Carole Garland

City of Angels Hall

2018

Century City Skyline

Late afternoon, the long shadows on a city street speak to a day left behind. Carole Garland discovers poetry in paint in this urban, gritty, dusky setting that is drifting into night. What mysteries lie ahead? “Five O’Clock Shadow” is part of Garland’s Urban LA series of paintings. Carole Garland has shown in many Southern California venues, most recently at TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station; realART Gallery, Agoura Hills; the Gallery at West Los Angeles College; Rose Café, Venice; the Santa Paula...

Incorporating a border, a window effect, invites the viewer to take an intimate glimpse into a rare ethereal moment of a tranquil Sunday morning approaching downtown Los Angeles. Ilana Bloch is a well-regarded artist, teacher, juror and active member of the Los Angeles art...

Acrylic on Paper Framed An atmospheric light quality created with bold color and high contrast gives the painting a glow. The patterns of the Los Angeles urban landscape are a part of the organiza Ilana Bloch is a well-regarded artist, teacher, juror and active member of the Los Angeles art...

Kristin Moore says of her work… My work explores architectural landscapes through an atmospheric and cinematic lens. Through painting, I create interpretive renderings of recognizab...

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

In “L.A BLVD”, Ayline Olukman, a French painter and photographer, takes us on a voyage while she is on holiday in America's West Coast. In the space between fiction and reality, the ...

Kristin Moore says of her work… My work explores architectural landscapes through an atmospheric and cinematic lens. Through painting, I create interpretive renderings of recognizab...