This Week At TAG: James R. Lane, Shalla Javid, Damon Reinagle, Liliana D'Ambrosio

May 23, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! work from James R. Lane, Shalla Javid, & Damon Reinagle, & Liliana D'Ambrosio. For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

**James R. Lane**

**James R. Lane**, *2020 Jelly Fish*, complex photography on tissue, 20" x 23"
Follow James: **instagram.com/jamesrlaneart**
Website: **jamesrlaneart.com**

**Shalla Javid**

**Shalla Javid**, *Love is My Religion,* acrylic on canvas, 40" x 30"
Follow Shalla: **instagram.com/shallaart**
Website: **shallartist.com**

**Damon Reinagle**

**Damon Reinagle**, *White Hope,* colored pencil on butcher paper, 18" x 15"
Follow Damon: **instagram.com/damonsart47**
Website: **damonsart.com**

**Liliana** **D'Ambrosio**

**Liliana D'Ambrosio**, *Pomegranate Harvest*, Acrylic, 30" x 40"
Follow Liliana - **facebook.com/liliana.dambrosio2**
Website: **lilianadambrosio.com**

Member Artist Spotlight: K Ryan Henisey, SKÜT, Garo Ourfalian, Farnaz Shadravan

May 19, 2020

For all artwork/artist inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net
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**K Ryan Henisey**

As a California-based artist, **K Ryan Henisey's** work is heavily influenced by the people, culture, and landscape of the Golden State. His personal narrative is often interwoven with mythological subjects, using patterning as a vehicle to make meaning from our post modern existence.

"I use a segmented form, highlighted with patterns and material," explains the artist. "With these two visual tools, I create connections within a context of deconstruction and Queer theory. Ultimately, I believe that existence must be constructed—typically through the hands of an artist—in order to hold value."
Follow Ryan: **@kryanhenisey**
Website: **kryanhenisey.com**
Blog: **kryanhenisey.com/blog**

**K Ryan Henisey**

K Ryan Henisey has displayed work throughout California and will debut internationally in China in 2020. Ryan won an Award of excellence in fine art at the 2015 California State Fair. He currently serves as president of TAG Gallery, an artist cooperative in Los Angeles.
Follow Ryan: **@kryanhenisey**
Website: **kryanhenisey.com**
Blog: **kryanhenisey.com/blog**

**SKÜT**

I create for happiness. I've always been a geek, and my folks encouraged artistic curiosity. My journey in the early days of designing and creating **Grindr**, fusing art & technology in a lush user experience, taught me to explore and push beyond. I try to infuse that ideology into art by experimenting with new media and fun materials.

As a gay man, and proud member of the LGBT community, it’s important for me to represent queer concepts in all forms of design. I love incorporating themes of awareness, acceptance, and activism into my art. Expression through color, texture, and design are all part of that narrative. I donate a portion of my art sales to charitable causes, including the **Los Angeles LGBT Center**.
Follow SKÜT @**inkedbyskut** on social media:
Instagram: **instagram.com/inkedbyskut**
Twitter: **twitter.com/inkedbyskut**
Facebook: **facebook.com/inkedbyskut**

**SKÜT**

**SKÜT (Scott Lewallen)** is a Southern California artist and Los Angeles native best known as original designer and Co-Founder of **Grindr**. Notably, SKÜT was featured in **WeHo In Paso** via the City of West Hollywood and held a solo exhibition at **The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art** in Downtown Los Angeles. He joined TAG Gallery for 2020 and currently creates art in his on-site studio.
Follow SKÜT @**inkedbyskut** on social media:
Instagram: **instagram.com/inkedbyskut**
Twitter: **twitter.com/inkedbyskut**
Facebook: **facebook.com/inkedbyskut**

**Garo Ourfalian**

In an effort to understand himself and others, **Garo Ourfalian** uses art as a means to express and analyze human behavior. Moreover, I like to circulate ideas, elicit emotions, and address psychological matters via art. In my series “0 to 1,” I strive to uncover an art form wherein it’s possible to move from one mental state into another. It’ll take you from 0 to 1. The 0 to 1 movement is aimed at changing your level of consciousness into what ever it is that you desire to receive from the art. Whether it be broadening your perspective or finding value in the unexpected, the intent is to reach uncharted territory.
Follow Garo: **instagram.com/garoourfalian**
Website: **garochegar.com**

**Garo Ourfalian**

I was born in Lebanon in 1968 and started painting at a very early age and have been painting ever since. In an attempt to understand myself and human behavior, I believe art, shapes, colors, and figures are the key. However, I believe there is no final destination. There are no conclusions. Art is a portal through which I try to understand love, hate, anxiety, and depression. I had many choices in life, but one I could not escape - art. It was the only "must."
Follow Garo: **instagram.com/garoourfalian**
Website: **garochegar.com**

**Farnaz Shadravan**

I am drawn to art making for my love of storytelling. Often I work with found objects. I add my mark to objects that have stories of their own and I am always humbled by their magnificence.
Follow Farnaz: **instagram.com/shadravanfarnaz**
Website: **farnazshadravan.com**

**Farnaz Shadravan**

**Farnaz Shadravan** was born and raised in Iran. She was trained as a Manuscript Illuminator of the Koran. Originally arriving in the United States in 1979, she was deported back to Iran in 1981. She returns to America in 1986, graduates from Art School-University of Utah in 1990 and from UCSF School of Dentistry in 1994. She has also had extensive training in Printmaking and Sculpture at San Francisco Art Institute and private workshops. She is currently practicing Dentistry in the Bay Area.

Follow Farnaz: **instagram.com/shadravanfarnaz**
Website: **farnazshadravan.com**

This Week At TAG: Katie Crown, Shalla Javid, Sunhee Joo, Karen Woodward Sarrow

May 16, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a walkthrough of Katie Crown's latest exhibition "Really Big Drawings", as well as work from Shalla David, Sunhee Joo, & mask making by Karen Woodward Sarrow. For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

Katie Crown walks us through her recent series of experimental works utilizing fabric. Click the link for the full video!

Follow Katie www.instagram.com/katiecrownart
Website: https://www.katiecrown.net

**Shalla Javid**

**Shalla Javid**, *Thinking of You,* acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24"

Follow Shalla: **instagram.com/shallaart**
Website: **shallartist.com**

**Sunhee Joo**

**Sunhee Joo**, *A Girl with a Lamb,* digital media, 9" x 9"

Follow Sunhee: **instagram.com/sunhee.joo**
Website: **sunheejoo.com**

Screen Shot 2020-05-16 at 8.20.37 PM.png — **Karen Woodward Sarrow**

**Karen Woodward Sarrow**, TAG member and director of **ArtHYPE** has been making masks for her family and others. "I taught my husband to sew, and we've made almost 100 reusable masks for both national customers, and to donate to Valley Community Healthcare as an ongoing project."

Follow Karen: **instagram.com/karensarrow**
Website: **sarrowstudio.com**
ArtHype: **www.arthype.net**

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Member Artist Spotlight: Pam Douglas, Shirley Asano Guldimann, Arlene Weinstock, Judy Zimbert

May 12, 2020

Member Artist Spotlight

For all artwork/artist inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net
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TAG Member Artist Pam Douglas Sanctuary Piece A.jpg — **Pam Douglas**

We are in a startling time hearing the cries of children torn from their parents at the American border. Beyond this country, refugees are seeking sanctuary around the world. The multi-year *Sanctuary* project is a visceral response to their humanity.
For decades I created individual paintings and assemblages ranging from abstract through figurative in a variety of mediums and I’ve been in many exhibitions. I’ve been well reviewed in shows including the California African American Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And my work was featured at the Los Angeles Art Show at the Convention Center in 2019.
Now *Sanctuary* is a three-part installation that expands on all my previous work. Entering *Part One* a visitor is immersed in life-size drawings with sculptural elements draped ceiling to floor behind a chain link fence. These walking figures are parents seeking refuge and children caged behind ropes. The 60-foot installation makes the viewer a witness to the refugee journey.

TAG Member Artist Pam Douglas Sanctuary Piece B.jpg — **Pam Douglas**

In *Part One* (2019), the figures travel by land. *Part Two* (2020) is travel by sea. Hand made “rafts” have canvas sails where the refugees are drawn in the same charcoal style as the walkers. Behind the rafts that fan out across the gallery floor will be a 36-foot wide abstract mural that I painted to suggest the devastation they are escaping.
I am currently beginning *Part Three*, the Shelters. These are fabric-draped free-standing structures that will culminate the journey. Watch for their debut at TAG in 2021.
Follow Pam: **instagram.com/pamdouglasart**
Website: **pamdouglasart.com**
Blog: **pamdouglasart.com/recent-posts/art-in-progress**

TAG Member Artist Shirley Asano Guldimann Piece A.jpg — **Shirley Asano Guldimann**

Shirley Asano Guldimann is a Southern California artist, whose works are held in private collections. Her figurative art, painted on slippery surfaces with water-based mediums, evokes the transient and elusive nature of her subjects. This questing after the fleeting reflects her Japanese-inflected aesthetic.

TAG Member Artist Shirley Asano Guldimann Piece B.jpg — **Shirley Asano Guldimann**

Follow Shirley - **instagram.com/shirley.visualcommonplace**
Website: **studiotabby.com**

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Piece A.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

My recent work is abstract and grows intuitively from the first mark of color placed on the surface. I start with a color and explore an aspect of that color - often I'm interested in complimentary color. If a representational elements appears, I follow it and move the work in that direction.
I mix media using paint, pencil, ink, and pastel, as needed to get to where the work needs to go. The handmade paper series is part of my abstract work. It is created by developing sheets of paper from pulp that I sculpt, texture, and paint. This approach is quite different from how I develop representational work.

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Piece B.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

I think of my representational artwork as pausing time. Each image captures a space in time for personal contemplation and rest. The space can be any place, but it is almost always outdoors in nature, on the street where I live, or places I visit.
Fog, rain, and darkness are frequent subjects of my work. They offer the contemplative space I am trying to achieve and leave room for interpretation. The media and techniques I use emphasize the ambiguity of what I see. I work predominantly in colored pencil for these representational landscapes and atmospherics.
Follow Arlene: **instagram.com/arlenew.art**
Website: **arlenew.com**

TAG Member Artist Judy Zimbert Piece A.png — **Judy Zimbert**

The paintings of Jewish-American artist Judy Zimbert are made from the application of multitudinous layers of paint. As many are removed as restored in Zimbert’s attempt to capture the ambiguous nature of existence and infuse each piece with all the emotions felt and experienced within life’s moments. Each work is original to Zimbert’s experiences of summers in Michigan, life in her own neighborhood or travels to distant lands.

**Judy Zimbert**

Inspired by the post-war angst of such painters as Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach and the German Expressionist art movement, Zimbert’s paintings use symbolism to evoke meaning as well as human traits, to express intensity, place and mood. She aims to translate the emotional quality of everyday and current events and to weave a visual narrative for her viewer, inviting that viewer to immerse himself or herself into a a shared emotional experience. Judy Zimbert currently lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.
Follow Judy: **instagram.com/zimbert.judy**
Website: **judyzimbert.com**

This Week At TAG: Fielden Harper, Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K Ryan Henisey, Shelley Lazarus

May 9, 2020

This Week At TAG…

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a virtual studio visit and walkthrough from Fielden Harper as well as work from Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K. Ryan Henisey, & Shelley Lazarus! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

TAG Member Artist Content:

Fielden Harper gives us a peek into studio her recent series of experimental works utilizing fabric. Click the link for the full video!

Follow Fielden: instagram.com/fieldenharperart
Website: fieldenharperart.net

TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Primal Dance.jpg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Primal Dance,* acrylic & glass bead gel on canvas, 36" x 48"

Follow Bruce: **instagram.com/brucesanders.malibu.art**
Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Guardians Of The Dream.jpeg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Guardians of the Dream,* acrylic & coarse pumice gel on canvas, 30” x 40”

Follow Bruce: **instagram.com/brucesanders.malibu.art**
Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Illi.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

*Illi,* mixed media pencil and water-media, 18" x 24"

Follow Arlene: **instagram.com/arlenew.art**
Website: **arlenew.com**

Santa Clarita Arts is presenting a virtual take on its New Heights series with artist development videos available to the public. The series alternates between visual and musical arts. In this episode, K. Ryan Henisey shares his five tips on how to stay inspired:

1. Organize and Prioritize
2. Create and Art Routine
3. Connect Creatively
4. Care for Yourself
5. Make Something

View the full episode here!
Link to ArtsinSCV!

Follow Ryan: instagram.com/kryanhenisey
Website: kryanhenisey.com