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Ethan Murrow's 'Narcissistic Excess' Is Playful And Strange

Posted 04.30.2012

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"All of my characters tend to end in failure," Ethan Murrow once admitted to The Seattle Times. The artist's large graphite drawings are rendered with...

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Paolo Ventura's Staged Photos Of Magical, Miniature Moments

Posted 02.17.2012

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There is a magic particular to the bedtime story, the tales heard in the final moments of consciousness before one drifts off to sleep and melts into ...

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PHOTOS: Ron Pippin's Mythical Archives Uncover Treasures From Land And Sea

Posted 01.02.2012

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Ron Pippin's works are little treasure chests of everything. From mythical skeletons to historical relics that never were, all his quasi-scientific co...

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PHOTOS: Sweet And Sinister Painting And Sculpture At Obsolete Gallery

Posted 11.12.2011

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'Power in Each Step,' a new show at Obsolete Gallery in Venice, probes the depths of birth and death. Marianne Kolb paints isolated portraits of a...

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The Island Of Bewilderment: Tyson Grumm's Dream Paintings

Posted 09.13.2011

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Tyson Grumm's painting, "Dream #84," for which his upcoming exhibition is named, is a memorable centerpiece for the show. An elephant fitted with an u...

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PHOTOS: A Painter's Enigmatic View Of Humanity

Posted 08.01.2011

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At once seemingly straightforward and confusing, Goran Djurovic's paintings in "Borrow Light" offer riddles to their viewers. Swathed in the usual tra...

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ROBOT ART: Exhibition Spotlight: Tom Haney's Mechanical Sculptures At Obsolete Gallery

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: Tom Haney WHAT: Mechanical Sculptures: Automata WHERE: Obsolete Gallery 222 Main Street Venice, California 90291 WHEN: November 13, 2010 - Dec...

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Dust -- A Hunger for Resources

Ethan Murrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ethan Murrow

Dust is a film that examines the inevitability of destruction. Despite our occasional good intentions, we manage to consistently cause problems like the Dust Bowl.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Anne Siems' 'Heart Branches and Strange Plants'

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: Anne Siems WHAT: 'Heart Branches and Strange Plants' WHEN: June 12 -July 12, 2010 WHERE: Obsolete Gallery 222 Main Street Venice, California...

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