{"id":18024,"date":"2023-10-19T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/?p=18024"},"modified":"2023-10-19T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:57:08","slug":"soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Soar Through a Cloud Renewal with Karen Hochman Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen Hochman Brown&#8217;<\/strong>s solo exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laaa.org\/4-solo-shows-open-september-23\"><strong><em>Cloud Renewal<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, now at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles is a transcendent exhibition created while the artist was sheltering in place during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using her photographic images of flowers,\u00a0 waves and clouds that she alters and merges, she presents three distinct and beautiful series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown-288x192.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dusk-on-Honolua-Bay-with-Roses_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first presents larger scale works titled by where sky and clouds were photographed and the name of flowers she merges with these views, selected from her own garden. Each is a mounted, shiny acrylic print with a protective layer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDusk on Honolua Bay With Roses\u201d is one such work, vibrating with pink and gold shades against sections of blue sky, and darker cloud arising like streams of smoky incense at the center top of the work.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18024 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/twilight-in-ojai-with-magnolia_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Twilight-in-Ojai-with-Magnolia_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Twilight-in-Ojai-with-Magnolia_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Twilight-in-Ojai-with-Magnolia_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Twilight-in-Ojai-with-Magnolia_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Twilight-in-Ojai-with-Magnolia_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/sunset-in-tel-aviv-with-orchid-brighter_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sunset-in-Tel-Aviv-with-Orchid-Brighter_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sunset-in-Tel-Aviv-with-Orchid-Brighter_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sunset-in-Tel-Aviv-with-Orchid-Brighter_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sunset-in-Tel-Aviv-with-Orchid-Brighter_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sunset-in-Tel-Aviv-with-Orchid-Brighter_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Her \u201cTwilight in Ojai with Magnolia\u201d is equally evocative, but here, there is less of the recognizable burnished gold sunset, which has instead become like glowing orbs, or a mysterious lamp suspended within a mauve-toned, gentle, near-evening sky. \u201cSunset in Tel Aviv With Orchid\u201d transforms the flowers depicted to white shadowy filaments of the blossoms, making them dance together like faeries or angels.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-18024 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/in-the-bubble-maui_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x648.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Maui_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/in-the-bubble-mexican-riviera_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x648.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Mexican-Riviera_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/in-the-bubble-home_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Home_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Home_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Home_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Home_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Home_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x768.jpg 768w, 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class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/in-the-bubble-galapagos_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x648.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Galapagos_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/in-the-bubble-altadena_karen-hochman-brown-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-648x648.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-1230x1230.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/In-the-Bubble-\u2013-Altadena_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Making a deeper dive into a world she could not then visit physically, she created the mixed media series \u201cIn the Bubble,\u201d once again focusing on clouds viewed on her travels in the past. These smaller works allowed Hochman Brown to experiment in medium, using resin to create smaller works that are as experimental and experiential in technique as they are in image. At 10 x 10 x 2, these works are like small jewels, or their own permanent bubbles of light and magic cloud. There is the silvery blue of \u201cIn the Bubble Maui,\u201d the seashell-like shape of \u201cIn the Bubble Galapagos, the lively orange, blue, and white mixed with gold of \u201cIn the Bubble Mexican Riviera.\u201d She captures a vivid sense of place within each work, in her shapes, colors, and patterns. For example, her \u201cIn the Bubble Home\u201d provides a richly recognizable orange, pink and blue sky \u2013 the color of fall sunsets over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x966.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x408.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown-305x192.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BANANAS_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later in her year in relative confinement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/inward-and-outward-the-kaleidoscopic-art-of-karen-hochman-brown\/\">Hochman Brown<\/a> and her husband wintered in Kauai, Hawaii. There she says that she brought her cloud panoramas essentially down to earth, \u201cwhere the sky meets the ocean and earth\u2026anchoring them to the horizon line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These works are presented on wood panels and on fabric tapestries. Where her other two exhibited series offer a focus that is sky\/clouds\/floral images or sky and clouds alone, here she creates full realized worlds, magical places veiwers can feel connected to. Along with the lush dark green palms and island shrubbery in \u201cBananas,\u201d\u00a0 there are radiant pink, white and gold flowers with banana-like curves emanating\u00a0 from the vivid golden yellows of their stamens, a fully realized flower resting within a green globe sitting on the heart of the island which reflects downward into a glassy sea.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-18024 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/loopy_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/breathe_karen-hochman-brown\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BREATHE_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BREATHE_Karen-Hochman-Brown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BREATHE_Karen-Hochman-Brown-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BREATHE_Karen-Hochman-Brown-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BREATHE_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1230x1230.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/hochmanbrownkaren-welcome\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HochmanBrownKaren-WELCOME-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HochmanBrownKaren-WELCOME-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HochmanBrownKaren-WELCOME-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HochmanBrownKaren-WELCOME-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HochmanBrownKaren-WELCOME-1230x1230.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cParting\u201d provides the viewer with three golden orbs, a dark gold and inky colored seat which wraps around these balls, clearly the last of a glorious sunset what has set fire to the clouds and charred the ocean with its light. \u201cLoopy\u201d is a meditative, transfixing image in which swirls of blue sea form ribbons and arcs around a luminous pink, mandala-like center. \u201cWelcome\u201d shapes a vivid near-chartreuse green and deep rose watery portal \u2013 with hints of orange flaming wave \u2013 around a rocky shore line and a cloud dotted, still glowing sky. In the middle of this portal rises a full moon. \u201cBreathe\u201d offers a shape within a rectangular shape, reminiscent of a pillow. On this restful place foamy ocean spray rises; the sky and clouds have a lighter pink cast than Hochman Brown\u2019s fiery sunsets.<\/p>\n<p>Also a part of the gallery exhibition are two looping videos, each exuding magic and mysticism. Both were inspired by her residency in Kauai as well. \u201cMeditation\u201d gives us a stunning seascape with soothing ocean waves crashing to shore, and the only sound is that of the sea itself.\u00a0 In \u201cRespiration,\u201d the ocean is contained with a portal shape, rising and falling white and blue and darker midnight colored waves flow like a perfect breath, while behind it, a sensuous, sinuous colorful background unfolds. The soundtrack is both delicately musical and the sound of waves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x735.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-648x465.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown-268x192.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PARTING_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gracefully exhibited gallery room is well-curated, creating a highly sensorial world of intense visual beauty that connects the color and sense of motion in all the artist&#8217;s work from video images to her luminous clouds &#8220;In the Bubble.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/the-scent-of-a-flowered-world\/\">The artist<\/a> never disappoints. Breathe in the beauty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laaa.org\/karen-hochman-brown-1\"><em>Cloud Renewal<\/em> is ready to renew you<\/a> through October 28th, reward yourself with a visit \u2013 by appointment \u2013 at 825 N La Cienega Blvd. There will be an artists\u2019 talk on the 21st at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the gallery: <strong>Peter Hiers <\/strong>new exhibition <strong><em>Burning Question<\/em><\/strong> features a body of work made from tire fragments he finds along highways; <strong>Ted Rigoni<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong><em>Bygone Patterns <\/em><\/strong>represents a contemporary artistic presentation of the Mojave\u2019s remains; and Sean Young offers profound mixed media work in<strong> TOUCHING THE TRUESELF WITHIN deals with The Four Noble Truths.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genie Davis; images provided by the artist<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Karen Hochman Brown&#8217;s solo exhibition Cloud Renewal, now at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles is a transcendent exhibition created while the artist was sheltering in place during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using her photographic images of flowers,\u00a0 waves and clouds that she alters and merges, she presents three distinct and beautiful series. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/soar-through-a-cloud-renewal-with-karen-hochman-brown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soar Through a Cloud Renewal with Karen Hochman Brown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[1712,223,965,1713],"class_list":["post-18024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-uncategorized","tag-cloud-renewal","tag-gallery-825","tag-karen-hochman-brown","tag-laaa-gallery-825"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LOOPY_Karen-Hochman-Brown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18050,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions\/18050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}