May 2010

RN&R – Cultural Diversity – Perspectives 2010

by Jessica Santina

 
The concept behind the upcoming spring exhibit at the Stremmel Gallery is that there really isn’t one.

“Pete [Stremmel] and I literally sat down with files of artists that we currently represent and started pulling them together, looking for how they’d mix and flow together,” says gallery director Turkey Stremmel. “We wanted both sculpture and paintings, and wanting to bring in some new, fresh names in addition to our existing artists.” Read More

The work of several Stremmel artists can be viewed in Art Ltd.’s latest issue.

The rich red and gold of Charles Arnoldi’s large scale painting ‘Woods Shock’ immediately greets viewers of Stremmel’s current group exhibition, “Perspectives 2010”. Done in an identical pallet, ‘Every Penny’ (shown below) is depicted in an article by Art Ltd. entitled “Painters’ Painter”. As one of LA’s leading painters, the magazine asked Arnoldi to consider some of his major influences.

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THE EDGE GALLERY MAY 28 – JUNE 21, 2010     By Editor – SantaFe.com

Marc Katano and Nicole Katano: One by the Other

Shared exhibit of works on paper and digital imagery

The Edge Gallery is pleased to present works on paper by Marc Katano and the digital imagery of Nicole Katano, opening on May 28, 2010.

One might easily overlook the underlying synchronicity that Nicole and Marc Katano have developed through their 30-year journey as partners in life and contemporaries in art. At first glance they are a study in contrast.

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Danae Anderson, It Was There All That Time, 2009, mixed media on panel, 42" x 36"

“Movement and music vitally inflect the improvised choreography of the paintings.  The relationship with the “canvas” is intense and instinctive, accessing and allowing marks that arise through the uncensored conscious.  Chance associations arise from the immediacy/physicality of intuition and observation.  The residue of these actions reveal a visual narrative that documents and honors human experience.  A deep overlay of play, language, events, dreams, objects, the self, the ordinary, sense/nonsense, the seen/unseen, the ancestors and progeny, memory and daily experience is recorded.

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