After visiting the new Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, I was left perplexed- somewhere between deep admiration and equally potent outrage.  The entryway consisting of black and white checkerboard marble with a red carpet leading to the mouth of a strange quintessentially Burton contorted face, immediately places the visitor in a remote and uncomfortable place [...]

Pasadena, CA—On February 10th, San Marino Gallery will open “A Day in the Life of a City,” a collection of new urban landscape watercolors by world record gold medal watercolorist John Salminen. This is a selected collection of forty-three works featuring stunning realistic scenes from New York, Chicago, Paris streets. These are his signature “compelling [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS-RELEASE Aptly named, the Dutch Golden Age of painting brought us innumerable specimens of realism and genre painting to study, venerate and applaud, but one need not be an academician to recognize the work of Johannes Vermeer titled in English, Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665). Since her most recent restoration at [...]

ART BASEL 2010 | RITZ CARLTON SOUTH BEACH MEDIA ADVISORY ART BASEL MIAMI SAN MARINO GALLERY EXHIBITING AT THE RITZ CARLTON SOUTH BEACH December 1 – 5, 2010, Open Daily from 11AM-11PM EST November 18, 2010 – San Marino Gallery, in association with TPGPR [also known as The Presstige Group Public Relations, will present a [...]

In Art, Interview on April 14, 2009 at 8:24 pm With a portfolio of photographs that cross the continents, Jim Nilsen uses his camera to capture the color, hue and flavor of the world.   In his travels, he has toured everywhere from Italy, America, Mexico, France and Italy.  Recently he took a break to chat [...]

Ray made experimental fashion photographs for Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair, but is most often associated with the Surrealist, Dada and avant-garde art movements. And it was in Paris that his career took off.

Photographer Kimerlee Curyl has a talent for capturing the beauty and emotions of the Wild Mustang.  Through special permission from the RETURN TO FREEDOM organization, Kimerlee sets up camp in their midst.  It takes about a week for the horses to get used to her presence so that she can begin photographing without them running [...]