“No stranger to a discerning brow or a poetically framed lip, Redondo Beach-based portrait artist Laura Leigh’s subjects often thrillingly teeter on opposingly heightened emotions.”
— Aimee Mandala on Painter Laura Leigh for Easy Reader News
“Contemplative postures give way to sensual, unbound gestures as the story takes flight. And while we witness the rising and falling in each act, the cyclical placement of the floral arrangements are a colorful cleansing of the visual palette— much like an intermission—gleaning their own glory in anticipation of what’s to come.”
— Aimee Mandala on Artist Theodosia Marchant for Asymmetric
“Photographer Meghan Quinn’s series, Personal Growth, celebrates the beauty and power in overcoming hardship. Though some elements of her narratives possess implications of danger, the overall mood of the finished works reflect a strength in calmness— a readied acceptance. Beauty growing out of darkness, Quinn’s scenes depict trust in nature as an innately necessary part of our existence, so much so that it is the very blood that pumps through our veins.”
— Aimee Mandala for Curator Nina Laddon, PAIR Exhibition Catalog
“Likened to that of a portrait photographer, Bob Francis uses the power of one to showcase form, structure, delicacy and ultimately the soul and character of the heroines within his frame. Emotive qualities abound, the profound glory found in these imperfect specimens illuminates a gentle acceptance of the inevitable stages of life and death. Wilted edges, veiny textures and colors bleeding to faded remnants of their original verve, we witness the beauty in a worthy blossom’s soft decline.”
— Aimee Mandala for Curator Nina Laddon, PAIR Exhibition Catalog
“The exhibition is arranged in a classic salon style that flows in the respective sequence of each hue in the rainbow. It’s almost impossible not take a step back and look at the installation in its wholeness. Each band of color is refracted with a range of art styles and media that take the viewer on an electromagnetic & multi-dimensional journey.”
— Aimee Mandala on BG Gallery’s Spectrum Gestalt for Diversions LA