COLOR•PATTERN•MATERIAL art exhibit Guest curator Robert Silva has set forth a dynamic survey of work exploring the visual impact of divergent styles and the common threads of self-expression. Each artist communicates their artistic expression through a personal language  of media, palate, and composition to relay universal truths and cannons of beauty. While contemporary work moves [...]

Alphonse Mucha “Commissions” MEAR ONE; Cosmic Synchronicity at its Finest. On July 14, 1939, Alphonse Mucha, the most famous artist of the Art Nouveau period, drew his last breath in Prague. On July 14, 2010, prolific L.A. street artist MEAR ONE, power washed a 2 story wall off of 6th Street and La Brea Avenue, [...]

The day started off with the Inaugural “Found Object Workshop” where art walkers and  artists showing in Diverted Destruction Part 3 created one of a kind pieces of art from bottle caps, discarded hardware, Waialua Soda Works cardboard packs, (thanks for the donation of soda, too!) and other recyclable items! Artists included, Joan Robey, Annemarie [...]

Thank you for attending the opening of Diverted Destruction Part 3! The night was a huge success, attended by artists, patrons of the Loft and lovers of found object and assemblage art.  Guests enjoyed appetizers and desserts made by the artists, and Chef Sepi of Mother Organica made a flavorful Vegetarian Puttanesca.  The third annual [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT This new body of work continues to reflect Miller’s high standards of meticulous craftsmanship as well as holding some surprises for his audience. A recent visit to the Louise Nevelson retrospective has inspired a departure from his well-known bas-relief wall pieces into free standing three dimensional work. This new work continues to reflect [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT FOR DIVERTED DESTRUCTION “What’s in a face, what is beauty?” I am forced to explore this concept. It is only a visage we present for review. Look past the immediate and discover what’s behind the mask. See the “thinker behind the eyes” through an intricate façade. I believe we are an aggregate of [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT Sometimes, when the conditions are right, I find it possible to embrace an understanding wherein all notions of construction and destruction are just diversions–diversions of perception and of mind, intermingled with an infinite and endless series of diversions in the physical world as it perpetually co-arises interdependently.  This is like this because that [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT My constructions are made from salvaged materials.  The very act of finding and choosing the elements I use is already part of the making process.  Although I am not really interested in a narrative element in my work, I do seek a rapport between the materials themselves.  Sometimes it is just to make [...]

BIO Ousman was born in 1970 in Monrovia, Liberia. After moving from the Ivory Coast to Senegal to Las Palmas, in 1985 Ousman moved with his family to Boston in the United States. He came to Los Angeles in 1991; a natural move as he was always attracted to cars and all that related to them. The [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT This body of work focuses on recycled materials as functional art. The light fixtures incorporate the use of solid materials such as glass, copper, steel and other recyclables.  The materials are intuitively manipulated through processes including welding, cutting, drilling, & heating. This manipulation does not obscure the natural properties or identification of the [...]