Seen: Brandi Milne’s + Cheri Woods @ Thinkspace

Brandi Milne and Ana Bagayan

This past Friday (4.10), Thinkspace held a dual opening for Brandi Milne’s Run Rabbit, Run solo in the main room and Cheri Wood’s trouble, clearly in the project room.   Dailydujour made the trip down to the gallery to take in both shows.

Brandi’s front room installation featuring vintage books with painted covers greeted show goers and set the tone for her numerous paintings and drawings in the main gallery.  According to an interview with Sour Harvest, Brandi’s new work is in part a reaction to a tragic personal experience, the loss of her mother.  While the pieces do retain some of her signature whimsy, there’s also a definite melancholy note that pervades the show.  Where much of her previous work presented concrete scenes set in specific albeit fantastic lands, the new pieces are largely  constellations of characters floating without a definite sense of ‘place’. The rabbits referenced in the title taken from a line in  Pink Floyd’s Breathe, seem to offer a way forward, of pushing on despite setbacks.  Her latest solo presents Brandi’s appealing and somewhat nostalgic aesthetic within the context of what appears to be a developing symbolic language to be found in the recurring elements.

In the project room, Minnesota-based artist Cheri Wood offered a collection of new work for her trouble, clearly solo.  In part the work marks a period of technical experimentation for Wood – particularly in terms of the use of map transfers and textual elements.

Thinkspace Art Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323.913.3375