What has Gallery Revisited been up to since closing?

I have been super busy since the gallery closed its doors on June 29th. I have been blogging about things this last July, but August flew by like I can't even explain.

Here's a little synopsis of the last 8 weeks that I haven't mentioned yet:

Been working in East of Eden...coming soon. SAVE THE DATE!!
September 19th, 20th and 21st!!!


THE MAGAZINE HAS HIT THE STREETS, FOLKS -- GO GET ONE, IT LOOKS GREAT!
Wrote a little concise review for THE Magazine --
Check out what I wrote about Mondongo at Track 16.

Myself, along with Paige Wery wrote our first newsletter in our newly appointed positions with Moca Contemporaries. This is an internal newsletter only for members.
you will have to join.
It's worth it!!
The first show I blurbed about for MC was Lisa Lapinski's show...




Had my birthday:



Did a commission for a newly re-found old acquaintance, Doug who has just opened up
the new Echo Park Cycles.


Installed 2 shows in 2 weeks at Riverside Art Museum.
National Watercolor Society and Beyond Baby Tattoo-ville.

More Go - Abouts coming soon....

How I Met You: Shana Nys Dambrot

I think there is a new blog entry brewing..."How I Met You" Series.

Sometimes it does not come down to a single point or beginning,
but what happens in-between up to now.
I mean, like otherwise, we would be saying to ourselves, 'I wouldn't be here if I wasn't born'. Uh...

Regardless, it's fun to remember sometimes.

Here is how I met Shana Nys Dambrot:


Flash-back to 2004, when Gallery Revisited was at the first location in China Town.
We were installing the newest show, "Return to Ins and Outs".

We took a break to stroll a block away to Philippes' - Home of the Famous Beef Dip.
If you think that eating at restaurants with sawdust on the floor is "beneath you" *, literally and figuratively, then do not go there (either that or get over your pretentious self).
But I Digress...

So I'm eating my beef dip with hot horseradish mustard, and a glass of Cab from a giant box, I see a chick and some guy meandering around looking for a spot at a table to sit down and eat. They were wearing MOCA stickers - and were obviously doing a day of art downtown...Moca archives note this show was up around that time.

"Hi, I couldn't help but notice your sticker", I say. "Were you at the museum today?"

"Yes", she cheerfully says...and so it went.

I told her about my gallery, gave her my card and the rest is history.

Here are a couple of blurbs from the early Flavorpills she wrote up for GR:

March, 2004

Return to... Ins & Outs
Featuring local artists-to-watch Paige Wery and Vito Lorusso, this latest installment in experimental thematic gallery Revisited explores "augmented interiors and alternative landscapes." Wery's mixed media expressionism incorporates elements of nature, industry, and the everyday in complex, evocative visual juxtapositions. Lorusso, on the other hand, goes deep into detail, reproducing autobiographical moments with subtle psychological twists...

August, 2004

Paint, Paint, Paint
Jen Angeloro, Steve Jackson, and Paige Wery don't have much in common, but they do share a kind of fatal attraction to paint. You get the feeling that if they could eat it, breathe it, and marry it, they very well might...

* I hate it when people use that phrase.