Art Exhibits

Three cool art projects. One, the insanely beautiful and traveling exhibit (was in Santa Monica last year, somewhere in Japan at the moment), exploring the relationship of man and the animal kingdom, deeply beautiful and haunting Ashes and Snow. Another one, I don't mind admitting, I filched off of Barry Taylor's blog (Never Mind the Bricolage), explores art in nature, the underwater scultpure exhibit. Yet a third exhibit is at LA's sort of hipster M+B Gallery. The exhibit is called Another Night Upon Us. It's shot through with some Beat type themes, isolation, community, consciousness, drugs, San Francisco, rebellion, counterculture. That stuff. Originally, this was a set of poems sent by Marcos Johnson to actor Joaquin Phoenix, who decided to ask a photographer friend to translate the poems into visual art. The exhibit pulls no punches and this definitely explores the shadow side, but never, I think, in an exploitative way. Not exactly conservative, but hey, neither am I. Check out the exhibit here. Check out the LA Times write up here.