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Lena Moross “Guadalupe, the Mexican Virgin Mary”
Pilates & Arts Studio is a solo exhibit, “Guadeloupe, the Mexican Virgin Mary,” featuring works by Lena Moross, a Los Angeles-based, Russian-born artist. Studio owner Tannis Kobrinsky previously showed Moross’ work at Kobrinsky’s Echo Park Pilates Studio and Gallery.
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Forgive and Forget
LA TATE GALLERY is pleased to present Forgive and Forget, a one-person show featuring work by Los Angeles-based artist Lena Moross. In Lena Moross’ solo show, Forgive and Forget, immediately visible is her complicated sense of humor: cheeky, also very serious—sometimes even tragic. In this new series of watercolors, Moross’ mostly large-scale figurative paintings comprise…
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The madness continues…
It seems I can’t stop with my Prodigal paintings series and toy collection.Have to exercise it out of my system…or do I need exorcism for that matter? And here is a link to my favorite song by Freddy Mercury, “I’m Going Slightly Mad.” I have a feeling he wrote it for me or is it…
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Paintings of gigantic importance
Yes! It is of utmost importance to me.I have been collecting these damaged figurines of kitties and dogs for more than 20 years. It’s time for me to immortalize them. Especially when I can introduce my collection and painterly renditions at The Brewery Art Walk. I have life stories for each one…I did sketches of…
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Reality is weird.
Reality is weirder than imagination. Usually, I don’t put my models through the torment of sitting for me.Of course, mannequins and toy dogs and cats are ideal sitters.Humans are trickier. I must establish trust between us. Good food and booze help. They pose in clothes, in drag or without nothing. Just heart on the sleeve.…
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Yes, They’re Alive!
This is my collection I acquired over a span of 20 some years. It consists of American carnival prize toys, mannequin heads, limbless dancers and just weird figurines. Hundreds and hundreds of them!There was one rule to my collection…they had to be bruised by life!I choose’em, I pick’em, I let’em party!I am the one who…
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I killed my husband
“I killed my husband…” That’s what I thought when I stumbled on a group of old photographs at a garage sale. It looked like they were from the 1950-1960’s, and I thought, how odd is it that they all depict women but no men in sight. So, I made up a story…
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Miracles do happen…
Miracles do happen, especially when you cook huge pots of borscht and feed it to a very rich man over the span of two years! He asked me how he could repay me and without missing a beat, I told him, “Custom frame two of my paintings!” The way I envision it and what I…