October 2020
“Pauli & Paules” at La Loma Projects
From KCRW's Art Insider Lindsay Preston Zappas: Recently I visited La Loma Projects, a gallery located in a home in Pasadena, just as the golden hour was casting a warm hue over Jude Pauli’s ceramic sculptures. Installed throughout the back garden, the pieces are modernist compositions that the artist makes by stacking interlocking ceramic forms. Pauli makes her own clay and adds brick and other materials into her clay mix to create a warm earthen surface across these geometric and subtly…
Find out more »November 2021
Aaron Morse at La Loma Projects
At La Loma Projects, an exhibition of paintings titled Mineral Mythology by Aaron Morse pushes those titular words to their limits. Each painting is a dense soup of strata, flora, fauna, mythology, and archeology, pulling from everything and everything, as if to suggest an intentional compression of time and space. In Wilderness (all works 2021), the composition is made of small vignettes, each pulling towards a different time period, place, and locale. A woman in the foreground wears a ‘70s-style…
Find out more »July 2023
Microgreens at La Loma Projects
It’s summer, and the group show abounds across the city. A new group exhibition at La Loma takes the well-trodden theme of landscape to new, playful realms. Notably, the five artists utilize nature in their work, but render their flora and fauna in smaller scales — the exhibition is cheekily titled Microgreens. JP Munro’s pint-sized paintings draw you in with their thickly painted surfaces. In them, loosely-rendered plants and figures can barely be seen amongst the darkly-painted hues and thick…
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