Prior to the opening, The Betty Roberts Room is billed as featuring a number of intriguing though cryptic elements. Among them: A vibrating Mylar wall reflecting high-pressure sodium light across the gallery space; stacked-object sculptures, paintings, and prints all realized in grey-scale surface; paintings reminiscent of famed faux-painter Pierre Finkelstein, a 1986 graduate of the Van Der Kellen Painting Institute in Brussels; and a guided imagery soundtrack by Belleruth Naparstek, "noted psychotherapist, author and producer of the Health Journeys line of guided imagery audio programs."
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To think of The Betty Roberts Room as intentionally broken might be to give in to rationalization where there is no grounds for it — it's falling for a trick of the mind, a trick of the camera, or, worse yet, a trick of the artists. But failure to do so leaves one in a limbo of uncertainty and aggravation
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The Betty Roberts Room
Annie Wharton Los Angeles
8687 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
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