To Live and Paint in LA: Closing March 10

"To Live and Paint in LA" at the Torrance Art Museum. Gallery view featuring works by Jonathan Apgar, Carlson Hatton, and Jon Flack.


Here's a friendly reminder that "To Live and Paint in LA" will be closing within two weeks, on Saturday, March 10. If you haven't seen this show, don't miss out on viewing the many fine works currently on display. And if you've already paid a visit, come on by and say farewell to your favorite pieces.

The Tiny Demon commands it! ;-)

Gallery view featuring works by John Seal, Noah Davis, and Alika Cooper.

Gallery view featuring works by Rebecca Campbell, Allison Miller, and Asad Faulwell.


And here's a vid:

A walkthrough of "To Live and Paint in LA" at the Torrance Art Museum

We're looking forward to seeing you at the TAM!

Rebecca Campbell: Highlander (Rebecca)

Detail of Highlander (Rebecca) (2009) by Rebecca Campbell
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 44.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and LA Louver Gallery


Now, we focus our spotlight on Rebecca Campbell's Highlander (Rebecca), with its quiet and introspective image. Originally a part of a diptych, wherein the artist perceives a contrasting reflection of her youthful self within a young Latina schoolgirl, this work is a strong representation of Campbell's artistic interests.

Specifically, the use of nostalgia and the familiar as a starting point in exploring the Other and the Unknown is a recurrent theme in her work. Here, we see a "self portrait" although the image is not of the artist's physical self; it is a consideration of the commonality of experience, be it youth or ethnicity or femininity, in a series of reflections between the interior and exterior, between the isolated personal identity and the empathic connection to others.

Here are a few vids in which Rebecca Campbell's work is featured:

"Poltergeist" at LA Louver Gallery (2009)

Salon des Artistes, 2010

And here's a vid with a brief glimpse of her 2011 work "Romancing the the Apocalypse"

Enjoy!!!