"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 The work in “Phoneme” is all about transmuting the old, outdated, and unsustainable messages from advertising into something that promotes abundance."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 moreFULL VIDEO (YouTube): Artist Talk with Benjamin Lowder, 10/07/2017
Artist Talk with artist Benjamin Lowder, moderated by art critic Shana Nys Dambrot at Open Mind Art Space in Los Angeles California on October 7, 2017. Benjamin Lowder talks about the ideas and process behind his work in his solo exhibition, Phoneme", co-curated by Patti Astor, on display at Open Mind Art Space from October 7, 2017 through November 3, 2017.
Video by: Bryan Birdman Mier (Birdman Photos)
Read moreBenjamin Lowder: Deconstructed Myth, Reconstructed Magic (Huffington Post)
"Exponentially greater than the sum of their parts, Benjamin Lowder’s reconfigurations of elements culled from vintage metal ads and reclaimed wood resemble mandalas, totems, and auric power portals. With a melancholy futurism and a sustainable-practice agenda, Lowder has been steadily exploring the universe of possibilities derived from this process..." - Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic and writer for The Huffington Post
Read moreFeatured Artist on Artsy: JANN POLLARD
Open Mind Art Space is pleased to present our new featured artist, Jann Pollard. A collection of her beautiful paintings can be viewed exclusively on our Artsy page.
Frequent trips to Europe enable Jann to capture the feeling and sense of the subjects she paints with a fresh vibrant handling of the medium. Light and texture are primary to her compositions in which she captures the essence and feeling of the many places seen and travelled.
"My love of art and travel, combined with a study of old world architecture is a never-ending inspiration for me. I see light, color, shapes and a moment in time that evoke a feeling that I want to capture in my paintings." - Jann Pollard
Read moreExhibition Review: Brian Mallman, "Still Connected" at Open Mind Art Space (Art and Cake)
"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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