#Lesli Wood

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Sculptures by Emily Sudd

Sculptures by Kyung Boon Oh

Work by Cheyann Washington

Photography by Kate Turning

Pictured above are some selections from Plateaus: Art That Resonates, a multisensory group exhibition at Art Share L.A. exploring the dualities of life that artists bring into their work.

From the gallery-

Art Share L.A. is pleased to present Plateaus: Art that Resonates a multidisciplinary and multisensory immersive art exhibition that explores dualities: art and craft, death and life, grief and love, and activity and stillness. These contrasts exist with an interdependent bond, reminding us that bonds are intrinsic and often intertwined partners. In multiple materials, processes, and scales, monument-like creations are revealed through thoughtful burnishing of passion.  The exhibition curated by Stacie B. London features seven visual artists: Amanda Maciel Antunes, Kyong Boon Oh, Hadley Holiday, Soojung Park, Emily Sudd, Kate Turning, and Cheyann Washington, along with additional contributions of ikebana by members of Sogestu Los Angeles, music by Rocco DeLuca, perfume by Lesli Wood (La Curie Eau de Parfume), and seating by Hunter Knight. Through a shared refinement of intentional experimentation with their mediums – acrylic panels, clay, glass, ink, photography, scent, sound, stone, thread, tree stumps, and wire– these artistic achievements reveal work that is brave, meditative, resilient, and vulnerable.

Our five senses inform our experiences and knowledge and assist us in ordering the world. In Plateaus: Art that Resonates the traditional forms of visual art of painting, photography, and sculpture are broadened to include aural art — via music and sound — and olfactory art. These multisensory and immersive pieces enhance the experience of viewing visual art and introduce additional dualities: sight with smell, smell with hearing, and hearing with sight. The expanded human experiences in an art gallery switch the expected experiences and invite the possibility of a familiar experience in a new way, or a breakthrough!

Breakthroughs often occur after long periods of what often seems like stagnation, or a plateau. It’s instinctual to want growth to be a continual upward trend, but instead it’s usually a series of long, flat periods (plateaus) of work with few visible results. Seemingly out of nowhere the plateau makes space for a breakthrough of creativity or growth—an intermittent moment when everything comes together. Instead of focusing on the result, it’s good to get comfortable in the plateau.

The artists and artisans of Plateaus: Art that Resonates use a broad range of approaches and techniques towards creative creations that are examples of how to grapple dualities, navigate the plateaus of life, and share breakthroughs that transmute our awareness of mortality into loving engagements with life and it’s contradictions and opposing perspectives that inspire and infuse life with meaning, immediacy, awareness, and appreciation.

Below are two of the ikebana created by members of Sogetsu Los Angeles.

This exhibition closes this Saturday (11/16) with a closing reception from 6-9 pm.

[murderonthedullexpress]

“Trapped”

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg

@/lilboyblueish on Instagram

Poem by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

I/Me/Myself - Will Wood

We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan

cis people asking cis questions by Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet)

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: meta

[victusinveritas]

[filmreveries]

“We crave stimulation for its own sake. We gorge ourselves on it. We always want more, whether it’s tactile, emotional, or sexual.”

Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg

[sofiasgirls]

Polaroids from ‘The Virgin Suicides’ set.

[lieutenant-columbro]

[daftmooncretin]

the perfect job for every supernatural character in fanfiction is in fact park ranger. dean should be a park ranger. cas should be a park ranger. sam should be a park ranger. jody, claire, kevin, charlie, bobby, gabriel, eileen, mick davies and rowena should be park rangers. jack should be a park ranger in training. stop making them cops in fanfiction. dean hates cops. fuck cops.

[unofficial-book-reviews]

"Do not think that I do not love you

if I scream

while I die.

Antler and thin black hoof

smashed against dark rock--

the struggle is the ritual

shining teeth tangled in

sinew and flesh.

You see,

I will go with you,

Because you call softly

because you are my brother

and my sister

Because the mountain is

our mother.

I will go with you

because you love me

while I die."

Excerpt from Deer Song, Leslie Marmon Silko

[cosmonautroger]

James Woods, Leslie Carlson, Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres • meta horror

meta horror is a horror film that is self-aware and self-referential to the genre, cracking jokes and exploring what makes the genre tick

[arashikohedervary]

Teacher: for bonus points, write an essay about your favorite actors/actresses.

Me: *about to introduce her to the entire Lotr cast, the Six Idiots and the OFMD cast*

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[uwmspeccoll]

And Again -- Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

LESLIE EVANS

The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is known to spear many things in our local ponds and waterways -- fish, crustaceans, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and even some small mammals -- but rarely cards with numbers on them. This wood engraving is by Watertown, Massachusetts artist, printmaker, and letterpress printer Leslie Evans (b. 1953), and it was one of the prints selected for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), and the image is from the catalog for that traveling show.

Evans is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was introduced to letterpress printing on the Vandercook proofing press. After stints working for artists and design studios, she founded her own press, Sea Dog Press, and came to wood engraving through annual workshops sponsored by WEN. So why the heron with the number 59? Because this engraving serves as the cover illustration for Block & Burin No. 59, Spring 2018, the official publication for members of the Wood Engravers' Network.

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Additional casting for the upcoming revival of Gypsy has been announced. The Notebook stars Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson will leave the currently-running show early to reunite as sisters Louise and June, respectively. Lili Thomas (Mazeppa), Mylinda Hull (Electra), and Lesli Margherita (Tessie Tura) join as the showstopping strippers.

[thebananaiscold]

I’ve come to the conclusion that I should start adding color into my background when I’m making mini characters, even if it’s just a plain color, anything is better than the solid white. Anyways, I drew @xxsweetoothxx ‘s Oc Pallywal! Also I made a tiny lil comic with him, Quinn, and Samson!

Confession Time: I used to lurk on your old blogs so I already knew about most of the characters like Thomas, Molly, Leslie, Rolan, etc. Although I don’t think Ragz was Jill/Jack back then (hell, I don’t even remember if they were called Ragz , pretty sure it was just Jack), so I’m learning some new stuff. I was almost 99% percent sure it was mentioned that Pallywal was divorced at one point so the comic mentions that, correct me if I got it wrong though.