by Joseph A. Hazani September 13, 2019
Jennifer Joseph presents a triumph of contemporary fine art in her positive absorption of the Dionysian messiness of the City of Angels at George Billis Gallery. Self-explained as a reaction to her recent transition to the city, her artwork is uniformly cosmic in its pretensions and unveils a rapturous succulence of colors which is a pure edification of the human spirit to vanquish cacophony....
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by Joseph A. Hazani August 30, 2019
Paul Kempe exhibiting at GDCA Gallery continues a demonstration of innocent imagination in contemporary Los Angeles fine art. His crude childish forms, however, aim for a deeper message than superficial contentment. Indeed, they reach for abstract expressions of the human spirit, coyly presented to welcome us into a new mythology. Human Evolution (title image) is a positively....
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by Joseph A. Hazani August 23, 2019
Ryan Heshka in Gallery 2 at Corey Helford Gallery provides a continuity in a recurring theme in Los Angeles contemporary art for nostalgia. Yet his reminiscence – which always has a weight of sentimentality to memory – is original in that it diverges from a more childish subjectivity which accompanies rudimentary artwork from children. He does not aim to resuscitate a curiosity to artwork, as....
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![“In a six-hour long teleplay, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ attempts to portray the spiritual heights of a remarkably idiosyncratic people on the face of the Earth...From which other people would God Almighty exercise once more His sovereign power to move humanity toward its predestined path of the Heavenly Way?...We see, then, in the place of the typical traps which plague every human society – the imbalances of human selfishness – the birth, life, and death of the “promised one”: the Messiah. It must immediately be remarked that the definition is one which is categorically Christian throughout the film. The Sanhedrin’s understanding of the Messiah as the “son of the Living God” is not of Jewish or Hebrew origin. This is, after all, the fundamental schism between the Christian Faith and the Hebrew; between those who remained faithful to the Old Covenant, and the ones with the belief in Kingdom Come through exercising faith in the son of the Living God’s personal trial with his Teacher. To the Hebrew, the Messianic Redemption is one caused by the doubtless self-certainty in this God’s existence within every waking day in the human race forever...utterly dissolving false beliefs which...[require] the need for human death; as opposed to the predestination of immortality and the resurrection of every living soul that has ever been granted the privilege of being seen in God’s sight; of every man, woman, boy, and girl given the chance to smile. Nevertheless...the moral idea of personal sacrifice to save humanity as the ultimate testimony of love...has promulgated mankind toward the heights...Jesus’s willful death to purge the world of darkness, paving the road to the World to Come...appreciates...that every individual possesses within his/her self the possibility to extend perfection into man [and] is the best representation of the better than good end of the Holy Creator and the Love of all His Children - regardless of Ancestry...And that is sufficient reason to enjoy the providential road as its pavement becomes ever more pristinely perceivable in man’s sight.” #onelove](https://adilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)