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Last night I managed to get my act together and get over to Silverlake to see Lisa Solomon’s show, over the river and through the woods, at LittleBird Gallery.  I’ve blabbered enough here about how into her work I am, so I’ll save you the verbage and get on to the imagery.  I was shooting last night with my 50mm, so there are no wide shots, and I only shot details or small works.  LittleBird is a tight space,  so it was hard to shoot, in general.

I got to meet Lisa, and she’s thoroughly charming and I’m looking forward to finding an opportunity to work with her in the future.  The work is great in person - she has a really, really great drawing hand - everything just seems so full of intention and form.  On to the pictures.

Above - this was the only piece like this in the gallery, somehow the artificiality of the plane on which the little doily trees sits makes me think off Josh Keyes work, and the trees themselves kind of remind me of Tanja Rector’s work, especially the installation, Forest, that she did at the Palos Verdes Art Center earlier this year.

Above - One of the mixed media pieces on Duralar that was at the Gallery.  This work made up the bulk of the show.  All of these pieces invite and demand really close inspection - the details just draw you in.  Here’s a tight detail shot of a section of one of the other pieces in the gallery.

Above - Another of the pieces on Duralar.  Notice the thread.  Edith Abeyta has used thread in a similar way in her works, and the “inconvenience” of the thread, the physical presence that it puts into the room has always had great effect on me, as it does here.  The thread, either as a connector or as as a “drip” give the pieces a life that goes beyond the representation of drawing.  Like the drip spraycan work, it seems to make the artist present in the work.

Above - Solomon’s installation consisted of doilies pinned to the wall, and doily shapes drawn on the wall, throughout the gallery.  I really, really liked this work - given the incredibly small space (I’d say 200-250 square feet) that LittleBird has, it was a great way to get some installation work into the show without the space being cluttered or busy.  There were a lot of objects in the space, and somehow everything seemed to fit just right.

There are more images from this show on my Flickr page, here’s a direct link to all of the images from this show.

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