Spider,” mixed media, 4" x 4" x 3 1/2” |
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Ruth Santee, “Prelude for Mini Beasts”
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“PINT SIZE: Small Scale Assemblage”
Through February 12, 2023
Opening Reception for both exhibitions:
Sunday, January 8, 2-5pm
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Ruth Santee extends her long running fascination with insects and flowers as metaphors for the human experience in “Prelude for Mini Beasts,” a solo exhibition of recent work showing concurrently with PINT SIZE: Small Scale Assemblage, a national call for entries exhibition at Transmission Gallery San Francisco.
Santee presents work in outsize scale. Made with repurposed paper and cardboard and recycled plastics, Santee’s work is brightly colored in “happy” tones and with a decided dose of edgy humor thrown in. Deftly crafted paper mâché elements remind one of plastic toys and indeed, elements of plastic may be incorporated. Free standing larger-than-life flower personages occupy center stage in the exhibition, immediately capturing one’s attention. Presently, however, the presence of a myriad of insect forms emerges as an essential component of Santee’s evocative garden.
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Transmission Gallery San Francisco
35 Barlett St., San Francisco, CA 94110
One block off Mission between 21st and 22nd St.
City parking garage across the street, enter from 21st St
Easy BART access from the 24th St. Mission Station
sfgallery@thetransmissiongallery.com
thetransmissiongallery.com/
Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm
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Emil Bisttram, "Outpouring," c. 1940, oil on canvas, 36 x 27" |
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Emil Bisttram (1892-1974)
January, 2023
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Emil Bisttram’s artistic career is of special interest because of the fascinating array of spiritual, philosophical, and scientific traditions he brought to bear on his painting. Bisttram and Raymond Jonson cofounded the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico in 1938. Profoundly spiritual and convinced that all intellectual disciplines lead to divine truth, Bisttram enriched his compositions with references to such varied subjects as electricity, rebirth, the growth of plants, the healing power of the dance, planetary forces, the fourth dimension, and the male and female principles of nature.
Bisttram is currently featured in the major exhibition, "Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938-1945" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles.
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Addison Rowe Gallery
229 E. Marcy Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 982-1533
addart@addisonrowe.com
addisonrowe.art
By appointment only
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James Wines, “Nature’s Revenge: NYC 2050 — View from
Lower East Side,” 2022, ink and wash drawing, 18 x 12”
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James Wines, “Nature’s Revenge”
January 6 - February 11, 2023
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 6, 5-8pm
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"Global warming and the future of the environment are still major issues today, and Nature’s Revenge is a response to the over-built world. Considering the complex definitions for the word ‘nature’ - now increased to include social, political, psychological, functional and ecological associations - the drawings represent an effort to comment on various aspects of meaning. Most of these graphic works come from my 2021 retrospective at the Tchoban Museum in Berlin. This earlier show emphasized nature in terms of the architectural absorption of such green elements as vegetation and topography, as well as energy-conscious uses of materials in construction. Nature’s Revenge expands on these ideas by including some buildings, public spaces, objects and posters that constitute critical and/or sardonic viewpoints on a variety of environmental aberrations. A portion of this exhibition reflects my larger commitment to what I call ‘economy of means’ as an alternative to the past fifty years of excessively expensive and environmentally irresponsible architectural scale and fossil fuel demands. Fundamentally, I believe that the ‘art of architecture’ is not embodied in lavish and prescriptive formal strategies; but, instead, in simpler, smaller and idea-based structures that ask questions. In summary, economy of means is my objective, while critical commentary is the message."
- James Wines
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1711 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
(312) 455-1990
contact@rhoffmangallery.com
www.rhoffmangallery.com
Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday, 11am-5pm
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“Made in California” Call for Art
Deadline to Submit February 16, 2023
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This annual juried exhibit showcases artwork from all over the state of California. “Made in California” strives to highlight artists in all stages of their careers and offers them a chance to compete for a number of cash prizes, as well as the coveted solo show opportunity.
This regional show features artwork from an extensive variety of mediums and explores creative movements happening in California. All mediums welcome!
Submit here: https://www.breaartgallery.com/entermica
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Brea Gallery
1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, CA 92821
(714) 990-7731
breagallery@cityofbrea.net
www.breaartgallery.com
Instagram: BreaGallery
Open to the public Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5pm
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Early deadline to apply:
February 14, 2023 by midnight
Final deadline to apply:
February 21, 2023 by midnight
Show Dates: May 20 & 21, 2023
Show Site: Beverly Gardens
1300 Park Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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The Beverly Hills Art Show announces a call to artists. This fun, festive, but serious fair attracts visitors and patrons from throughout Southern California and the nation, as well as from around the world, and is known as a wonderful place to buy art. Artists are recruited nationally. |
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(213) 482-4724
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