Art Talk
At The Brewery: Brewing Art, Not Beer
Edward Goldman talks about getting drunk on art at the Brewery.
By Edward Goldman • • 3m ListenDozens of art museums and hundreds of art galleries are sprawled all across Los Angeles. Sometimes I wonder how much time it would take to see them all. A week? A month? Last weekend, along with a crowd of several hundred people, I did my best to catch a glimpse of what’s cooking behind closed doors at the famous Brewery Arts Complex in Downtown L.A.
Top: Last weekend’s Spring Brewery Art Walk. Bottom: A glimpse into one of the hundreds of artists’ studio-homes. Photos by Edward Goldman.
Outside and inside Andre Miripolsky’s "Fear No Art" studio. Photos by Edward Goldman.
Left: A former steel fabrication plant, Paradox Iron. Right: The Stronghold Climbing Gym at the Brewery. Photos by Edward Goldman.
a climbing gym inside the Edison Power Plant with a 46-foot rock wall, which looks like a gigantic, abstract sculpture-painting. I wonder how many shots of vodka it would take to persuade me to climb this wall.
Installation view, Sol LeWitt, 2018. Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Brian Forrest. Image courtesy Honor Fraser Gallery.
Honor Fraser Gallery, there is a mini-retrospective of works by major American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007).
Robert Irwin Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, January 23 - April 21, 2018 Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
Sprüth Magers Gallery, across from LACMA, is another must-see exhibition, which mysteriously manipulates our perception of light and space. On the ground level, with its 5,000 square-foot exhibition space, there is nothing but light coming from the windows and streaming through a series of semi-transparent white scrims.
