Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles
Seven Women Artists Exhibit 2021
September 18th through October 16th
I love this painting. This one did everything I wanted it to do. It retains the image but allows for the technique of throwing paint. It sets a mood, and integrates the sky with the tree. I am happy.
Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles
Seven Women Artist Exhibt
Sept 18th through Oct. 16th 2021
This Jacaranda received an update recently. It was a little too "tight". I walk a fine line of representation, albeit impressionism, and technique. Because the work is "thrown", it defeats the purpose of the technique, if it is too representational. My ego sometimes gets in the way and I want to show how well I can throw paint. However, that's only a part of the painting process. Ego aside, the work should honor the technique.
Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles
Seven Women Artists Exhibit 2021
September 18 through October 16th
reception September 18th 6-9pm
I have been very fortunate to be represented in Los Angeles by Rebecca Molayem for the past five years. For this exhibit, she has invited 7extraordinary women artist, herself included, to display their works. The talent in the gallery is palpable.
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In the foreground are sculptures by Rebecca Molayem.
Adelman Fine Art, San Diego
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Adelman Fine Art, San Diego
Music as Muse
August 17through October 17th
Donovan was a fine muse for me. This is only the third time I have integrated thrown paint on paper with a thrown and splashed canvas. I love the results. I peel the thrown paper, giving a contrast to the painted canvas and the painted paper. I will be attempting more of these.
Adelman Fine Art, San Diego
Music as Muse
August 17th through October 17th
Another Donovan. This painting had been around for awhile. I updated it with some brighter underbrush and topped with wild thrown white 'flowers'...blowing in the wind. I apologize for the quality of photo, time for a new camera. It you like it, the Adelman website has a better photo. www.adelmanfineart.com. Or better yet, go see it in person. This exhibit is always fun, there is so much wonderful talent and it's insightful to see the musical muses each artists gravitates to create their works.
Adelman Fine Art, San Diego
Music as Muse Exhibit
Aug 17 through October 17 2021
Donovan was my chosen muse for this painting. Try for the Sun is a wonderful ballad about love and friendship between two young men. Love is so hard to find, when it comes along, in any form, grab hold with both arms.
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Adelman Fine Art, San Diego
Music as Muse Exhibit 2021
August 13th through October 17
I have been fortunate to have been represented by Adelman Fine Art for the past four years. The Music as Muse exhibit is always one of my favorite. This year all my paintings were created while listening to the music of Donovan. This particular painting had been a few incarnations, adding, subtracting, altering, thus the title, "First There is a Mountain...then there is no mountain, then there is..."
My work highlights the plight of marginalized people, the January insurrection and climate change as it pertains to wildfires.
This exhibit was such a strong showing of women artist examining and translating through art, the world in the crisis of 2020.
Interview with the curator, Alessandra Moctezuma on KPBS, Friday, August 30th, noon.
Upcoming exhibits:
Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles. Women's Exhibit
Adelman Fine Arts, San Diego. Music as Muse
represented by:
Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles Adelman Fine Arts, San Diego
LGOCA, Laguna Beach Mitchell Contemporary, Idaho L'Attitude Gallery, Boston
Introducing a mixed media collage using my 'thrown' paint technique on paper, applied to 'thrown' paint on canvas.
Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles
Two paintings sold recently at the open studio event at the, Rebecca Molayem Gallery in Los Angeles. Both clients were people who appreciate and relate to my work and what it is I am trying to discuss, both with technique and style. I say discuss because I have a certain intention when making my work, once it's viewed however, the viewer has his own interpretation and intention. It is a back and forth conversation with the painter, the work and the viewer.
Rebecca Molayem Gallery has represented me since 2017
Pictured at the Oceanside Museum of Art for our exhibit, NOW
I have been in the collective of women artists for the past 5 years. We are ethnically and age diverse, yet our strong commitment to powerful art, makes us quite a cohesive group. Our monthly meetings help keep us in tune with current and historical events; and allows for a sharing of our personal struggles and triumphs. Comradery, information and encouragement for a population who frequently work in isolation.
We have written and presented programs and exhibited together at: the Canon in 2018, 17 on Being Seventeen, Fresh Paint Gallery in 2020, 20/20 Twenty Women of Vision, and the Oceanside Museum of Art in 2021, NOW exhibit.
Social commentary. I believe it's the artist's obligation to interpret the social, natural, personal and political environment and interpret her impression through her medium. It's easy to see my point of view from my paintings, however, instead of turning off others with a dissimilar view, I hope it opens the door to introspection and conversation. We are one nation, and we need to work together to make it more equitable, and safe for all our people.
From the small collage came the 10 foot works. This one, Under Tow , was my first attempt. This one did not get placed on exhibit, as a matter of fact, I tore it off the canvas. At the time, I felt it inappropriate to appropriate someone else's story, certainly without showing the causation. This work shows the devastation, but not causation. I wish I had saved it, it was very powerful and as an ally, I have a voice and an obligation but I do feel, there needs to be more to the story.
Oceanside Museum of Art
TWA, NOW Exhibit March-August 2021
The first collage for the exhibit, shows doctors and nurses working diligently over patients ad infinitum while many of the public, in lock down, were still secretly getting together for parties and gatherings.
Another from the black and white series. At this time, the artist collective I belong to in San Diego, was preparing for an exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art. It had been in the works for 2 years (total). I was still confused as to what I would exhibit. The title of the museum exhibit is, NOW. I was intending, like most of the artists, to express where I was as a female artist at this time in my life. Instead, 2020 had a different idea. It seemed trite to continue in the vein I was working, while all the world appeared to be collapsing around us. After working with the black and white paintings, and collaging my way through some of the darkest days, I was gently directed , by the museum curator, to incorporate the two.
Once again in an attempt to discover and interpret our place in the scheme of things. We are there somewhere. It also looks a lot like the amount of covid germs expelled during a cough. Frightening times.
Looking into the sun is part of a collection of paintings from 2020, many black and white, when we were all locked down, within our walls, our minds and our hearts. It was a fearful and isolating time. Many artists diverted paths at this time, to try and interpret what was happening through their art works. I was one of them.
Sophie's World was commissioned for my youngest client. She hadn't appeared yet, when her parents asked for a painting, for her. Sophie is now here, and this painting is hung above her changing table, where I understand it gives her great contemplation. This one really warms my heart.
TWA Twenty Women Artists
Fresh Paint Gallery, La Jolla
The Flames We Throw is part of a TWA Exhibit at the Fresh Paint Gallery in La Jolla.
TWA stands for Twenty Women Artists (of San Diego). I am very fortunate to belong to this collective of diverse, strong and talented women. This exhibit was titled 20/20, Twenty Women of Vision and focused on our interpretation as female artists. Unfortunately, opening night was the last night of freedom from Covid, and the gallery, and life, shut down promptly afterward. I was fortunate that my painting had been seen by a collector, and was purchased soon after.
