BCBG MAXAZRIA Artist Spotlight: Lori La Mont

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Fashion guru Michael and I had the pleasure to meet artist Lori La Mont at her home in Long Beach, California. Her large-scale watercolor paintings are executed with incredible precision, with a bold use of color formed from many saturated layers applied with meticulous detail. Pieces often require several months to complete.

We had the opportunity to ask Lori a few questions about her style and inspiration.

What is your personal style?

My personal style leans toward the minimal and centers on preppy with a little bit of nautical tomboy and just a dash of bohemian.

How would you describe your art?

My paintings are first all about saturated color and second, a presence; they’re very large! My paintings are strictly watercolor on paper, mostly figurative, but in the modern category and influenced by popular culture. I’m fascinated with the life of animals and all the different ways we coexist with them. I love the folklore and the fairy tales and the human characteristics we can’t help but assume onto them. I paint my subjects to convey our very human emotions and myths and contradictions. Color, multiples, stripes and lines…these are my passion.

Favorite art moment?

My favorite art moment was being at my opening reception at the Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica this winter. It was a breaking-out moment for me: a broader audience, new paintings that I’m so excited about and sharing the exhibit with the late Imogen Cunningham, whom I have admired for ages. I was giddy with the accomplishment. On another note, my favorite art memory is of going the Movieland Wax Museum, where my mom would take us on rainy days. We treated the celebrity figures as well as the reproduction masterpiece paintings on the walls with equal awe and appreciation.

What do you love about BCBGMAXAZRIA?

I love BCBGMAXAZRIA for its spirit of individuality. Its motto is the motto I have lived by my whole life! Bon chic, bon genre: good style, good attitude, and it gets right to the heart of the matter for me. I’m Parisian when I wear it, feminine, crisp, happy, modern and perfectly me!

Thank you, Lori, for sharing your art with us and making the world a more colorful place.

To find out more about Lori and her art, check out lorilamont.com & www.frankpicturesgallery.com

Ciao for now,

Clifford
BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP Creative Director, Licensing

Photography by Natasha Zelikova.
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Huffington Post Arts Review Hermann Lederle Show

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Hermann Lederle & Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr & Hermann Lederle

Starr & Lederle in front of a Lederle painting.

Hermann Lederle’s show Footprints on Snow is currently on view at Frank Pictures Gallery through April 27th, 2012 with an artist reception this Sunday, April 15th, from 6-9 PM.

Artist Reception – Hermann Lederle: Footprints on Snow

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Artist Reception: Sunday April 15th 6-9 PM @ Frank Pictures Gallery

Mercedes Gertz & Nancy Louise Jones – Nymphas Dissolutio

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Mercedes Gertz & Nancy Louise Jones

On Exhibition now through April 27th.

Inspired when a recently divorced friend referred to her bridal pictures as her “most valuable piece of trash”, Gertz began a 10 year odyssey of collecting her now divorced friends discarded bridal portraits and in collaboration with the artist Nancy Louise Jones, reconstructing them into Mandalas, circular symbols of what Carl Jung called “the representation of the unconscious self”, thus creating a new symbolic landscape out of the detritus of the white wedding’s once-upon-a-time broken promises. “My intention is to create individuation (as opposed to the union of matrimony) for the divorced brides. I want for them to exist without the need for a groom or someone outside of themselves for completion. In this way they embody both the archetype and its consequences. Marriage and divorce are seen in the light of false expectations. Art has that power of deconstructing and constructing an idea by giving it a body and a shape.”

Mercedes Gertz was born in Mexico City. In 1990, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Parson’s School of Design. In 1993, she co-founded with Gabriela Serna a children’s art education program sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum in Mexico City.  In 1997, Mercedes exhibited her Alicias collection in Mexico City. In 1998, she was awarded the Fonca scholarship for culture and arts initiative. She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in 2001 from Otis College of Art and Design. From 2001 to 2005 she was the Chief Curator of the galleries of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, Her graphic work is in the collection of the Museum Luis Cuevas, Mexico City.

Nancy Louise Jones received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles where she mentored with William Brice. Her first solo show was for the City of Los Angeles at the “Bridge Gallery”, followed by exhibitions at the Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, and Harleen Allen Gallery, to name a few.  Her work is in the permanent collection of the South Bay Contemporary Museum and many private collections.

Hermann Lederle – Footprints on Snow

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Hermann Lederle - Intoxication

Frank Pictures Gallery announces Footprints on Snow, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of artist Hermann Lederle April 3 – April 27 2012. A reception for the artist will be held Sunday, April 15 from 6:30 to 9:30. Lederle’s paintings continue to evolve with dense color expanses woven into heavily textured line structures. The latest series entails a two-stage process, where at first a graduated color is applied with a traditional brush allowing for the distinct qualities of its stroke to emerge. The second stage is executed with a painter’s knife often with ostensibly contradictory linear shapes and lines, imbuing it with the properties of rival perceptions taking place within the canvases. “Lederle’s work has a 3-D, almost architectural reality”, says gallerist Laurie Frank, “ achieved without employing geometry. He creates a progression of inner space expanse that the paintings invite you to enter as an explorer evoking the thrilling sensation of stepping on virgin ground.”

Hermann Lederle was born in Germany. He studied painting, photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include shows at the Alicia Armstrong Gallery Palm Desert, the Copal Fine Art Gallery Palm Desert, the Solaris Gallery Los Angeles, the MVPA Artfest Los Angeles, the Paris Photo Gallery, and the Schroeck- Schmidt Gallery in Germany. He is also a celebrated director and production designer having worked with Michael Bay, Mark Romanek, Paula Walker, Erik Ifergan and Phil Joanou. He has directed commercials for AT&T, NFL/Seattle Seahawks, VoiceStream Wireless, Heineken and Bacardi Rum, to name a few.