Guillermo Bert's Upcoming Solo Show at the Museum of Latin American Ar

Congratulations to Guillermo Bert on his upcoming solo show, Techno-Empathy, opening at the Museum of Latin American Art on March 29.

This exhibition shows the Chilean-born artist Guillermo Bert bringing the two together in novel and powerful ways. He uses three principal tools, all of them uncommon in most art production: QR codes, 3-D imaging, and laser engraving. In the Encoded Textiles series, weavings include QR codes that literally embed the story of the weaver into the work so that anyone with a smartphone can see and hear them. Through 3-D imaging, the artist creates life-size images of workers whom he has met, allowing us also to meet them face to face from a unique perspective. Media images today often show migrants and refugees, but Bert uses laser engraving to transfer them onto unusual surfaces, such as wood panels that mimic the look of some of the earliest “high technology:” the rectangular panels that encoded instructions for the first mechanical looms in the 19th century.

Guillermo Bert At William Turner Gallery

Charles Arnoldi in The Hollywood Reporter

Congratulations to Charles Arnoldi for his recent feature in Michael Slenske's article "Guns and Glitter: How LA's Top Artists Reimagine the Oscar" for The Hollywood Reporter!

Charles Arnoldi

Slenske writes: For this portfolio, [Arnoldi] did something he almost never does: “I don’t really think about the Oscars, and I don’t make figurative work,” he says. “But there’s a human quality to this particular sculpture because it has legs and these morphing human forms. I guess you could say that’s a commentary on the chaos that accompanies the Oscars race every year.”

Read the full article at the link below!

Mark Steven Greenfield Solo Show at the Boone Family Gallery at Pasadena City College

William Turner Gallery is happy to congratulate Mark Steven Greenfield on his extraordinary solo show, Venerated, at Pasadena City College’s Boone Family Gallery. The exhibition received an in-depth review by Suzanne York which included excerpts of Greenfield’s art practice and activism as well as discussion of the spiritual and historical themes that shape his work. York highlights how Greenfield’s paintings draw on cultural memory, overlooked figures from the African diaspora, and symbols such as the Black Madonna and mandala forms to explore history, resistance, and renewal.

“The Boone Gallery exhibition offers visitors a unique look across the evolving stages of Greenfield’s artistic life. It presents work that is visually striking, historically rich, and unapologetically challenging.”

The show was also cited by PBS SoCal as one of the five best things to do during the week of March 2-8!