New Pepperdine Art Exhibit Features Abstract, Young Artists

Pepperdine University will present Art for Art's Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation from Aug. 26 through Nov. 24.

A reception will be held on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. There is no admission charge and the public is invited to attend. 

This exhibition features work by young, mostly American, artists who explore the potential of abstraction.

Here's a little about the artists directly from Pepperdine:

• Los Angeles artist Brian Porray creates large-scale works that resemble psychedelic landscapes filled with broken but radiant technological assemblages. (DARKHORSE/) is a monumental painting inspired by the impressive but ominous Luxor hotel in Las Vegas. 
• Ali Smith applies paint in a bold, virtuosic manner, producing surfaces that vary between being controlled and impetuous. She likes to "use paint almost sculpturally, as it starts to embody physical objects." 
• Iva Gueorguieva is a Los Angeles artist who creates seemingly chaotic paintings that actually evolve from her use of distinct processes that range from personal thoughts to philosophical concepts. Her painting Clinamen is inspired by the word the ancient philosopher Lucretius gave to the unpredictable movement of atoms.