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“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There is nothing behind it.” -Andy Warhol ✨ #warhol #bergamotstation #lesliesacksgallery #artsdistrictwest (at Bergamot Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLm0zqFUWd/?igshid=7lc5zlsci3ma

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“Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol (thanks for the shoutout @fadasocial ) . [#AndyWarhol, Portrait of Isabelle Adjani, @Lesliesacksgallery] . #FineArtDealersAssociation #TheTrustedGalleryNetwork #FADA #lesliesacksgallery #art #artworkoftheday #visualsoflife #popart (at Bergamot Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8d3wUFkFG/?igshid=1ioc0cjvzswoo

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Everything is going to be OK, OK? #edruscha #lesliesacksgallery (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)

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There’s still time to see our exhibition of R.B. Kitaj drawings. #visitbergamot #lesliesacksgallery #kitaj #rbkitaj Image via @rbkitaj_studioproject ・・・ #tbt 2003 R.B. Kitaj, studio in Westwood, CA, March 2003 Photo by Paul O’Connor copyright R.B. Kitaj Estate Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

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Staff Picks | Ed Ruscha, Your Space on Building, 2006 — Ed Ruscha's text images are iconic and unmistakable. His typescript arrangements employ text characters as compositional elements as naturally as a vase of flowers in a still life or a window in an interior. But, Ruscha didn't start out making work that resembled his legendary lettered subjects. He began in the mid-late 1950s painting rather unremarkable objects, which presumably existed in his immediate environment--a pack of cigarettes, a pencil, a paintbrush--often rendered floating on a flat ground in a kind of Surrealist manner. Although we begin seeing the word compositions fairly consistently in the early 1960s, his first exhibition at the famed Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965 was his curiously stunning series of bird paintings. Ruscha has made non-text imagery throughout his career and across all mediums. They serve as equally enigmatic to his quizzical word configurations--a ship, a coyote, a wagon train. For me, his 2006 series of blank signposts and billboards is a comical and ironic output for an artist synonymous with word imagery. As evidenced in Your Space on Building from 2006, no subject calls out more to be emblazoned with text than a towering vacant billboard, and yet he leaves it a complete void! The genius of Ruscha, regardless of the presence or absence of text, is that one is invariably left to their own devices to find meaning. — Temma Nanas, Managing Director — Artwork info: Ed Ruscha, Your Space on Building, 2006, color aquatint with sugar-lift flat bite and hard ground etching, 29 3/4 x 25 inches, signed and numbered — #edruscha #ruscha #yourspace #building #billboard #text #arthistory #context #ironic #iconic #ferusgallery #losangeles #la #ruschala #legendary #legend #1965 #2006 #type #character #surrealist #surreal #career #artist #lesliesacksgallery #lsg #stafffavorites #Staffpicks (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)

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#FridayFeature | Bruce Cohen, Interior with Silhouetted Tulips, 2017 -- Bruce Cohen works from the surroundings at his home as the central motif in his recent painting Interior with Silhouetted Tulips. Cohen shares, "I have tried to use many different light conditions in this painting (raking light, silhouetted light, ambient light) to give it a somewhat collage effect." The combination of light sources integrated with the classic genre of interior and still life painting, pays homage to his deep-rooted admiration of 17th-century Dutch painting. "The objects in the painting reflect personal items that I live with," Cohen continues. This is an intimate choice, but also emphasizes the appreciation of everyday life (another distinct quality of The Golden Age of Dutch painting). With regard to how Cohen selects and edits the contents of these reimagined interiors and still lifes he says, "...they come to me intuitively, supporting the overall visual effect that I aim to achieve." -- Bruce Cohen, Interior with Silhouetted Tulips, 2017, oil on canvas, 36 x 54 inches -- #brucecohen #cohen #painting #painter #17thcentury #dutch #goldenage #artist #arthistory #stilllife #interior #everydaylife #everyday #Friday #feature #featuredartist #fearturedartwork #lsg #lesliesacksgallery #bergamotstation #ca #california #santamonica #intimate #personal #invented #light #lighting (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)

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Bruce Cohen’s newest paintings are now on view! Join us for a reception for the artist this Saturday, September 9th from 5-7pm. The opening coincides with the @bergamotstationartscenter Fall Open which runs all day from 1-8 pm! #brucecohen #bergamotstation #lesliesacksgallery #openingsoon #fallopen2017 #openingreception (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)