LA Experimental Artists
Wednesday, May 7 – Saturday, May 24, 2008
Reception: Saturday, May 10, 4–6pm
Nearly 20 years ago, a number of artists in the Valley Watercolor Society started meeting regularly to paint together, experimenting with watermedia materials and techniques. Originally known as The Friday Painters, this spin-off group evolved into LA Experimental Artists (LAEA), a group of artists who meet monthly at VIVA to reinvent old and explore new techniques in collage, assemblage, watermedia, monotypes, and digital art, sharing friendship and ideas as they go.
Since their first ImproviZations group show in 2006, the initial group has inspired the formation of two additional experimental artist groups. In 2008, twenty-three artists representating all three LAEA groups will be exhibiting. A list of all 23 exhibiting artists is included in the sidebar to the right.
Examples shown below represent artwork from the exhibit. Click on any image for a higher resolution version.
Anita Bavarsky
“Life's Forest”
Multimedia/natural elements / 24” x 24”
Mary Becker
Donna Geist Buch
“Iris”
Acrylics, pastels, glazes, gel mediums, texture medium, pouring medium / 24" x 24”
Chris Cozen
“Provencal Fabric: Magenta”
Molding paste, acrylic airbrush paints, fluid acrylics and tar gel / 8” x 8” canvas
Susie Gesundheit
“Meadow”
Liquid acrylic inks pressed under wax, and screen splatters / 28" x 28"
Ben Goldman
“Happy Days”
Acrylic with transfers, collage and aquarelle crayon on paper / 26" x 21"
Marilyn Jordan
“Ginkgo Leaf with Butterfly”
Gold leaf, acrylic paint, found papers, ginko leaf, transparency, flat marble on canvas / 12" x 12"
Jo Ann Koch
Chris Meyer
“Telecomm 2”
CGI printed on Japanese paper, electronics, stamping, acrylic, collage / 16” x 20”
Andrea Raft
“Strata Various”
Metal Leaf, collage paper, acrylic on canvas / 24” x 24”
Toby Salkin
“Brave”
Oil and gold and silver leaf / 30" x 40"
Barbara Tabachnick
“Abundance”
Water-sprayed poured acrylic on canvas / 48" x 36"
Erella Teitler
“Masquerade”
Mixed media including molding paste and gesso textures, India ink on glacine, and paper / 27” x 31”
