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The Corridor Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of its spring exhibition, Mystical Me, on March 29, 2025. The exhibition showcases works that either reveal the alienation and inner conflicts of individuals during the process of modernization through distorted forms and vivid color contrasts; or transcend the boundaries between reality and illusion through collage, juxtaposition, and recombination, thereby constructing an imaginative surreal space; or engage visitors into the artists' inner worlds, embarking on a profound spiritual journey centered on themes of loss and discovery.The exhibition explores how contemporary artists construct their own worlds through art, offering insights into self-awareness and spiritual development.

By Julia Halperin

Some artists are drawn to small paintings for practical reasons; when materials, studio space and shipping have never been more expensive, they’re relatively cheap to make and easy to store and transport. Small paintings are also intimate, seductive and unpretentious. As Middleton puts it, they “creep up on you.”  While the artists who make them vary in style and approach, they seem to share a somewhat old-fashioned view of what art is for: individual communion rather than collective spectacle — only one viewer can stand in front of each of these pieces at a time.

By Sam Lubell

Before the Eaton fire raced across Altadena, destroying more than 9,000 of its buildings, many, even in nearby Los Angeles, barely knew of the place’s existence. This sleepy 42,000-person hamlet hugging the glowing foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains is not part of that city but an unincorporated community of Los Angeles County, and just far enough off the beaten track to blissfully avoid notice.

Native America: In Translation, curated by artist Wendy Red Star, assembles the wide-ranging work of nine Indigenous artists who offer contemporary perspectives on memory, identity, and the history of photography. “I was thinking about young Native artists and what would be inspirational and important for them as a road map,” said Red Star. 

This road map spans intergenerational image makers representing various Native nations and affiliations, and working in photography, installation, multimedia assemblage, and video. Among them, the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais investigates landscape and language through his evocative Polaroids. And the stylish self-portraits of Martine Gutierrez pose as fashion ads and question conceptions of ideal beauty.