Day 1865: Art in Venice!

ala, junk mail collage

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Wednesday, when at the L.A. Louvre Gallery

in beautiful Venice Beach, CA.

(I was there for Mary Kageyama Nomura)

but in the lower gallery was a stunning exhibit featuring ...

Ben Jackel - Reign of Fire

Described as"exquisitely rendered" in a review by

 L.A.Times, Christopher Knight, here.

 Jackel's art "is political art of a subtle and sophisticated sort."

"It’s rubbed with beeswax, as are many of the other 

dusky stoneware pieces,which yields a soft,

light-diffusing, visually tactile surface."

Ben Jackel, "TR, Teddy Roosevelt"(detail), 2017, stoneware, walnut, beeswax (L.A. Louve)

"The astonishing bust is an authoritative image of executive chaos — and clearly less about the past than the present."

christopher.knight@latimes.com

Twitter: @KnightLAT

Ben Jackel: Born 1977  Lives and works in Los Angeles
2005 MFA University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate Div.
2000 BFA University of Colorado, College of Arts and Sciences

A smile for Sunday ...