PRESS, PUBLICATIONS, and ARTIST NEWS
2021 - 2020
2021
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BONITA HELMER
ADILETTANTE - 'Changing Velocity' by Bonita Helmer @ George Billis LA November 24, 2021 | By Joseph A. Hazani It is no surprise that Ms. Helmer has a passionate devotion to the human understanding of the natural world, progressed so far over the last few centuries that she can play with our concept with such a positive affirmation of its motion. VIEW ARTICLE |
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BONITA HELMER
ARTLAND - Bonita Helmer: Change in Velocity November 20, 2021 - January 1, 2022 Her current series, Change in Velocity (2021), is a response to, and the product of, the enormous upheaval of the last two years. From the vantage point of hindsight, Helmer’s work has an almost eerily prescient view of the world. We were descending into a level of chaos that even artists could not have predicted. We find ourselves now, coming out of the chaos, but with the knowledge that things must change in order for humanity to move forward. VIEW ARTICLE |
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DANNY HELLER
IN-N-OUT BURGER - The New 2022 Shirt November 18, 2021 Heller uses his refined artist’s eye and virtuosic ability with oil paint to emphasize the groundbreaking hard-edged geometries used in these designs. Light and shadow play off the structures - creating new geometries - which further emphasize these architects’ outside-the-box thinking. VIEW ANNOUNCEMENT | BUY THE SHIRT |
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MELA M
ASSOCIATION OF HYSTERIC CURATORS - Review: Mela M The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light November 2021 | By Mary Anna Pomonis The domestic, the felt, and the architectural, collide in work that feels simultaneously simple and complex. Clearly rendered with small industrial woodshop tools, the pieces are fundamentally human in scale. VIEW ARTICLE |
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JUDY NIMTZ
VOYAGE LA - Daily Inspiration: Meet Judy Nimtz October 25, 2021 My most recent work was inspired by a seven weeks painting trip to Ireland, where I hoped the environment would evoke the poetic and ethereal imagery I seek in my work. My hopes were realized in the megalithic sites and the vast landscape of West Cork—I saw sleeping dragons in the stony hillsides and felt I was straddling different ages when standing before the ancient stones. VIEW ARTICLE |
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BRUCE EVERETT
ARTFORUM - A SOLID SERENITY: New Landscapes September 11 - October 9, 2021 An exhibition deemed as a 'MUST SEE' by ARTFORUM. Bruce Everett's medium to large scale landscape paintings of Southern California and the Central Coast are characterized by dramatic light with raking shadows, unusual vantage points, and inspired compositions. VIEW ARTICLE |
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JUDY NIMTZ
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR - Between Two Worlds September 2021 | Issue 191 "My work isn't super surreal, but I'm allowing that aspect to come forward more in the piees because I want to convey the profundity of being there and being amonst these natural sites. It's profound being in the presence of these sites because they're so old. They're often in the middle of fields. There's no one around, no ticket taker; you can walk up, move around them and be next to them. You can touch them if you want. It's very immediate and direct being there." - Judy Nimtz VIEW ARTICLE |
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DANNY HELLER
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR - Dream a Little Dream May 2021 | Issue 187 "When I started working on this [series] during the pandemic, I thought about how people just need an escape...people spend so much tie in their homes, they might as well have something beautiful to look at and daydream about. I wanted to really amp up the escapism and make paintings that were not so serious. I wanted a focus on brighter, optimistic scenes." - Danny Heller VIEW ARTICLE |
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SHAWN HUCKINS
CREATIVE BOOM - Deceptive landscape paintings that feature dark social media posts about modern love April 23, 2021 | By Katy Cowan In his latest series, The Birds Will Sing, Denver-based artist Shawn Huckins takes inspiration from the seemingly innocent title of an old Cajun folk song – one that instead of being sweet and lovely, as you'd expect, turns out to be a murder ballad. VIEW ARTICLE |
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SARAH WILLIAMS
SUPERSONIC ART - Sarah Williams' "Southeast of Home" at George Billis LA April 13, 2021 Williams is drawn to light sources and the play of light on surfaces. This led her to paint nightscapes of these familiar yet isolated and unremarkable buildings and scenes in rural areas. She uses the darkness to edit out extraneous information and provide the viewer with the essence of the place. VIEW ARTICLE |
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SARAH WILLIAMS
ARTFORUM - Sarah Williams April 10 - May 8, 2021 | By Darren Jones In her current show, “Southeast of Home,” she adds tropical heat to the mix: The works were inspired by her 2020 residency at the Studios of Key West in Florida. Twelve of the thirteen small-scale, oil-on-panel images here are nightscapes that have been titled after the islet city’s streets. VIEW ARTICLE |
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SHAWN HUCKINS
SUPERSONIC ART - Shawn Huckins' "The Birds Will Sing" at George Billis Gallery March 30, 2021 “The Birds Will Sing,” takes its title from the sweetly, bucolic title of an old, Cajun folk song. The song, instead of following the title’s lead, is actually a murder ballad. This painting series follows in its depiction of what appears at first glance to be simply breathtaking landscapes, but which are overlaid with wistfully dark statements about contemporary love. VIEW ARTICLE |
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BARBARA STRASEN
DILEXI - a Gallery & Beyond 2021 Barbara Strasen’s involvement with Dilexi Gallery (1958-1969) is chronicled in Laura Whitcomb’s book Dilexi: A Gallery & Beyond. The avant-garde San Francisco gallery showed the likes of John Altoon, John Chamberlain, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Joe Goode, Ed Moses, Manuel Neri, and Hassel Smith, among many others who are recognized as major figures of California and American art. VIEW ARTICLE |
2020
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LINDSEY WARREN
SHOUTOUT LA - Lindsey Warren | Fine Artist November 17, 2020 "I make oil paintings using an arrangement of shapes to construct images of moments I experience during daily activities. I capture observations using photographs, later comparing them to my memory of the time, resulting in modified representations of specific spaces. The essential components of each image are discovered through building up layers of paint while constantly adding and subtracting visual elements and details." - Lindsey Warren VIEW ARTICLE |
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LINDSEY WARREN
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR - LA Light September 2020 | Issue 179 "This recent series of urban landscape paintings is a celebration of the unique light of the city of Los Anglees. Within this group, urban and suburban areas are affectionately represented from a variety of ventage points. The changing hues of the sky are framed by synthetic and natural elements, allowing the depicted strucutres, trees and clouds to generate individual portraits of neighborhoods within the sprawling city." - Lindsey Warren VIEW ARTICLE |
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LINDSEY WARREN
SUPERSONIC ART - Lindsey Warren, Paintings July 29, 2020 Beautiful paintings focusing on the urban landscape, using systematic processes, perception and memory to translate specific moments in time by artist Lindsey Warren. VIEW ARTICLE |
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MARGARET LAZZARI
SUPERSONIC ART - Margaret Lazzari, Paintings July 29, 2020 Outstanding abstract paintings by Southern California-based artist Margaret Lazzari. VIEW ARTICLE |
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DANNY HELLER
SHOUTOUT LA - Danny Heller | Fine Artist June 22, 2020 "My paintings predominantly focus on midcentury architecture, design, and car culture found throughout California. Working in a photo-realistic fashion, I highlight elements of design that made the era so spectacular – walls of intricate breeze block patterns, dynamic rooflines of tract homes, the fins of a 1958 Cadillac, kidney-shaped swimming pools – and how they combine with the surrounding environment to create an idealized setting." - Danny Heller VIEW ARTICLE |