CURRENT
Project Space La Brea Location Closing Exhibit
Oct 20-25
featuring past Project Space director Shannon Rowland, curators Carol Powell and Sung-Hee Son, artists Anna Bruinsma, Jarrod Jaccobus, Susie Loucks, Charley Gallay, Calethia De Conto and more.
For future exhibits visit the Santa Monica site.
PAST EXHIBITS
Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters
Artists: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, George Condo, Jose Luis Cuevas, and Patrick Graham.
Opening Reception: Saturday October 6th, 5-8 pm (during the Miracle Mile Art Walk)
Show Duration: September 19th – October 18th, 2012
Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea
355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036
Curator: Sung-Hee Son
Press Contact: Om Bleicher
Phone: (310)237-6423
E-mail: om@bgartdealings.com
Bleicher Gallery is pleased to present “Sublime Perversions: Works on Paper by 20th Century Masters”, a survey of works on paper by European, American, and Latin American artists. These artists were part of or heavily influenced by the Surrealist and Expressionist movements, which developed and engaged in automatism and abstract expressionism as ideologies and methods for making art. Both movements were concerned with delving into the subconscious to inform their imagery and mark making which resulted in sometimes bizarre, dreamlike, dark, or disturbing pieces.
Find it on Miracle Mile Artwalk Magazine!
SUSIE LOUCKS
Reception: Saturday August 25th, 6-9:30pm
Public Viewing Hours: 1-7pm Wednesday-Sunday
Loucks captures birds frozen in mid-flight capturing a juxtaposing moment of extreme movement and stillness. Susie’s work fosters a new awe and appreciation of these gravity defying creatures.
CATHY WEISS
Bleicher Gallery is pleased to announce an exciting show by Los Angeles artist Cathy Weiss. Weiss’s new works consist of exquisite woodcuts printed on very thin Tengucho paper and mulberry paper. These fragile and delicate pieces are alluring and ethereal, addressing the decision making process on a humanistic level and asking the viewer to examine the choices they make. Weiss says her images revolve around the physical, psychological and spiritual rifts that we all experience. Her work simultaneously questions and affirms the ability we as humans have to see things in a new light and make changes that will positively affect the future.
Weiss’s works will be on view at Bleicher Project Space at 355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036 from June 11 – July 10, 2012, with opening reception on Saturday June 16, from 6-9pm. For more information, please call the gallery at 323.545.6018 or visit www.labrea.bgartdealings.com.
MAY 29: Ann McCoy, Pfuaeninsel Studies.
Exhibits under the direction of Shannon Rowland O’Connor:
“Transference” (Curator: Carol Powell) Opening Reception: Saturday December 17th 201
Bleicher Galleries introduces a new independent project section within the Bleicher Gallery La Brea location. The space features small scale, highly focused, experimental, niche and emerging artist projects.
Bleicher Project Space is located within Bleicher Gallery La Brea at 355 North La Brea Ave Los Angeles 90036
Director: Shannon Rowland O’Connor; shannon@bgartdealings.com
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Bleicher Project Space presents;
“Transference”
Featuring an eclectic group of artists whose work include mixed media, painting and photography. Inspired by a direct thought transference from one creature to the other. “the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new person or object.”
Curated by Carol Powell
Opening Reception: Saturday December 17th 2011
Show Run: December 12th – January 3rd
Bleicher Gallery 355 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Featuring work by;
Sam Saga
Charley Gallay
Carol Powell
Douglas Alvarez
Terri Berman
Kelly Hayes
Aras Karimi
Juan Carlos
Shawn Waco
Matthew Thomason
Chris Thieke
Chelsea Dicksion
Calethia DeConto
Kim Tucker
Argishti Musakhanyan
Shannon Rowland O’Connor
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“Body” Sam Saga
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19th 7-10pm
Show run: November 19th – December 11th
Bleicher Project Space
Bleicher Gallery 355 North La Brea Ave Los Angeles CA 90036
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Curated by Shannon Rowland O’Connor
shannon@bgartdealings.com
Saghatelian’s ghostly phalluses envelop and explode through different architectural structures, cultural iconic symbols, monuments and figures challenging the notion that the material and the spiritual are separate. In his painted photographs, the religious, financial and political institutions are invaded and overwhelmed by the same human demands for power, sexual exploration, and survival.
Samvel Saghatelian (aka Sam Saga) was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1958. He graduated from Yerevan Institute of Architecture and pursued a career in architecture. In 1988, at the brink of the collapse of USSR and Armenia’s independence, he started his journey as an artist. In 2001, Saghatelian was one of the artists representing the Armenian Pavilion in the 49th Venice Biennale in Italy, Plateau of Humankind. In 2002, he was awarded a Fellowship from Arts Link (New York) for a residency program at Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, one of the largest international artists and writers program in the United States. He had his first solo exhibition there. Very much attracted to the US art scene, Saghatelian moved to Los Angeles, California, where he currently lives and works. His artistic expression is not limited to his art. Saghatelian has been the chief curator at Black Maria Gallery for five years. Saghatelian describes the contemporary Los Angeles art scene as “stretched, cute, unpredictable, monster, dark, crazy, communicative… something [is] happening here and it’s inspiring me….”
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Bleicher Project Space presents for the month of October:
Foto! Ray-Gun! Mambo!
Photographic works by Charley Gallay 
October 2nd – 31st
Opening Reception: October 15th, 2011 5pm
Bleicher Project Space
Bleicher Gallery 355 North La Brea Ave Los Angeles CA 90036
Curated by Shannon Rowland
Foto! Ray-Gun! Mambo! features a selection of Los Angeles photographer Charley Gallay’s recent lurid, cinematic portraiture. Occupying the unsettled border between then and now, the photographs in Foto! Ray-Gun! Mambo! evoke both a technicolor exuberance and the transistor twang of lonesome America.
Charley Gallay shoots for an unnamed photo agency and, as such, his images have appeared in numerous publications, including the NYTimes, Elle and Vanity Fair. Moreover, at one time Hallmark™ produced a greeting card based on a photograph of Willie Nelson that he took on-stage while Willie was playing “Whiskey River” at dusk, in the desert, in front of fifty-thousand people. True story. It was beautiful.
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Bleicher Project Space presents for the month of September,
Captain Premier VS Mayhem
Featuring work by Juan Carlos Elizondo and Shawn Waco
Mixed media, paintings and etchings.
Show run: September 2nd-30th
Opening Reception: Friday September 16th 6-10pm
Curated by Shannon Rowland
Bleicher Project Space
355 North La Brea Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036
In Captain Premier vs Mayhem, artists Juan Carlos Elizondo and Shawn Waco bring their work together for a joined viewing. The tittle of the show is a classic play on Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiats past collaborative shows. Though the “vs’s” might imply a competition, it is the farthest thing from the truth. Shawn Waco and Juan Carlos met and were friends throughout Junior High and High school. During this time both found their creative inspirations in the studio and have not emerged since. Both artists continued on to San Francisco City College where they continued to share the same education and training. The works being shown are all new paintings, etchings and mixed media. Unlike like in boxing the “vs’s” in this show might be more like one found on a tennis court, where both artist work on opposite sides of the court and volley back and forth; ideas, energy and great art. In the end Shawn Waco And Juan Carlos will continue to pick up momentum in the art world.
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Bleicher Project Space presents for the month of August,
Renée Jacobs and Calethia DeConto
Renée Jacobs 
Calethia DeConto 
Classic black and white photographic works by Renée Jacobs and Calethia DeConto
Reception: August 20th 6-10pm
August 7th-31st
Renée Jacobs and Calethia DeConto examine light and movement through the relationship between form and environment. Revealing a juxtaposition of rich darks and lights, both artists are able to evoke a sense of surreal beauty and dreamy sensuality. The physicality and sexuality of the female body are not only explored, but glorified. The photographs communicate a bold and dramatic sentiment, while managing to remain elusive and mysterious.
Renée Jacobs is the recipient of the 2008 First Prize for Fine Art Nude in the prestigious International Photography Awards (the Lucies). Her work has appeared in Photoicon, Fine Art Photo, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, U.S. News and World Report, Boston Phoenix, Camera 35, Camera Arts, SLR Photography, as well as numerous books, including Thinking in the Photographic Idiom, and Earth and You. Her solo monograph, Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania received critical acclaim in The New York Times Review of Books, as well as many other publications.
Renée’s work has also been awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and is in the permanent collection of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, MA. Her work is in private and public collections around the world and has been featured in several solo exhibits.Magazines that have run features on her work include Esquire Turkey, Maxim Romania, Nude Magazine and others.Renée has an upcoming book, Mes Petites Femmes de Paris, which will be published at the end of the year with CSF Publishing.
Calethia DeConto was born in 1980 in Enid, Oklahoma. She was raised in about 15 different places across the US and abroad, traveling often with her military father. Currently, she lives and works in Los Angeles. In her work, she explores existentialism, identity, sensuality and beauty. She likes to think of herself as an anthropologist taking notes with her camera. Moreover, she uses imagery to shout into the void and just keep on keepin’ on.
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Bleicher Project Space presents for the month of July,
Anna Bruinsma: Avedon Drawings
Reception July 28th 6-10pm
“This series of drawings and prints are of Richard Avedon’s photographs
of the Warhol Factory from his book “The Sixties.” I am fascinated by
the idea of black and white photography and manual darkroom techniques
being phased out by the digital world much like they replaced drawing
and painting over the last century. My background is in sketching
from life, and I wanted to approach this exercise as a play on the use
of photos as the main source for material in painting and drawing
today. The multiple degrees of simulacra/removal from the original
source interest me as well as responding to the Warhol commentary on
the replication of image.”
Anna Bruinsma received her BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art
Institute. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles
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Bleicher Project Space presents:
“Hubris” paintings by Jarrod Lake Jacobus
Reception June 18th, 2011, 6-10pm
Show Run June 5th-30th
“Hubris”
The pale, near-colorless hues seem sun bleached, like a memory scarcely recollected, data missing and features smeared. The figures inhabit mundane and uncertain situations: an adolescent with the sun in his eyes, the homesick astronaut going to great lengths to depart from his nature, the lady with her shield and sunglasses deflecting something. All comment on humanity and cultural ideals through a reconsideration of the values upon which societies are formed. The paintings themselves construct a stratum of allusions, through an economy of brushstrokes and a fluency in paint, whose product is a non-narrative collection of characters and backdrops. The result is a lingering alienation, a dissonant quality, and yet an intimacy attributable to the canonized form of portraiture.
Jarrod Lake Jacobus received his B.A. From UCLA. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Bleicher Project Space presents its debut show
“About a Girl” Photographs by Emily Ulmer
Reception: Thursday May 5, 2011, 7-10pm
Show runs: May 5 – May 30, 2011
Emily Ulmer’s “About a Girl” will coincide with the Lizzy Waronker exhibit “Detritus”
Lulu is a 7 year-old girl from Australia. She is playing the classic childhood game of hide and go seek. From behind the screen, the veiling and unveiling of innocence takes place. In some images Lulu’s eyes avoid or do not meet the camera and in other images she is knowingly staring back at the viewer— meeting their gaze and confronting their curiosity. The adult wants to identify with the child and the child wants to identify with the adult. There is a push-and-pull and an almost awakening of consciousness that is happening as we see the young girl emerge from behind the screen. As she does emerge and shows herself fully, the neutral color tones are then contrasted with a burst of color. The viewer sees her gradually come into view and with each shot they are more invited into her world— and we see glimpses of what she will become.
Bleicher Project Space is located within the Caporale/Bleicher Gallery
355 North La Brea Ave Los Angeles 90036
Director contact: shannon@bgartdealings.com