THE Magazine - Los Angeles

Inspired by a recent sojourn to Japan, Jeff Gambill’s Barely There offers the viewer with a group of intimate oil paintings that explore the artist’s lifelong interest in capturing the transient experiences of life on canvas. Gambill – traveling through a country filled with the confluence of ancient and pop cultures – uses his memories of encounters as points of departure for this latest series of works. As the artist states, “the paintings . . . found their beginnings in Japan’s visual richness . . . a reflection in a pond or a stepping stones in the shadows of a garden, in the patterns of fabrics, the neon nightlife of Tokyo’s streets, or the elegant presentation of a formal Kaiseki dinner.” The resultant artworks oscillate from the meditative to the spontaneous, the humorous to the formal....more info

Beyond serving as metaphorical landscape, the images from The Garden will also serve as a document of a vanishing part of Ohio’s unique history...more info

The exhibition consists of fifteen acrylic on aluminum paintings presenting modern day weapon systems such as jet planes, helicopters and missiles arranged in colorful and graphic patterns and set within contrasting presentations, from abstract and orderly to atmospheric and chaotic compositions....more info

The nine artists exhibited in this show represent the diverse creative presence inhabiting the Bay Area. ...more info

Flesh + Bone is a metaphoric title that references both the colors of the artist’s latest series of ceramic sculptures and also her exploration of under-the-skin complexities in human relationships....more info

Disorientation is comprised of 15 oil and acrylic paintings whose imagery fluctuates between the sweet and the grotesque. Phung Huynh’s latest series is largely inspired by Chinese auspicious imagery....more info

Carrie Yury’s latest series Room, consisting of 9 color pigment photographic diptychs, is a re-examination of the history of the female body as an uncritical trope. ...more info

A summer group show featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, is a smorgasbord; the artworks depict the “backyard” as a dystopic eden--a open-ended interpretation of this theme that ranges from the whimsical to the serious, and the humorous to the creepy...more info

Pipo Nguyen-duys East of Eden: Vietnam, his third solo exhibition at the gallery, offers the viewer a new series of staged, large-scale, color photographs that explores hope and renewal thirty years after the Vietnam conflict...more info