TAG Gallery Reopens Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16th

June 15, 2020

TAG Gallery reopens tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16th with amended business hours: Tue-Sat, 11 am - 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

County of Los Angeles Protocol for Galleries & Museums

We thank our artists and visitors for their support and patience during this time of COVID-19. TAG is committed to ensuring the safety of our staff, artists, and guests. As such, gloves, masks, and hand sanitizer will be stationed near the front entrance and throughout the gallery.

Visitors must wear a face mask while in the gallery. We will provide a mask for those without one in their possession.

Gallery staff will also frequently sanitize all surfaces, door knobs, and railing. All visitors will also be asked to register their visit in a private log to help oversee any form of contact tracing. This log is private and will will only be shared with county officials at their request. These policies meet and exceed the county health guidelines available on their site.

All exhibitions are available to be seen in person or by appointment. All exhibitions are also available to be viewed online. For all artwork/artist inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net.

We hope to see you soon!

Showing June 16 - July 11*

Katie Crown - Really Big Drawings

Sally Jacobs - California Grown

Shelley Lazarus - Mostly H2O

Toni Reinis - Moral Stain | Go Figure

*Due to county guidelines and policies, no reception will be held.

Black Lives Matter

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.

Please click the links below to donate and take action:

Black Visions Collective: blackvisionsmn.org | Reclaim The Block: reclaimtheblock.org
Campaign Zero: joincampaignzero.org | Unicorn Riot: unicornriot.ninja

Curate LA list of Black owned galleries!

Come Visit Us:

TAG Gallery is located at 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

This Week At TAG: SKÜT, Arlene Weinstock, Pam Douglas, Farnaz Shadravan

June 14, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! View works from SKÜT, Arlene Weinstock, and Pam Douglas. Also check out the first episode of our new art podcast "TAG Bytes" to hear artist Farnaz Shadravan in conversation with gallery manager Rakeem Cunningham! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net and feel free to check out our new online store here!

SKÜT

Heart Stone Wall

Digital On Canvas, 20" x 16" | $200

Connect with SKÜT on social media @inkedbyskut:

Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

inkedbyskut.com

Arlene Weinstock

We the People

water media, 18.5" x 24" | $900

Follow Arlene: instagram.com/arlenew.art

Website: arlenew.com

Pam Douglas

Sanctuary series detail.

"The second shelter in Sanctuary Part 3 is a refuge made of sticks and burlap like the simple hug we all need now."

Follow Pam: instagram.com/pamdouglasart

Website: pamdouglasart.com

TAG Gallery is proud to introduce a new series of recorded discussions with our member artists entitled TAG Bytes. The goal of these interviews is to give our audience an in depth look into our artist roster and delve deeper into their practices. Th… — TAG Gallery is proud to introduce a new series of recorded discussions with our member artists entitled **TAG Bytes**. The goal of these interviews is to give our audience an in depth look into our artist roster and delve deeper into their practices. The first episode of TAG Bytes features artist **Farnaz Shadravan** in conversation with gallery manager **Rakeem Cunningham** to discuss her inspirations, process, and the importance of making meaningful artwork.

Listen To TAG Bytes, Episode 1: Farnaz Shadravan

Follow Farnaz here:
instagram.com/shadravanfarnaz
farnazshadravan.com

SKÜT

Go with Pride

Connect with SKÜT on social media @inkedbyskut:

Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

inkedbyskut.com

Member Artist Spotlight: Black Lives Matter, Ernie Marjoram, Gary Polonsky, Betzi Stein, Tom Wheeler

June 10, 2020

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.
**erniemarjoram.com**

**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.
**erniemarjoram.com**

**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**

Screen Shot 2020-06-10 at 2.44.51 PM.png — **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**

This Week At TAG: Farnaz Shadravan, Edward Lightner, James R. Lane, K Ryan Henisey

May 30, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! View works from Ed Lightner, James Lane, K Ryan Henisey, & Shalla Javid and listen to a conversation between Farnaz Shadravan and gallery manager Rakeem Cunningham! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net and feel free to check out our new online store here!

TAG Gallery is proud to introduce a new series of recorded discussions with our member artists entitled TAG Bytes. The goal of these interviews is to give our audience an in depth look into our artist roster and delve deeper into their practices. The first episode of TAG Bytes features artist Farnaz Shadravan in conversation with gallery manager Rakeem Cunningham to discuss her inspirations, process, and the importance of making meaningful artwork.

Follow Farnaz here:

instagram.com/shadravanfarnaz

farnazshadravan.com