Gallery Crawl

Non-Violent Femmes -- April 2009

View Gallery Crawl video featuring the April 2009 exhibition of Melanie Pullen's photographs Violent Times at Stephen Wirtz Gallery and interviews with artists Marci Washington and Tara Tucker about their concurrent exhibitions at Rena Bransten Gallery, Dark Mirror and Foreign Relations. Please Note: This segment contains some violent imagery.

In April 2009, Gallery Crawl visits with Melanie Pullen to learn more about her series and meta-series of photographs on the topic of war, and how they relate to her highly successful High Fashion Crime Scenes exhibition and catalog from 2005. Employing movie studios and fashion models, Pullen spent years staging scenes for her Violent Times photographs, which serve as a critique of the media's role in glamorizing war and violence.

Down the block at Rena Bransten Gallery, Marci Washington describes her new series of paintings, Dark Mirror, and the secret narrative behind the haunting images inspired by cannibalism and vampirism, while Tara Tucker discusses her childhood experiences with taxidermy and her current show Foreign Relations, which calls on animals to represent stories of human conflict.

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Featured Exhibitions:

Stephen Wirtz Gallery

In April 2009, Stephen Wirtz Gallery Featured Violent Times, a new series of photographs by Los Angeles-based artist, Melanie Pullen.

Rena Bransten Gallery

In April 2009, Rena Bransten Gallery exhibits two solo shows Dark Mirror and Foreign Relations, featuring work by local artists Marci Washington and Tara Tucker.

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