Roamings Around So Cal

My friend Chris and I enjoyed lunch and a walk around Leimert Park in LA.  This included a visit to Papillion Gallery on Degnan Blvd.  The main exhibit was "Remember Paradise" by Lakwena Maciver who has an instinct for adornment of people, objects and spaces using text and image with a kaleidoscope of colors.  Here are some of what we saw:

 

We then walked over to the Art + Practice new art and social service organization on Leimert.  This new organization was created by Mark Bradford, artist, Eileen Harris Norton, philanthropist, Allan Di Castro, social activist, the Hammer Museum and The James Irvine Foundation..  It serves as a gallery, and outreach program for youth. 

 

The current exhibit is entitled "Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel De Falla/Stokely Carmichael."  The brocure states that the artist is employing a system-based conceptualism that Gaines has long embraced, this new 16-part body of work brings together the early 20th-century opera "La Vida Breve" by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla and a fiery 1967 speech by the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member Stokely Carmichael. These are dated in September 2015.  They are printed in-stained paper and lightjet print on acrylic. 

 

Here are a couple photos of the works: