Member Artist Spotlight: Pam Douglas, Shirley Asano Guldimann, Arlene Weinstock, Judy Zimbert

May 12, 2020

Member Artist Spotlight

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TAG Member Artist Pam Douglas Sanctuary Piece A.jpg — **Pam Douglas**

We are in a startling time hearing the cries of children torn from their parents at the American border. Beyond this country, refugees are seeking sanctuary around the world. The multi-year *Sanctuary* project is a visceral response to their humanity.
For decades I created individual paintings and assemblages ranging from abstract through figurative in a variety of mediums and I’ve been in many exhibitions. I’ve been well reviewed in shows including the California African American Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And my work was featured at the Los Angeles Art Show at the Convention Center in 2019.
Now *Sanctuary* is a three-part installation that expands on all my previous work. Entering *Part One* a visitor is immersed in life-size drawings with sculptural elements draped ceiling to floor behind a chain link fence. These walking figures are parents seeking refuge and children caged behind ropes. The 60-foot installation makes the viewer a witness to the refugee journey.

TAG Member Artist Pam Douglas Sanctuary Piece B.jpg — **Pam Douglas**

In *Part One* (2019), the figures travel by land. *Part Two* (2020) is travel by sea. Hand made “rafts” have canvas sails where the refugees are drawn in the same charcoal style as the walkers. Behind the rafts that fan out across the gallery floor will be a 36-foot wide abstract mural that I painted to suggest the devastation they are escaping.
I am currently beginning *Part Three*, the Shelters. These are fabric-draped free-standing structures that will culminate the journey. Watch for their debut at TAG in 2021.
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Website: **pamdouglasart.com**
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TAG Member Artist Shirley Asano Guldimann Piece A.jpg — **Shirley Asano Guldimann**

Shirley Asano Guldimann is a Southern California artist, whose works are held in private collections. Her figurative art, painted on slippery surfaces with water-based mediums, evokes the transient and elusive nature of her subjects. This questing after the fleeting reflects her Japanese-inflected aesthetic.

TAG Member Artist Shirley Asano Guldimann Piece B.jpg — **Shirley Asano Guldimann**

Follow Shirley - **instagram.com/shirley.visualcommonplace**
Website: **studiotabby.com**

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Piece A.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

My recent work is abstract and grows intuitively from the first mark of color placed on the surface. I start with a color and explore an aspect of that color - often I'm interested in complimentary color. If a representational elements appears, I follow it and move the work in that direction.
I mix media using paint, pencil, ink, and pastel, as needed to get to where the work needs to go. The handmade paper series is part of my abstract work. It is created by developing sheets of paper from pulp that I sculpt, texture, and paint. This approach is quite different from how I develop representational work.

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Piece B.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

I think of my representational artwork as pausing time. Each image captures a space in time for personal contemplation and rest. The space can be any place, but it is almost always outdoors in nature, on the street where I live, or places I visit.
Fog, rain, and darkness are frequent subjects of my work. They offer the contemplative space I am trying to achieve and leave room for interpretation. The media and techniques I use emphasize the ambiguity of what I see. I work predominantly in colored pencil for these representational landscapes and atmospherics.
Follow Arlene: **instagram.com/arlenew.art**
Website: **arlenew.com**

TAG Member Artist Judy Zimbert Piece A.png — **Judy Zimbert**

The paintings of Jewish-American artist Judy Zimbert are made from the application of multitudinous layers of paint. As many are removed as restored in Zimbert’s attempt to capture the ambiguous nature of existence and infuse each piece with all the emotions felt and experienced within life’s moments. Each work is original to Zimbert’s experiences of summers in Michigan, life in her own neighborhood or travels to distant lands.

**Judy Zimbert**

Inspired by the post-war angst of such painters as Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach and the German Expressionist art movement, Zimbert’s paintings use symbolism to evoke meaning as well as human traits, to express intensity, place and mood. She aims to translate the emotional quality of everyday and current events and to weave a visual narrative for her viewer, inviting that viewer to immerse himself or herself into a a shared emotional experience. Judy Zimbert currently lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.
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Website: **judyzimbert.com**

This Week At TAG: Fielden Harper, Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K Ryan Henisey, Shelley Lazarus

May 9, 2020

This Week At TAG…

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a virtual studio visit and walkthrough from Fielden Harper as well as work from Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K. Ryan Henisey, & Shelley Lazarus! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

TAG Member Artist Content:

Fielden Harper gives us a peek into studio her recent series of experimental works utilizing fabric. Click the link for the full video!

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TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Primal Dance.jpg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Primal Dance,* acrylic & glass bead gel on canvas, 36" x 48"

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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Guardians Of The Dream.jpeg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Guardians of the Dream,* acrylic & coarse pumice gel on canvas, 30” x 40”

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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Illi.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

*Illi,* mixed media pencil and water-media, 18" x 24"

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Website: **arlenew.com**

Santa Clarita Arts is presenting a virtual take on its New Heights series with artist development videos available to the public. The series alternates between visual and musical arts. In this episode, K. Ryan Henisey shares his five tips on how to stay inspired:

1. Organize and Prioritize
2. Create and Art Routine
3. Connect Creatively
4. Care for Yourself
5. Make Something

View the full episode here!
Link to ArtsinSCV!

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Website: kryanhenisey.com

TAG Member Artist Shelley Lazarus Converstation.png — **Shelley Lazarus**

*Converstation circa 1940’s*, giclee of a watercolor, 36" x 28"
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Member Artist Spotlight: Liliana D'Ambrosio, David Stewart Klein, Edward Lightner, Bruce Sanders

May 5, 2020

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TAG-Member-Artist-Liliana-D'Ambrosio-Artwork-A.jpg — **Liliana D'Ambrosio**

**Liliana D’ambrosio** was born in 1951 in Irpinia, Italy. During early her adolescence, she developed a passion for painting which would extend throughout her life. Inspired by her passion for art, she went on to study at the Art School of Avellino.
For a long period extending from the late 1980’s to the early years of the 2000’s, she drew on paper with rapidity and acrylic colors worked into her paper using dry and slightly diluted brushes.

TAG-Member-Artist-Liliana-D'Ambrosio-Artwork-B.jpg — **Liliana D'Ambrosio**

During this period she experimented with different mediums, though she continued to create masterpieces using acrylic paint. Liliana’s work began to provoke emotions with the use of diverse colors and linear shapes. In 2018, after a prolonged absence from the art world due to illness, she decided to return to the United States to expand her influence in the world of American Art.
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Website: **lilianadambrosio.com**

**David Stewart Klein**

Since the young age of 3, **Klein** has not put down his artist tools. Klein's work focuses on the inner world of his subjects, and has a hyper sensitive approach to observing and conveying his subjects, melding the characters forms together with the world in which he/she inhabits to give a heightened sense of the persons expressed experience. The paintings and drawings he makes carry fragments of his memories and creates palettes of color to brighten up worlds that don't see enough light, and also describe the dark areas of the human mind which can also be quite comforting in ways.

**David Stewart Klein**

"I'm using colors and themes that are familiar to me from my childhood. I grew up in a home that had a sense of warmth and it has a lot to do with Latin American and Eastern European cultural palettes and faces, so that is something that is embedded in my mind. In addition its about my sensibility as a uniquely formed person to try to explore and create visions I have never seen before myself in the real world, the kind of things you see in dreams...That is when all these elements come together."
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Website: **theartofdekay.com**
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**Edward Lightner**

Over the last several years, the execution of **Edward Lightner’s** art has become more and more process oriented. In understanding the titles, it is helpful to know how the Department of Energy arranged the groups of tests. For the most part, all the imagery he is using comes from the Nevada Test Site, where each group of tests were given a designation name, such as Flintlock, Fulcrum or Bowline. Within each test group there are then individually named test shots. This atomic testing is all archived with the DOE, so the coordinates of any specific underground test site can be acquired and entered on Google Earth. It is the resulting satellite images that are used to generate all his paintings.

**Edward Lightner**

The images are cleaned up and edited, with a kaleidoscope process imposed upon each. The transformed image is next put through a contour program. The result of these two manipulations is the final form that is then worked with. This process is applied in the same manner to the photographs of the land where each weapons related test shot took place. The Flintlock series also has an added collage element taken from medical information sheets, among other sources. The resulting works explore the aesthetics of beauty, but all are generated from a dark place.
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Website: **edlightner.com**

**Bruce Sanders**

**Bruce Sanders** is a neo-expressionist/symbolist, and abstract painter living in Malibu, California. Bruce’s work blurs the lines of representational and abstract art. It delves into a space between the real world and a mystical-magical realm. Bruce employs kinetic forms, dynamic colors, and primal emotions into all of his art. By doing so, his work compels viewers to empathize, analyze, and interpret their own feelings.

**Bruce Sanders**

Bruce’s work has been exhibited in shows in Laguna, Newport Beach, Santa Monica, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. Bruce is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association. He is a Member Artist of TAG Gallery in Los Angeles near LACMA.
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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

This Week At TAG: Susan C Price, Shalla Javid, SKÜT, Ed Lightner

May 2, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a virtual studio visit and walkthrough from Susan C. Price as well as work from Shalla Javid, SKÜT, & Ed Lightner! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net