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Work by Saner. Photographed in 2016.
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Work by Saner. Photographed in 2016.
A new exhibition features female artists of the San Fernando Valley.
As if! The other day, nine female denizens of the Valley met for brunch at Myke’s Cafe, a Mexican diner in Pacoima. They’d been brought together by “Valley Girl Redefined,” an art exhibition currently showing at the Brand Library & Art Center, in Glendale. Works on display include a photograph of a Rubenesque woman in repose by a brick wall, titled “Together Again” (a play on the story of Humpty Dumpty), by Monica Sandoval, and a collage of images evoking Valley-girl stereotypes—pink bubbles, fake breasts, Britney Spears—by Casey Kauffmann.
Happy Birthday to my mama Here she is at the Brand Library in Glendale. Aug 2015. I get my cuteness from her. And also my stubborness. And send of adventure.
MAN MADE
March 18 – May 6, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 6-9pm
Brand Library & Art Center 1601 West Mountain St Glendale, CA 91201
Artists: Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Jennifer Gunlock, Jenene Nagy, Michelle Robinson, Sinziana Velicescu.
Brand Library & Art Center is pleased to present an exhibition that explores the urban ecology of our built environment through the distinctive artwork of seven LA based artists: Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Jennifer Gunlock, Jenene Nagy, Michelle Robinson and Sinziana Velicescu. By means of installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, painting, drawing and collage, the artists endeavor to expand the language of environmental engagement by challenging the way we see and connect with the ubiquitous forms and objects that surround us.
Please join us for the opening reception of MAN MADE on March 18 at 6:00 pm. The reception is free and open to the public. All artists will be in attendance.
RSVP HERE.
Libraries
While at last weeks Sister’s in Crime meeting it was mentioned how this was National Library Week, and it got me to thinking of the Libraries in my life. I suppose the first library I knew was the one in Elementary School, it was a side room to the Multi-Purpose room, and didn’t have a lot of books, but enough for what was needed for the school. The second Library was when our town opened up a brand new city library. There had been a previous library, going way back to when it was shelves in a corner store. The main library is now a museum, but when the new library was opened my mother made certain that I was the first one there when the doors opened and I was the first to get a library card in the new library.
I was never a great reader growing up. Having to take special course to help improve my reading. Thank goodness for those instructors because they let me know that it was okay to read comic books. “If he’s reading, let him read.”
Later, in Junior High and High School, I spent a lot of time at the school libraries. Mostly it was to get away from the bullies of the school. I didn’t have a lot of friends then, but I did have books. I probably read more books during those lunch hours than I had anytime previously. I’m very thankful for those times. I would continue to go back to our city library, renewing my library card every few years. Now I live in another city with a great big library dedicated to the arts. I know I’m going to be spending a lot of time there.
And perhaps one day, one of my books will be in a library near you. Would you check me out please?
Victorian home at the Brand library park and cultural art center
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Brand Library
“Aerodrome Replacing Country-House Garage,” Illustrated London News, Oct. 29, 1921, Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2012 Unique thematic architectural homes stand out all around the Los Angeles area, like Yamashiro and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Barnsdall, Freeman, and Storer residences, just to name a few. Glendale possesses another exotic specimen, Leslie C. Brand’s…
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