Immanent Domain-Arena 1 Gallery

Exhibition curated by : Allen Tombello
artists in the show: Joshua Aster, Benjamin Britton, Mara De Luca, Spencer Lewis, Susannna Maing, Anne McCaddon, Allison Miller, Bill Saylor, Tyler Vlahovich

April 23-May 28, 2011
3026 Airport Ave
Santa Monica,CA 90405

310-397-7456

Soraya Sarah Nazarian

Strength Revealed: Twenty-Five Years of the Art of Soraya Sarah Nazarian
March 10-April 24,2011
Gallery 817
817 N. Hilldale Ave

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Jennifer Faist "Reflection"

"Mingle" 2010

Ruth Bachofner

2525 Michigan Ave G 2

Santa Monica 9040

opening: 4/23/2011

5-7pm

4/23-6/4/11

Holiday in an American Desert -Dias Sardenberg

Blythe Projects Presents
Dias Sardenberg
Joyous, lyrical paintings with sexual innuendos and whimsical notions have substance because of the artist's experienced hand.  There is a sense of an artist who has worked at her craft with dedication and historical appreciation of pattern and design and collage.  The portrait collages are reminiscent of Sonia Delaunay's designs for stage presentations.

April 2- May 14, 2011

5797 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

Dias Sardenberg in the background, Hillary Metz in fashionable motion...

close up of one of Dias' paintings (Holiday in an American Desert)

unstretched canvas...

Cody Trepte and Sarah Seager @ LACE interview March 31, 2011

Poetry Within Spaces (One The Line- LACE

The current group exhibition of four Los Angeles based artists, (Meg Cranston, Larry Johnson, Sarah Seager, and Mitchel Syrop), who have historically dedicated their art disciplines to Conceptual Art, were selected by emerging curator Cody Trepte.  Trepte asks the questions; "What is left of Conceptualism and where has it gone?"  Trepte is a recent resident of Los Angeles who has been focusing on Conceptual Art of the l980's and 90's.  The four artists encompass the tenacity of having "thoughts and ideas" as their primary art mediums.  Meg Cranston's television piece which is reminiscent of the classic "eight ball" game where you ask yes or no questions, is a prologue and epilogue for Trepte's questions.  Conceptualism is "yes" and Conceptualism is "no" and it is the spaces in between.

LACE
6522 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028

(remaining article can be read on Artslant.com/la

A Meditation Card

Daniel Wheeler

"Bloom"

Pasadena Museum of California Art

Project Room

490 E. Union St.

Pasadena, CA 91101

Nov 14, 2010- April 24, 2011

" One bee doesn't make a hive..." A video of a single bee trapped in a puddle of water becomes a "gospel for bees"-buzzing and illuminating a circle of music stands. Grocery bags become makeshift sheet music.  Their recognizable pulp scent stimulates nostalgic and prosaic associations.  The grocery bags are becoming part of our past.  Wheeler also uses them to create a wax covered groin vault-hive at the entrance of his installation.

When I spoke with Wheeler and shared my insights, he said that the bee trapped in the water symbolized a heroic struggle.  Wheeler also stated; "...to make sense of life look to the metaphors of bees in an endless struggle."  Bees need to drink water to cool down their hives and dilute honey to feed the larva.  We discussed how the bees are necessary to our survival.  Wheeler continued to compare man's daily struggles, energy and humilty with the bee.  He is interested in paying attention to everyday occurrences. As an artist he hopes to "irritate" the viewer into seeing things differently. The repetitive nature of the video serves as a way for "man to be faced with himself."

In the darkness of a cinema, Wheeler invites us into a metaphoric hive structure which returns us to our origins.  The bee is a messenger.  Its "buzzing" has a familiar maternal murmur.  The bee in the puddle is communicating; "is there anyone out there?"  Recycling, protecting nature and community-the bee has knowledge of all that happens on earth.

Wheeler made it evident that reminisces of architectural structures such as the Roman coliseum and amphitheater were integral to the installation.  These are structures of the past.  As with the grocery bags, Wheeler said that he was looking backwards with historical items that indicate the passing of time.  I also saw the importance of staying in touch with the earth's cycles as seen by the ocean waves.  Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" came to mind with the structure's influences by the water and the tides.