SEVEN
April 12 - June 7, 2025

“Seven” is an exhibition by seven Los Angeles based artists. These seven women have been making work for many years and while Los Angeles, per se is not the theme or subject of their pieces, their surrounds play an important role in their creations. On view are paintings, drawings and mixed media works by Lorraine Bubar, June Edmonds, Linda King, Robin Mitchell, Pam Posey, Fran Siegel & Jody Zellen. Lorraine Bubar creates intricate papercut artwork inspired by global papercutting traditions and the ecosystems she explores. In her painterly way, Lorraine creates intricate papercuts that explore the hierarchy of nature and the layered complexities of life. She has been an Artist in Residence in Denali, Zion, Petrified Forest, Lassen Volcanic, Capitol Reef, and Acadia National Park. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Japan, Tasmania, Germany, Lithuania, and at the Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale. lorrainebubar June Edmonds has cultivated a practice that synthesizes abstraction, spirituality, and meditation with her ruminations and contemplations on her African American roots, Black history, and experience in America. Her paintings memorialize historic and contemporary figures and events with narratives that embody Black strength, endurance, joy, harmony, power, and resilience. Exploring the depth and breadth of color, Edmonds’ paintings communicate a language uniquely her own, deconstructing symbols through repetitive linework and bands of color, visceral impasto textures, and a psychologically charged lexicon of brilliant color. juneedmonds.com For more than 30 years Linda King has explored art as a metaphor for life; evolution, change, transformation, the minute and the infinite. Her process is one of layering, subtracting, expanding, and deleting. King grew up in Los Angeles and spent her college years in Northern California and the Midwest. After graduating with an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa she then moved to Chicago where she taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After moving back to Los Angeles in 1991, she taught full-time at Long Beach City College until 2017. lindakingartist.com Robin Mitchell’s artwork is involved with the act of mark making and how the mark in its abstract nature is able to communicate and transcend—to evoke both the tangible and the ineffable. The paintings are multi-layered compositions of marks, gestures, and brushstrokes that are both literal and suggestive of a variety of natural forms. This layering results in an overlap of the abstract, the nonobjective, the representational, the referential, and the evocative. The combination of obsessive brushwork, complex layering and highly active relationships between elements across and within the paintings results in a strong optical resonance. robinmitchell.net Pam Posey is a Los Angeles based artist who examines the natural world and how it can be represented through painting. She reimagines landscapes by mapping the experience of being in nature to create a place that she has simultaneously viewed and created. Posey’s work has been exhibited at the Craig Krull Gallery, Praz Delavallade, Otis College Ben Malz Gallery, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Angles Gate Cultural Center, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and the Huntington Beach Art Center. She has attended several artists residencies in Iceland and most recently had a residency at the Morris Graves Foundation. pamposey.org Fran Siegel’s drawings and installations engage location-based research that traverses landscape, culture, and materiality. Her works explore related configurations that include gravity, balance, construction methods, and material/texture/surface. Collage images from nature and infrastructure are used as a catalyst and provide a spatial interruption. Her work is in numerous permanent collections including at LACMA, MOCA, The Morgan Library and Yale University (where she earned her MFA). fransiegel.com Jody Zellen started making small, square, gouache paintings on canvas in 2021. In these works she colored doodles — filled with a 1950s color palette — where she explores different formal elements. Zellen works in many media simultaneously. She makes animations, interactive installations, app art, net art, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists’ books. She constantly thinks about ways to use new technologies and to integrate interactivity into her artworks. jodyzellen.com Click HERE for Exhibition Checklist. Installation images below.