TAG presents a group show opening Wednesday, January 2 and running through January 26 at the gallery, 2903 Santa Monica Blvd. (at Yale). The artists’ reception will be on Saturday, January 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. In her second exhibition, psychoanalyst/painter Julia Schwartz revisits thematic concerns of subject as irrevocably embedded in its world; faces and figures painted in various media emerge and dissolve back into mysterious, smoldering grounds. Along with Schwartz’s heavily impastoed canvases, she paints on sheet aluminum, scratching and sanding through her imagery, allowing intervals of a ghostlike sheen to seep out. Stephanie Visser’s abstract mixed-media works on paper and canvas demonstrate the artist’s in-the-trenches physicality with her material. Her surfaces are constructs of scrambled color upon color, scrawled over tone and scratched in line. Gary Polonsky’s stamp series evolved from a trip to Canton, China, when the artist’s discovered a large, colorful collection of ‘new’ (1979) stamps decorating a wall at the Tung Fa Hotel. Polonsky was struck by the tiny microcosms depicted in each stamp and seized the notion that one can overcome the specific boundaries of language through presenting scenes so visceral and attainable. The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact: (310) 829-9556.
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