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'Commune' by Kevin Peterson.

16" x 16" fine art digital print on Moab Entrada 290gsm paper, full bleed with hand-deckled edges, in a signed and numbered limited edition of 40 for $150.

Seth Armstrong es un pintor al óleo con sede en Los Ángeles que ha perfeccionado meticulosamente su oficio en Holanda Septentrional y Oakland.

Nacido en 1983 y criado en Los Ángeles, Armstrong se mudó al Área de la Bahía para comenzar su educación artística y carrera, exhibiendo su trabajo temprano en Oakland y San Francisco.

The Outlook

Oil on wood panel

51.25 x 43.25 inches

2020

Pink Moment

Oil on wood panel

12 x 12 inches

2020

Gully

Oil on wood panel

16 x 20 inches

2019

Homebody

Oil on wood panel

21 x 14 inches

2020

Nor' Nor' East (#s 1-11)

Oil on 11 wood panels, 23 x 16 inches, 2018

http://www.setharmstrong.com

I recently learned at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles that researchers sometimes tag Monarch Butterflies to track their migration patterns. If you happen to come across a fallen Monarch that's tagged, you can send the specimen back to the original center and help with the study and updating of their database.

I get to see a couple of Monarchs in my neighborhood during my morning walks to the coffee shop. It gives me some form of solace especially after reading about their population drastically declining due to their habitats being destroyed – fire, environmental changes, etc. Climate change is real. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, because it’s not that they’re uneducated, it’s simply because they have no intention to plan for a better world for our children.

While I've had the pleasure of experiencing these fluttery beauties fly carefreely around me, it was only within the last few weeks that I got to see a real Monarch caterpillar for the first time in my life at a learning garden I visited. It was pure magic for someone like me seeing them up close and personal! If you have the space, you can help by growing milkweeds in your garden or patio. Milkweed is a plant that the species prefer to lay their eggs on, and offers tiny clusters of pink to orange flowers – a great plant selection even for those who only enjoy enhancing barren spaces with ornamentals.

I have never come across any fallen Monarchs, but did pick up another species a few years ago and kept it in a tiny box. It became an inspiration and reference source for 'Metamorphosis', a painting that I had created for a solo that was held at Thinkspace Projects awhile back.

Artist:

Lauren Brevner

"Wavy Baby"

Oil, Acrylics, Resin and Mixed Media on Wood Panel

10" x 10"

Amy Sol’s “Bird of Flux” at Thinkspace Projects.

Currently on view at Thinkspace Projects in Culver City, California is artist Amy Sol’s gorgeous solo exhibition “Bird of Flux.”

From Thinkspace, “In her new body of work, Sol explores themes of transition, adventure, and adaptation, considering the individual faced by external and internal forces of change. In ‘Bird of Flux’ physical metamorphosis is posited as a visual metaphor for inner transformation, offering the viewer borrowed ingress into an imaginative universe of muted hues, unlikely companions, softened edges, and shadowy phantasms.”

“Bird of Flux” will be on view until March 24th, 2018.