Duncan Miller Gallery was the first stop today: Saturday, February 9, 2013. This gallery is devoted to photography. Usually I do not find photography too interesting but today's Thomas Michael Alleman exhibition was great!
There is just so much going on in this shot. Beautiful composition. Nice inclusion of text in the form of the Rent Me signs. The cars are like teardrops emanating from the eyes of the mural.
This one is really nice as well. We get a look at Los Angeles from behind part of the iconic Hollywood sign. Best of all is the presence of garbage in the foreground.
This one gives us a sense of the movement in any cosmopolitan center. Very nice to the sight.
Leslie Sachs Contemporary did not have much of interest going on - at least in my eyes. So we moved on to the next gallery.
Frank Lloyd Gallery was exhibiting ceramics. Not very interesting really. The nicest thing here was the clever name of the show: IHOC or International House of Ceramics! Here is an example of the nicest work on display.
At Richard Heller Gallery you could get a look at art by Luke Whitlach. The show is calledHand of the Slumber Man. I really like the way that sounds. Very poetic! However, this was an exhibition that you just glance at quickly as you try to look as sophisticated as possible. Here is an example of what you got to see.
The next gallery we checked out had a GREAT exhibition of photography by Marc Riboud a 20th Century artist. 20th Century sounds really distant these days doesn't it? The show is aptly called The Eye of the Traveler. You can see this at Peter Fetterman Gallery. This show is superb. It transcends nostalgia like few other shows that display photography from the past can. The artist manages to capture highly eye-catching scenes beside freezing the past for us to enjoy in the present. Some of the pictures are dramatic and even cinematic in impact.
This picture is the highlight of our art tour at Bergamot Station today. It is a haunting scene of the past, present and future all wrapped up in one. Is this kind of realty immortal? Is an Orwellian present part of human history for the rest of its span? This is a scene straight out of Blade Runner - a movie a set in an atrophied future. Excellent!
This picture is cinematic. Gorgeous. A juxtaposition of past greatness and present decay. The column behind the youth in his signature red starred had reminds us of the greatness of China's past.
A great shot of the bureaucratic nature of modern society and the particularly overbearing qualities it has under a Communist regime.
A nice shot of hidden lovers.
A highly cinematic scene of our present apocalypse. The enormity of machinery in a world barely dominated by humanity.
Rosamund Felsen Gallery presented Lavi Daniel's colorful works. Basically an exhibition we did not peruse.
Here is an example of what you can see.
This one was one of the few that really stood out because of its color and composition.
This one is sublime and interestingly enough one of my favorite works today! It is like watching a soul move through infinity. The dark branches seem to tentacle out towards the soul. Simply gorgeous! I'm not sure the artist wanted to convey that, but, in the end to me the artist produced a superior work of art.
I would not mind hanging this beauty in my living room. Trouble is I'm not affluent and I live in a glorified studio.
Next up was Skidmore Contemporary Art. Remember I mentioned nostalgia. This gallery displayed works whose main glory was displaying it. Not much social commentary really. That's a tendency here at Bergamot it seems. I'm sure the works here would look handsome in some rich guys office. This show displays its own brand of Route 66 chic which is very popular.
Remember when the Union 76 stations had these babies up? Do you remember sonny? Sonny, can you hear me?
TAG Gallery had some striking works by the Knight Rider, Michael Knight (sorry, that's what popped into my head). His signature icon is the raven. You can't go wrong with ravens. They won the Superbowl and Poe used them and they are just so dark and crass. Walk through the rest of the artsy gobbledygook towards the back of TAG Gallery and you will see this superb work!
You can never go wrong with Asian characters! You can't go wrong with a yellow background for black ravens either and this next work is just as beautiful if not more than the first!
James Gray Gallery has a whole mess of artsy gobbledygook but had two really standout works in my eyes.
Nice little vision of a potential apocalypse. Nice clues for the observer. I really liked this and it was tucked in the back of this gallery. Don't judge a book by its cover....ever! Follow the darkness to the glowing gems it conceals.
William Turner Gallery. I turned my back quickly on this gallery. Take a look at what the Peter Lodato "Spanish Black" show had to offer.
DNJ Gallery. Today it was like an In N' Out burger experience except that it wasn't tasty. Here's a peek.
Ruth Bachofner Gallery. Here's proof that we aren't art snobs! To us this exhibition reminded us of cleaning our bathroom.
I have a twisted sense, sometimes, of what good art is. Here is some beautiful kitsch stuff from First Independent Gallery. It's so sweet and grotesquely beautiful I would put it up!
Hungry for social commentary? Well, how about an angelic figure bearing its cross with a slab of meat in its hands? Sheer talent in this work of art! I chuckled and remembered how much I enjoy many artist's sense of humor! When it's masterfully executed you just want to cry! You can see this at Ikon Ltd.
"In the Garden" (of Evil) is definitely where I want to be! Check out this great exhibition by Linda Hesh at Lois Lambert Gallery.
Not necessarily my kind of evil but evil nonetheless!
Lora Schlesinger Gallery is practically last but not least! I really enjoyed the dark visions of Lawrence Gipe's "Salon" exhibition. The works are seemingly from another time but with an appeal in the present that few attempts at this an achieve.
This is another of my favorites of the day. Like a poet looming above the valley that captures his eyes and heart.
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