On Thursday, May 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for Open Space, an exhibition of new work by five contemporary landscape painters ranging from Nevada to Montana. This eclectic group of artists represents a dynamic and diverse approach to the tradition of American landscape paining. Open Space will run until June 16. Read More
Robert Brady, Bluff, wood, mixed media, 60 x 47 x 11 inches
Right when you think you’ve got Bob Brady pegged, he stops you in your tracks with unexpected inventions. His are not the sort some artists toss out to appease a fickle market or to convince themselves they’re still capable of reinvention. Brady’s incremental extrapolations spring from ideas that he has been working with for over 35 years. Read More
Turkey Stremmel installing Robert Brady's bird sculptures
Turkey Stremmel loves to tell the story about how nationally recognized sculptor Robert Brady found his career path.
Born and raised in Reno, he was diagnosed at 16 with rheumatic fever and spent six months in the hospital.
In order to graduate with his buddies and be part of Wooster High School’s first graduating class, Brady had a lot of catching up to do, and algebra was his nemesis. Read More
If you were told to make a picture involving a fish, a boat prop, and a beach ball, how many ways could you fit them together? What if we threw in a happy face, Mickey Mouse, and the Virgin of Guadalupe? Add to that a porcupine, a few skulls, some cats, no-legged birds, and a devil girl tattoo, and you’ll find yourself in the iconographic realm of Verdi-based artist, Michael Sarich. Read More
In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of historic works from the 1970’s by Charles Arnoldi. For the first time in decades, these important early works by Arnoldi will be viewable in a single exhibition. Read More
Peter Alexander ‘ Velvets 1974 – 1982 & Resins 2009’ by Diane Calder
The “wow” factor that astonishes those initially introduced to Peter Alexander’s velvet paintings via print or online imagery intensifies considerably when viewers stand engulfed by works such as 1982’s “Dorado.”
The unprecedented Southern California initiative known as ‘Pacific Standard Time (PST)’ was officially inaugurated on the evening of October 2 at the Getty Center.
Hunting party
Bryan Christiansen
By Brad Bynum, 9.15.11, RN&R
Bryan Christiansen remembers killing his first deer. It was in South Dakota, where he grew up, and he was 13 or 14 years old. “It was a traumatic experience,” he says. “Traumatic but triumphant … I don’t hunt anymore. It just doesn’t feel right.” Read More
John Randall Nelson further deconstructs the relationship between the signifier and the signified using a literal interpretation of signs—notably the ones found on street corners. Read More
New Ground, Dec. 2 - Dec. 29, 2010
New Ground Reviewed by Brad Bynum
RN&R, Dec. 16, 2010
Throughout the history of art, and painting in particular, two subjects are omnipresent: the human figure and the landscape. The human figure attracts the eyes of artists for reasons that should be obvious: We’re a vain species , and we’re all attracted to human bodies for one reason or another. But what about the landscape? Why do landscape paintings continue to appeal to artists and art lovers after all these years? Read More
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