Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass, LA artist currently showing "Femella," Golden West College Art Gallery, Oct 10-Dec 7, 2019

Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass

http://mendelsohnbassfineart.com @mendelsohnbass

Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass. You can currently see her work in the group exhibition  Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass http://mendelsohnbassfineart.com @mendelsohnbass Today we would like to share the work and current art happenings of Shoebox PR artist Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass. You can currently see her work in the group exhibition "Femella" at Golden West College Art Gallery and at Los Angeles' new cultural hot spot ArtBarLA! While acting in her position as co-owner of ArtBarLA and showing in group exhibitions, Lauren is also developing several bodies of work for solo exhibitions coming to Newport, Aliso Viejo and Reno in 2020. If you are interested in learning more, we would be happy to connect you with Lauren.  Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mendelsohn-Bass is currently exploring the psychology of the mind’s inner conflicts and struggles, through her painting series' Sugar Coated and Fairy Tales, Fables & Food. She often emphasizes the psychological drama with a monochromatic, Film Noir feel in order to examine what makes us tick. Her large, figurative paintings have a climactic, narrative quality with a focus upon emotional suspense, with each glance suggesting a passion or crime.  "Sugar Coated" takes us on a journey through the world of superficial reality--where artificially alluring and nostalgically innocent context masks darker thoughts, ideas and actions. Playing on the visual tropes of mass marketing and vintage advertisements, this work explores the ways reality is obscured when presented as ostensibly attractive. As popular culture navigates an era of “fake news”, social media, and alternative facts --nothing is as it seems. These paintings examine today’s culture where truth is fluid; ideas issues and events are routinely reframed to reinforce a brand, and even daily life is depicted in a series of perfectly posed, edited and filtered images on social media. "With vivid, rich colors contrasting with monochromatic images, artist Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass creates a hyper-realistic world that’s straight out of film. Using images and themes from popular candies, and contrasting them with lush black and white women, men, and couples, the artist offers viewers a wonderfully visceral contrast between a candy-coated dream world and reality.” Genie Davis, Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass Candy Coats Noir Cool, Art&Cake. Guilty pleasures are portrayed in a vibrant world of bold imagery. The series delves into society’s complex emotions around what we desire, and more specifically, the mass marketed idea of desirability in lifestyle, perception, physical characteristics, conspicuous consumerism and more. "Sugar Coated" seduces the senses with luscious color and alluring imagery expertly depicted with great detail. Mendelsohn-Bass wields realism as a means to expose the lack of reality in socially constructed norms. Inspired by 1950's era advertising, "Sugar Coated" is a nod to classic Film Noir and its emotive German Expressionist roots. Mixing pop imagery and classic noir iconography, "Sugar Coated" draws the viewer into an enticing candy coated world, only to find all is not as sweet as it appears. The work appeals to a nostalgic longing for an idealized mechanism to identify villain and hero. In the classic films it was so easy, but careful branding and cultivation of image has made it harder to see the core characteristics of public figures, products and events. Through juxtapositions of symbolic and stylized iconic imagery with high emotional content, these paintings maintain a sense of dramatic tension. "Sugar Coated" retains the mystery and drama of noir while swapping the dark urban landscape of Hollywood classic films for bright candy colors and a facade of beautiful perfection. In addition to her "Sugar Coated" series, Mendelsohn-Bass takes a look at Fairy Tales, Fables and Food, visually critiquing the narratives that have shaped our cultural understanding of everything from body image and gender roles, to the over-use of pharmaceuticals in our everyday lives. The subjects in her paintings show a nostalgia and idealization of the past while at the same time yearn for something in the future. The sense of suspense makes the viewer aware that things are not always as they appear. The combination of composition, technique, and  subject matter allows for the viewer to have a deeper psychological experience.   Mendelsohn-Bass takes cultural critique beyond that of her visual art, as an owner of ArtBarLA. With LC Croskey of Cannibal Flower, she conceived of a new creative hub in Los Angeles, of which she said, “I would like to do something interesting in LA for artists and for Cannibal Flower, and...I wanted to create a space where we could show any kind of art, a place for visual artists and performers.” You can read more about the conception of ArtBarLA in ArtBarLA Is Just Where You Want To Be, in Diversions LA. Current and Future Exhibitions "Femella," Golden West College Art Gallery, Oct 10-Dec 7, 2019 "Made You Look," ArtBarLA, Oct 6- Oct 26, 2019 Solo Exhibition at Newport Library March 9, 2020 through May 8, 2020 "Sugar Coated," Soka University of American, Founders Hall Art Gallery, May 14- September 8, 2020 Solo Exhibition in Reno, Date TBD, 2020  new cultural hot spot ArtBarLA! While acting in her position as co-owner of ArtBarLA and showing in group exhibitions, Lauren is also developing several bodies of work for solo exhibitions coming to Newport, Aliso Viejo and Reno in 2020. If you are interested in learning more, we would be happy to connect you with Lauren.

Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mendelsohn-Bass is currently exploring the psychology of the mind’s inner conflicts and struggles, through her painting series' Sugar Coated and Fairy Tales, Fables & Food. She often emphasizes the psychological drama with a monochromatic, Film Noir feel in order to examine what makes us tick. Her large, figurative paintings have a climactic, narrative quality with a focus upon emotional suspense, with each glance suggesting a passion or crime.

"Sugar Coated" takes us on a journey through the world of superficial reality--where artificially alluring and nostalgically innocent context masks darker thoughts, ideas and actions. Playing on the visual tropes of mass marketing and vintage advertisements, this work explores the ways reality is obscured when presented as ostensibly attractive. As popular culture navigates an era of “fake news”, social media, and alternative facts --nothing is as it seems. These paintings examine today’s culture where truth is fluid; ideas issues and events are routinely reframed to reinforce a brand, and even daily life is depicted in a series of perfectly posed, edited and filtered images on social media. "With vivid, rich colors contrasting with monochromatic images, artist Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass creates a hyper-realistic world that’s straight out of film. Using images and themes from popular candies, and contrasting them with lush black and white women, men, and couples, the artist offers viewers a wonderfully visceral contrast between a candy-coated dream world and reality.” Genie Davis, Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass Candy Coats Noir Cool, Art&Cake.

Guilty pleasures are portrayed in a vibrant world of bold imagery. The series delves into society’s complex emotions around what we desire, and more specifically, the mass marketed idea of desirability in lifestyle, perception, physical characteristics, conspicuous consumerism and more. "Sugar Coated" seduces the senses with luscious color and alluring imagery expertly depicted with great detail. Mendelsohn-Bass wields realism as a means to expose the lack of reality in socially constructed norms.

Inspired by 1950's era advertising, "Sugar Coated" is a nod to classic Film Noir and its emotive German Expressionist roots. Mixing pop imagery and classic noir iconography, "Sugar Coated" draws the viewer into an enticing candy coated world, only to find all is not as sweet as it appears. The work appeals to a nostalgic longing for an idealized mechanism to identify villain and hero. In the classic films it was so easy, but careful branding and cultivation of image has made it harder to see the core characteristics of public figures, products and events. Through juxtapositions of symbolic and stylized iconic imagery with high emotional content, these paintings maintain a sense of dramatic tension. "Sugar Coated" retains the mystery and drama of noir while swapping the dark urban landscape of Hollywood classic films for bright candy colors and a facade of beautiful perfection.

In addition to her "Sugar Coated" series, Mendelsohn-Bass takes a look at Fairy Tales, Fables and Food, visually critiquing the narratives that have shaped our cultural understanding of everything from body image and gender roles, to the over-use of pharmaceuticals in our everyday lives. The subjects in her paintings show a nostalgia and idealization of the past while at the same time yearn for something in the future. The sense of suspense makes the viewer aware that things are not always as they appear. The combination of composition, technique, and  subject matter allows for the viewer to have a deeper psychological experience.

Mendelsohn-Bass takes cultural critique beyond that of her visual art, as an owner of ArtBarLA. With LC Croskey of Cannibal Flower, she conceived of a new creative hub in Los Angeles, of which she said, “I would like to do something interesting in LA for artists and for Cannibal Flower, and...I wanted to create a space where we could show any kind of art, a place for visual artists and performers.” You can read more about the conception of ArtBarLA in ArtBarLA Is Just Where You Want To Be, in Diversions LA.

Current and Future Exhibitions "Femella," Golden West College Art Gallery, Oct 10-Dec 7, 2019 "Made You Look," ArtBarLA, Oct 6- Oct 26, 2019 Solo Exhibition at Newport Library March 9, 2020 through May 8, 2020 "Sugar Coated," Soka University of American, Founders Hall Art Gallery, May 14- September 8, 2020 Solo Exhibition in Reno, Date TBD, 2020 #lauranmendelsohn-bass#fineartmagazine

COOPER COLE Gallery: Daniel Rios Rodriguez Another Fire October 25 - opening 9-9, runs through December 21, 2019,

Daniel Rios Rodriguez Another Fire October 25 - December 21, 2019 Opening reception: Friday October 25 2019, 6 - 9pm COOPER COLE is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the works of Daniel Rios Rodriguez. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Another Fire asserts a primacy to the sun in Rodriguez’s painterly symbology. Ecological upheaval from the latter half of the twentieth century onward has multiplied, deepened, and accelerated temporalities, as a result, confusing our sense of time. Ruminating on a news cycle which points to impending civilizational collapse—the menace of rising waters and temperatures, proliferating wildfires, mass extinctions—Rodriguez, in this recent body, pays tribute to the sun as our most primordial temporal compass, honouring its capacity to both guide life on Earth and, as of late, incinerate it. Perfectly circular or herringbone shaped concrete slabs form the pictorial ground for each painting. Rope wraps the picture plane’s perimeter as both formal rhyme and framing device. Depictions of the sun vary, manifest in spiral symbols, more realist representations, or mashes of glyphs. Every work is nevertheless conceived as a kind of record of it, inflected by the artist’s stylish ingenuity, less document than totem. Daniel Rios Rodriguez’s votive practice positions itself in an ancient lineage “of all those other creators who,” for time immemorial, “were worshipping the sun in a real way.”  Daniel Rios Rodriguez (b. 1978, Killeen, Texas) received his MFA from Yale in 2007 and is a 2013 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Rodriguez has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Nicelle Beauchene, White Columns, Martos Gallery, New York; Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA; Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico; Galeria Fortes D’aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland and has forthcoming exhibitions at San Antonio Museum of Art, and Artpace, San Antonio, USA. Rodriguez lives and works in San Antonio, USA.  Daniel Rios Rodriguez Another Fire October 25 - December 21, 2019 COOPER COLE 1134 Dupont St. Toronto, Ontario M6H2A2 Canada info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000 coopercolegallery.com #art#coopercole#danielriosrodriguez#fineartmagazine

Hi Catch the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery Opening Sat Oct. 20, 3:30-5:30

Opening in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery This Weekend!

Exhibition Dates:  October 12 - 27 Reception:  October 20, 3:30pm- 5:30pm An additional live component at the reception will be a 10-minute visual/dance performance created by Cynthia Roberts and dance professor and choreographer Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch. This work is a site-specific excerpt from their full-scale production Armations Anthropocene, which explores global change and the anthropogenic epoch, and is adapted specifically for the Jeanie Tengelson Gallery. The Art League of Long Island is pleased to offer this special exhibit of the creative work by long-standing Art League of Long Island member FRAN ROBERTS and artist daughter CYNTHIA ROBERTS.  This show is a unique opportunity to explore a lifelong conversation of  creativity between father and daughter. As over 70 percent of the earth is covered with ocean water, the title Oceans Connect Us refers to both  Roberts’ love of the sea, and the varied life paths that connect them at  different markers. Learn more about the exhibit!

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Hi All Dec-5-8th in Maimi catch Pulse fair.

PRE-REGISTER FOR PULSE PERKS

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, LUIS RIGUAL TALKS MIAMI ART TRENDS IN NEW INTERVIEW We are excited to partner with MIAMI Magazine on the launch of Perspectivos this December! We spoke with Luis Rigual on the Latin American communities influence on the art world, fashion and the upcoming neighborhoods to watch. "Without the Latin American community’s influence on Miami and its neighborhoods, we would still just be a resort town that shuts down in the summer and not the world-class capital we’ve become." - Luis Rigual, MIAMI Magazine, Editor-in-Chief Learn more about Rigual's journey and the launch of PULSE Perspectivos on our blog.

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PRIVATE PREVIEW BRUNCH TICKETS ON SALE NOW In the overwhelming environment that is Miami Art Week, we are your calm in the palms. To celebrate 15 years in Miami, tickets for our Private Preview Brunch are available to the public for a limited time!  Be among the art world's top VIPs this Miami Art Week to experience our international selection of today's most compelling art galleries. Purchase your tickets to join us this December today. Plan your visit here.

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Catch the Hamptons Film International Festival update.

THE TWO POPES, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE, and FIRE IN PARADISE Win HIFF27 Audience Awards Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: THE TWO POPES, directed by Fernando Meirelles Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE, directed by Ric Burns  Audience Award for Best Short Film: FIRE IN PARADISE, directed by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari Roundup of HIFF27 Award Winners Congratulations to all of this year’s award-winning filmmakers, announced at our annual Awards Ceremony on Monday. We are honored to celebrate all the filmmakers’ fresh voices and vital work. And thanks again to our esteemed jury:  Dori Begley, Jill Burkhart, Scott Feinberg,  Jannat Gargi, Peter Hedges, and Alison Willmore. Best Narrative Feature: A WHITE, WHITE DAY directed by Hlynur Pálmason Best Narrative Short: JUST ME AND YOU directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers Narrative Competition sponsored by Warby Parker Best Documentary Feature: OVERSEAS directed by Sung-a Yoon Best Documentary Short: GHOSTS OF SUGAR LAND directed by Bassam Tariq Documentary Competition sponsored by Investigation Discovery Zicherman Family Foundation Screenwriting Award The inaugural Zicherman Family Foundation Screenwriting Award was awarded at Closing Night to Trey Edward Shults for his astounding family drama WAVES. New in 2019, the Zicherman Award for $10,000 is presented to an early-career screenwriter who has demonstrated singular vision and dedication to their craft. This award seeks to both celebrate their current work and encourage the development of future projects. Congratulations to Trey! HamptonsFilm offers movies, conversations and celebrations all year long. Follow us for the latest news, and tag us @HamptonsFilm: #HIFF27 Sponsors: #hiff#hamtons#film#fest#Fineartmagazine

In London Catch the Sladmore Gallery,

Visit Us Sladmore Contemporary 32 Bruton Place Mayfair London, W1J 6NW sladmorecontemporary.com +44 (0)20 7499 0365 Sladmore Gallery 57 Jermyn Street St James’s London, SW1Y 6LX sladmore.com +44 (0)20 7629 1144

Sladmore Gallery | 57 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6LX United Kingdom #sladmore#amimals#horses#fineartmagazine

Catch The 39th Annual Colorado Indian Market & South West Arts Fest, January 17-19

39th Colorado Indian Market & Southwest Art Fest

January 17-19, 2020

Apply Here

Call to Artists 

WHAT: 39th Annual Colorado Indian Market & Southwest Arts Fest

WHERE: The Denver Mart, Denver, CO

WHEN: January 17-19, 2020 

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 200 artists

*Indoor venue with electric 

*Thursday, January 16th Load-in

*Full color program distributed to patrons

*Free Wifi available

*Storage available for excess inventory 

*Pipe & drape available at no charge along the back wall of booth upon request

*Chairs, tables & trash cans available upon request at no charge

*Coffee & tea in the mornings, plus ice water refills all day

*4 free day passes to give to customers or friends

*Jury Fee $25

*Booth fees: $445 (5'x15'), $590 (10'x10'), $885 (10'x15'), $1180 (10'x20')

Corner Booth +$100

This colorful celebration of Native American, Southwestern and Western arts features 200 top quality juried artists & craftsmen alongside tribal dances, award winning entertainers, artists demonstrations, culinary booths and interactive special attractions. 

The Festival takes place Martin Luther King weekend at the Denver Mart - a well-known venue in close proximity to the internationally-acclaimed National Western Stock Show. In 2020, the show will coincide with weekend 2 of the 3 weekend long event; perfect timing for capturing peak tourist attendance!

This is the Indian Market's second year under the new leadership of Dash Events and Rio Grande Festivals, producers of 4 other annual award-winning art festivals in New Mexico & Colorado. Our goal is to amaze and entice affluent buyers by showcasing an unrivaled quality and variety of artwork, in a lively environment that everyone (exhibitors included!) will enjoy. To attract more buyers and collectors, the show will be advertised extensively by way of billboards, television, newspaper, postcard mailings, Visit Denver, magazines, email blasts to our existing list of 40,000 patrons, comprehensive social media campaigns, as well as great coverage through local publicity. Last year alone, our tried-and-true kiosk data collection efforts increased our ability to contact Indian Market customers directly by 25%.

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