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Studio Visit with Helen Pashgian: The Leading Lady of Light

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Huffington Post, April 10, 2015. Studio visit with legendary pioneer of California Light and Space, Helen Pashgain. Light is a lifelong exploration for the most brilliant minds. This article explores the parallel explorations of light by artists and physicists. Pashgain, the grand dame of light, is still on the cutting edge after her monumental installation at...
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Roland Reiss Monograph. Essay text

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Grand Central Press 2014
Monograph essay in Roland Reiss Painting and Sculpture (published by Grand Central Press and Cal State Fullerton 2014).   Re-published in Painter’s Table via  Artweek.LA , Jan 5, 2015 The essay explores the philosophic implications of the concept of spatial depth in Roland Reiss’ floral paintings. It contextualizes Reiss work within the important debate over space composition –...
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Dennis Hollingsworth: Corporeal Painting

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Published in Art Agenda.  Dennis Hollingsworth’s paintings raise playful questions about the paradoxical position of abstract painting today—caught in the impasse between the opposing camps of modernism and postmodernism. Link: Dennis Hollingsworth CorporealPainting Dennis Hollingsworth, A Blessing, 2012. Oil on canvas over panel, 96 x 144 inches.   “Dennis Hollingsworth: Corporeal Painting” by Lita Barrie www.kohngallery.com...
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The Art of Empathy: Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin

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Joel-Peter Witkin, "Satiro, Mexico", 1992
Huffington Post July 8, 2014. Also republished in Twin Visions: Joel Peter Witkin Jerome Witkin ( published by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts,  2014.) The” Twin Vision”  exhibition of these legendary artists  at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is an historic landmark, because it is the first joint exhibition of these twins who have worked separately in...
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Critic’s Pick: Sharon Ellis at Christopher Grimes Gallery

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  Artweek.LA April 7, 2014, Critic’s Pick. Sharon Ellis solo exhibition at Christopher Grimes Gallery. Ellis’ subject is the patterns of time perceived in the recurrent symmetries of nature and the fractal universe of self-similar patterns. Read my review in Artweek.LA....
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Critic’s Pick: Mei Xian Qiu at Kopeikin Gallery

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Artweek.LA, April 7, 2014, Critic’s Pick. Qiu’s work has a cinematic feel, created by imprinting  photographs on plexiglass substrates with thick layers of pigments housed in tabloid souvenir boxes, which have a 3-D quality. (Kopeikin Gallery, March 1-April 19, 2014) Read my review in Artweek.LA....
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Barbara Kruger Monograph. Essay text.

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Essay commissioned for the monograph,Barbara Kruger  published by The National Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1988 http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=6153#.U43teVy1y1J   BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS: YOUR TRUTHS ARE ILLUSIONS By Lita Barrie “How can I be distinguished from her? Only if I keep on pushing through to the other side, if I’m always beyond, because on this side of...
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Twins Speak: Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin

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   Painters Table via Artweek.LA March 24, 2014.  Republished in Twin Visions: Joel-Peter Witkin Jerome Witkin ( published by Jack Rutberg Fine arts, 2014) Lita Barrie’s  interview with twin brothers, narrative figurative painter Jerome Witkin and celebrated/controversial art photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, at their first joint exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Links:  Front Cover  story in Artweek.LA Featured...
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