Sat, Feb 27, 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Exhibit is ongoing through June 30, 2016. Opening reception is February 27 from 1-3pm.

Show runs now through June 30, 2016 – Karen Hochman Brown creates mandala-like artworks, each one beginning with a photograph that she then spins and adorns into digital prints mounted on aluminum. Layer upon layer of detail come together to make one image. She meticulously alters light and shadow to create an illusion of depth.

As a child in her mother’s garden, Hochman Brown recalls how flashes of color and light danced as she held her first kaleidoscope up to one eye, closed the other, and found a source of light, the rest of the world disappearing while she endlessly turned. Hochman Brown uses computer software and hardware to replace the simple handmade kaleidoscope of her youth. From one of her photographs, the artist pulls out metaphorical “broken bits of glass” and turns these into her own kaleidoscopic imagery—spinning, nudging, and shifting these flecks of light, and becoming “lost in the endless dance of color, light and shape.”

Opening reception is February 27, 2016, 1-3 in The Gallery at The Arboretum Library