(left) JIM JENKINS, “Vortex Encounter,” birch, drone propellers, compass, formica, aluminum, steel, motors, 36 x 11 x 14” (right) KYONG BOON OH, “Unknown Path 3,” stainless steel, aluminum wire, 40 x 70 x 15”

JIM JENKINS: Currents / Press Release

in the Upstairs Gallery

KYONG BOON OH: Unknown Path / Press Release

On view through July 8, 2023

Jim Jenkins, Artist Talk: Saturday, June 17, 12:30pm

Kyong Boon Oh, Artist Talk: Saturday, June 17, 2pm

Kinetic sculptor, Jim Jenkins’ most recent works are inspired by the state of the world, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the destabilization of the economy. He sculpts inanimate objects from metal, wood, and plastics and brings them to life with motors and counter-weights, carefully orchestrating the movement of each object. The mechanisms in Jenkins’ work are based on simple technology, while the finished forms are created using complex sculptural techniques.

Methodically and repetitiously, Kyong Boon Oh weaves together threads of wire to create forms that are intertwined in complexity and order. Using various types of metal wire, Oh constructs abstract sculptures that are suspended from the ceiling. She creates each piece one step at a time, seeking order but expecting chaos and dissonance. Many threads of wire inevitably tangle with one another and dictate her next move. Oh says, “my art is like mapping a brand new pathway that is unknown to me. This path exists somewhere between chaos and order and is guided by my intuition.” She views a single thread of wire as a physical pathway for the mind and uses the repetitive action of weaving wire to symbolize the continuity of time.

Lois Lambert Gallery

Bergamot Station Arts Center

2525 Michigan Ave., E3, Santa Monica, CA 90404

(310) 829.6990

info@loislambertgallery.com

www.loislambertgallery.com

www.ourgallerystore.com

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

Alex Couwenberg, “Hōkūle’a,” acrylic and spray on canvas, 60 x 48”

Alex Couwenberg and Cara Barer, “Atmospheric”

June 14 - July 21, 2023

Opening Reception:

Wednesday, June 14, 5:30-7:30pm

Artists in attendance

Live jazz by the Eric Markowitz Trio

“The images are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted, and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.” – Cara Barer

Barer transforms books by sculpting, dyeing, and photographing the final sculptures to give them new life. In her most recent body of work, Barer responds to her surroundings and the four classical elements, earth, air, fire, and water. Barer also explores the concept of a fifth element, aether, which she interprets as the element that the universe and the spirit within all humanity is comprised of. By deconstructing her subject matter and removing recognizable forms in her photographs, Barer leaves her work open to interpretation. 

“My work is a product of the world that surrounds me. It functions as a snapshot of my visual landscape.” – Alex Couwenberg

Couwenberg pulls inspiration from his environment in the form of culture, music, surfing, fashion, and architecture, to name a few. With a focus on process, Couwenberg allows the work to happen organically, with spontaneous reactions towards moves and passes made within the painting. Without a roadmap, each work becomes a unique snapshot, capturing the world around him at a moment in time.

Andrea Schwartz Gallery

545 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

(415) 495-2090

info@asgallery.com

asgallery.com

instagram.com/andreaschwartzgallery/

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Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday by appt.

Michelle Muldrow, “Amusement,” 2023, casein,

gouache and graphite on Colin clay panel, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2”

Michelle Muldrow, “The Winds Began to Shift”

June 17 - July 22, 2023

Artist Reception:

Saturday, June 17, 4-6pm

This group of work continues on Michelle Muldrow’s varied and resolute approach to dissecting the American landscape in all its complexity. Muldrow’s own search for personal narrative derived from the experience of growing up on military bases throughout the United States, and an attempt to better understand the experience of “home.” From post-industrial ruin, dead malls & fluorescent-lit consumer landscapes in prior series', Muldrow presents here the majestic scenic beauty of the Pacific Northwest, a delicate and revealing excavation of history, myth, nature and place amidst climate and social crisis.  

Koplin Del Rio Gallery

6107 13th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98108

(206) 999-0849

info@koplindelrio.com

koplindelrio.com

instagram.com/koplindelrio/

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Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm, and by appointment

left: Nina Katz, “Blue”, oil on board, 2023, 18 x 24”. right: Kirstine Reiner Hansen, “Vacancy #2”, oil on linen, 2023, 31.4 x 35.4”

We are pleased to present “Posturing”

A painting show by Nina Katz & Kirstine Reiner Hansen

June 17 - July 29, 2023

Reception for the artists:

Saturday, June 17, 3-5pm

Nina Katz: “ My paintings for the show span several years of work and include pictures of the famous, infamous, personal connections, and the unknown. Regardless of who is depicted, my work explores the tension between outer affect and inner essence of who these people are and my connection to them.”

Kirstine Reiner Hansen: “Through the use of collage-like fragmentation I seek to explore the interplay between fashion, art history, and identity, seeking to create a new kind of portraiture. The disrupted realism of the figures reflect the kaleidoscopic nature of modern-day life with its infinite feed of impressions and distractions while also touching upon the multiple, often conflicting identities that people inherently inhabit.

Jack Fischer Gallery

1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA 94107

(415) 725-0308

jackfischer@sbcglobal.net

jackfischergallery.com

Wednesday-Saturday, 11:30am-5:30pm, and by appointment

Leon Polk Smith, “White-White,” 1955, acrylic on paper, 23 3/4 x 19”

Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996)

June, 2023

Anyone who knew Leon Polk Smith well was struck time and again by his force of character. As Robert Mead Jamieson. Smith’s assistant and companion of more than four decades, has often said summarizing their life together, “there was never a dull moment.” Smith (1906-1996) was a highly original artist who possessed all his mental faculties and considerable physical strength to the end of his long and productive life. He was also known for strong opinions, especially about art and politics, and had a quick temper, regarding which, most friends and acquaintances agreed, it was best not to be on the receiving end.

— Source: Robert T. Buck. From the publication for Leon Polk Smith American Original, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, 2006

Addison Rowe Gallery

229 E. Marcy Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

(505) 982-1533

addart@addisonrowe.com

addisonrowe.art

By appointment only

Masami Teraoka, “AIDS Serie/Mother and Child,” 1990 (left

“AIDS Series/Father and Son,” 1990 (right)

Masami Teraoka, “Waves and Plagues Redux”

A survey of works from 1984-2008

June 17 - August 19, 2023

Opening Reception:

Saturday, June 17, 2-4pm

Catharine Clark Gallery opens its summer program with Masami Teraoka: Waves and Plagues Redux, in the North Gallery. The exhibition takes its title from an important monograph on Teraoka titled Waves and Plagues published by Chronicle Books in 1988 and offers a rare opportunity to see watercolors, drawings, and multiples from two iconic bodies of work: the AIDS Series and Waves Series, as well as a selection of important studies and watercolors from projects created prior to 1995.

From 1960 to 1984, Teraoka lived and worked in Los Angeles, during which time he produced his signature ukiyo-e (or “pictures of the floating world” generally rendered as woodcuts in the Edo era of Japan) compositions that reflected on cultural hybridity, represented in series such as McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan, 31 Flavors Invading Japan, and New Views of Mt. Fuji. The onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s brought a new urgency to Teraoka's work and inaugurated a five-year span in which he created monumental watercolors on paper, screens, and canvas, such as American Kabuki/Oishiiwa (1986), a multi-panel watercolor mounted to a folding screen in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. These compositions depicted figures with visible symptoms of infection, such as lesions caused by Kaposi sarcoma, dressed in Kabuki-style make-up and costumes, and set in tumultuous and often menacing landscapes.

Catharine Clark Gallery

248 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 399-1439

director@cclarkgallery.com

www.cclarkgallery.com

Tuesday – Friday, 10:30am-5:30pm; Saturday, 11am-6pm

Celebrate the First Year of the Cheech

Benefit Concert:

Music from Below: 

Quetzal together with La Santa Cecilia

Saturday, June 17, 7-10pm

Riverside Municipal Auditorium

3485 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501

Tickets: $32-$127

Celebrating the first anniversary of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, two Grammy® Award-winning East Los Angeles groups La Santa Cecilia and Quetzal combine efforts to present Music From Below: Quetzal together with La Santa Cecilia. 

As two of the most important groups to emerge from the Chicanx community, Quetzal and La Santa Cecilia are uniquely positioned to present this night of songs and multimedia history highlighting important, yet under-recognized, contributions of Chicanx musicians and songwriters in the landscape of popular music and social justice movements.

Riverside Art Museum

The Cheech Marin Center for Cinch Art and Culture

3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501

(951) 684-7111

info@riversideartmuseum.org

riversideartmuseum.org

Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm

Sam Francis video of the exhibition "Distilled"

“Sam Francis — Distilled”

Through July 1, 2023

Free Parking Entry on South Lake Avenue

Filmed on the occasion of the exhibition, "Sam Francis — Distilled" is a revelatory exhibition and video that uniquely addresses what might be considered as the purest aspects of Francis’ vision – his monochromatic works. 

“Sam Francis — Distilled” exclusively focuses upon a hugely important aspect of Francis’ rarely seen monochromatic graphic works. It compliments the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s present Sam Francis exhibition, which runs through July 16, keying upon Francis’ profound intercultural dialogue between Western and Eastern aesthetics.

The exhibition investigates the tension of opposites; the yin and yang of black ink spattered and painted across the negative, open spaces and fields of white paper. Often employing varied shades of black and nearly imperceptible gradations of color, these rare original graphic works, through contrast and transparency, have an extraordinary effect suggestive of celestial realms.

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

600 South Lake Ave., #102, Pasadena, CA 91106

Located at the corner of California Ave. Free parking, 

entrance on S. Lake Ave., Gallery entrance through the lobby

(323) 938-5222

jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com

www.jackrutbergfinearts.com

Tuesday-Friday, 10am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-5pm

CONTACT INFORMATION:

231 Cedar Heights Dr.

Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

(213) 482-4724