TAG Gallery stands in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the fight to combat racial inequality, racial injustice, and police brutality. We encourage our audience to not be silent.
Here’s a list of organizations and resources where you can donate, participate, and take action:
Black Visions Collective: blackvisionsmn.org
Reclaim The Block: reclaimtheblock.org
Campaign Zero: joincampaignzero.org
Unicorn Riot: unicornriot.ninja
Black-Owned Museums, Galleries, and Art Spaces in Los Angeles (Curate LA)
Ernie Marjoram
Ernie Marjoram has been a professional artist since 1993. He began his career as an architectural illustrator and soon moved into entertainment and advertising art. He has been teaching perspective drawing in the Production Design department at the American Film Institute since 1999 and has been teaching at Chapman University in Orange for the last two years.
Ernie Marjoram
Ernie began exhibiting as a fine artist in 2003 and his current exhibition, Guilty Pleasures will be his seventh major exhibition. His work has been exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and Ernie was an invited artist at the 2008 Torrey Pines En Plein Air Competition. His painting Shelter from the Storm won the first place award in an open competition held at Ironstone Vineyards in Murphy, California.
Gary Polonsky
What does one say to explain, as if that was possible, the world we live in. How to describe our time and place in terms that reflect our experience. The vast landscape of human endeavors over the last 2,000 years is testament to our successes and failures.
Despite the current political circumstance, I try to stay focused on the goals I've set for myself: To capture a thin slice of our "American" experience, in all of it's quotidian glory. To somehow make a career of creating artwork, satisfying for myself and others. To offer my humble attempt at producing something beautiful, and fun, and lasting. Something, hopefully, that reminds us of the wonder and richness of now.
garypolonsky.net
Gary Polonsky
Born and raised is Los Angeles, Gary Polonsky attended Santa Monica City College and then on to Art Center College of Design (then on 3rd street in LA). It seems, even early on, that Polonsky was always interested in art, drawing cars, building models, looking at art with more than just a passing interest. A turning point for him was viewing the work of Jackson Pollock abstract expressionist movement. "It looked, and was, a very creative, and satisfying experience. That was the spring board by which I began my serious venture into the art world."
garypolonsky.net
Betzi Stein
People are Betzi Stein's muse. Her contemporary portrait paintings, sourced from photos she takes herself, celebrate the ordinary and extraordinary people who capture her imagination. The spark that begins Stein's creative process is what she finds humorous in the people she chooses as subjects. Once committed, Stein combines the formal elements that go into creating a work of art with a spiritual connection that breathes life into the people she paints.
Follow Betzi: instagram.com/betzisteinartist
Website: betzistein.com/home
Betzi Stein
"My interest in figurative realism began in college majoring in sculpture and then in my profession as a massage therapist sculpting living bodies rather than clay. When I began to paint, hands--the essential tools of massage--were my first subjects.
In recent years, I returned seriously to painting the figure, and expanded my oeuvre by welcoming portrait commissions of adults, children and pets. I work in my home studio in the Palms section of Los Angeles, California."
Follow Betzi: instagram.com/betzisteinartist
Website: betzistein.com/home
Tom Wheeler
Landscape photographers direct their attention to the beauty, solace, and majesty of nature, and any intrusion into that by man is necessarily a distraction. That is not Tom Wheeler's message. "I am not a landscape photographer. My work revels in intrusion, often drastically altering the intended aesthetics of natural creation. My images are not about mankind “and” nature, or even “in” nature. It’s more about mankind “as” nature, as one entity.
Follow Tom: instagram.com/thomaswheelerphotographic
Website: thomaskwheeler.com
Tom Wheeler
My body is in nearly every image, yet you cannot see it – it has blended entirely with the scenery. Even the images with portraits intend to convey some form of spiritual and physical blend with the environment. I examine our loss of connection between mankind and the natural world. Nature wields great power over us, but we are not always at it’s mercy. We manipulate nature to our own desire, and how we choose to do that reveals our connection to our natural environment. Or, can we create wholly manufactured beauty within nature. Can we do this together?”
Follow Tom: instagram.com/thomaswheelerphotographic
Website: thomaskwheeler.com