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MICHAEL ROSENTHAL - ARTZONE 461

06.09.12, Part II

(with assistance from Clare Coppel and RWM)

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Sandra Lee Gallery: My Objectivity - Michal Gavish.

Comment by AB: A hauntingly good tribute that's all about family-- honoring those who have come before and who influence everything we are today in so many different ways. We're all stupendously independent here in liberated Ess Eff, aren't we? Of course we are, but as much as we'd sometimes like to leave it all behind, we must never forget from whence we came. You'd be hard pressed to reminisce much better than this.

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Art about ancestors by Michal Gavish at Sandra Lee Gallery.

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Art & installation by Michal Gavish.

Michal Gavish and her art/installation at Sandra Lee Gallery.

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Art by Michal Gavish.

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Family history art by Michal Gavish at Sandra Lee Gallery.

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Art People Gallery: Simin Massoudi Meykadeh.

Comment by AB: Whaddya want? Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Chagall? Not a problem. It's all unabashedly mimeographed here.

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Leger art c/o Massoudi Meykadeh at Art People Gallery.

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Chagall art c/o Massoudi Meykadeh.

Massoudi Meykadeh (in white), Ali Meamar (owner, Art People), Ross Mirkarimi.

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Matisse art c/o Massoudi Meykadeh at Art People Gallery.

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Leger & Matisse art c/o Massoudi Meykadeh.

Art by Massoudi Meykadeh at Art People Gallery.

Relative density - Massoudi Meykadeh art show at Art People Gallery.

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Varnish Fine Art: Creatures of Saintly Disguise - Jennybird Alcantara.

Comment by AB: Exceptionally few of us can paint ourselves up our own fabulously fantastic existences and then insert themselves right into the middle of 'em. Jennybird Alcantara is an artist who can. Why wallow in life's mundane travails when you can opt out for whatever you wish? We may not be able to physically materialize our visions like Alcantara, but we can sure use hers as jumping of points to upgrade the expansiveness of our own realities.

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Art by Jennybird Alcantara at Varnish Fine Art.

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Art by Jennybird Alcantara.

Jennybird Alcantara and her art at Varnish Fine Art.

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Art & sculpture by Jennybird Alcantara.

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Circumstance - Jennybird Alcantara art show at Varnish Fine Art.

On the explanade - Jennybird Alcantara art show at Varnish Fine Art.

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Michael Rosenthal Gallery: Amber Jean Young - Letters Home.

Review by RWM: Emotional and personal. Moving and quirky. Heartfelt and accessible.

Review by Clare Coppel: Text on Fabric, yarn and painting, tiny trees and a giant ice cream cone.

Comment by AB: About as whimsical as art gets.

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Art by Amber Jean Young at Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

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Art by Amber Jean Young closer.

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Art by Amber Jean Young closer (image c/o Clare Coppel).

Amber Jean Young and her art at Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

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Amber Jean Young art at Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

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Art by Amber Jean Young in above image closer.

Amber Jean Young ice cream cone art at Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

Relative density - Amber Jean Young art show at Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

Amber Jean Young's dad out front (Neil Young).

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ArtZone 461 Gallery: Nicholas Coley - Changes In The Landscape; Diana Lee - Top Shelf Scratchboard.

Review by RWM: Great landscapes with generous uses of paint. Nice to get caught up in the emotions and to be in the outdoors if only vicarously. We need to protect what we love. In the side gallery, incredible scratchboard work by Diana Lee. One could confuse them for photographs. Interesting subjects and excellent workmanship. Cool...

Comment by AB: Diana Lee is a phenomenally exceptional-- do I dare say brilliant?-- scratchboard artist. I've never seen anyone work it like she does. Any takers?

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