“This week’s arts options continue to proliferate, mostly within the parameters of Safer at Home, with a couple of fresh new additions to the growing ‘from your vehicle or on the sidewalk’ sector…
Open Mind Art Space in collaboration with JAUS, opens Rona v Amabie, a storefront window exhibition featuring new work by Los Angeles-based artists Aska Irie and Tomoaki Shibata. The galleries had already planned to exhibit a collaborative project by Irie and Shibata this month, which has subsequently been reimagined as a window exhibition viewable from the street, and from within the context of the pandemic. Irie’s striking Virus sculptures were created last year as “a discourse on how misinformation spreads like a virus,” but they have since clearly taken on a whole new meaning. Shibata’s colorful mixed media works are abstract portraits of Amabie, a mythical Japanese spirit/creature who is believed to have the power to cure plagues. Shibata started creating these works in response to the current social media #amabiechallenge, prompting illustrators to draw Amabie in an energetic but esoteric effort to protect people from COVID-19. Visible 24/7 from May 23-June 21”
-Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly
Read more“Benjamin Lowder is known for a unique sculptural and wall-works practice metamorphosing repurposed salvaged materials like vintage signs and weathered barn-wood into complex patterns expressing celestial sacred geometry and deconstructing the visual mechanics of language. The objects are tactile, emotionally warm and rich with nostalgia, even as they actively rearrange the energy patterns of the spaces they occupy. A new show of way-finding totems opens this weekend at Open Mind Art Space in Santa Monica.”
- Shana Nys Dambrot for LA Weekly
Read moreTime lapse footage of New York street artist, Chris Riggs, painting a permanent mural on the back wall of Open Mind Art Space located in West Los Angeles, California.
Video by: Bryan Birdman Mier (Birdman Photos)
The mural is a permanent installation on the building and is viewable 24/7. For more info, contact the gallery: http://openmindartspace.com/contact/
Paintings by Chris Riggs will be on view in the gallery as part of his solo exhibition, "Love and Peace in L.A.", through February 23, 2019 (Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm). Works from the exhibition are also available for purchase online at http://bit.ly/chris-riggs-artsy
Read moreMeet Alison Limtavemongkol of Open Mind Art Space
Read more“‘Meet an Artist Monday’ is an ongoing series of mini Q&As with some of L.A.’s most active and eclectic contemporary artists, introducing themselves to you in their own words. This week, we meet mixed-media artist Andre Yi, whose practice involves aspects of sculpture, painting, drawing, assemblage and collage.” - Shana Nys Dambrot for LA Weekly
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