Marilyn Fenn Studio

Today I mapped out about 4 different exhibits I wanted to get to, and they weren’t necessarily that far from each other (Westwood, Hollywood, and Santa Monica); but we got going too late, and had to return to Pasadena too early to be able to fit in more than one of them, especially considering LA [...]

One of the art exhibits I really wanted to see while in LA, based on my pre-trip research, was the “Cut: Makings of Removal” exhibit at the Vincent Price Museum at East Los Angeles College.
It did not disappoint. In fact, I was quite blown away. All of the work is created with paper [...]

Painting by Helen Frankenthaler
“Adriatic”
1968
Just a week after the East Austin Studio Tour ended (my last big art event for the year), we took another vacation out to LA to visit my husband’s elderly parents.
On our first day there, we met up with my friend Patri, and proceeded to the Norton Simon Museum. Well, we [...]

Painting by Song Kun
It’s My Life 05-08-31
2005
Oil on canvas. 10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27 x 35 cm)
Courtesy of UniversalStudios-Beijing, Beijing, China
Several great exhibits at the Hammer Museum
Today, our final day in LA, we headed over to the Hammer Museum to see Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists: Ginny Bishton, Mark Bradford, Liz Craft, Sharon [...]

We spent a couple of days in San Diego; one whole day at Balboa Park. The first museum we came to was the Museum of Living Artists, so of course, we had to check that out. They had a show of local artists responding to the Dead Sea Scrolls (which are currently showing [...]

Today we went to the Getty Museum to see the Uberorgan by Tim Hawkinson. We arrived just in time for the hourly musical performance. It is very cool — pipes, bladders, tubes and horns made out of industrial materials, a 250-foot-long scroll with black dots and dashes that create the score, and a [...]

Pictured: Nancy Rubins’s Chas’ Stainless Steel
Mark Thompson’s Airplane Parts
About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire
Gagosian’s Beverly Hills Space
at MOCA (2001/2002)
Whenever we vacation in LA (to visit my husband’s father and his wife) I always try to see as much art as possible.
I had researched in advance to find some compelling exhibits, but once here, I [...]

Showing at the Art Museum of Art
Pictured: America Starts Here, 1988,
Broken glass, fiberglass replacement windows, and etched plexiglas panels in frames
two framed photographs, 126 x 552 inches overall,
Courtesy of Mel Ziegler, Austin, Texas,
From the exhibition: America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler.
I went see the exhibit “America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler [...]

Painting by Scott Barber
title, medium, size, date unknown
I stumbled on an exhibit by Scott Barber while taking a few days off in Galveston for our anniversary. Very keen abstract work, a lot of which had a very topographical look, was manipulated from photographs using PhotoShop into unrecognizable beautiful forms which then make their [...]