LA Art Show is next week, opening on Valentine’s evening. See you there! This week is Intersect Palm Springs. Always a good, compact show. I do love Palm Springs. And I can sneak in a visit to Modernism while in the area. With Frieze in early March, art fair season is open. I enjoy in indulging in an abundance of art at one time.
Everyone needs to go over to Poet’s Place to see who Linda has gathered this month, to share their poetry.
9 Days Until LA Art Show 2024...
Get Your Tickets Now and Avoid the Lines!
We’re so excited that the LA Art Show opens next week with an outstanding roster of more than 100 exhibiting galleries and special exhibitions from around the world!
Plan ahead and get your tickets for the Most Comprehensive International Contemporary Art Show in America coming to the LA Convention Center, West Hall from February 14-18!
The 5-day event kicks off with a star-studded Opening Night Premiere, featuring award-winning actress Lucy Hale as the Celebrity Host.
This premiere supports the American Heart Association, with 15 percent of the ticket purchase price being donated to the American Heart Association’s Life Is Why™ Campaign.
We’re also pleased to present the 2024 edition of DIVERSEartLA, curated by Marisa Caichiolo. DIVERSEartLA brings together important local and international art institutions in a timely conversation expressed through the universal language of art. This year’s program explores the intersection of memory, humanity, and AI, showcasing a selection of cutting-edge art, technology, and multimedia exhibitions.
Track 16
1206 MAPLE AVE, SUITES 100 & 1005
LOS ANGELES, CA 90015
SIMONE GAD
VERTIGO
February 17 - April 6, 2024
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 17, 6-9pm
in our newly added space in Suite 100 of the Bendix Building!
Chat Marmalade Avec Pinup 1940s/50s Juer De Ball. 2017/2019.
Oil pastel, ink, and collage on paper. 11 x 12.75 in (27.9 x 32.4 cm).
Track 16 is proud to present “Vertigo,” the first exhibition of Simone Gad’s work since her passing in 2021 and consists of paintings and collage works from 2007 to 2021. This is also the inaugural exhibition in Track 16’s new space on the first floor of the Bendix Building, complementing the existing 10th floor gallery, occupied since 2017.
Best known for her collaged drawings, Simone’s playful, brutal, and sexual pieces oscillate between trauma and eroticism. The pinup models and rescue animals who were her main subjects are treated with humor and empathy. Her own experience of being unprotected as a teen actress in Hollywood resonates through the work. Gad offered that, “The pin-up drawing collages are like self-portraits in a way, and of my survival of sexual abuse when I was a young girl and actress.” Gad was bisexual and wanted to be out of the closet, but felt forced back in on numerous occasions due to the “gay bashing” in American society and the strong lines drawn by Hollywood to keep any homosexual relationships completely hidden. Her assemblage sculptures and collage drawings became an outlet to express this side of herself.
Gad, who herself had done modeling in the 1970s both to make money and because she enjoyed collaborating with favored photographers, said she was struck by the Frederick’s of Hollywood lingerie catalogs and over time developed a connoisseurship of pinup and fetish photographers like Bunny Yeager and Elmer Batters. Eventually the erotic imagery of pinups began appearing as collage elements synthesized with drawings and paintings of rescue animals and sometimes architecture. Her architectural subjects, which are also represented in this exhibition, were the facades of intricate endangered architecture that she captured in thick, acrylic gestural paintings. The buildings that she chimerically channeled were art nouveau in Brussels and Barcelona, Victorian homes in San Francisco, and the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The energy in Gad’s drawing, deriving from her topsy-turvy lines, were in service of her irresistible love of animals. Whether using ballpoint pen, markers, or oil pastels, she kept her lines going and lifted the instruments off the paper as few times as possible which created abstractly spirographic effects. The curious juxtaposition of photographed pinup models and wildly gestured renderings of rescue animals forges a resilient alliance – a dualism. The viewer can plainly see how connection and understanding can lead to healing, which is what Gad was trying to accomplish for herself through her work. Being the victims of abuse and subjects of appraisal, the model and animal are stronger together. They are rescuable.
Intersect Palm Springs Ignites Inclusivity with “Emerging: A California Collective”
February 8-11, 2024
Palm Springs Convention Center
Intersect Palm Springs to host a panel discussion for one of its most ambitious curated spaces, Emerging: A California Collective – 5 California-based galleries championing a diverse group of upcoming artists. Moderated by Michael Hinkle, the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Associate Director of Advancement, this immersive panel discussion will be held on Saturday, February 10 at 12 pm at the Palm Spring Convention Center. Intersect Palm Springs welcomes newer galleries to showcase emerging talents that celebrate diverse cultures and sexual orientations. Drawing together a distinguished panel from featured galleries including Jonathan Carver Moore (San Francisco), Schlomer Haus Gallery (San Francisco), Good Mother Gallery (Los Angeles and Oakland), COL Gallery (San Francisco), Glass Rice (San Francisco), this diverse platform delves into the narratives of today’s emerging artists and the significance and value of investing in burgeoning talent.
Gallery owner Jonathan Carver Moore expresses his enthusiasm, noting the fair's receptiveness to showcasing emerging artists celebrating diverse cultures and orientations in the progressive Palm Springs community. Intersect Art and Design CEO, Tim von Gal, envisions "Emerging: A California Collective" as a commitment to supporting upcoming artists, fostering a rich exchange of ideas. The discussion aims to spark an enlightening dialogue about representing emerging talents shaping today’s ever-evolving art scene emphasizing the crucial role collectors play in investing to propel artists forward in their storytelling.
Panel leader Michael Hinkle’s artistic journey spans vibrant scenes in Los Angeles, New York City, Sun Valley, Japan, and France, where he curated collections and honed expertise in art appraisals, auctions, artist cultivation, and donor engagement. In his role as a fundraising executive, Michael forges intimate connections with art enthusiasts, collectors, gallerists, and philanthropists, epitomizing a harmonious fusion of professional expertise and creative spirit.
The interactive panel discussion is just one of 20 events at Intersect Palm Springs 2024.
