Lights, camera, action...

Following the excitement of Art Palm Beach in Florida last month, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is now in California for the LA Art Show (14 - 18 February 2024), and will be heading to New York City for the Outsider Art Fair at the end of the month!

Against this week's backdrop of the Hollywood hills, our thoughts turn to how the visual language of Film informs so much of our understandng of the imagery of Contemporary Art.

Laurence Jones's postmodern re-imaginings of Hollywood nightscapes are permeated with a deep undertsanding of the tropes of cinematography.

The British artist composes his paintings from first and second-hand photographic images of L.A. architecture and film sets. The results are silent, evocative, dramatic, and suspenseful simulations of reality that capture the warmth and glow of nighttime Los Angeles, whilst hinting towards an element of danger.

In his 'Photographs of Films' series, Jason Shulman uses long-exposure photography to distil famous films to their quintessence. In the above painting, the totality of the 1951 movie Alice in Wonderland is collapsed to reveal a luminous color field abstraction.

His thought-provoking works invite viewers to explore the different ways in which films can be experienced, understood, and remembered.

The evocative rain-scapes of Dutch artist Esther Nienhuis resemble suggestive film stills, rich with the potential of narrative. In City Lights II, the lens of a car windscreen, splattered with drops of rain that dance across its surface, both conceals and reveals the world beyond.

The linocuts of Australian artist David Frazer explore a sense of place, and the emotions of longing, nostalgia, and isolation that accompny it. His cinamtic visions of figures wandering amidst imposing landscapes, express a yearning to be 'somewhere else,' thereby recalling the power of escapism that both film and art are able to so strongly evoke.

For an exclusive look at selected works from LA Art Show, please follow the link below.

To all our California friends, you will find us at Booth #: 809/908, LA Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, United States.