Linsley Lambert  MIchael & Todd, 2002 oil on canvas 30" x 40"

Linsley Lambert: Portraits remains on exhibit at Offramp Gallery through February 22, 2009. Lambert describes herself as being preoccupied with the “power and universality” of the portrait. The fifteen photoreal portraits in the show are carefully crafted with built-up layers of oil paint and glazes, giving her subjects an almost palpable plasticity and luminosity that adds to their emotional intensity. Her subjects are her contemporaries – artists, friends and musicians.

Rick Araluce The Endless City, 1996 mixed media construction 9" x 21.5" x 6"

Rick Araluce: Constructions remains on view at Offramp Gallery through February 22, 2009. Recent Pollock-Krasner Grant recipient Araluce creates miniature constructions: mysterious, unpopulated rooms of the subconscious. Everything in these works is meticulously hand-crafted by the artist. Closed doors, cut telephone lines, a clock that has stopped or a single light bulb hanging from a wire are typical of the motifs that give Rick’s work its sense of dark narrative.

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Susan Sironi Flower Arrangements Book 3 (quilt), 2008 altered book 81/4" x 11" x 1"

Offramp Gallery is pleased to announce Susan Sironi: Altered Books, a solo show of works by the Los Angeles area artist, from March 8 - April 19, 2009. The opening reception will be Sunday, March 8, from 2-5pm. 

Susan starts with ordinary books and transforms them by carefully cutting through the layers of images and text to create very personalized, one-of-a-kind artist's books. The resulting objects fascinate by their complexity, architecture and depth. The five altered books that comprise her "Flower Arrangement Books" series, all start from the same illustrated book on flower arranging. One becomes a three-dimensional pastel quilt (see photo at right), while another becomes a fantastical 3-D paper flower arrangement.


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Artists Mark Steven Greenfield and Linsley Lambert at the opening of Offramp Gallery's Linsley Lambert: Portraits, January 11, 2009.

Anita Bunn and I had an interesting studio visit with artist and Municipal Art Gallery director, Mark Steven Greenfield, for a show we are co-curating at Offramp this summer. Always a class act, Mark served us delicious blueberry martinis. We were happy to meet his long-time love interest and SoCal Connected anchor, Val Zavala, who was a bit surprised to see us dancing in the driveway when she got home from work. Blame it on the martinis.