GEORGE BILLIS GALLERY
2716 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 838-3685, la@georgebillis.com www.georgebillis.com
After establishing a successful contemporary art gallery in New York, George Billis opened his Los Angeles gallery in 2004. With galleries in Chelsea and Culver City, George Billis Gallery provides a dynamic exchange of contemporary artists between the art centers of New York and Los Angeles. The gallery shows painting, photography, sculpture and mixed-media works and is dedicated predominantly to exhibiting emerging to midcareer artists with a focus on Southern California artists.
The gallery is pleased to announcet they are now representing Audra Weaser, an outstanding Southern Californian abstract painter. Her first solo show with the gallery opened January 6, along with Ben Schwab’s urban landscapes in the project space. In February, the gallery is excited to be showing the suburban realism of Sarah Williams, urban realism of Derek Buckner and Randall W. L. Mooers’ still lifes. The gallery will be participating in Art Palm Springs in February and Art Market San Francisco in April. These two fairs bring together a mix of top-notch galleries and sophisticated collectors.
“Los Angeles truly has become an art destination with the opening of several new museums, including
The Broad and Marciano Foundation and many new galleries. Since we opened in the Culver City Arts District 13 years ago, Culver City has become the heart of LA’s gallery scene. In that time, we’ve seen a very exciting increase in collector interest in Southern California artists—both in abstraction and realism,” says gallery director Tressa Williams. “We are also continuing to see this upswell in collector interest in the work of young realist painters from throughout the U.S.”
According to Williams, these young artists are
“using their technical skill in oil to explore the world around them with new and inspired eyes.” Among the artists are Adam Harrison, Alex Roulette, Danny Heller, Christopher Stott, Buckner and Williams.
“Culver City has become the heart of LA’s gallery scene. In that time, we’ve seen a very exciting increase in collector interest in Southern California artists—both in abstraction and realism. We are also continuing to see this upswell in collector interest in the work of young realist painters from throughout the US.”
— Tressa Williams, director, George Billis Gallery