TALK - TALK

MOLLY BARNES with

FRANK ROMERO and PETER SHIRE

Space is limited - Reservations requested

(323) 933-5523

Molly Barnes will talk Art with Frank Romero nad Peter Shire at Tobey C. Moss Gallery on Saturday March 31st from 3:30 to 5:30 pm

Molly Barnes is a New York and Los Angeles art gallery owner, radio personality, author, art dealer and critic.  She is credited with discovering John Baldessari, Gronk, Mark Kostabi, Robert Cottingham, and many others.  As a pioneering art dealer who owned a gallery on Los Angeles' famed La Cienega Gallery Row in the 1960s, Barnes helped build renowned art collections for producer Norman Lear and director Billy Wilder.  Currently art curator at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York, Barnes is working on a memoir about her friendship with de Kooning. She has been a radio reporter for 23 years, the last five at KCSN.

Born in 1941 in Los Angeles, California, Frank Romero demonstrated an early affinity for 'picture making' through imagery that reflects his heritage. The joy of viewing Frank Romero's art is natural since it was created with a gusto, pleasure and just plain fun on his part. An enthusiastic part of every conversation and gathering, he exudes an excitement that is infectious......and his art carries that excitement to us, the viewers.  Occasionally Romero goes 'off the wall' in three dimensional pieces like Deer Crossing or his collaboration with his students on the obsessive car culture of Los Angeles.

From Teapots to Civic Fountains to the Ahmanson Theatre Foyer, Peter Shire's concepts merge imagination with function. He employs primary colors and whimsical forms that involve exciting design, a sense of sight and sound engineering. Shire's saturated color and wit are combined with line and structure to create a purely magical illusion of practicality. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, Peter Shire cites his artist-father as his first teacher. His education continued with a degree from Chouinard Art Institute in 1970. He says that he is still growing, simply observing and adapting his ideas into the installation at hand.