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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Erin O’Brien

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

Erin O’Brien Brings Your Walls to Life

Upon entering O’Brien’s studio the first item that catches your attention is a life like painting of three young boys. The painting was immaculate; the clarity was so precise that I could’ve sworn it was in HD. The beauty of this painting reminded me of another great painting done by a superb renaissance artist: “Portrait of the Artist Brother and Sisters by Sofonisba Anguissola”. Once inside I had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of O’Brien’s dear friend Betty. O’Brien was very humble, and without the help of Betty I wouldn’t have been able to pry some of O’Brien’s outstanding accomplishments out of her.

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Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Art Review

BEYOND THE 805

At the Center of the World

Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, a retrospective of Durham's work put together by Hammer's curator Anne Ellegood is a superb exhibition, infused with the most marvelously incisive wit and visual cunning.

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#TBM Artist Interview- WAV Resident Colin Fraser Gray

By Society 805 Staff Writer

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/10/10)

Tea with Colin Fraser

Before meeting with Colin Fraser Gray, I had the opportunity to browse through his website; www.colinfrasergray.com. The website gave me a brief overview of Colin’s work, and his accomplishments. His work is mesmerizing; it jumps out and literally shakes your soul. This was the feeling it gave me from looking at the online photo’s, to see his artwork close up in real life was an experience all its own. From my research I came across interesting facts on Colin. In 2006 Colin rocked the city of Santa Barbara with his controversial sculpture “W”. The sculpture is a toppled, upside down McDonalds sign with green arrows shot into it. A very powerful piece that, I took as a stance against the corporatism that was running rampant at the time, and the head honcho known as “Dubya”.

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Review: Beached

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Two Lights at Elite's South Stage

Elite Theatre Company has brought the world premier of Brett Busang’s Two Lights to its South Stage theatre, which is their annex for showing new work, and more experimental productions. Set in the 1950s it is a tight little drama loosely based on the life of Edward Hopper, the great American painter, and his wife, who was also a painter and modeled for her husband.

Jake Mailey (left) as Al and Clayton McLannock as Ed- Photos Credit: Joe Orrego

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Review:To Woo Is to Win

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Santa Paula Theatre Center’s Outside Mullingar and The Elite Theatre Company’s Engaging Shaw

Though profoundly different in virtually every other aspect, the current offering of two 805 theatres, the Santa Paula Theatre Center’s Outside Mullingar and the Elite Theatre’s Engaging Shaw, feature the exact same theme: the long-term wooings of a woman for a remarkably resistant man.

Jessi May Stevenson (left) as Rosemary, Cecil Sutton as Tony and Rosalee Calvillo as Aoife in the romantic Irish comedy OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley, Photo Credit: Brian Stethem

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Artists Opening: Group Exhibition

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Group Exhition

April 22-June 4, 2017

Dab Art, Ventura, CA

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#TBM - Artist Interview: WAV Artist Jacqueline Woods

By Sofia Williams

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/2/10)

Has the process of making a photograph become completely obsolete in the contemporary art world? Not for Jacqueline Woods. In fact, the process of developing and printing the photo is an essential facet to her work as a whole. The process, coupled with themes of memory and identity is what makes Woods' photographs so enticing.

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Jean Dubuffet Drawings at the Hammer

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Art Review

BEYOND THE 805

Jean Dubuffet Drawings at the Hammer

The current exhibition of Jean Dubuffet’s drawings at UCLA’s Hammer Museum is the first exhibition of Dubuffet’s drawings of this depth and scope. Consisting of almost 100 works created between 1935 and 1962 it spans Dubuffet’s most creative years, curated by Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum. The Hammer presentation is curated by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial assistant. Dubuffet is in some ways the most influential and perhaps best French artists since WW II , so this show represents an important addition to the understanding of his work and post-war art history scholarship.