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Art Review
dilettante.com by Joseph A. Hazani, August 15, 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP SHOW @ 3C GALLERY COLLECTIVE (LOS ANGELES MAKERY)
August 15, 2025
The ability for the photographer, no, the artist, to begin to transcend the lens has a terrifically captivating entrance. Ms. Lori Pond‘s expanse into the play of light with photographic material at 3C Gallery Collective (jointly with Los Angeles Makery), introduces more and more in contemporary fine art photography a sculpting of hard media, film; paper; which moves the precepts of the subject away from point-and-click.
It is not that simple.
Which is perhaps the enticement of extending the visual idea of light exposure onto the spacey psychedelic abstractions which are totally cosmic in sensibility.
‘Diamond’. Lori Pond. Archival Pigment Print. 27×20″. Courtesy the artist and Los Angeles Makery. All Rights Reserved.
‘Blue Uprising’. Lori Pond. Archival Pigment Print. 20×27″. Courtesy the artist and Los Angeles Makery. All Rights Reserved.
Which is perhaps the enticement of extending the visual idea of light exposure onto the spacey psychedelic abstractions which are totally cosmic in sensibility.
‘Rununculas’. Lori Pond. Archival Pigment Print. 20×26″. Courtesy the artist and Los Angeles Makery. All Rights Reserved.
The startrekked.
The vividness captured not through the hard, firm, brushstrokes of the painter. A tactile idea which is more than what is principled by the sculpter. It is here the photography (?!) is moving beyond the sensations by the photographer, an artist thoroughly standing on her own.
It is a dream to find and to share.
Speaking of such sensibilities of possibilities…Bright Future by Erica Martin has that opportunity encapsulated with the media of a universal need in human nature to be at peace? Or is it ease?
Bright Future. Erica Martin. Archival Pigment Print, Viveza Inks. 17×22″. Courtesy the artist and Los Angeles Makery. All Rights Reserved.
An ease of what will appear. It causes a dark contrast of darkness with the still-life portrayal of light in navigating the self towards that universal need: peace of mind.
For why else does one begin to tell the fortune? Such a curiosity has within it an anxiety with the experience of life one is desiring to present through one’s future. This is an expectation that requires one to continue to live. So it is an involvement with a desire for living. Yet, more, a desire to know completely. Is it ever possible to forever be at ease? Is there not greater wisdom in choosing to let go rather than continue to possess more knowledge of what will happen?
‘The Stitched Heart’. Catherine Just. Archival Pigment Print, Hand Stitched Red Embroidery Thread. 33×34.5″. Courtesy of the artist and Los Angeles Makery. All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy Catherine Just via catherinejust.com
Lastly in the Los Angeles Makery‘s fine art photography group’s works being reviewed, there is the emergence of an extension into firm media with the Stitched Heart by Catherine Just, an addition which helps with the titular perspective. No pun intended.
A wonderful representation of where the fine arts photographer has continued, divergent properly with the commonwealth who are so attuned to perfecting their photographs. Now with its universal accessibility.
For More information, please contact the gallery:
3C Gallery @ Los Angeles Makery
260 S. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(818) 856-0699
info@3CGallery.com