The Art + Science features this week are focused on the art of healing – how artists use art and photography to overcome or assist in the curative process. Sandra Klein is a multi-media artist and fine art photographer based in Los Angeles, California. As a conceptual artist, her collective works have a meditative quality […]
Conceptual
Alejandro Cartagena: Presence
There has been a buzz in the Los Angeles photography community about the new exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City. The show titled Presence: Unique Silver Gelatin Prints and it runs through March 9th, 2019. It is Alejandro Cartagena‘s fourth exhibition with the gallery. I was very familiar with Alejandro’s projects that examine […]
Sal Taylor Kydd: Janus Rising
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind… It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the […]
Bootsy Holler: Treasures
Five years ago photographer Bootsy Holler walked into her mother’s kitchen, opened the drawer and saw history – family history and objects that carried stories. The objects were absurd in some ways, poignant in others and Bootsy used these long held possessions to build a collection of her own curation, allowing her to turn back […]
Gesche Würfel: What Remains of the Day – Memories of World War II
Continuing our recognition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 we are featuring Gesche Würfel’s What Remains of the Day – Memories of World War II. The project explores the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust on contemporary life by grappling with time and memory through images of places and people. Born […]
Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop
Photographer Wayne Swanson has created a visual love letter of sorts to his father and his father’s craft of furniture design and making, with his project, From the Workshop. In fact, the approach to Wayne’s photographs and the stories they tell are as unique as the furniture they celebrate. This series sits in the realm of […]