POST CINEMA at Open Mind Art Space. “OMAS is participating in B-LA Connect, an international art exchange with curators and artists from Berlin and Los Angeles, with a group exhibition curated by panke.gallery (Berlin) and JAUS (LA). For decades, dreams of global utopia have been rushing over the airwaves and electronic superhighways into the clouds of the internet, flowing further into the (inter)streaming networks of today. These artists use various digital mediums to explore common themes throughout the history of cinema and TV within the context of today’s cyber world dominated by social media and virtual reality.”
- Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly
Read more“Walking into Parts and Motions, a solo show of new works by Katie Kirk, you begin with a lone small painting hanging almost surreptitiously to the left… The main space proposes a world where the divisions of drawing, painting, and sculpture are fluid and where the acts of making are interchangeable… As a material lover, I really gravitated close to each piece. Standing nose to surface, it was a pleasure to stay with one and dig into the drips, the ‘paint skins’, the rubbings, drawings, twists in clay, and glaze…” - Christina Han for Maake Magazine
Read more"The best art is channeled through people who can tap into what Carl Jung called 'collective unconscious.' This is also true of the best advertising and marketing efforts—something artist Benjamin Lowder is well aware of after years of working in the industry... The work in “Phoneme” is all about transmuting the old, outdated, and unsustainable messages from advertising into something that promotes abundance." - Dustin Clendenen for Elephant Journal
Read more"Each drawing is delicately and meticulously rendered while maintaining a minimalist and surreal approach. Fingers and hands, both realistically represented and impossibly truncated and mutated, are depicted interacting with each other. Strings bind, pull and connect them in an elaborate cat’s cradle game. There is an oddly tangible quality to the fingers and their activities; they strive, search, intertwine and reach out towards one another, personifying our humanity. " - Lorraine Heitzman, contributing writer for Art and Cake
Source: https://artandcakela.com/2017/09/14/brian-mallman-still-connected-at-open-mind-art-space/
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