November 2019
Orion Martin & Alexandra Noel at POTTS
On view: September 29–November 17, 2019 Typically when you see an art show, there is a press release to offer you guidance towards how to interpret the work in front of you. But at Bolthole, a two person show at POTTS gallery in Alhambra, only a stream-of-conscious poem of uncanny words and phrases is offered: “Bolthole...Flung Toast...Crass Map...Carnage and Cards...Grease Trap...” Painted on oddly shaped panels, Orion Martin’s paintings, although hyperrealistic, leave room for interpretation—in one, titled Listening Purse, delicate lines swirl around…
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Don’t Think: Tom, Joe and Rick Potts at POTTS
On view: December 8, 2019–February 16 At POTTS, an artist-run space set in a former plumbing supply store in Alhambra, the gallery is hosting its last show before closing. Fittingly, the exhibition features the three Potts brothers who ran the plumbing store (also called Potts), and still have art studios in the back room. The exhibition highlights the experimental nonchalance of the three and makes little distinction between “Art” with a capital-A, and other types of creative output that are less-often…
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