Drive: LA
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
Kristan Marvell
SPLENDOR KILN
Oct 19- Nov 16
SPLENDOR KILN
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.
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
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
Moments Within a Moment
(Installation View)
by
Jim Krantz
Raven and Mojave Rattlesnake
by
Milo Decruz
photograph, framed
2018
the horror
in collaboration with
Spunk Art & Perspectives
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.
Golet
by
Gerald Collings
oil on canvas
2014
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Curse of the Witch
by
Adam Miller
archival pigment print, framed
2023
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
Best Friends
Remember
by
Robert Hickerson
photograph, framed
2018
SHAPE SHIFT
The Art of Transformation
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.
Monster Machine
by
Chalavie
acrylic on canvas, 2021
LCW Red Blue Yellow Black
by
Mike Savage
acrylic and gesso on board, 2019
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Clouds over Winslow
(Stereo Painting)
by
Heather Lowe
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acrylic on Bristol and canvas, 2017
ALAN BRAY
Inside the Outside
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.
Frozen
by Alan Bray
Casein on Panel, 2017
Ghost Farms
by Alan Bray
Casein on Panel, 2020
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
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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
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)