Laura Krifka, Judith and Holyfernes, 2014, oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″
Jennifer Wynne Reeves in States of Being at the Torrance Art Museum
October 3 – October 31, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Torrance Art Museum
The Torrance Art Museum presents States of Being, an exhibition curated by Julia Schwartz that philosophically explores how nine artists construct meaning through use of various materials.
The phrase states of being can reference many different physical and psychological properties. However, these international artists – Valerie Brennan, Rebecca Campbell, Lucy Mink, Mira Gerard, David McDonald, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Julia Schwartz, Sabine Tress, and Julie Torres – are united in their desire to interpret their world in particular and specific terms.
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia in SUR:Biennial at Rio Hondo College Art Gallery
October 8 – November 19, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Rio Hondo College Art Gallery
The SUR:biennial seeks to explore notions of globalization and exchange that take place in the ambiguous geographical, cultural, and artistic borderlands between Los Angeles and “the South,” regardless of the artist’s nationality. This year’s program will incorporate a range of artistic forms – sculpture, painting, craft, new media, and performance – all of which demand a shift in the viewers’ perception of the “SUR.”
Artists featured at Rio Hondo College Art Gallery: Juliane Backmann, Daniela Campins, Carribean Fragoza, Ed Gomez, Romeo Guzmán, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Gerardo Monterrubio, Jimena Sarno, and Eloy Torrez
In addition to the Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, the biennial is also held at the Torrance Art Museum, Manhattan Beach Art Center and Cerritos College Art Gallery. See TAM website for location details.
Laura Krifka in Better Far Pursue a Frivolous Trade by Serious Means, than a Sublime Art Frivolously at CSULA Fine Arts Gallery
October 5 – October 29, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 2015, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery
Co-curated by Rebecca Campbell and Lia Halloran, this exhibition is designed to explore the transitive state where contradictions of beauty and horror, comfort and terror, or separate and collective, that order our everyday lives, liquefy in a way in which dichotomies become fusions and experiences that may seem mutually exclusive synthesize into multiplicitous truths. This exhibition Better Far Pursue a Frivolous Trade by Serious Means, than a Sublime Art Frivolously offers the viewer the opportunity to reflect on a relationship to the sublime, the title a passage from a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1894.
Featured artists: Alma Allen, Hernan Bas, Heather Brown, Rebecca Campbell, Ain Cocke, Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Carlee Fernandez, Patricia Fernandez, Lia Halloran, Ben Jackel, Tim Hawkinson, Laura Krifka, Monica Majoli, Cathy Opie, Jen Stark, Allison Schulnik, and Patty Wickman
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia in FiberLicious at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
October 25, 2015 – January 3, 2016
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Curated by Scott Canty and Carol Shaw-Sutton
Featured artists: Tanya Aguiñiga, Diedrick Brackens, Enrique Castrejon, Liz Collins, Krista Feld, Dawn Ertl, Carole Frances Lung “Frau Fiber,” Tina Linville, J. Christopher Natrop, Wendy Osher, Chili Philly, Jennifer Reifsneider, Nike Schröder, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Ruth Katzenstein Souza and Ann Weber