I visited North Venice Blvd. see what was new at the L A Louver and the Shulamit galleries. They are just a half a block off the famous Venice Beach walk which was busy on this sunny Thursday morning.
The L A Louver has an exhibit of the works by Enrique Martinez Celaya entitled "Lone Star." Celaya was born in Cuba and spent his childhood in Spain and Puerto Rico. He studied Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University and Quantum Electronics at U.C. Berkeley. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and also has his M.F.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara. He has been a professor of Art at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate Univ., honored at the University of Nebraska and at Dartmouth. He currently lives and works in L.A.
The exhibit flier states that the beginning and end points of the exhibition experience are marked by two installations. In the first floor, a bronze sculpture of a young boy stands in a pool of water; tiled mirrors cover the surrounding walls. Tears trickle from the boy's eyes into the blackened pool. The sound of the tears dropping into the pool creates a multi-sensorial immersive experience.
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| "The Invisible (or The Power of Forbearance," 2015 |
The second installation upstairs in the gallery's open-air Skyroom, features the same boy who now stands within a wire cage shaped like a house. Holes in the figure's chest serve as refuge for five live birds that live within the cage.
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| "The Treasure of the Patient," 2015 |
The flier states that the paints and sculptures presented throughout the first and second floor galleries navigate between these two installations that according to Celaya, "point to a world that is familiar and unknown, radiant and brutal, personal and vast...I approach it as a totality or as an environment where one artwork is revealed or hidden by another."
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| "The Prince," 2015 |
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| "The Childhood of Fountains," 2012 |
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| "The Deeper Life," 2015 |
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| "The Border," 2015 |
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| "The Vertex," 2014 |
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| "The Sigh," 2015 |
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| "The Ballad of What is Yours," 2015 |
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| "The Relic and the Pure," 2013 |
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| "The Grateful," 2015 |
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| "The Nursery," 2015 |
The Shulamit Gallery has a solo exhibition by L.A. based multi-media artist, Carol Es, entitled "Exodus.". The exhibit shows the new work that delves into the artist's experience on a 10 day trip near Joshua Tree National Park in Spring 2014. The gallery flier states that Es spent this time in deep meditation and study, keeping a journal, photographing her surroundings, generating sketches, DVD footage, and blogging about her process. The exhibition is anchored around two new bodies of work - Es' mixed media collages and a series of paintings, Abstracted Desert Landscapes. In her mixed media collages, rocks morph into calico dreamscapes set against exposed wood grain.
Carol Es was born in 1968 in Santa Monica, CA and her works are featured in numerous private and public collections.
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