CLARE Foundation

I installed the fundraiser for this foundation that assists recovering drug & alcohol people. Who knows, I may be in line at their door one day. If you can't make the show, take a look at the artwork, contact the curators, and you may be able to acquire some well priced art, and support a wonderful cause. Yes, that's right, Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, all have work in there...
good deals for the savvy people, in the know, connected...
http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/105438-4th-annual-art-for-clare-2010

Veronika Kellndorfer

I love this German born artist, that shows her silk-screened prints on sheets of glass at the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica. Check out her work, and bio, here:
http://cgrimes.com/index.php?option=com_artists&view=set&id=11
This work was installed in a beautiful contemporary home, in Malibu, overlooking the Pacific.
Oh, did I mention that all the walls were poured cement? Who do you call when you have priceless artwork, installed in tricky locations, in difficult substrates?
Yeah, baby, that's right; you call the LAartGUY, uh, huh!

Jacob Hoshimoto

This guy makes paintings he calls "Kites". When you look at them, that's really what they are. Small rice-paper panels strung between wood dowels, mounted in Lucite, offer the viewer the appearance of a minutely choreographed ballet of impossibly interwoven kites. These paintings are really a unique diversionary take on what a painting is, and can be. You can see more of his work at the Saatchi Gallery site here
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/jacob_hashimoto.htm
I'll be back at the same house to install a Paul Winstanley, sometime next week

John Lautner's Stevens House

http://www.kristinkilmerdesign.com/john_lautner_stevens_house.htm
Just a pleasure, and a privledge to install fine artwork at such a culturally significant residence. Lucky for me, the owner has 11 other "collectible" mid-century homes in the area, that probably need artwork installed

Miya Ando installation

I had the opportunity to install a polyptych of minimalist metallurgy, by Miya Ando..
I think she describes her work better than I could.

here is her artist statement and website. http://www.miyaando.com/

In my work, I create quiet, abstract, meditative environments with metal. Ultimately I am interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement.

I am Japanese and Russian, a descendant of Bizen swordmaker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu and was raised among sword smiths-turned Buddhist priests in a Buddhist temple in Okayama, Japan. My spiritual, familial, and academic experiences deeply inform every aspect of my work.

LA Opera "The Ring" in photos

I had the delightful opportunity to light the new show at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery.
http://www.ruthbachofnergallery.com/Exhibits/exhibits.asp
Great photos of the actors and actress' performing in the currently showing opera. The photographs are by Monika Rittershaus.