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. 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:
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): 
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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