Art Opening This Week: GATEWAYS at Diversions Fine Art
Kaye Freeman - Bury me under your Magnolia Tree, Oil paint on canvas, 27 x 36 inches, 2026
May 9 – 30 in Manhattan Beach
May is the gateway to summer, and with the beautiful work in these three solo artists’ exhibitions, it’s time to step through each wonderful passage they present and explore their visionary work. Gateways merge, flow, and split. They are exclusive, inclusive, and parallel – which is what you might say about the gateways you’ll enter on your exploration through a universe of evocative, inspirational, and alchemic art.
Step through these gateways, and enjoy the brilliant illumination of Scott A. Trimble, Karen Hochman Brown, and Kaye Freeman in Gateways, a new exhibit opening at Diversions Fine Art in Manhattan Beach May 9-30. There will be an Artists reception on May 9 from 4 – 7 PM and at Closing on May 30 there will be an Artist’s Talk from1-3 PM.
All three artists’ work are gateways to a rich experience, an unfolding world. In the words of Alec Derwent Hope, the art in this exhibition serves as “the dream and…my gates of entry/The means by which I waken into light.
KAYE FREEMAN
Freeman explores the transformative micro and macro interconnections of the environment, the self, and nature. Freeman works in painting, drawing, performance, and film, as she takes viewers on a passionate magical mystery tour that vibrates with color and surges with light and movement. Her images are both startlingly innovative and compellingly voluptuous.
KAREN HOCHMAN BROWN
Experiencing Hochman Brown’s uniquely energetic forms and fascinating process is indeed a gateway to a new dimension, one in which her lush photographic work is manipulated into a variety of digital art forms that dazzle with their own inherent mixture of line, shape, and movement. Whether working in video, on fabric, or with laser-cut wood, her images are blissfully hypnotic.
SCOTT A. TRIMBLE
Scott A. Trimble’s work is a poetic fairytale, stories interwoven with feeling, memory, and the wonder of dreams. His writerly titles lead the viewer deep into imagery that evokes two worlds: ours, and another more surreal landscape of the mind and spirit. His art manifests memories and creates a deeply involving visual narrative that is entirely, gorgeously, his own.
About Diversions Fine Arts
Founded by arts writer and curator Genie Davis, Diversions Fine Arts Gallery offers a radiant and inclusive space to exhibit a wide range of artists located in the greater Los Angeles area, throughout the U.S., and abroad.
Diversions Fine Arts is a membership gallery, devoted to exhibiting and selling the work of fine contemporary artists with a minimal 10% commission rate on sales. Three artists are curated into the exhibition monthly, each presenting a body of their own; group exhibitions feature many of the artists in all membership tiers within the gallery roster.
Diversions Fine Art is located at 1069 N Aviation Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Regular Gallery Hours: 12-4, Thursday-Sunday, or by appointment.
Website: https://www.diversionsfinearts.com/
