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Mira Schor in Art in America

Saturday, April 16, 2011

This is very exciting. OK, it’s been out for two weeks already, but it’s still very exciting. We got our first review in Art in America, a national art magazine! And, it’s CB1 Gallery artist Mira Schor’s second review in the magazine.

The abandonment of explicit imagery or words and a reliance on the expressiveness of the paint itself to communicate leave us searching for clues, meditating on the paintings’ secrets. It appears as if Schor is finally, truly, “painting paint.”
–Constance Mallinson, Art in America

Read the entire review here.

Mira Schor, Portrat of My Brain, 2007

Also, Larry Mantello got a review in ArtScene’s April Continuing and Recommended list. It looked the show from a different angle.

His deliberately over-saturated boldness finally comes across as an attempt to exorcise the demons of pop-cultural overstimulation for our collective well-being.
–MS, ArtScene

Read the entire review on ArtScene. You have to scroll down pass halfway point of the page.

Tags: cb1 gallery, contemporary art, historic core downtown, Larry Mantello, los angeles, Mira Schor, old bank district, painting, sculpture
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Opening Reception for Larry Mantello & Edith Beaucage

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Wow, last Saturday’s opening reception for Larry and Edith was really fantastic! Two great exhibitions and lots of people. We ran out of wine at one point and had to run across the street to get more. Better be more prepared next time. It was sunny, too! Rain was in the forecast up until Saturday morning. Lucky for us that the sun decided to be out all day instead.

There were some famous faces, too. OK, I am bragging a little, but I can do that once in a while, right? I will not mention names, but you will probably spot two in my Flickr photo album if you look carefully.

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Larry Mantello & Edith Beaucage

Friday, February 25, 2011

Hi all! It’s been a while again. Life is just busy, busy, busy here in Downtown Los Angeles. I am again back in school, too. Just trying to keep learning and staying fresh, good for the brain.

We got two solo exhibitions coming up with the opening receptions on Saturday, February 26. Here’s some info for you. I hope to see some of you at the gallery!

Together Again

February 26 – April 3, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., February 26, 5 – 7 p.m.

CB1 Gallery is proud to present Larry Mantello’s return to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition in six-years. The exhibition, Together Again includes several series of works ranging from Floats (sculpture), to Off-Springs, and Rijiggers, which include temporary tattoos on paper and multi-layered wall-hangings.

Mantello’s current work is redolent with a pop-culture critique, which he packages with a reminiscence of childhood, a temptation with the body, and his interest in “the value of pleasure”. Throughout these works he suggests a subtle sense of sadness just below the surface, which is as important to the works as exuberance and celebration.

Edith Beaucage

.hurluberlu

February 26 – April 3, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat., February 26, 5 – 7 p.m.

CB1 Gallery also presents “.hurlurberlu”, our first solo exhibition of the work of Los Angeles painter Edith Beaucage. The exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of painted images that investigate relationships between signs of abstraction and figuration and how we derive meaning by simple juxtaposition of these signs.

Beaucage invents characters and places them side by side with an abstracted form into a scenario that mimics what happens in a social space. The emotional thread woven into the paintings, the social spaces, is meant to stimulate discourse with the audience.

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More Art!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Yes, time for a new show, For Your Pleasure. Opening reception is this Sunday, 4 – 6 p.m. But, it’s already installed and ready for viewing starting today! Here’s some copy from the newsletter that we sent out:

CB1 Gallery proudly presents the work of ten gallery artists, all of whom will be showing in solo exhibitions at the gallery over the next two years, in a group exhibition entitled, For Your Pleasure. These ten artists work in media ranging from paintings and drawings to photography, from sculpture to installation. The exhibition opens on August 6, 2010 and closes on September 4, 2010. A reception for the artists will be held at the gallery on Sunday, August 8, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.

The artists in For Your Pleasure include Los Angeles based artists Martin Durazo, Chris Oatey, HK Zamani and Tameka Norris, recently transplanted from LA to New Haven, CT. The gallery is also pleased to present work by several New York artists whose work has not been seen in LA galleries in recent years–Chuck Agro, Larry Mantello, Mira Schor, Susan Silas and Amy Yoes. Plus, Belgian painter Hilde Overbergh will be showing new paintings following her successful participation in “The Story of O” at Otis College of Art and Design this past spring.