THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XIV PRESS

L.A.ndscape: The Cityscape Show XIV opens Saturday, July 20, 4-7pm Billis Williams Gallery. Los Angeles plays itself in the beloved, annual gallery tradition – The Cityscape Show. The landscape and all that it entails, from sweeping natural vistas to glittering urban skylines, intimate details and stolen glimpses, to fantasy-infused and historically narrative scenes, is an endlessly beguiling muse for artist of all stripes, who never failed to offer inventive and multivalent interpretations. About 25 such painters take on this year's thematic perspective, “the wilds of Los Angeles,“ in hyperreal, verisimilitude, gestural abstraction, spectral color, furious lines, and winsome detail—and you will never understand the city quite the same way again. On view through August 17 in Culver City; billiswilliams.com. —SND