by Joseph A. Hazani April 21, 2023
Ms. Sarah Gilfillan introduces us to an extension of surreal self-reliance with her abstract forms with her ‘Echoes’ opening at Sarah Brook Gallery. Her ideas are emblematic of her time in the desert meditation on the "rude"-as Thomas Carlyle would describe the desert – or crude simplicity in form. The simple and base tones, in other words, when informed by surreal objects, leave us with a....
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by Joseph A. Hazani April 14, 2023
Mr. Jonathan Edelhuber at Over the Influence Gallery in downtown Los Angeles poses an assertive stance of fun with the concept of skull form to help us bring a new idea of beauty with endless permutations. The real fun is in how the artist makes use of what is typically reminiscent of boneyards, despotic totalitarian graves, etc. Death is palpably imminent yet successfully dissuaded from his....
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by Joseph A. Hazani April 7, 2023
Marc Breslin introduces to the world a daring vote of simplicity with his 'Veils' exhibition at Anna Zorina Gallery in Los Angeles. In challenging the convention of beauty as needing to be colorful, the transcendental extension of his whites and blacks gives us a new idea, a better appreciation, of what oftentimes is negatively attributed to life. And that is the correspondence of black with....
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