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  • PAULE ANGLIM - GEORGE LAWSON - RENA BRANSTEN

    TOGONON - CHANDLER - FECAL FACE DOT

    07.15.10

    (with assistance from RWM)

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    Gallery Paule Anglim: James Drake - Reception; Gary Lapow.

    Review by RWM: Vignettes of symbols and significations by Gary Lapow are presented with clever repetitiveness, style and charm. Here is art with meaning, not just artifice, the observation of which will certainly trend you toward introspection.

    James Drake's mystical cut paper works with graphite images invite viewers to discern and to formulate what has been excised from this high design art. The works cover a lot of ground and wall space, contrasting the delicate realms of nature with the blunt force of the machine.

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    Art by James Drake.

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    James Drake art.

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    Detail of art by James Drake in above image.

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    Art by James Drake.

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    James Drake art.

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    Art by Gary Lapow.

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    Gary Lapow and his art.

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    Art by Gary Lapow.

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    George Lawson Gallery: California Summer.

    Artists: Lorene Anderson, Chris Ashley/Ann McConville, Angela Baker, Judith Belzer, Nan Grand-Jean, Roger Herman, David Maxim, Ward schumaker, Marie Thibeault, Jennah Ward, Nina Zurier.

    Comment by AB: Gallery selections, mainly themed on landscape.

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    Majestic mountain art from 1978 (kinda like it).

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    Art by Judith Belzer.

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    Art by Lorene Anderson (left) - Marie Thibeault (right).

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    Art by Jennah Ward.

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    Rena Bransten Gallery: Robb Putnam - Orphans; Henry Wessel - Vintage Still Photographs

    Comment by AB: Robb Putnam transforms tatters into man's best friend culminating in an upbeat entertaining cavalcade of "detritus dogs." In the side gallery, Henry Wessel's vintage photographic images recount life out West in the 1960s and 70s.

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    Woof art by Robb Putnam.

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    Pooch art by Robb Putnam.

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    Robb Putnam arf art (Topher Delaney & DeWitt Cheng in da house).

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    Panting dog tongue art by Robb Putnam.

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    Bark art by Robb Putnam.

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    Photography by Henry Wessel.

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    Henry Wessel photographs.

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    Togonon Gallery: Approximating Truth, Second Annual West Coast Exhibition of Artists Using Photography - Seza Bali, Dean Dempsey, Nadim Sabella and Judy Wu; Lights - Grant Davidson.

    Review by RWM: Dean Dempsey's intriguing backlit photographs appear to extract out various truths about gender. One cannot help but feel a strange pain and alientation. In this quirky exhibit, his photographs definitely stand out with their missing body parts and altered images. Among the other photos in the show are remote and inspiring landscape pictures which invert, clone and mirror images to appear double faceted. And the black and white still life photographs of lights by Grant Davidson are engaging as well.

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    Backlit photography by Dean Dempsey.

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    Dean Dempsey backlit photograph.

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    Photographs by Grant Davidson.

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    Photography by Judy Wu.

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    Apocalyptic imagery by Nadim Sabella.

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    Photos by Seza Bali.

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    Fecal Face Dot Gallery: Future Colors of America - Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen.

    Comment by AB: Collaborative and individual works by a wily triumvirate essay on the where we're at and where we're headed with particularly incisive commentary on the fallout from pop culture idolatry. A rather raucous affair all the way around, I must say. Stop on by and glimpse the future.

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    Collaborative art by Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen.

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    Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen collaborative art.

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    Art by Matt Furie (left rear wall) & Aiyana Udesen (right).

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    From left to right - Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen.

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    Art by Albert Reyes.

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    Albert Reyes art.

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    Art by Albert Reyes closer.

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    Addendum:

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    Hand painted kites at Chandler fine art.

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    More hand painted Japanese kites at Chandler Fine Art.

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    Last one from hand painted kites at Chandler Fine Art.

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    Impromptu art on Grant Avenue.

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    Impromptu art on Grant Avenue closer.

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