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| Artist Bruria Finkel highlights art shows in Santa Monica and LA . Ms. Finkel shares her picks of significant works that are a must see. A former Santa Monica arts commissioner and renowned artist, she is an important source of information and an ideal guide. | |
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| Artist Bruria Finkel highlights art shows in Santa Monica and LA . Ms. Finkel shares her picks of significant works that are a must see. A former Santa Monica arts commissioner and renowned artist, she is an important source of information and an ideal guide. | |
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see Bruria's work visit. bruriafinkel.com |
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Portraits January 13, 2010 -- Don Bachardy, our master portrait maker, will open his exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery. The exhibition will present his artwork from 1959 to 2009, a 50-year restrospective. It must have been hard to choose what to hang on the gallery walls, he is such a prolific artist. Bachardy has an uncanny talent. His self portraits find the essence of the sitter, and with great dexterity and simple lines he captures the character of his subject -- himself changing over 50 years. Jan 16 - Feb 20. 2010 Barriers The Santa Monica Museum of Art will present the United States premier of "Sabbath 2008,"by Nira Pereg, a video that, according to the museum's description, "documents the closing down of the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem on the eve of the Sabbath. In most cases, public access to these neighborhoods is blocked by means of temporary barriers, which remain closed for 24 hours, thus creating an artificial border between the orthodox areas and the rest of the city. "Neighborhood residents, with the approval and support of the Jerusalem municipality and the police, put the barriers in place. The city therefore becomes topologically transformed into two cities -- one with and one without cars. Although the value of these somewhat rickety barriers may appear symbolic, their presence is sometimes a source of friction and conflict; they delineate a clear-cut boundary between the sacred and the everyday. Pereg's subject matter is often full of political tension, but in "Sabbath 2008," she has created a film that is objective in offering a documentary view of an important aspect of religious Jewish life." Jan 16- April 17. 2010 Panel Discussion at SMMOMA
Jan 21 st 7-9 p.m. Bergamot Station Art Center G1 2525 Michigan Ave Santa Monica CA 90404 310.586.6488 |
Plastic The plastic material was and is a lethal material many artists used in the late 1960s and early 1970s; not many deal with it today. Cardwell Jimmerson contemporary
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Many Art Shows going on in town. If you are interested, here are their venues and times: Photo
LA Jan. 15-17 Los Angeles Art Show: Jan
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