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Audra Weaser and Gary Edward Blum
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Recommendation by Simone Kussatz


Audra Weaser, "Sensing," 2014, mixed media acrylic on panel, 60 x 54"

Continuing through October 11, 2014

For art aficionados who value subtle colors, minimalism and abstract art with a touch of realism, check out the paintings of Audra Weaser and Gary Edward Blum. Weaser’s paintings give off a beautiful golden shimmer. Inspired by her immersion in nature, they hint towards days spent gazing at windows covered with icicles, wetlands with reefs, and other watery surfaces. They also reflect delicate and elongated tree branches. Her canvases radiate the kind of brightness and sense of evanescent light we associate with J.M.W. Turner. Furthermore, they have a dreamlike component that calls to mind the gently rippling water in Monet’s “Water Lilies.”  

Blum’s works, by contrast, are more logical and less emotive. Eschewing the organic, they are arrangements of geometric forms and an abstract portrayal of the idea that oppositions can exist harmoniously in the same space. His oeuvre depicts found objects, such as paint swatch cards that simultaneously function as still life, autobiographical record and formal tools to create tensions between flatness and depth. Blum renders these in a trompe l’oeil manner. For example, in “You are Never Alone” it appears as if there is a many-hued asymmetrical painting attached to the wall by Scotch tape, which is in fact part of a bigger painting made of two rectangular forms in two different beiges.

Ruth Bachofner Gallery

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