Posts by Bondo Wyszpolski

“This year we’ve downsized, and it’s not the Power of Art,” says Tasha Garfield. “We’re focused on the art; we’ve made it about the art and the artists,” adds Karen Baughman. “We’re not doing the musical performances and the dance performances. We’ve really scaled back.” In years past, the Redondo Beach Art Group (RBAG) has…

“The show was the idea of Barbara ramsey-Duke,” says Jianulla Zimmerman. “She’s an artist, and she wanted to do something that would bring art into the church.” Zimmerman, a Redondo Beach resident who’s also an artist, is referring to “Collections… Art from the Heart,” a group exhibition that opens tomorrow (reception, 6 to 9 p.m.)…

Jerry Hicks is sitting in the back room at Carrow’s in Gardena, shuffling through copies of photographs that are now on the walls of Cannery Row Studios in Redondo Beach. It’s an exhibition that features the work of five artists – Lawrence Manning, Mark Comon, Eric Raptosh, Janet Milhomme, and Hicks himself. The title is…

  Regionalism, to lift a few words from the exhibition brochure that accompanies work by Roger Medearis on view at the Huntington in San Marino, was “an American artistic movement during the 1930s and 1940s that rejected European abstraction, took subjects from everyday rural life and conspired to bring art to a wider audience through…

“California 101 is a pop-up gallery,” says curator Nina Zak Laddon, “and I think one of the reasons artists were interested is because the idea of having art in a place that was void of it before is sort of exciting. Suddenly there’ll be 200 pieces of art hanging on this property.” Laddon is referring…

Lance Richlin is an Old Master for modern times. An early morning talk with Lance Richlin has continued into the middle of the afternoon, full-steam, and virtually without a break. Richlin chooses his words carefully, speaks slowly, and is always concise. When he paints, in a realist style that fraternalizes well with the Old Masters…