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The Wiseman Museum, Malibu, California
“Liminal Space, Light” 112” x 82” mixed- media. Exhibition title: “Loop, Hum, Wave” Opening reception, September 7 from 4 to 7 PM. The show runs through December 8, 2024.
“Below The Surface” 81” x 54” Oil on Acrylic
2024 Boone Gallery, Pasadena City College. Exhibition, title: “Reflections on a Warming Planet”
Upcoming Exhibition – ‘The Flower Show’ at L.A. Louver
'The Flower Show' includes over 50 artists who work from diverse perspectives and cultural origins. From historic botanical study and still life composition, to assemblage sculpture and interactive video, the exhibition features flowers in formal, symbolic and narrative contexts. Themes of life, death, identity, memory and the environment infuse the presentation. Join us for the [...]
New Work – 21 September – 29 October
Reception for the artists: Wednesday, 21 September 6-8pm. L.A. Louver45 N Venice Blvd Venice, CA 90291
Yvette Gellis: Verdure at L.A. Louver
Each of us had a unique reaction to the months we spent in lockdown, and this is as true of artists as of everyone. Body, psyche and soul, our experiences have been as individual as we are — and painter Yvette Gellis is no exception. Where some artists grew quiet and personal in their ideas [...]
Yvette Gellis Exhibits Her Recent Series of Paintings at L.A. Louver
From September 14 to October 16, 2021, L.A. Louver, a contemporary art gallery in Venice, California, will present a collection of paintings created by Yvette Gellis, visiting assistant professor of art at Seaver College. The exhibition, entitled Verdure, features new paintings created in the past year, Gellis’ personal and emotional responses to current events. SOURCE: [...]
Yvette Gellis: ‘Verdure’
For some, the pandemic was a time for reflection. With the directive to stay at home, many people confronted isolation and had to redefine their connections to the outside world. Those living in Los Angeles were lucky. With good weather and ample sunshine year-round, nature was always within reach. Watching the moon or sun rise [...]
LA Art Feature: Pepperdine Art Professor Paints a Dreamland
Pepperdine adjunct Art professor Yvette Gellis’ latest exhibition is Verdure, on display at the LA Louver art gallery in Venice, Calif. It consists of a collection of whimsical and eccentric paintings, representing the emergence from isolation and a deeper awareness of herself as an artist. READ MORE: http://pepperdine-graphic.com/la-art-feature-pepperdine-art-professor-paints-a-dreamland/
Pepperdine art teacher draws on her own success to guide students to theirs
Adjunct Art Professor Yvette Gellis always knew she was going to be an artist. Today, her notable art exhibitions and residencies can be found all over the world in Taiwan, France and Austria, as well as locally at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. She has been teaching at Pepperdine since Summer 2014 [...]
L.A. Arts – Sacred Spaces
As part of the Beach+Culture Out of the Blue program, Yvette Gellis has painted a 450-foot long mural in front of the Annenberg Community Beach House. Out of the Blue is designed to offer the general public chance encounters with art and art-making at the Beach House. READ MORE: https://laartsonline.com/arts/
Mural Invites Beachgoers to Stroll Inside
The Annenberg Community Beach House commissioned abstract artist Yvette Gellis to install a captivating 450 foot mural along their ocean-facing fence. It’s part of their "Beach=Culture" Out of the Blue series which provides cultural programming throughout the year to beachgoers in Santa Monica. As part of Arts Month 2021, the program intends to bring a [...]
Yvette Gellis Brings Eye-Catching Mural to the Annenberg Community Beach House
Yvette Gellis has had a studio at 18th Street Art Center since 2008. It has beautiful light, high ceilings and her walls are filled with the oversized paintings that are her trademark. The studio has been such a blessing and an incubator for her process which runs the gambit from large paintings to installations to [...]
Abstraction/Not Abstraction: Recent Drawing and Painting in Los Angeles I-BEAM GALLERY
For early to mid-20th century artists, the paradigm for abstract art’s development can be expressed concisely by Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg’s well-known Studies for Composition VIII (The Cow) c.1917, in which a series of images of a cow become progressively more abstract, culminating in the final work, Composition VIII (The Cow), c.1918. That painting, which is ostensibly a completely non-objective artwork if viewed separately from the other works, is still clearly perceptible as an image of a cow when seen in the context of the earlier images.
400-Foot Mural Coming to Beach as Part of Santa Monica’s Arts Month
Annual event highlights value of the arts in the community By Sam Catanzaro As part of Santa Monica’s Arts Month, a 400-foot mural is coming to a popular beachside destination. Every April, Santa Monica celebrates Arts Month, highlighting the value of the arts in the community. This year, there are a number of self-guided art [...]
Meet Yvette Gellis | Artist & Professor of Art
We had the good fortune of connecting with Yvette Gellis and we’ve shared our conversation below. Hi Yvette, how do you think about risk? It’s clear looking back to the beginning of my life that the best choices I made were the risky ones. There was always someone telling me not to do something I [...]
REVIEW: Miss seeing art? 100 artists come to the rescue with work in public view across L.A. by Christopher Knight
Artist-run gallery Durden and Ray has organized a sprawling show installed all over L.A. County and seen from sidewalks and streets. SOURCE: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-05-22/durden-ray-we-are-here-art-show-public
We Are Here – Here We Are
By Jennifer Remenchik An Exhibition Across Los Angeles Takes on New Meanings in Times of Protest. When We Are Here / Here We Are opened in mid-May, the street landscape of Los Angeles looked decidedly different. READ MORE: https://hyperallergic.com/570277/durden-and-ray-we-are-here-here-we-are/
Meet an Artist Monday: Yvette Gellis
Yvette Gellis could in a sense be said to be a landscape painter. But that’s only because she uses paint, and often draws inspiration from the elements of nature and the world that surrounds us. The work itself presents an imaginative, architecturally engaged hybrid of painting, sculpture, installation, and experience as she breaks out of [...]