We were in Santa Monica on Saturday visiting Andrew and Connie and, after a nice breakfast at a cozy diner named Snug Harbor, a short walk from their apartment (we somehow still had some room left notwithstanding the huge dinner at Carlitos Gardel the night before!), decided to check out Bergamot Station, a cluster of art galleries housed in a complex of industrial buildings just off the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica. The name, Bergamot Station, dates back to 1875 when the area was a stop for the Red Line trolley running from Los Angeles to the Santa Monica Pier. Although we did not manage to visit all of the galleries, of those we did visit the exhibits I enjoyed the most were:
~ “The Last Iceberg,” an exhibit of beautiful photos taken by Camille Seaman at the Richard Heller Gallery [“one piece of a larger project entitled "Melting Away" which documents the polar regions of our planet, their environments, life forms, history of human exploration and the communities that work and live there.”]:
In addition to her photos of icebergs, I also found online a selection of some incredible photos from Seaman's new portfolio, "The Big Cloud".~ An exhibit of paintings by Julie Heffernan at the Mark Moore Gallery (a beautiful set of paintings, each showing a great deal of work and attention to detail, although with a somewhat disturbing undertone -- I am not sure where I would hang one in our home):
Julie Heffernan - Self Portrait as Great Heap
The Sour Harvest blog has a very good overview of the show.
~ An exhibit of works by the Peruvian artist Fernando de Szyszlo at the Latin American Masters gallery:
We also took a look around Hiromi Paper International which had some amazing Japanese and other paper products and really deserved more time.
Finally, we also stopped off at the Cafe for a late lunch.
Bergamot Station is well worth a visit.
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