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“CHATEAU REBELS” Part Two
In the days before the opening of “CHATEAU REBELS” at 4AM Gallery in the Pacific Design Center, Gregory Siff and Louis Cannizzarro AKA LouisXXX sit on bended knees in front of the gallery. Gregory opens a bag of markers of various thickness and color, but mainly pink and black and lines them up against the glass wall. In […]
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MARdrian by Spencer “MAR” Guilburt
In the early morning hours on August 31, Spencer “MAR” Guilburt stands before an empty canvas. A seventy five foot bare concrete wall runs along the expanse of the driveway at Mondrian Los Angeles. Every few minutes the valet turns a tight corner and runs the incline of the broken asphalt, barely missing the wall, just […]
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“CHATEAU REBELS”
“In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.” – Albert Camus Join the “rebels” Gregory Siff and LouisXXX at 4AM Gallery in the Pacific Design Center space B273 to celebrate the reissue of […]
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Phillip K. Smith III at VOLTA11
Spatial perception and the emotive power of light are harnessed within the ephemeral installations and geometric sculptures of Phillip K. Smith III. The LA-based artist represented by royale projects: contemporary art has an enviable retinue of installations already, from his ethereal Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree to Reflection Field, commissioned for the 2014 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. He brings both […]
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Batia Shani at VOLTA11
Batia Shani represented by Tamar Dresden Art Projects creates the site-specific installation Tissue. The Hebrew word “rikma’”references this and translates to “needlework”, which the artist has been doing since she was a child. The installation reflects the ongoing political instability in the Middle East. By combining gendered outfits — male army uniform scraps stitched into handmade […]
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The Airplane Installations: Indoor, outdoor site-specific work by Leeza Meksin
Basements are good places to play, licitly or not. A person can tinker or experiment out of sight of people going about their day-lit lives. Leeza Meksin has landed a body of new artworks into Airplane, a basement gallery in Bushwick, New York, that takes full advantage of its cellar opportunities. She pinches, perforates and […]