DIVINATION, Keystone Art Space Gallery, July 2024

Description, curator statement

Artists: Sydney Buffman, Kate Carvellas, Robert Costanza, Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja, Rachel Deehan, Kailey Fry, Cathy Immordino, Susan Lizotte, Leora Lutz, Yemisi Oyeniyi, Melissa Reischman, Samuelle Richardson, Janet Stafford, Sarah Stone, Monte Thrasher, and Peter Warren

Tarot readings by Tarot Society Astrology with Mat Gleason @astrologyblitz

ASEMIC NOTATIONS, IDOLWILD Gallery, Feb 2023

Artists: Tim Youd, Robert Soffian, Rosaire Appel, Lynn Robb, Molly Montgomery, Piss & Vinegar, Lea Feinstein, Julia Rende, Zoia Skoropadenko, Connie Rohman, and Liz Nuremberg.

When does a mark on a surface become language? Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing having no specific semantic content. Atsuko Tanaka, Cy Twombly, Mirtha Dermisache, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler (“Skywriting”) and Kurt Schwitters are some notable artists applying asemic writing to their surfaces. With the non-specificity of Asemic Art comes a potential for unfettered meaning left for the observer to fill in and interpret. The word asemic derives from Barthes and later Derrida, according to Peter Schwenger: “Derrida, refers to the blanks between words as asemic spacing, which makes signification possible without in itself signifying.” Schwenger goes on to explain, “the linguistic term seme (derived from the Greek term sema, or sign) is negated or neutralized by the privative prefix a-...” * Through subconscious scrawls of non-language, these artists invite you to experience a deeply personal narrative that may surpass what we already take for granted as meaning. “An awareness of what lies beyond our familiar structures of meaning may keep us from having our life scripts written according to an already existent system of signs.”*

*Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger

STAY ON IT, Keystone Art Space Gallery, Sept 2022

"Stay On It" revolves in and out of energy, embodying kinetic art. Transcendent energy, through the act of creation, generates fruitful thought, moving toward an authentic and unfeigned life.

Kinetic art shows generally lean toward machine and/or mechanical actions. This show draws from natural energy and natural movement such as flight, water, light, etc. We do include mechanical movement as it relates to our human activity including figurative expression, though a combination of techniques such as lenticular, sculpture, textile art, light and film go to describe a broader immersive experience.

The title of the show comes from Julius Eastman’s extraordinary musical composition:”Stay On It”, reminding us that proceeding is more important than the end result.

ARTISTS:

Ray Chang

Sandeep K. Das

Martin Van Diest

Robert Costanza

Ric Heitzman

Nancy Ivanhoe

Heather Lowe

Melanie Mandl

Adele Mills

Sung-Hee Son

Review by Genie Davis

There was a lovely Flamenco performance by Cicely @nightdances

This was a fast and furious pop-up exhibit on Fairfax curated by Heather Lowe to complement LACMA's 3D Double Vision Show. The show included some of the most experienced 3D artists in the field. Heather Lowe has attended the Stereo Club of Los Angeles where she met many great stereo enthusiasts in L.A. The show had 3-D Photographs, Phantograms, Lenticulars, Holograms, comics and sculpture. Works by Abe Perlstein, Eric Kurland, Ray Zone, Rick Corrales, Takashi Sekitani, Terry Wilson, Grayson Marshall, Sara Cook and Robert Munn, Franklin Londin, Claudia Kunin, Owen Western, Charles Barnard, Michael Brown, Steve Berezin. David Kuntz, and Carl Wilson, Patty Rangal, and Heather Lowe were included. Fun was had by all. Franklin Londin was a great help in putting the show together. Of course, some stereos by Londin of the reception are in order here! Don your red/blue glasses to see them.

Some of the Legends of 3-D by Susan Pinksy

LEFT OUT/ RIGHT OUT, Fairfax Blvd., L.A. July 2018

EXQUISITE PITTORESCO, Keystone Art Space Gallery, L.A., June 2017

The term "Pittoresco" itself relates to the picturesque, and is derived from the Italian word "pittoresco," meaning "in the manner of a painter". This suggests an artistic theme related to visual art and painting. The exhibition explored this concept through collaborative works created in the style of a surrealist game called Exquisite Corpse. One specific collaboration involved two artists working in tin type still life images. The exhibition included seventeen collaborations between artists.

See Lorrain Heitzman's review and artist list.

More pictures : from Shoebox Arts

Collaboration : Jeffrey Vallance, Victoria Reynolds and Paulette S. Nichols

PROJECTING POSSIBILITIES, Helms Design District, Culver City, 2015

Helms Bakery District in partnership with the Culver City Arts Foundation, hosted and curated Projecting Possibilities, a video installation that featured a new artist each week for 52 weeks. The artists’ work was projected every evening on the entrance of the Helms Design Center on Washington Boulevard for street-side viewing. Heather Lowe curated a group of artists to collaborate with her on zoom, using index cards with specific template instructions. These recorded zoom sessions were then projected on the windows. You can see the original videos, titled Cages, on YouTube.

Participating artists included: Maria Bjorkdahl, Kate Carvellas , David Michael Lee, Summer Lowe, Melissa Reischman, Larkin Lowe Sommer, Barbara Martin, Rebecca Potts, Karrie Ross, and Tesi Treuenfels, Phary Om, Karen Hochman Brown, Robyn Allatore, and Jen Snoeyink

Music credit: John Cage, from "Book 1, Music of Changes"

MEMORY IN FORMS, Neutra Institute, Silverlake, CA, Nov. 2016

Dion Neutra, Heather Lowe, Janet Stafford , Lynn Robb, (Lorrain Heitzman taking picture).

PLAYTIME, Annenberg Beach House Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, March -May 2015

Artists transcend time. “Stop,” says Robert Browning, “let me have the truth of that!” They make themselves known across time and space as everyone knows.

The fabric of time is the material with which these artists work.

Kathyrn Kert’s drawings have a kinship with Walter Benjamin’s idea of the “aura” in which a work of art abides, neither close nor far. The scene shifts, compositions persist in the come-and-go.

Heather Lowe’s lenticulars afford a view of consecutive motion as individual pictures that combine to reveal the interplay of shape and intersection of line, according to the viewer’s position.

Joan Vaupen’s abstract studies of rhythm and balance and succession are laid out on titanium subjected to heat treatment that produces color diffractions on the surface of the durable metal.

Kailey Fry’s time-lapse photographs record the increments of time in which a visceral recollection, what actors know as a “sense memory”, is evoked as precisely as possible in the subject.

The artists’ ages cover a span of half a century. A lenticular presentation by Heather Lowe followed on May 3rd