Wilshire galleries

Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery at 6029 Wilshire.  Paintings by Adam D. Miller entitled "Rise of the Minotaur" feature painting, drawing, collage and sculpture which portray humans or animals in states of aggressive or violent behavior.  The artist incorporates imagery from Greek mythology, pre-Columbian art, metal culture, horror movies...to investigate man's unchecked destructive instincts.

The painting above is entitled "Armageddon Barbarian, 2012.

A walk through this gallery makes you want to refer the artist to aggression reduction therapy.  But perhaps the painting is so cathartic that he is mellowed out after the process.  Keep painting Adam!

Upstairs in this same gallery is an exhibit entitled "The Expanse of a Fact" by Noah Doely.  These works are described as a series of ambrotype and tintype photographs generated with photographic tools and methods from the mid-19th century.  Noah was born in Minnesota in 1982, received his MFA at UCSD and has exhibited in Des Moines, Iowa as well as other places in So. Cal.

The artist built sets and uses performers to enact a story that orbits around a central character - a bearded man from the past who both observes and creates.  The photos show the man constructing and displaying a spherical sculpture of the moon and a diorama of the lunar surface.

At the Marc Selwyn Fine Art Gallery at 6222 Wilshire, the exhibit of 9 oils on canvas and four works on paper are entitled "Robert Overby:  Painting and Drawings from the 1970"...when sex had "more atmosphere than it does today" according to the reviewer, David Pagel of the LA Times.  "Although sex seems to suffuse nearly every image we see, its presence has been sanitized and streamlined - cleaned up to boost sales of everything from perfume to pharmaceuticals, phones to French fries."  Overby lived from 1935 to 1993.  Pagel wrote that Overby's steamy images still give off a whiff of adventure, danger and romance.  I don't know about that....what do you think?

My final gallery stop in my walk along Wilshire across from LACMA and West was the Acme Gallery at 6150 Wilshire.  The striking work on display here is by the German Lutz Braun entitle:  "Der Tod Ist Eine Geisteskrankheit" which translates roughly to say The Death is an Insanity.  They are very "interesting".