THE Magazine - Los Angeles

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A series of works in 1975 and 1976, reflected upon the nautical environment of his adopted home....more info

An exhibition exploring work produced in the 1960s and 70s by one of LA’s architectural radicals, Craig Hodgetts – a leading figure in the LA community of experimental design, curated by Sylvia Lavin...more info

This new series, light/ALBERS, marks a radical departure from her mainstay vocabulary. The work hews more closely to the formal properties of painting than installation; uses only white light in fluorescent and discharge sources and is static. ...more info

For the past nine years, John Millei has undertaken diverse series engaged with nautical and aqueous themes, culminating in the most recently completed large-scale Maritime paintings titled Queen Anne’s Revenge. Addressing the history of painting by looking at disparate historical ideas and combining them, his references to seafaring explore various themes in this extended group of paintings: the ocean’s apocalyptic power, the abstract and complex majesty of a ship’s rigging, or the deceptive calm before a storm at sea. Within the nautical series there are five territories; the Seascapes which typically represent undulating waves, which began in 2001-2 in the series’ For Surfing and Twelve Months, then a dramatic shift away from color to ominous black waves referencing the deluge, to the 2005 White Squalls, and Maritime’s ships, rigging and wreckage. ...more info

Picasso used the model of the woman in a chair as a theme throughout his long career and various stylistic periods. Millei's attraction to Portrait de femme (Dora Maar) proved to be an apt historical model from a most fertile period around Picasso's painting of Guernica. After extensive studies in watercolor and with small sized canvases, Millei gravitated toward 9ft high canvases utilizing oil and flashe. In Millei's new work, the paintings reveal a singular approach to the abstract figure, considerably altered in each using stylistic tropes from previous series within his own career...more info