ART / SNEAK PEEK : OFFBEAT ACTRESS BUILDS `NEW WORK'EXHIBIT BY HAND.Check out her eccentric film roles - ``Twin Peaks,'' ``Drugstore Cowboy drugstore cowboy n. 1. A loafer who passes time on sidewalks or at drugstores. 2. One who dresses or acts like a cowboy but has never been one. ,'' ``My Own Private Idaho'' - and you'd reckon that actress Grace Zabriskie leans toward the unconventional. So it's not surprising that Zabriskie maintains another outlet for her offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. sensibility. In Hollywood, Zabriskie has been photographing her surroundings and its inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. for years. But that's only the half of it. With her daughter, painter Marion Lane, she also constructs functional clocks, tables, humidors and other small furnishings, using these collages as a forum for her photos. An exhibition of Zabriskie's ``New Work'' is being presented through Jan. 5 at the Gallery of Functional Art in the Bergamot Station Bergamot Station is a facility housing many art galleries in Santa Monica, California, USA. History The name "Bergamot Station" dates back to 1875 when it was a stop for the Pacific Electric rail system which served the Los Angeles area from 1875 to 1953. complex, 2525 Michigan Ave., building E3, in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . Admission is free. Running in conjunction is ``Chandeliers,'' a showcase of both classical and whimsical works that transform light sources into sculpture. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. For information, call (310) 829-6990. Crime and punishment Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the : A cartoonish jumble of police cars, beer cans, bullet shells and cigarette butts catches the viewer's eye. Underscoring the visual uproar, two sawed-off shotguns blast great puffy clouds of bright yellow smoke across the painting. ``He'll Have Twenty Years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. to Think About It'' is the title of Alex de Leon's 1996 painting on steel. Though the images are childlike and as colorful as cotton candy, they leave a bitter aftertaste aftertaste /af·ter·taste/ (-tast?) a taste continuing after the substance producing it has been removed. af·ter·taste n. . The collision of innocence, ignorance and violence is a central motif in ``The Coroner Will Performer an Autopsy,'' a collection of de Leon's new paintings on steel at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd. Hours are noon to 6:30 p.m. daily, through Dec. 29. Admission is free. For information, call (213) 666-7667. Virtual reality: West Valley ``realism'' artist Mary Ann Panopoulos describes herself as a portrait painter, but not of formal, chairman-of-the-board-in-a-leather-armchair kind of portraits. Her oils in canvas depict ordinary people from extraordinary perspectives - side views, God's-eye angles and so on. So there's a certain edge to the title of her show, ``Painting of Everyday Life,'' which is showing through Dec. 31 at the Janss Marketplace, 205 Moorpark Road, Suite F, Thousand Oaks. Hours at the co-op are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For information, call (805) 379-1901. |
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