James Turrell’s Light Reignfall at LACMA Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Seeing is seeing. There is no place where that is more apparent than in James Turrell’s Light Reignfall. The piece, which pulls directly from the artist’s investigations into sensory deprivation from the 1970s, situates the viewer isolated, prone, and encapsulated in [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Eleven years after his death at 41, legendary installation artist Jason Rhoades finally has his first big retrospective in his adopted home town of Los Angeles. Covering two-thirds of an acre at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel’s sprawling DTLA showplace, it will amaze many and, as Rhoades [...]
Dreamland: A Frank Romero Retrospective at MOLAA Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Frank Romero is defined by a multitude of identities throughout his retrospective at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (up now through May 21, 2017). He is a painter, an activist, a sculptor, a Chicano muralist – [...]
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December 10, 2016 through January 14, 2017 Opening Reception, Saturday, December 10, 7-10PM We’ve known it from childhood as a fairy tale with a happy ending, but scholars say that the Hansel and Gretel story is really rooted in the tragic European past of over 700 years ago, in a scary time when famine was [...]
October 29 through November 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-10PM Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the smallest of organisms, patterns and perceptions and [...]
The Sex Columnist, PR Guru, and Author of Porn Again: A Memoir Goes in Deep About His Coming-of-Age Story Words by Julian Bermudez, Director, Bermudez Projects Editor's Note: A Blind Date is our newest feature presenting interviews with special guests working in the creative fields. By their very nature, book covers are designed to attract attention. [...]
The London School Continues Rattling the Cage Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects A criticism that has been leveled at the London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj exhibit, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum through November 14, 2016, is a lack of standardized style and absence of a [...]
Kellan Shanahan Illustrates How Nature is Still the Greatest Teacher Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the [...]
Artists Assemble at the Museum of Latin American Art Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects “There’s a certain Mexican way of telling a joke, a really dramatic kind of irony,” said Felipe Flores, founder of Trabajo Press. “There’s this kind of ‘the world’s against me’ type thing, like we just can’t win, but [...]
Bermudez Projects Steps in with a Razor-Sharp Biennial Exhibit Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects In a moment of loosely outlined biennials, Bermudez Projects steps in with a razor-sharp focus on what a biannual group exhibition can be. Not only does SPACELAND, now on its third chapter, coalesce around a theme – it [...]
October 29 through November 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-10PM Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the smallest of organisms, patterns and perceptions and [...]
September 10 through October 8, 2016 Opening Reception, Saturday, September 10, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents SPACELAND III | Aftermath, the third chapter in what is now the SPACELAND Biennial series. In this follow up to 2014's SPACELAND II | Escape from Spaceland – which presented a view [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects The two and a half acres of galleries at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, spread over a full downtown city block and among several buildings, feel measureless to man. The spaces themselves seem to be on display. Skylights and clerestories ascend from roofs several stories up and [...]
Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects "Tonight is really about play,” says Caledonia Curry, the artist known as Swoon. “Vanity was kind of a playful reference, because we wanted to use human beings as canvas.” Vanity is the theme of Swoon’s collaborative exhibit at Superchief Gallery L.A., Pearly’s Beauty Shop, curated by Superchief [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects "Telling artists that you do collage is like an insult – like saying you do scrap-booking,” asserts Long Island-based collagist Amanda Beckmann. “They feel it is crafts-fair stuff.” But to Beckmann, collage is great art – just as it was to greats like George Braque and [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects In an interview not long ago, Los Angeles painter Alison Saar said of African American artists that “there is some tendency toward their taking the real heavy stuff and adding some levity to it.” Certainly this has been true of her work in the past. But [...]
Made In L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only @ The Hammer Museum Through August 28, 2016 Don’t let its esoteric subtitle fool you. This third iteration of the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibit highlights the methodologies of artists working throughout Los Angeles. Extending beyond traditional visual culture, the exhibit includes other disciplines such as dance, literature, [...]
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium @ The Getty Center Through July 31, 2016 One of the most influential visual artists of the 20th century, Robert Mapplethorpe’s retrospective is so huge, it requires two museums to show it (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the other)! This show at The Getty Center examines [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined and sometimes simply hovering in space, that [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Wave your hand at a bright object like a small desklamp and out pours a generous stream into the greenish crystal sink of the master bathroom of the Sheats-Lautner-Goldstein house. If you remove the long glass prism that serves as the plug, the water drains [...]
Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects “F**k if I know.” That’s what Andy Morahan said when Rolling Stone asked him what Axl Rose meant by the symbolism in a trio of bizarre Guns N’ Roses videos he directed. When asked if I liked Guns N’ Roses enough to analyze this trilogy for [...]
April 23 through June 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 7-10PM Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined and sometimes simply hovering in [...]
Emmanuel Crespo | The Mythmaker April 23 through June 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 7-10PM Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper hats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined [...]
THE REVIEW ISSUE 001 | The First Issue Editor’s Note Welcome to our first issue of The Review, Bermudez Projects’ new online magazine! Since presenting our first exhibit back in 2003, our commitment to providing you greater access to visual art and culture has continued through our multi-platform programming. Our exhibits, publications, events, video/sound [...]
Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road @ MOCA Pacific Design Center Through May 8, 2016 Catherine Opie’s latest body of work, inspired by William Eggleston’s images of Graceland, presents a deeply intimate portrait of one of the world’s most fascinating women, Elizabeth Taylor. Taken over the course of six months at the late-actress’ Bel-Air residence, [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Missouri-born Sean Sullivan’s artworks can remind you of the Action paintings of 60 or 70 years ago. It particularly partakes of the work of Action Abstract creators like Jackson Pollack, whose “canvas as an arena” connected the viewer with the subconscious inner self. There is [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Architects Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Petersen Museum is mostly about externals. It looks like a great heap of molten peppermint candy. Like Tom Wolfe’s “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” you think: cars as sweets. What could be better than a Meta-Modern confectionary box to confine all [...]
Words by Lloyd Galbraith, Guest Writer, Bermudez Projects Camilla Taylor’s artwork demands introspection. Her recent exhibition at the Bermudez Projects space in Downtown Los Angeles offered viewers an opportunity to connect with it and, ultimately her, on a deeper, visceral level. Upon entering the gallery, the first thing noticeable was the unconventional placement of [...]
Sean Patrick Sullivan | Blur February 20 through March 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 7-10PM Sean Patrick Sullivan, Ascension, 2015. Oil and gesso on panel. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles. Sean Patrick Sullivan, Ascension, 2015. Oil and gesso on panel. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, [...]
February 20 through March 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present the debut solo exhibition of Sean Patrick Sullivan | Blur, opening February 20, 2016 at its sky-lit space in Downtown Los Angeles. Missouri-born Sullivan’s painting can remind you of the Action painting of 60 or 70 years [...]
Camilla Taylor, Waiting Shadows, 2015. One is a suite of 12 intaglio (etchings). Ink on cotton rag. 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles. All rights reserved. Opening Reception Saturday, November 7, 7-10PM RSVP at info@bermudezprojects.com (Note our new email address) The hauntingly beautiful and brooding artworks of Camilla [...]
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November 7 through December 19, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 7-10PM The hauntingly beautiful and brooding artworks of Camilla Taylor beckon audiences to draw ever closer toward them in order to achieve a deeper understanding of their own thoughts or desires. Inciting profound introspection and analysis, each artwork serves as a catalyst, actualizing feelings [...]
Bermudez Projects is proud to announce that Enrique Castrejon is one of the participating artists in the Craft & Folk Art Museum's "Paperworks" exhibition opening this September. Curated by Howard Fox, LACMA's Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, the exhibition features a wonderful range of contemporary artists who use cut paper to create visually stunning works [...]
Vol. 90 August 27, 2012 – Print the August 27, 2012 Issue AUGUST 27, 2012 Light Years is an non-cynical look at Los Angeles, a great starting point for new arrivals, and refreshing for long-time residents. Opens September 1 at Bermudez Projects. […]
Call her “The Re-Animator.” In her new show at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, Erynn Richardson brings back to life the deer that hunters across America stalk, kill, stuff, and display; and turns them into nigh-religious icons. Richardson, who earned her MFA at California State University, Long Beach, says, “In my artistic practice I [...]
September 5 through October 24, 2015 Opening Reception: September 5, 7-10PM Call her “The Re-Animator.” In her new show at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, Erynn Richardson brings back to life the deer that hunters across America stalk, kill, stuff, and display; and turns them into nigh-religious icons. Richardson, who earned her MFA [...]
July 18 through August 15, 2015 Private Collectors Reception: Saturday, July 18, 7-10PM […]
Erynn Richardson’s intricately constructed mixed-media etchings and beautiful ink and watercolor drawings belie the truth that the artist is indeed a reluctant romantic. Through her artworks, the artist attempts to capture the very essence of objects she struggles not to be attached to. Yet, by the extremely elaborate nature of her work process, [...]
From 2006-2017, as host of 89.3-KPCC’s Off-Ramp, John S. Rabe delighted local public radio listeners with broadcasts combining the best journalistic practices with his highly personal style. Through his photography, Rabe mirrors his broadcast style and offers a take on Los Angeles never seen before. These images can only be described as psychedelic, [...]
Emmanuel Crespo’s fantastical imaginings are dreamlike apparitions of his own personal journey. Through his body of work, the artist uncovers and interprets symbolic meanings and narratives in his personal life and the universe in which he exists. Each painting presents a cast of characters – some recurring, some new – created to [...]
Amanda Beckmann’s beautifully rendered artworks are like spending a long, lazy afternoon in the best vintage store imaginable, leafing through dog-eared books and magazines, stroking old silk Rooster® ties and the Bakelite cabinets of vintage radios, picking up gold-leafed barware and imagining the cocktails they held. Each mixed-media collage is a visual kaleidoscope [...]
Nanci Amaka is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist exploring ideas surrounding trauma, memory, and the liminal space between experience and language. Working from the theory that traumatic events challenge perceptions of power, autonomy, and identity; her work explores displacement due to widespread ecological destruction and global warfare – as well as the effects [...]
APRIL 18 through MAY 23, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present Nanci Amaka | Beast, the artist’s first solo exhibit in which she explores the aftermath of trauma, identity, memory and the liminal spaces between experience and language with richly-layered mixed media paintings, drawings and audience-involved performances as a [...]
February 21 – March 28, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21, 7-10PM It is literally “International Women’s Year” at Bermudez Projects as owner and curator Julian Bermudez, is devoting his Downtown Los Angeles art space solely to up-and-coming female artists in 2015. “For years, male artists have dominated the art scene. They’ve commanded much higher [...]
Crespo_The First Lesson November 15 through December 27, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, Novembver 15, 7-10PM A man seeks counsel from a whale as a murder of crows fly overhead; a young elephant crouches in front of a faceless child sitting on a tree stump, offering a branch with its trunk; and a [...]
October 4 through October 25, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects’ best-selling artist, Amanda Beckmann, whose works have spurred near riots at the gallery, is back with “Acknowledged,” an exhibit of 26 new mixed-media paintings – one for each letter of the alphabet – that are her most ambitious to date. On view [...]
September 6 through September 27, 2014 3 Year Anniversary Group Show Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 7-10PM Back in 2012, “SPACELAND,” Bermudez Projects’ first group show to be presented in its Downtown Los Angeles aerie, celebrated the vibrant, beautiful LA of today. Now, two-years later, “SPACELAND II” looks to the city’s dystopian future, when the [...]
June 7 through July 26, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present “Synthesis,” a two-man show featuring the works of emerging artists Kevin Cheng and Kellan Shanahan.Each artist renders stunningly beautiful images made of ink on paper in an attempt to understand the macro and micro universes within ourselves. By exploring the [...]
April 5 through May 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present “Striking at Wind,” a new series of paintings by Vancouver-based artist Johnny Taylor. Taylor, whose method of internalizing his traditional urban surroundings through high-impact, physical exploration, such as running and the balcony-leaping, railing-hurdling sport known as parcours, has taken a [...]
February 8 through March 29, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8, 7-10PM In “i Am a Camera,” an artist at last delivers an un-snarky, un-ironic take on iPhone culture. And who better to do it than John Rabe, host of 89.3-KPCC’s award-winning Off-Ramp, which unashamedly celbrates the LA we know and love. “i Am a Camera,” [...]
November 16 through December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 7-10PM
September 28 through November 2, 2013 Exploring the nuances of solitude and isolation, Enrique Castrejon chose to create his own personal universe by producing a multi-platformed symphonic exhibition in three stages: a large-scale, site specific installation, mixed-media paintings, and drawings. The resulting “song” gave audiences a greater insight to the artist’s personal struggle and continued self-exploration. [...]
June 8 through August 4, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 7-10PM Erynn Richardson is a reluctant romantic, but you wouldn't get that when experiencing her intricately constructed mixed media etchings. Her new show, “Ethereal Echoes,” which opens Saturday, June 8 at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, consists of more than twenty artworks in [...]
February 9 through April 30, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, 7-10PM As host of 89.3-KPCC’s Off-Ramp, John Rabe delights local public radio listeners with broadcasts combining the best journalistic practices with his highly personal style. “John Rabe's Acid Free,” a photo exhibit at Bermudez Projects in downtown Los Angeles, mirrors Rabe's broadcast style and, [...]
January 5 through January 26, 2013 Kicking off its new year, Bermudez Projects presented highlights from its collection in its Downtown Los Angeles space featuring the works of Amanda Beckmann, Enrique Castrejon, Gordon Henderson, John S. Rabe, and Johnny Taylor. Paintings, illustrations, photography and prints were presented to illustrate the diverse range of artistic styles, [...]
November 30, 2012 through January 18, 2013 In commemoration of World AIDS Day, AltaMed Health Services presented an exhibit featuring the works of Enrique Castrejon, Ruben Esparza and Miguel Angel Reyes, long-standing members of the community and ardent advocates for HIV and AIDS education. Their works offered diverse perspectives and reactions in the wake of the AIDS crisis. Words and [...]
November 3 through December 29, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 3, 7-10PM You want to be careful when you meet collage artist Carlos Ulloa at his new show Calamitous Conundrums at Bermudez Projects in downtown Los Angeles. He’s trying to read your mind, despite your best efforts. “It is much safer,” Ulloa says, “to not [...]
October 26 through December 12, 2012 Curated in partnership with KPCC 89.3 Southern California Public Radio to further SCPR’s mission of connecting the communities of Southern California, this exhibit presented artworks by the next generation of Black artists who continue to examine the themes from past generations, as well as explore current and future concepts on both a local and [...]
September 1 through October 27, 2012 Opening Reception: September 1, 7-10PM To inaugurate its fall season, Bermudez Projects is delighted to welcome its first international show, Light Years, by Canadian artist Johnny Taylor who is as energized by the city as we are. Whether at home in Vancouver or visiting Los Angeles, Taylor internalizes his [...]
July 26 through October 20, 2012 Curated in partnership with KPCC 89.3 Southern California Public Radio to further SCPR’s mission of connecting the communities of Southern California, this exhibit examined how artists utilize visual imagery to critique or support information, as well as art’s power to influence the masses. Featured artists included Lalo Alcaraz, Robbie Conal, Enrique [...]
June 2 through July 28, 2012 Opening Reception: June 2, 7-10PM It's probably safe to say that no start-up gallery in downtown LA has ever had a first year to match Bermudez Projects, which included not only packed openings and sold-out shows, but earned recognition from the Getty Foundation … all accomplished by someone the [...]
April 7 through May 25, 2012 Opening Reception: April 7, 7-10PM She wakes up at 5 every morning, climbs the stairs to her mother's attic, puts on Martin Denny's "Exotica" album, and gets out the sharp scissors. No, it's not the first scene of a new Tim Burton movie; it's the start of every day [...]
February 2 through March 22, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 7-10PM Waifs & Strays, Enrique Castrejon’s examination of queer subculture, investigates, dissects, and reinterprets images of the male form. the artist uses mathematical equations and measurements to transform nude bodies, scantily clad “masseurs,” bears, twinks, jocks and studs into geometric line drawings on collage. [...]
November 11, 2011 through January 14, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 7-10PM During the 1950s, David Weidman began his career as a commercial illustrator and animator, earning great acclaim for working with the upstart animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) which produced classics such as Mr. Magoo and the Academy Award-winning Gerald McBoing-Boing. [...]
October 19 through December 30, 2011 As part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, 89.3 KPCC’s AirTalk hosted a conversation with Chicano artists looking back at this critical period in art history when Chicano artists were trying to define and express themselves even as the LA art scene as a whole was re-defining [...]
September 9 through October 29, 2011 Opening Reception: September 9, 7-10PM For more than a quarter-century, LA-based artist and performer Gordon Henderson has been beguiling his fans with the Nib Geebles calendar. The 26th Calendar, titled Dogs Deserve Our Compliments, is now out, and to celebrate, Bermudez Projects in downtown Los Angeles is mounting an [...]
July 7 through August 24, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 7, 7-10PM Amanda Beckmann’s beautifully rendered collages-on-board are like spending a long, lazy afternoon in the best second-hand store imaginable, leafing through dog-eared books and magazines, stroking old silk Rooster® ties and the Bakelite cabinets of vintage radios, picking up gold-leafed barware and imagining the [...]
May 26 through June 22, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 26, 6-9PM Dark, beautiful, and melancholic, John Rabe’s photographs of discarded television sets are reminders of our own mortality. The hyper-saturated Polaroid-inspired images, taken with the Hipstamatic® iPhone app, lend a retro, dreamlike feeling to Rabe’s sophisticated compositions, which capture a mood that’s welled within [...]
October 14 through October 27, 2010 Popular culture, queer images, politics, sex and images of beauty all inspire Enrique Castrejon’s mesmerizing artworks. Through mathematical equations, Castrejon meticulously transforms graphic imagery into geometric line-drawings on paper by measuring distances between points. In creating rigid shapes – fragments – Castrejon challenges our perceptions of what is real, [...]
January 28 through January 31, 2010 David Weidman began his career as a commercial illustrator and animator during the 1950s. During the 1960s and 1970s, he produced an extensive body of work, including lithographs, serigraphs, and posters. However, perhaps Weidman’s greatest acclaim is having worked for the upstart United Productions of America (UPA), which produced [...]