On Saturday night Sam and I headed to the annual Beyond Eden art show at Barnsdall Art Park.

The following named pieces are images from Thinkspace Gallery‘s website.  Beyond Eden is a combination of multiple local galleries, and this year Thinkspace had the most impressive showing.  Most (but not all) of the pieces were from a group show they’d had called “Wild at Heart II” that showcased endangered California wildlife with each artist’s unique take on a particular creature.

Ariel DeAndrea – Crane

Allison Sommers – Johan

Diana Beltran bird sculptures

Edwin Ushiro – Thank You for Lunch

Soey Milk – First Fires

Aaron Horkey – Only Death is Real

Karla Ortiz – La Penumbra

Dan Quintana – Dethroned

Glenn Arthur – Puffleg Paradise

Regan Rosburg – Juste Milieu

detail with real (dead) spider:

Brian Mashburn – Give Me a Home

Marco Mazzoni – A View From a Hole

Esao Andrews – White Bee

There were also some impressive pieces from Copro Gallery, including two entire walls of large Chet Zar pieces.

This piece (below) by Zawadki (Tracker) is probably my favorite piece from Copro, it reminds me of Bekzinski.

Some impressive work by Dan Quintana as well:

Dan Quintana (Charcoal drawing)

Dan Quintana – Bearer 3

Eric Fortune – Acquisition

I’m not sure which gallery supplied the giant Abe Lincoln bust, but it was in the Copro area…

This giant gorilla might belong to Thinkspace Gallery – not sure…

After Beyond Eden we headed to Culver City to catch Jullian Callos’ solo exhibition.  Beyond Eden is actually not far from our house, so we almost headed home after the show, but Julian is one of our favorite artists so we made the trek down to Culver Blvd.  Unlike the other Culver City galleries on Washington Blvd, WWA is on the main (commercial) drag next to hip eateries and a movie theater.

WWA Gallery has a back gallery (as most galleries do) of older unsold work.  There were a few pieces in there that I liked as well:

I didn’t see an artist’s name attached to this sculpture.

Nimit Malavia – Neither Here, Nor There

Julian‘s work is becoming more abstract. He still has a strong focus on the figure, but gesture has become more important than physical form.  The below pieces were my favorites.

Julian Callos – Black Hole

Julian Callos – Earth

Julian Callos – Negative Space

I liked the sculpture as it was an embodiment of his older work that involved clearer representations of human beings.