Art recommendations

Today artist that is an inspiration for me as her works are so unique that when you see it once you will never be able to forget them - Tamara Łempicka or Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980).

www.delempicka.org/

One word - perfection.

www.zariaforman.com/

Hi Atoppers.

I usually just have time for the daily news thread so I didn't know where to put this and then found this thread (and some others that look interesting!)

Old timers here will remember Drake LeBray, the guy Adam was dating around the time of this Idol run.  Well, he got a write-up in the LA Times this AM.  Thought I'd share it.  I love seeing how the people in his Hollywood group are doing in their various quests for fame. 

I copied the article below but there's a picture with the article if you follow the link. (ETA pic below this post)

www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-art-review-drake-labry-decorative-family-room-paintings-20150707-story.html


Drake LaBry's "My Non-Conceptual Object" is part of his exhibition at Museum as Retail Space. (Drake LaBry / Museum as Retail Space)
By David Pagel

Artists often feel like fish out of water. Misfits in a society that puts business first, they flop around on the deck hoping that someone tosses them back before it’s too late.

Drake LaBry turns that bit of folk wisdom inside out. At Museum as Retail Space, “Decorative Family Room Paintings” suggests that visitors stop worrying about what it’s like to be a fish out of water and start thinking about what it means to be a fin without a fish, or a fish without a fin, literally and figuratively.
Gallery and museum reviews: Full coverage
Gallery and museum reviews: Full coverage

One of the first works you see is a trophy marlin that LaBry has covered with a thick coat of white paint over which he has painted an elaborate pattern of copper, silver and multihued pentagons.

One of the last works you see is “My Non-Conceptual Object,” an oddly shaped sculpture that hangs from the ceiling. Covered with partially mixed rivulets of red, yellow, blue, white and green paint, the piece has the presence of a whimsical abstraction.

It takes a few moments to notice that its shape matches that of a marlin’s big fin, which just happens to be missing from the one you saw on the way in.
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Between fish and fin, LaBry treats visitors to a dazzling display of 23 paintings and seven sculptures he made over the last five years. Many are covered with thin sheets of scrap metal that have been cut into the shape of fish scales and arranged in scalloped patterns.

Big fistfuls of glitter, gobs of polyurethane and rolls of gold leaf have been liberally applied, alongside camouflage patterns, stenciled palm fronds, swathes of chicken wire and slabs of cardboard.
Arts and culture in pictures by The Times | American Contemporary Ballet Company
Caption Arts and culture in pictures by The Times | American Contemporary Ballet Company
Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

American Contemporary Ballet Company members Zsolt Banki and Cleo Magill perform a dance routine originally done by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This performance was presented as part of "Music + Dance: L.A." on Friday, June 19, 2015.
Arts and culture in pictures by The Times | Miguel
Caption Arts and culture in pictures by The Times | Miguel
Christina House / For The Times

Miguel, a Grammy-winning guitarist, producer, singer and lyricist, is photographed in San Pedro on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. His new album "Wildheart," explores L.A.'s "weird mix of hope and desperation."

Rather than making works that play it safe by staying out of harm’s way, LaBry embraces excess. What his art lacks in ambiguity it makes up for by going all in — and then some.

Museum as Retail Space, 649 S. Anderson St., (323) 526-8097, through July 25. Closed Sundays and Mondays. www.marsgallery.net/now/