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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / CULVER CITY, CA
December 1-31, 2016Arcadia Contemporary
9428 Washington Boulevard | Culver City, CA 90232
(424) 603-4656 | http://www.arcadiacontemporary.comSize matters
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s the holiday season arrives, many galleries host small
works exhibitions featuring new pieces by their roster of
artists. Culver City, California-based Arcadia Contemporary
will present a new twist on the theme with their exhibition
12 x 12 in 12. Gallery President Steve Diamant explains, “The
12 x 12 in 12 came about as we wanted to create an end-of-year
exhibition that we thought would be challenging to our roster
of painters. By limiting their ‘talents’ to just one square foot, we
think we will be seeing many ‘surprises’ of creativity.”
On view will be work by gallery artists such as Michael
Chapman, Johannes Wessmark, Carlo Russo, Nicolás Uribe
and Dan Quintana. There also will be special guest artists
participating in the show. The mediums, styles and subject
matter will vary from figurative to landscape to still lifes.
Among the pieces is Wessmark’s pool painting Ripples,
which is an underwater view looking up at a woman in a red
bikini—her head above water and her body submerged. “My
inspiration was the rippling water making a realistic painting
quite abstract,” says the artist.
There also will be Chapman’s Luminous Morning that shows an
everyday scene nearby a beach. Chapman explains, “I’m always
searching for the poetry of Hopper and de Chirico in the early
morning and late afternoon sunlight of Southern California.”
In his still life Cool Yarns, Russo pairs three skeins in varying312