From photographers to painters and digital creators, it’s all visual art.
Like an unloved relative hauled away to be warehoused, in 2017 the city of Baltimore removed four statues in the secrecy of night: The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, The Confederate Women Of America, The General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Double Equestrian, and a statue of chief justice Roger B. Taney. All four of these are now on display at the exhibition MONUMENTS, sponsored by MOCA at The Geffen and THE BRICK.
The paintings at The Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art And Culture celebrate family, they celebrate neighborhoods, and they place faith and history into contemporary settings that bring them into the light.
(Header image features art by Frank Romero, Jaylen Pigford, Josué Ramírez and Cande Aguilar.)
Back in the Middle Ages, centuries before Marvel and DC superheroes gave the simpler aspects of our imaginations the comforting idea that virtues could prevail, images like ‘Archangel Michael Directing The Fall Of The Rebel Angels’ by Dominico Beccafumi helped people cope with the slow pace of reconciliation.
Walking down Hollywood Blvd on any given day or night, you usually find dozens of abandoned, neglected souls. The average suburbanite might cringe at the smell, the horrid display of emotional poverty. What might our reaction to Vincent Van Gogh have been, particularly if we had not understood or viewed his art?
In the new video for “Sea Of Eyes” by Pete International Airport, new media artist Francesca Bonci once again flexes her formidable command of digital media.
Bonci’s technique relies on traditional, analog and digital media to create impressionistic scenes filled with light and color.
In a new animated video created by filmmaker Tawd B. Dorenfeld, Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Harry Cloud flexes his awe-inspiring gift for strange sounds with “A Thin Layer Of Slugs.”
