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Go Wild: on Wilshire

Do you need a brake from the canyons downtown, the monotony of glass and concrete, the clogged arteries of the traffic bloodstream?

The nature of human life makes it difficult to satisfy every call within us – we are just way to complex – but maybe it is already enough to admit that it is there. Art is a wonderful way to listen to this call. Get some nature in your home, get one of those fantastic paintings by  Bryan Ricci or take yourself out and make a trip to Wilshire to the  Lawrence Asher Gallery until May 23. Enjoy nature captured in two different ways at once – with the lens of a camera and through the hand of the artist. In super beautiful pictures of remote landscapes he implants animals as if they have been there to begin with. He offers in his art what a lot of people yearn for when they go for trips into the wilderness. Do you remember the last time when you spotted a majestic deer or have been surprised by raccoon?

At the same time Jennifer Beedon Snow is also showing daily-life symphonies in blue and green – when you look at her scenes it feels as if you were driving home to the place you grew up – very soothing.

Lawrence Asher Gallery

5820 Wilshire Boulevard, Ste. 100

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Falling Down: Installation ArtFall

“ArtFall is a collaboration between Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, in association with Mindshare Labs.  ArtFall is an interactive installation that allows visitors to construct a dynamic physical simulation by drawing on a whiteboard.

ArtFall from eric gradman on Vimeo.

I bumped into this installation during the Brewery Art Walk in April 2009 and after a brief instruction by Eric I was hooked within the first second – what a fun! The squares would also get redirected by your own shadow, how fascinating to see a virtual world behaving and responding to its environment as if it was real. An adaptive system – when you would draw a line in an angle the squares would move down the line as objects in reality would do when facing a similar obstacle. This installation recognizes changes in the environment and adjusts its behavior to it immediately. The rapidity of this self-adjustment is…dare I say it… intelligent? Maybe.

Please visit Mindshare Labs if you liked the Video, there are many more.
Mindshare LA
3rd Thursday of every month. 8:00 PM @ (location varies, check site for updates)

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In Progress – Magenta preoccupation and contemplating about Rioja

Maybe this painting won’t take as long as I thought in the end. I can already see parts that won’t change anymore that are fix, areas where my gaze wouldn’t “stumble”, areas that run smoothly.

Right now, I am balancing it out. I see a horizontal white stripe somewhere in the upper left and the light magenta will get several layer of dark magenta and the shape on the upper right that is yellow right now will also get layers of magenta. I love the dark magenta tone and I see it in the other painting I am working on simultaneously as well. It is a new color for me – I never used it in any of my paintings before. It is such a warm and comforting color

- it is like sitting on a shadily  patio in a french wine country during a hot afternoon in the summer, crickets, smell of hey, warm wind and enjoying a deep red wine, something like Rioja ( spanish folks, please forgive me, I know it is not a french wine but it fits so well into this association.)

I always liked Rioja, its heavy dark body and the slight touch of port wine due to the time it stayed in a wooden barrel. These are the kind of associations that I have while painting. Color, surface and composition is very important to me.