The new show Urban Discovery examines the often unnoticed fragments of urban experiences, opening at Artspace Warehouse 7354 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, on April 19, 2012 with an artist reception 5:00-8:00pm.
Art and nature has always been a source of inspiration for Los Angeles artist Colleen Sandland. Exposed to the details in nature, in a childhood home saturated with plants and flowers, has given her the visual ornaments that reveal the secret language in her paintings. Sandland uses bold and vibrant color trios to draw the viewer in.
Sandland categorizes her latest series of artworks as “Neo Impressionistic Florals.†Her flowers represent ultimate femininity and beauty, and the struggle in between. The bleeding flowers are a sign of the conflicts that women face in society. The dr
ippings stand for the pitfalls of beauty that lead to the question: What really is beauty?
Artist Carl Smith was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his early twenties Smith began his college education at San Francisco Art Institute, but eventually transferred to Cooper Union in New York, where he graduated in 2001. Studying under David True and Frank Stella at Cooper Union he refined a limited palette and an economical means of representation to express a variety of themes.
Smith combines his own photographic material with drawings and other fragments of narrative imagery. Smith blends several layout revisions before creating a finished image. From this image, he selects and transmits specific parts onto a canvas in a screen printing process and further completes his works with oil paint.
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Artspace Warehouse specializes in guilt-free international urban, pop, graffiti, photo and abstract art with galleries in Cologne, Zurich and Los Angeles. The price range typically varies from $200 to $2,000 and includes exclusive paintings by established international contemporary artists. The selection of artworks changes weekly.
For more information: www.artspacewarehouse.com
