LA Artcore Brewery Annex

LA Artcore’s Brewery Annex will host a memorial show to honor artist Barbara Mindell, an inspiration for many people.  All aspects of her work served to celebrate life and help others discover a connection to their own lives.  By using painting to explore the dynamic within human existence, she created a legacy that points the way towards inhabiting our own bodies, our mental environments and our creative abilities.

Mindell’s paintings are a blend of abstraction and figure, using color, position, and form to explore the constant shift of volition.  The artist found that the shift between form and formlessness correlated to the conscious and unconscious, body and mind, or foreground and background.  Her work was fully integrated with her essential pursuits: seeking to understand implicit response, interconnectedness, the widening of her own perception and expanding personal evolution. 

The paintings are volatile and peaceful, capturing transformation with energetic brushstrokes and alternating light and dark.  The figures move from spectral to occupying the center of an intimate stage.  They remain a powerful insight into the personal transformation of the artist’s recovery process following an injury to the spine, and record not only her own process, but the devotion with which she served others as a teacher of Continuum Movement, a holistic body and spirit renewal program.