Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) is proud to announce The three graces, a three-artist exhibit featuring mini-solo shows from native Los Angeles artist Allison Reimold (titled The blue hour), Dutch artist Dewi Plass (titled On the bright side), and Kentucky-based artist and illustrator Kelsey Beckett (titled Sharp edges). Set to open on August 30th, the exhibit will be on view through October 4th in Gallery 2.

Allison Reimold was born and raised in Los Angeles, where she currently lives, and is a graduate of Otis College of Art and Design. By day, she works full-time as an award-winning illustrator at an entertainment advertising firm, designing posters for film and TV. By night, Reimold paints vivid and detailed images of women intertwined with their place in the natural world.

Regarding her new works, the artist shares, “The blue hour is a series of portrait paintings that explore the female experience in a transitional state, caught weaving in and out of time and reality. Drawing from European visual traditions and rendered with meticulous attention to detail, these pieces explore liminal states — between myth and reality, past and future, light and shadow. Color and light are amplified in paintings that echo traditional painting motifs, with figures balanced on the precipice of this world and one that is just beyond the veil.”

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Dewi Plass is a self-taught artist with an academic background in cultural anthropology. While Dewi found great joy in putting her academic skills into practice, it was her profound fascination for nature and her love for the animals that inhabit it that made her develop a visual language through which this passion could be communicated and celebrated. In 2015, she decided to commit to her development as a visual artist, and since then, her artwork has been shown in galleries across the world. Using acrylics as her medium, Dewi creates artworks in which animals take the center stage within worlds that invite the viewer to let go of all that’s familiar and instead explore the unexpected.

Regarding her new works, the artist shares, “With this show, I wish to shed some light on the hope and positivity that reside within our imagination. We can be anything. We can dream. We can challenge negatives by embracing relentless optimism. We can immerse ourselves in the fluidity of becoming and, by doing so, transcend any rigid dichotomies that may feel limiting. On the bright side presents surrealist escapes to real-time challenges.”

Kelsey Beckett focuses her work mainly on feminine figures and the power they possess. Previously having found inspiration in the softer side of femininity, her work currently explores the beauty of inner strength, and how well it goes in tandem with that softness. Beckett’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries across the U.S., as well as published in art books (Jim Henson’s Labyrinth artist tribute, Spectrum 19: the best in contemporary fantastic art, and NSFW) and profiled in magazines (Juxtapoz and Beautiful bizarre).

Regarding her new series, Sharp edges, the artist shares, “Aposematism is a self-defense tactic used by prey animals in nature. It comes in the form of bright colors and patterns, an indication to predators that they are unpalatable, or would be painful to attack. With this body of work, I imagined how a woman might adopt similar tactics and warnings. This came in the form of armor, each figure adorned with their own unique set. Inspiration also found its way via hostile architecture: physical, universal messaging used to warn future humans of dangerously poisoned land. A landscape of thorns and spike fields reimagined into crowns, menacing earthworks that radiate from the figure like a halo — a warning to all who set eyes upon them: ‘The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.’ It isn’t enough to be beautiful and soft; you also need sharp edges.”

Open to the public and free to attend, The three graces is set to debut on Saturday, August 30th from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Gallery 2, alongside a solo show by award-winning and internationally renowned Canadian artist Martin Wittfooth, titled Deus ex terra, in the Main Gallery and CHG’s Hidden gems from the studio II group exhibition in Gallery 3. All shows will be on view at CHG through October 4th.