Enrique Martinez Celaya 's new paintings grouped under the title Berlin are a subtle juxtapositions of images and text. The works appear to be soft-focus depictions in sombre tones of the relationship between man and nature and the struggle for survival. In addition to the group of new paintings on view, Celaya also presents a large hand-scrawled poetic text that occupies two walls in the second gallery. Maxi Cohen is a photographer and film maker who resides in New York. Although Cohen has been making photographs for many years this is her Los Angeles debut.
Photographs here depict the glow of television light as seen from the outside looking in.
Cohen is something of a voyeur, wandering through the urban landscape looking to capture the TV's all pervasive glow. In Robert Levine 's exhibition, Things Painted , he has carefully constructed everyday objects like cereal boxes, Elmer's glue, cans of spray paint, as well as pencils in various forms out of wood. They are hand painted to simulate the 'real' object. These fabrications are presented either alone or in groups on white shelves that line the gallery. One is struck by the objects' verisimiltude.