Miram Wosk's artwork is a rush! It's hard to imagine that there is anything left of the artist when one steps into her exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. To give that much to your art should use you up, eat you up, wither you away.

The complexity is immense and each piece seems to emanate its own light. But here's what you have to contend with as an art lover, critic, snob, or whatever. Wosk's paintings are unapologetically and absolutely beautiful, even pretty. Collaged with sparkles, paper, sequins, and the remains of genuine sea life, she creates an adventure of the senses. It's honestly like nothing you've ever seen, except perhaps in a whacked-out dream.

While I hesitate to present images, because in this case they really are an injustice to the work, I'll do so here because as recalcitrant web freaks, you are bound to Google her anyway.

Check it out. I highly recommend it.

-bryson strauss


The Santa Monica Museum of Art is open Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM. http://www.smmoa.org/

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