ART TODAY 020918 Five Sisters by Alexandra Dillon
“I love to cook and I’m getting pretty good at Indian food. I really like the tacos from the truck on Rose in Venice, and I enjoy all the restaurants on Sawtelle.”
ART TODAY 020818 Axe by Alexandra Dillon: Passive aggressive behavior or edgy personality
Her portraits on worn paintbrushes are especially charming, however, her work on other found objects, such as axes, cleavers and locks, is more provocative. “The portraits on tools are complex,” she says. “They’re about inner motivations, personal relationships and powerful emotions. They are intended to make you think.”
ART TODAY 020718 Padlock eye by Alexandra Dillon, “We are all in some sort of bondage, usually self-inflicted”
“I’m an L.A. native and I think this is the most creative city in the world. I adore the beach. It’s the very edge of western civilization!”
ART TODAY 020618 Penelope and Hiro: “They just looked so right together”
With the brush portraits, I strive to find character and convey a real sense of the person. The works on tools are more complex and allude to inner motivations and powerful emotions. They are intended to make you think.
ART TODAY 020518 Four ladies by Alexandra Dillon + Acrostic Interview starts today…
A native of Los Angeles, Alexandra Dillon received her B.A. in film from UCLA, then returned to her life-long passion for making art. Her love of Old Master painting led her to study classical realism in Florence, Italy, then New Orleans, LA, finally settling in Venice, CA.
ART TODAY 020418 Get Brushed away with Alexandra Dillon as Artist of the Week! Aren’t they the cutest…
My characters come to me the way a novelist’s characters do: they form themselves through the creative process and tell me who they are. I strive to make each face unique and convey the life that that person has lived, solely through their look and expression.
TribeLA Magazine has named William Wray the “Artist to Watch” for 2018!
An eclectic artist, William Wray appeals to a wide range of tastes, styles, and superheroes. From his iconic Superman that graced the Pink Art Show to forlorn moments shared by “Partners in Crime,” Wray continues to wow us. He pulls on the heart strings of his subjects not just with Sesame street characters or with Tinker Bell, but also in his landscapes…
Robert Soffian’s TribeLA Magazine Acrostic Interview
I cherish my time in the studio by myself just working. That’s the space to experiment and work out the formalistic issues I have been following. Usually I am excited by internal fixations rather than things in the objective world. I love color and movement and playing with figures in action. Also learning new techniques and discovering different ways to use materials is my joint.
ART TODAY 02.02.18 Robert Soffian shares his movements (like a dance) when he paints & favorite tools
Illuminated Text also on vellum – a page from a text from a future religion concerns the origin of a race TribeLA...
ART TODAY 02.01.18 “Family Piknik” – Robert Soffian’s best advice given and received…
Go left by going right. The subconscious is a logical system. It is easy to access if you don’t think too much. The thinking is in solving the problems.
ART TODAY 01.31.18 Excavation by Robert Soffian
Excavation, on vellum An imagined codex full of repeated glyphs in the manner of ancient texts. As I reflect on my...
ART TODAY 01.30.18 Evolution Commotion by Robert Soffian
Evolution Commotion – oil, dye, stamps on canvas (48" x 48") a jaunty island of Dr. Moreau Travel has also been a...