Diane Christiansen makes images much like great poets make poems, slowly and with tremendous tenderness and care. Works like the intrepid and vaguely menacing Secret Obstacles, or the strangely whimsical Enough Space in the Head to Breathe, seem to reference luminous moments of decay when the world is fundamentally dissolving even as it reconstitutes itself seconds later. But the show stopper is most definitely Christiansen’s video work entitled Familiar, A Collaboration with Joel Benjamin. All of the oddly dissociative poetic elements we find in the small paintings come together magically in this short video where a woman/dog and a bodiless cat face transport themselves across an unpredictable landscape. 

Glike Gallery
5890 Blackwelder St. Suite B,
Culver City, CA 90230
Show closes April 5, 2015