Though Boston Court is primarily known for bold and adventurous music and theatre, visual art has long been a manifestation of our mission. We seek to extend the themes of the performances into our lobby, where our rotating visual art exhibits often comment on those themes, and also explore the role of visual arts in a performing arts setting.
ART UPFRONT COORDINATOR
Eric Beal is an artist, muralist, and curator in Los Angeles. As a curator and art installer, Eric has helped shape art shows across Los Angeles and showcased artists virtually. As the co-founder of The Artscene, a contemporary art community, eric has interviewed artists, written, and podcast about contemporary art in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Paris. In his art practice, eric utilizes stencils and spray paint to create symbolic representations through the layering of bold colors and shapes. His work has shown at various galleries, institutions, and fairs across the US and private collections abroad. His murals adorn businesses and walls in Los Angeles and Orange County.
ArtUpfront is made possible through generous support of Z. Clark Branson.
Alexandra Wiesenfeld
Alexandra Wiesenfeld is a Los Angeles Artist, whose work envisions our relationship to nature through the creation of “creature-beings and invented landscapes.” The vibrant patterns and pigments match the energies of rapidly evolving climates and our pursuits to adjust our ways of living. As internal angst matches the external, we reconnect with each other and nature to reform our bonds.
The works by Alexandra Wiesenfeld in Fraught/Fantastic reflect the conflict we hold in relation to both nature and our human emotional landscapes. Wiesenfeld’s pieces delve into the systems of this tension to create “order out of chaos.” The works reflect rocky turbulence, and suggest a hope of resolution through connection with the fantastical natural elements and ourselves. Through musing on how we feel as a part of nature and how we can resolve our understanding together, Wiesenfeld asks us to create a mutually beneficial paradigm with our ecosystem.
Alexandra Wiesenfeld
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Alexandra Wiesenfeld’s work delves into the intricate relationships between humans and the natural world, exploring themes of climate grief, interconnectedness, and hope. Wiesenfeld paints both creature-beings and invented landscapes that operate as portraits of inner states, metaphorically describing energies of attraction and repulsion as systems form and disintegrate. Propelled by the question of how we feel the things we see, she aims to carve out a more holistic way of looking at nature by expanding her conception of possible ways of being.
In order to interrogate our own place in the natural environment, Wiesenfeld tells herself a story: In the far future a few surviving nomads navigate a world that is unmoored, dangerous, and awe-inspiring as nature takes back what is hers. They search for communication with the supernatural as they try to make sense of their role in a world without the trappings of manmade structures. The artist’s approach to painting mirrors this searching quality: through a process of layering and destroying, she finds some kind of order out of chaos.
Alexandra Wiesenfeld is a German-born, Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico, and in Europe. Her work delves into the intricate relationships between humans and the natural world, exploring themes of climate grief, interconnectedness, and hope. She was represented in Los Angeles by Happy Lion Gallery and Klowden Mann Gallery (2010-20), and has also shown at FOCA, Angles Gallery, C-May Gallery PRJTLA, and the Eagle Rock Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, the Torrance Art Museum in California, the Dactyl Foundation in New York, the Roswell Museum of Art in New Mexico, the Missoula Museum of Art in Montana, Anton Gallery in Washington, DC, Kunst Karlshütte in Germany, Turps in London, and in art fairs in San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, London, Mexico City, and Stockholm. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally. She teaches painting and drawing at Los Angeles City College.
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