Mary Weatherford spent several weeks in Bakersfield, California to produce a series of seven paintings entitled«The Bakersfield Project.» The Bakersfield Paintings were inspired by the city, past and present: California Water Wars, The Grapes of Wrath, the Bakersfield Sound, Tule Fog, the Killer Kern, and big oil all served as points of departure for her most recent work. You can catch Mary Weatherford’s Bakersfield Paintings at LAXART Gallery One before it closes on October 272012.
Min T.
Classificação do local: 2 Los Angeles, CA
We wanted to stop in to hear the talk during the Culver City Art Walk but the moment I stepped inside, I could not breathe. There were way too many people in this humid hot box. Christopher S mentioned the floors creeped him out since it was made of mirrors. At first, it didn’t really bother me too much though it was disconcerting every time the floor cracked under our weight. I noticed the floor extended through the entire gallery, even all the way to the back door. Unfortunately, I didn’t think much of the current exhibition so between the humidity, the crackling mirror floors and the gang of people inside, I made a quick escape. 2.5 Possibly I’d return if there were less people.
Ai M.
Classificação do local: 5 Bellflower, CA
In the Culver City arts district, this is a nonprofit space working on showing more international artist public projects in the next couple of years. Public projects involved billboards and freeway wall intervention. Right now they’re showing Julio Cesar Morales: Interrupted Passage, as part of the California Biennial. The photography/sculpture is really cool because they work with artists based on proposals. Walead Beshty will have a billboard, publication, and video here in 2009.