Íslenskir Fossar exhibition walkthrough with Jay Mark Johnson - This Saturday During Spring Open at Bergamot Station

Join us this Saturday, May 13th from 2:30-4pm for an artist-led walk-through with Jay Mark Johnson. Jay will be leading a tour of his recent exhibition ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR. Ten spectacular large-format images of waterfalls and geysers are selected from the most recent photographic artworks in the artist’s two-decades-long production of paradigm-shifting timeline imagery. A cocktail reception will begin at 2:30pm, and the walk-through will commence from 3-4pm.

JAY MARK JOHNSON ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR
Artist Led Exhibition Walkthrough
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Cocktail Reception Starts at 2:30PM
Artist Led Talk and Exhibition Walkthrough Starts at 3PM

Additionally, Bergamot Station Arts Center is hosting its annual Spring Open on Saturday, May 13th. Over 20+ galleries and cultural venues will be hosting special artist talks, walk-thrus, and openings, beginning at 10AM and lasting ALL DAY. Be sure to stick around for the comedy shows, food trucks, and a special live performance by the Santa Monica Youth Orchestra. 

HYPERMODALITY - Casper Brindle @ THE LUCKMAN - CAL STATE LA

Casper Brindle, Light Glyph, Light Glyph VF, 2022, pigmented acrylics, 44 x 74 x 12 in.

Curated by Mika Cho
On view September 29 through November 19, 2022
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA

Artist Reception:
Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 5:00 pm

With great pleasure, I invite you to the exhibition “Hypermodality” which highlights the selected work of Casper Brindle. The exhibition opens on September 29, 2022, at the Luckman Gallery in the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA. Casper Brindle is well known and has long been admired for his aesthetical experiments on color, light, and form. The varied structural arrangements of his compositions, partly reminiscent of the Light and Space movement, transcend the circadian and engender metaphors that unfold various Interpretative and ontological values. The simplicity of Brindle’s work is impressive as it gives rise to mystery - a mystery that can only be called sublime.

Mika Cho, September 2022

“Brindle’s art turns our attention to its minimalist composition as much as despite its luminous, disembodied color and pristine, machine-tooled surfaces. He does not set our eyes afloat in unvariegated light, but thwarts such an optical free fall, deliberately compromising the “ganzfeld” – the surrounding light ambience – with strongly posited horizontal and/or vertical devices. These structural devices encourage our eyes to apprehend the visual field either as a recessional space or as a surface structure. Brindle does not set up an ongoing dialogue between vertical and horizontal works, or even between the verticals and the horizontals occurring in the same works; rather, he proposes the physical and metaphysical presence of each from the outset as contrasting discourses. This is not Light & Space; it is Light WITH Space.”

Peter Frank, September 2022

The Luckman Gallery | Public Viewing Hours
Wednesday through Saturday
11:00 am until 5:00 pm

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA
5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90032
(323) 343-6600
www.luckmanarts.org

ARTIST RECEPTION - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022, 5 - 8 pm

SEPTEMBER 29 – NOVEMBER 19, 2022

 

Commemorating Ed Moses

Today we commemorate the art and life of the late Ed Moses. Born on April 9, 1926, Ed Moses rose to become an important figure in Post War art. Moses had his first exhibition at the legendary Ferus Gallery in 1958 while still a graduate student at UCLA. In 1996 Ed had a career retrospective at MOCA and most recently an exhibition of works on paper from the 60’s & 70’s at the LA County Museum of Art. Ed’s work is in the collection of countless important international institutions and was featured in the 2008 documentary The Cool School.

A constant innovator and experimenter Ed tested the boundaries of materials and processes delivering exhibitions up to the year of his passing that were often completely unique from past production, a feat of creativity rarely witnessed in the history of art.

Ed was a storyteller both in paint and the spoken word. Years later those stories live on, through his survived contemporaries, his dealers, his friends and his family. He was a passionate and fearless innovator, an intellectual, a gifted orator and a phenomenal artist. His story has only begun to be written and we are honored at the gallery to have been a part of it.