Solo Show Opening October 17th // Billis Williams Gallery

LINDSEY WARREN: SOMEWHERE, HERE
October 17 - November 14, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17th, 3-6pm

Stadium View 2026 // oil on canvas // 44”x55”

Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present Lindsey Warren: Somewhere, Here, the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based painter. The exhibition features ten new oil paintings exploring the singular landscape of Los Angeles through light, color, and form. The exhibitions opens with a reception on October 17th and continues through November 14th.

Lindsey Warren depicts real places she encounters in her daily life in a distinctive representational painting style. Warren finds her painting references while exploring streets and trails in the hilly Mt Washington neighborhood near her home. Many of the locales are only accessible on foot - making them feel like secret discoveries. Warren is focused on particular characteristics of familiar trees that become the subject of these portrait-like paintings. The color of each tree is determined by its specific lighting environment, such as the golden glow of sunset that makes a green tree appear red or a streetlight that artificially spotlights a shaggy palm. The ubiquitous flora feels familiar to any viewer who knows Southern California, creating a tension between personal discovery and shared experience.

Utilizing a deliberate simplification of form and dramatic color changes, Warren catalogues personally significant places and captures the transformative nature of time in her paintings. In addition to taking reference photos, Warren closely observes, later comparing the photos to her recollection of the place. The resulting paintings are interpretations of memories with details added and subtracted throughout the painting process.

Oil paint is essential to Warren’s practice, allowing her to move between quick, intuitive gestures and slower, methodical processes. She begins with thin layers of carefully blended color to create gradients and quick sketches to establish the composition. Once the whole surface is covered, she responds to the marks made in the first pass, adjusting hues, shapes, and drawing elements as the painting develops. Photographic references combine with memory and Warren’s background in observational painting to reduce details to their essential components. Trees and buildings are pared down to simplified shapes to maintain focus on the interaction of color and the atmosphere of a particular place.

Lindsey Warren grew up in Los Angeles before moving back east for undergraduate and graduate school. After stints in Boston and New York, she returned to Los Angeles. This push and pull between proximity and distances gives her a unique perspective on this city - that of an insider and outsider. She knows the city well but returned with new eyes to see it again.

Warren seeks to evoke the essence of the city through aesthetics that are difficult to communicate with words but are collectively felt by those who know it well. Notably, Warren takes very few liberties with the architecture as these are intended to be portraits of these places. The resulting unique compositions are simultaneously stylized and distinctively real.

Lindsey Warren (b. Los Angeles) received her BFA (2004) and MFA (2008) in Painting from Boston University, and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Her work as been exhibited throughout the United States with recent shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Laguna Beach. Lindsey has been a studio artist in Chashama’s Workspace Program in NYC and a participant in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program. Her public works and murals have been installed in Boston and New York City. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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CONCRETE SHADOWS at 34.0522°N // CITYSCAPE 2026 // Opening July 18

I am excited to share three paintings, including two brand new ones in the group show: CONCRETE SHADOWS AT 34.0522°N, CITYSCAPE 2026 at Billis Williams Gallery in Culver City. I will be at the opening tomorrow between 3-6pm and the show will be up through August 22nd.  

The first new painting: Beach Glows, 2026 (24"x30") features a view of the beach in Santa Monica where the horizon is lit by the setting sun while additional artificial light sources create pockets of glowing light in the foreground.

Meanwhile, Shadows and Blooms, 2026 (24"x20") captures the characters of cacti and succulent shadows against a perfectly lit wall containing its own architectural shadows. 

Framed paintings ready to be hung in the show

CONCRETE SHADOWS AT 34.0522°N
CITYSCAPE 2026

July 18 - August 22, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 18th, 3-6pm

Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present CONCRETE SHADOWS at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026 opening July 18th. The show features gallery artists and invited guest artists working in a variety of mediums and marks the sixteenth edition of the gallery’s exhibition focused on this strange city many of us call home. The exhibition opens on July 18th with a reception from 3-6pm and continues through August 22nd.

Los Angeles is a city of paradoxes. The celluloid dreams and Hollywood glitter butted up against a housing crisis and massive homeless population. The unyielding desert landscape up against heavily watered lawns of Beverly Hills. A city filled with transplants who arrive in search of a place to reinvent themselves and follow their dreams and deeply rooted communities that have been here for generations. There is the quiet of deep snow in the Angeles National Forest and the roaring multi-level traffic flying by sky-high on cloverleaf interchange of the 110 and 105 freeways.

This year’s edition looks at the dichotomies of this city. Dichotomies that range from the mundane and intimate to the epic and iconic. Incongruous at times, the experience of Los Angeles is that of holding many truths simultaneously. The haves and the have-nots, decaying Art Deco theaters and gleaming experimental new architecture, dreams born and dreams dashed, the losses to fires and the rebirth of communities from those ashes.

There is a grit and intensity to this city. It is an unexpected crazy quilt comprised of unique communities, varied architecture, and microclimates connected by a maze of freeways and surface streets. Nature and the built cityscape, the idealized world of the entertainment industry against real people’s lives, the desert and the ocean: Los Angeles thrives at the intersection unlike things and constant change.

The show features: Adam Harrison, Ana Medina, Barbara Strasen, Bradley Hankey, Carla Falb, Christine Frerichs, Christine Rasmussen, Eric Theodore, Francis DiFronzo, Judy Nimtz, Karen Woods, Kenny Harris, Kevin Yaun, Magnolia Lafleur, Mary-Austin Klein, Matt Condron, Lindsey Warren, Patricia Chidlaw, Rachel Joy, Renae Wang, Ron Rizk, Samantha Fields, Sharon Feder, Terry Leness

Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
gallery@billiswilliams.com
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Spring Open Studios // Keystone Art Space

Keystone Art Space 
OPEN STUDIOS 
Saturday November 8, 2025
4pm - 9pm

Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist. 

Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex.

Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. 

Keystone Art Space is located at 338 South Avenue 16 Los Angeles, CA 90031

For more information go to keystoneartspace.com

Fall Open Studios // Keystone Art Space

Keystone Art Space Open Studios

Keystone Art Space 
OPEN STUDIOS 
Saturday November 8, 2025
4pm - 9pm

Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist. 

Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex.

Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. 

Keystone Art Space is located at 338 South Avenue 16 Los Angeles, CA 90031

For more information go to keystoneartspace.com

The Cityscape Show XV: ORDINARY PLACES | SINGULAR MOMENTS // Opening July 12

THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XV:
Ordinary Places | Singular Moments
July 12 - August 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 3-6pm

Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present ORDINARY PLACES | SINGULAR MOMENTS: THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XV opening July 12th. The show features gallery artists as well as invited guest artists working in a variety of mediums and continues through August 23rd.

For fifteen years, the gallery has presented The Cityscape Show with each edition focusing on a different angle of how artists see the strange metropolis that is Los Angeles.  This year’s exhibition looks at the views artists capture of this city from a more intimate view.  The simplicity of a window ledge and buildings beyond, chairs in the shade, a lone freeway.

Our lives are made up of singular moments. Some are mundane. Some are heartbreaking. Some are beautiful. Many are somewhere between these extremes.   A painting takes that moment and preserves it - shares it with others and sets it down for eternity. Or so one would think.  Paintings are meant to endure - they are meant to be passed down through the ages and become a record of their time.  

The fires and political turmoil of this year have shown us that little is guaranteed - that things we take for granted can so easily be lost in a moment.  There is a solitary quality to the work - a sense of waiting, a sense of being in the in-between, of moments about to happen.  

Life is the sum of those moments - intense joy, deep darkness, and everything that exists in between.

The show this year features Alex Roulette, Ana Medina, Ben Schwab, Bradley Hankey, Bryan Ida, Carla Falb, Christine Frerichs, Christine Rasmussen, Danny Heller, Eric Hesse, Fabiola Gironi, Francis DiFronzo, Kenny Harris, Kevin Yaun, Lana Shuttleworth, Lindsey Warren, Lisa Golightly, Magnolia Lafleur, Mary-Austin Klein, Matt Condron, Patricia Chidlaw, Raymond Logan, Samantha Fields, Taylor Montague, and Terry Leness.

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Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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REVIVAL // Group Exhibition at Hyper Contemporary

REVIVAL

REVIVAL presents a dynamic and compelling collection of works that confront and celebrate the powerful forces of transformation, resilience, and renewal. Through a diverse range of mediums and artistic voices, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on moments of profound change—both personal and collective—and the strength required to emerge from adversity with renewed purpose. Bold, moving, and timely, REVIVAL captures the spirit of reinvention and the enduring human capacity for hope. This is more than an exhibition; it is a call to witness the beauty that can arisefrom challenge and the creative energy that fuels new beginnings.

 

FEATURING ARTWORK BY: Timur Akhriev, Megan Aline, Luke Anderson, Elise Coker, Beau Bernier Frank, Lorena Frias, Craig George, Mark Gleason, Alessandra Maria, Steve Martinez, Eric Nash, Patrick Oates, Kip Omolade, Kevin Peterson, Kateryna Reznichenk, Sara Scribner, Matt Story, Roos van der Vliet, and Lindsey Warren

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Spring Open Studios // Keystone Art Space // May 3rd

Keystone Art Space 
OPEN STUDIOS 
Saturday MAY 3, 2025
4pm - 9pm

Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist.

Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex.

Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. Mark your calendars and celebrate the arts on May 3rd!

Keystone Art Space is located at 338 South Avenue 16 Los Angeles, CA 90031

For more information go to keystoneartspace.com

Fall Open Studios // Keystone Art Space // November 2nd

Keystone Art Space 
OPEN STUDIOS 
Saturday November 2, 2024
4pm - 9pm

Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist.

Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex.

Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. Mark your calendars and celebrate the arts on November 2!

Keystone Art Space is located at 338 South Avenue 16 Los Angeles, CA 90031

L.A.ndscape: The Cityscape Show XIV // Billis Williams Gallery // Opening July 20th

L.A.ndscape: The Cityscape Show XIV
July 20 - August 17, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 20, 4-7pm

Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XIV: L.A.ndscape opening July 20th.  The show features gallery artists as well as guest artists working in a variety of mediums and continues through August 17th.

For the last fourteen years, the gallery has presented The Cityscape Show with each edition focusing on a different angle of how artists see the strange metropolis that is Los Angeles.

The genre of landscape painting is deeply entrenched in the history of art in the US - majestic mountains, wide vistas, rolling plains.  In the past, those were the spaces to be explored and recorded.  Our lives have changed - now cities are the places people go to forge their own path, to find community, to start over, to create something new.  The concrete jungle has replaced the wilderness as the frontier where one tests their mettle.  And so the roll landscape painting plays has evolved - the landscape so many of us live with now is an urban landscape.  And yet here in Los Angeles, city views are punctuated by natural ones - this sprawling city is bisected by hills too steep to build on and divided by concrete rivers, but it is united under one glorious and enormously vast sky.  

The cityscape show this year, titled L.A.ndscape, looks at the views that artists capture of this city - their depictions of the wilds of Los Angeles.  Sometimes that is an epic vista of sprawl and hills, or an intimate portrait of the light, or the canyon of the LA River - the mass of steel and concrete and palm trees and power lines and desert light that is Los Angeles.

The show this year features Derek Buckner, Patricia Chidlaw, Francis DiFronzo, Anastasia Egeli, Carla Falb, Samantha Fields, Lisa Golightly. Bradley Hankey, Kenny Harris, Adam Harrison, Danny Heller, Wes Hempel, Eric Hesse, Bryan Ida, Mary-Austin Klein, Terry Leness, Raymond Logan, Ana Medina, Judy Nimtz, Gay Summer Rick, Bradford Salamon, Ben Schwab, Terry Thompson, Christine Rasmussen, Lindsey Warren, and Kevin Yaun.

For all press inquiries, please contact 310.838.3685 or gallery@billiswilliams.com
For all other inquiries, please contact Tressa Williams at tressa@billiswilliams.com

Intangible Time // Solo Show at Billis Williams Gallery // Opening June 15th

LINDSEY WARREN
INTANGIBLE TIME

June 15 - July 13, 2024
Reception: Saturday, June 15, 4-7pm

Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present LINDSEY WARREN: INTANGIBLE TIME, the gallery’s third solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based painter. The exhibition features the artist's recent oil paintings exploring the formal qualities of light, color, and form as they play out across the distinctive landscapes of Los Angeles. The exhibitions opens with a reception on June 15th and continues through July 13th.

In this new series, Lindsey Warren continues to describe the landscapes of Los Angeles. Inspired by the vast skies and shifting light over the epic vistas of Southern California, Warren is simultaneously fascinated with and concerned by the changing weather patterns that shape these views. Snow on the San Gabriel Mountains, a green-tinted sky, or the saturated light of twilight are unexpected yet somehow also familiar and beg a moment of reflection.  As the parent of young children, Warren’s relationship with these spaces has shifted. What were simply breathtaking vistas previously now inspire a sense of responsibility to protect the spaces she depicts and the people who inhabit them - these paintings are detailed meditations on the conflicting emotions of concern and wonder.

Warren’s distinctive painting style is a representational depiction of places she encounters. She closely observes in person in addition to taking reference photos, later comparing the photos to her memory of the place. The resulting paintings are interpretations of these memories with details added and subtracted throughout her painting process. Warren uses dramatic color changes and a deliberate simplification of details to create records of personally significant places and to capture the transformative nature of time. Warren seeks to evoke the essence of the city through aesthetics that are difficult to communicate with words but are collectively felt by those who know it well. Notably, Warren takes very few liberties with the architecture as these are intended to be portraits of these places. The resulting unique compositions are simultaneously stylized and real.

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Lindsey Warren was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA (2004) and MFA (2008) in Painting from Boston University, and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Her work as been exhibited throughout the United States with recent shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Laguna Beach. Lindsey has been a studio artist in Chashama’s Workspace Program in NYC and a participant in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program. Her public works and murals have been installed in Boston and New York City. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

For all press inquiries, please contact 310.838.3685 or gallery@billiswilliams.com
For all other inquiries, please contact Tressa Williams at tressa@billiswilliams.com

Billis Williams Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
gallery@billiswilliams.com
www.BillisWilliams.com

The Cityscape Show XIII: Close to Home

August 5 - August 26, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 4-7pm

Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to present THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XIII: Close to Home opening August 5th.  The show features twenty-four gallery and guest artists and includes painting and sculpture.  The show runs through August 26th.

For the last thirteen years, the gallery has presented The Cityscape Show - each edition has taken a different angle or theme and has covered a wide ranging group of artists and works.

Los Angeles is a many-faceted and intensely complicated monster of a place: some love it, others love to hate it, but for many it is the place we call home.  The Cityscape Show this year is about artists depicting what says “home” to them about Los Angeles.  For some it is home and they are capturing some aspect of this city that speaks to them - for others it is about what feels familiar about this sprawling metropolis.

The show includes works by Patricia Chidlaw, Matt Condron, Francis DiFronzo, Emile Dillon, Elyse Dodge, Carla Falb, Sharon Feder, Lisa Golightly, Bradley Hankey, Kenny Harris, Danny Heller, Wes Hempel, Justin N. Kim, Mary-Austin Klein, Terry Leness, Raymond Logan, Mela M., Ana Medina, Christopher Murphy, Judy Nimtz, Christine Rasmussen, Gay Summer Rick, Ben Schwab, Emily Wallerstein, Lindsey Warren, Kevin Yaun

Pictured: Lindsey Warren, Corner Modern, 2023, oil on linen, 20x24 in.

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2716 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034
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Keystone Art Space Spring Open Studios // May 6th 4-9pm

Keystone Art Space
OPEN STUDIOS
Saturday May 6th 4pm- 9pm

Twice a year Keystone artists give access to the public and welcome visitors into their work spaces. Open Studios is always a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone Gallery will also be hosting a group exhibition featuring works from a wide variety of artists in a spectrum of mediums.

Open Studios is a rare opportunity to get a behind the scenes look into the creative process, and allows participants to purchase works directly from the artist. Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex.

Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more.

May 6th 4pm- 9pm
338 S. Avenue 16
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Painting of Keystone Art Space by Christine Rasmussen @christinerasmussenart

Los Angeles, I'm Yours // Idolwild Gallery

Los Angeles, I’m Yours
January 5 - January 30, 2023

The vibrant and diverse city of Los Angeles is set to be the star of the show at IDOLWILD Gallery's upcoming group contemporary art exhibition, “Los Angeles, I’m Yours”. This visual showcase will capture a rhapsodic ode to the City of Angels. It will be an opportunity for both established and emerging artists to share their visions and their perspective on the city we call home. From iconic neighborhoods to notable events and personalities, these works will celebrate the rich cultural tapestry of Los Angeles. Participating artists include Kathy Aoki, Ashley Chafin, Elif Karakoc, Julika Lackner, Elliot Bamberger, Marisa Rodriguez, Erica Goebel, Joséphine Wister Faure, Calvin Leonard, Ed Moza, Lindsey Warren, Monica Orozco, Robin Bell, Olivia Fougeirol, Sarah Bereza, Robert ‘ArtRacc’ Clemons, and Laura Gillmore.

What began as a “Call for L.A. Art” has become a unifying plethora of medium. Upon arrival, patrons will be greeted by a variety of personal journeys from both native Angelenos and artists who’ve found Los Angeles as a subject. With their melancholy photographs, Elif Karakoc and Robin Bell romanticize boredom and tune into blocks of color and graphic environment. North Bay artist Kathy Aoki conceptualizes satirically with her futurist L.A. ‘Gwen Stefani / Harajuku Girls’ burial map and video trailer from Gwen Stefani Grand Burial Exhibition (2009 – 2016). These mixed media works were part of the “Museum of Historical Makeovers” series. Many believe the foundation of good landscape painting is observation. Lindsey Warren, Marisa Rodriguez, and Julika Lackner collectively embody this sentiment capturing the essence of neighborhoods and their seasonal color palettes that warrant local residency.

The "Los Angeles, I’m Yours" exhibition will take place at IDOLWILD Gallery from January 5th to January 30th, 2023. Opening Reception takes place Saturday, January 14, 2023 from 1pm to 4pm. The gallery will be open Thursday through Saturday from 1pm to 4pm, and by appointment beginning January 5th. The gallery is located  at 338 S. Avenue 16, studio A4, Los Angeles, California 90031. Admission is free with plenty of parking on premises. For more information about the exhibition, please visit the gallery's website www.idolwild.com or contact via email info@idolwild.com .

IDOLWILD is a unique artist-run gallery space dedicated to Contemporary Art and Design in the heart of Los Angeles’ Lincoln Heights district. Founded by artist and visual designer H. Micke Nelson Tong, this creative platform nestled in the Keystone Art Space building presents solo and group exhibitions, installations, and public performance.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 2023 / 1PM-4PM

Keystone Open Studios // November 5th, 5-9pm

Keystone Art Space (map)

338 South Avenue 16
Los Angeles, CA, 90031

Twice a year Keystone artists give access to the public and welcome hundreds of visitors into their work spaces. Open Studios is always a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone Gallery will also be hosting a group exhibition featuring works from a wide variety of artists in a spectrum of mediums.

Open Studios is a rare opportunity to get a behind the scenes look into the creative process, and allows participants to purchase works directly from the artist. Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts and enjoy the works of creativity being skillfully produced every day at this unique facility.

This event is free and open to the public. Street parking, ride-share encouraged.

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Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more.

American Art Collector Issue 201 // July 2022

I’m thrilled to have my work and a few quotes included in Issue #201 of American Art Collector Magazine! Pick up a copy or view it online to read about the upcoming Cityscape Show XII: Iconic at George Billis Gallery LA.

The Cityscape Show XII: Iconic // Opening July 9th

THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XII: ICONIC
The Artist's View of Los Angeles
July 9 - August 20, 2022
Opening Reception Saturday, July 9, 3-7pm

GBGLA is pleased to present THE CITYSCAPE SHOW XII: Iconic opening July 9th. The show features nineteen gallery and guest artists and includes painting and sculpture. The show runs through August 20th.

For the last twelves years, GBGLA has presented The Cityscape Show - each edition has taken a different angle or theme and has covered a wide ranging group of artists and works.

As life is settling into this new normal, we are taking a moment to appreciate what makes Los Angeles and Southern California unique - what makes it ICONIC as seen through the eyes of artists. For some, it might be a well known landmark, for others it might be the way the light feels here, for still others it might be a familiar landscape that feels like home.

Los Angeles is a strange place - some consider it soulless and heartless. But that is far from the truth - Los Angeles has a soul that is strange and compelling and multi-faceted and ever evolving. The constant is change and that is what draws people here - for the sense of opportunity mixed with a bit of a grit, for the history of dream-making, for the fantasy sometimes more than the reality. Iconic Los Angeles inhabits our collective unconscious.

The show includes works by: Adam Harrison, Alex Roulette, Ana Medina, Ben Schwab, Bryan Ida, Christine Rasmussen, Danny Heller, Jay Brockman, Kevin Yaun, Lindsey Warren, Lisa Golightly, Lynne McDaniel, Mary-Austin Klein, Mela M, Michael Ward, Patricia Chidlaw, Raymond Logan, Ron Rizk, Terry Thompson, and Victoria MacMillan.

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George Billis Gallery opened in New York in 1997. In 2004, George Billis Gallery Los Angeles opened in the Culver City Arts District. With locations on the East and West Coasts, the two galleries provide a dynamic exchange of contemporary artists working in a range of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. GBGLA is dedicated to exhibiting emerging to mid-career artists with a focus on Southern California artists.

2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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Spring Open Studios 2022 // Keystone Art Space

Open Studios Spring 2022

Saturday, May 21, 2022
5-9pm
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For the first time since 2019, artists at Keystone Art Space are opening their doors to the public. 

The over 50 artists working at Keystone Art Space cover a diverse range of artistic disciplines such as painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture, and more. 

As in years past, the evening includes the opening of a group show in the gallery and an opportunity to visit the many studios that comprise this fine arts complex.

New American Paintings Issue #157

I’m thrilled to share that my work is included in New American Paintings Issue #157! Unfortunately they weren’t able to print this issue due to pandemic/supply chain issues, but the good news is that it’s available for everyone to view for free via their website.

Solo Show at George Billis Gallery LA // Opening April 9th

GBGLA is pleased to present The View From Home, Los Angeles native Lindsey Warren’s second solo show with the gallery. In this new series of oil paintings, Warren continues her exploration of light and color and form but with a focus on a more intimate and personal series of locations.

Our worlds grew smaller during the last two years - quite literally shrinking to little beyond our own homes. For Warren, this brought a new focus to spaces she’d often driven passed in the years before the pandemic. Walking the streets of her neighborhood, Warren became intimately acquainted with these views and vistas and photographed them repeatedly - studying the changing light and colors and angles. The neighborhood’s flora became recurring characters and the resulting paintings feel like portraits of friends she watched grow and change through seasons.

Her distinctive painting style is a representational depiction of places she encounters and documents. Warren observes in person in addition to taking reference photos, later comparing the photos to her memory of the place. The resulting paintings are interpretations of these memories with details added and subtracted throughout her painting process. Foreground silhouettes are simplified and assigned colors that suit the overall palette and interrupt or frame the colorful skies beyond. Notably, Warren takes very few liberties with the architecture as these are intended to be portraits of these places. The resulting unique composition is of a landscape that is simultaneously stylized and real.

Lindsey Warren was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA (2004) and MFA (2008) in Painting from Boston University, and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Her work as been exhibited throughout the United States with recent shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Laguna Beach. Lindsey has been a studio artist in Chashama’s Workspace Program in NYC and a participant in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program. Her public works and murals have been installed in Boston and New York City. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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George Billis Gallery opened in New York in 1997. In 2004, George Billis Gallery Los Angeles opened in the Culver City Arts District. With locations on the East and West Coasts, the two galleries provide a dynamic exchange of contemporary artists working in a range of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. GBGLA is dedicated to exhibiting emerging to mid-career artists with a focus on Southern California artists.

2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T: 310-838-3685
email: la@georgebillis.com
www.georgebillis.com