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Tracey Harnish, a native Angelino, attended Otis College of Art and Design, she blogs about the LA art scene on her blog, LAArtDiary.com.

Blog Entries by Tracey Harnish

Leviathan: A Watery and Brutal un-Documentary

(0) Comments | Posted May 19, 2013 | 6:35 PM

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A scene from Lucien Castaing-Taylor and VÈrÈna Paravel's LEVIATHAN. Courtesy of Cinema Guild.


There should be a warning for this movie, because while it's labeled a documentary, with its chiaroscuro lighting, it could be called an impressionist kaleidoscope dream, culled from...

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Social Media and the Unknown Artist

(12) Comments | Posted May 10, 2013 | 3:17 PM

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Untitled, Artist Unknown


For the past five years I have seen between five and twenty gallery exhibitions per week, every week, driving all over Los Angeles from the Westside to downtown, to Miracle Mile, to Hollywood, searching out the most interesting shows....

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The Exquisite and the Abject: The 'Second Life' of Lisa Adams

(2) Comments | Posted April 26, 2013 | 3:12 AM

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The Principal of Competitive Exclusion, 2012, 60" x 48", Oil on panel, Courtesy Lisa Adams & CB1 Gallery


"Second Life," is the title of Lisa Adams' show of new work at CB1 Gallery. The ambiguity between the show's title and the imagery...

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Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime

(0) Comments | Posted March 5, 2013 | 7:50 AM

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Julie and Pig Pen. 2012, Courtesy of Catherine Opie and Regen Projects, Los Angeles


"It's a very Cathy Opie moment in LA," Catherine Opie says and then laughs her deep and happy laugh. She just received the Julius Shulman Institute award for...

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Llyn Foulkes Retrospective at The Hammer Museum: 'It's like intensive therapy without a therapist'

(2) Comments | Posted January 30, 2013 | 7:24 AM

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Llyn Foulkes. Who's on Third?, 1971-73. Oil on canvas. 48 x 39 in. (121.9 x 99.1 cm). John Jones Collection.


One thing that I cannot transcribe from my interview with Llyn Foulkes is his sense of humor. Throughout our conversation, his wry...

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Five Art Books for 2012

(0) Comments | Posted December 19, 2012 | 3:52 PM

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Cover © TASCHEN / Photographe Luciano ROMANO, société Compagnie Immobilière SAS et consorts STOCLET, Caption: Mosaic frieze with detail of the 'Dancing Girl' ('Expectation'), 1909-1911, Carrara marble, gold and silver mosaic, coloured mosaic pieces, ceramic, enamel, mother-of-pearl, paste gems, semi-precious stones, chased gilded and...
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LACMA's Trifecta of Exhibitions: Noir, Crime and Sin

(0) Comments | Posted December 6, 2012 | 3:35 PM

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A trifecta of cinema-inspired exhibitions is now playing at LACMA. The museum continues it's winning path attracting locals to the museum by playing to their natural predilections; do you know that there are more movie theaters in L.A. than any other city in the...

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A Dear John Letter to Painting

(0) Comments | Posted November 28, 2012 | 4:30 PM

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The Conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio, 1600-1601; Oil on canvas, 230 x 165 cm; Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popola, Rome


Dear Painting,

I have wanted to love you for a long time but lately I am disappointed in what you...

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Amir H. Fallah: The Coded Portrait of a Ghost

(0) Comments | Posted November 8, 2012 | 9:33 AM

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"The First Sunrise," 2012, acrylic, watercolor, ink, collage, colored pencil on paper mounted to canvas, 24 by 30 inches, courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris

Amir Fallah is best known as the publisher of the print book Beautiful/Decay and the website of the same name....

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Here Be Dragons: Space as the Final Frontier (PHOTOS)

(1) Comments | Posted October 31, 2012 | 11:46 AM

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Neutrino II, 2012, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 36" x 24",
Courtesy the artist and George Billis Gallery

Bonita Helmer's current show, Here Be Dragons, continues the artist's investigation with space as the "final frontier," while also going all micro...

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LACMA's Ken Price Retrospective: Fecundity of Mounds and Eggs

(0) Comments | Posted September 18, 2012 | 11:56 AM

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At the end of last year, for a brief time I worked for William Close, who recently was a finalist on America's Got Talent. Close, the inventor of the earth harp, the instrument he would play all the way to the finals of the...

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Made in LA: Like Too Many Fabulous Hors d'oeuvres

(0) Comments | Posted September 10, 2012 | 10:47 AM

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Cayetano Ferrer. Quarter-Scale Grand Entrance, 2012. Made in L.A.Installation view at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, June 2, 2012-September 2, 2012. Photo by Brian Forrest.

LA has a strange relationship with its arts institutions. Artists and critics are quick to...

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The Unseen Order of Things

(0) Comments | Posted August 15, 2012 | 3:38 PM

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(Projection of dancing head) Emoticon, 2007 variable aspect ratio (best on a 3x4 AR - a sideways 4x3 projection), single channel, TRT 3.3


Young Projects Gallery in West Hollywood, is "dedicated to idea that moving image artworks are concrete art-forms, much like...

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Annie Lapin: Paintings Are Both Furniture and Talismans

(1) Comments | Posted August 6, 2012 | 12:37 PM

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Landly Landly Landly!!!, 2011, Oil on canvas, 49 ½ x 40 inches, Courtesy Annie Lapin and Honor Fraser


Annie Lapin received an MFA from UCLA and a BA from Yale University. Her museum exhibitions include the Pasadena Museum of California Art,...

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MOCA and LACMA: That's Entertainment!

(18) Comments | Posted July 23, 2012 | 12:36 PM

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Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer artist, Courtesy LACMA, Photo: Tracey Harnish

Yesterday I went to LACMA and I'm still surprised every time I see how crowded the pavilion is. It wasn't long ago, that the only time you'd see the entrance to LACMA filled with...

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Bedsheets and Body Movements

(0) Comments | Posted May 17, 2012 | 9:28 AM

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BIG RED, 73" x 57", oil and bleach on bedsheets and fabric, Courtesy Lauren Luloff


Lauren Luloff received her BFA from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA from Bard College; Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She received the Edwin...

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Analia Saban: Concept 85 Percent + Skill 65 Percent

(0) Comments | Posted May 7, 2012 | 5:21 PM

Analia Saban was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, La. (2001), Saban attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned her MFA in New Genres (2005). Her first solo exhibition was the same year while her success was solidified by subsequent...

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Reweaving the World as I See it

(7) Comments | Posted April 25, 2012 | 5:17 PM

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Image courtesy of the artist Olek


Olek, a Polish immigrant living in New York since 2003, takes common objects, text messages, public sculpture, construction equipment, and in fact anything that is a reflection of daily life, and transforms it with a covering...

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Broken Textured Seeing

(1) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 4:38 PM

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¡|!, 2011, Oil, acrylic, oil pastel & sprayed paint on canvas
80 x 80 Courtesy of the artist, Keltie Ferris


Part of the Not Dead Yet series, below are 10 Questions for artist Keltie Ferris

Keltie Ferris (born in 1977, Louisville, KY)...

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Privilege Entails Responsibility

(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2012 | 6:00 PM

While the name of the show is Landscape and Architecture, it's Lisa Adams' painting Privilege Entails Responsibility, that best sums up another show curated with excellence by Carl Berg. Along with the recently closed Death and Life of an Object at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Berg once again rounds...

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