“Looking Back”
I try to paint what is around me, paint what I see when i walk out the door. To give an interpretation and a bend to it. To pick out glances and relationships and define for myself the meaning of space
Recent Posts
- “Angelin”
- “Fleeting Glance” 41×35
- “Prone” 35×41
- “Ascension” 41×35
- “Open” 35×41
- “Topside” 41×35
- “Justine”
- “Elon”
- “Protester”
- “Marcus”
- Review in Fabrik
- “Grandfather”
- “Neighbor”
- “Current and Instinct” 44×56
- “Indeterminate Depth” 12×12
- “Inflection” 12×12
- At George Billis LA Gallery thru June 24th
- “The Sound of Color” 17×23
- Studio Visit with Gary Brewer
- “Lines Drawn to Yesterday” 44×56
Bryan Ida
“Paul” is the grandson of Juanita ”Holy-named Woman” Left-Hand. Juanita, a Native American woman was one of the last speakers of the dialect spoken by her tribe, the Assiniboine. Born around 1896, she witnessed the long battle to maintain traditional Indian life on the reservation as it was fought and lost. Juanita was overjoyed when historians came to ask her help in transcribing the dialect and the traditional Indian stories and their accompanying hand gestures. Those transcriptions, as well as her traditional beadwork designs and dolls now reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archive.
The text is the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which mandated all Indian Nations in the southern states to be relocated west of the Mississippi. This document was one of the opening salvos to the systematic dismantling of native cultures and that relocation resulted in what is known as the “Trail of Tears” which decimated the populations of the southern Indian Nations. #ink #portrait #nativeamerican #indianremovalact #defiance #inkportrait #laart #art#culvercityartsdistrict
“Mike” was drafted into the army in 1968 during the Vietnam War. He served in the 1st Calvary as a helicopter gunner and was shot down by a rocket after 8 months.
The text Is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 which authorized the use of conventional military forces in Vietnam without a declaration of war by congress. 1968 was the year of the Tet offensive which proved to be the turning point of US involvement in asia.
60x37 ink on panel
#vietnamveteran #thankyou #portrait #ink #pen #draw #drawing #laartist #culvercityartsdistrict
Littoral at Beyond Baroque opens Sunday April 7th 1-4pm The word “littoral” is defined as the zone where the land, air, and sea come together. In this zone three disparate worlds interact and form an environment that blends calm, serene moments with chaos and danger.
Studio shot #culvercityartsdistrict #studio #photo
Embodied:St Anthony & the Desert of Tears at MOAH: Cedar in lancaster #installation #leonardgreco #lancaster #museum
This saturday there will be more performances at the iBiennale in Honolulu. The biennale runs thru march 24th. My piece “Manzanar” made it debut and hangs in the Ycenter for visual arts. #Artropocene #ibiennale #hawaiiart #honolulu #laartist #biannale
Maccabee Shelley at New Wright Gallery MFA Thesis show. Cast glass furniture @maccabeeshelley #ucla #mfa #castglass #sculpture #glass
Blum and Poe “Paregon” group show . Japanese art of the 1980’s and 1990’s #blumandpoe #culvercityartsdistrict #japaneseart
“Wakana” another portrait buried deep in water veil. #portrait #water #waves #painting #art #fineart #laart #artist #painter #paintings #contemporaryart #paint #artwork #shore #surf #surfing #littoral #shoreline #ocean #sea #losangelesartist #losangeles
“Angelin” Angelin is the daughter of my friends who are first generation Mexican Immigrants. The text is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which was the first federal law to ban an entire ethnic group from immigrating to the US. #immigration #drawing #draw #ink #portrait #art #fineart #artist #losangelesartist #losangeles #laart
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