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When she’s not designing Christmas Cards for Beck and doing cover art for the Silversun Pickups, Mel Kadel is penning and illustrating witty and insightful pieces. Much of her work is focused on social commentary illustrating societies weaknesses at the same time playing on the little things that eat us up inside. These pieces are more mature than a Shel Silverstein poem but evoke the sentiments from the same place. It’s amazing the frequency with which she produces work, from Brian Canning and Travis Millard to the 34 new pieces she recently posted on her site. Check out more work from Mel here.

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Opening reception on Sat Feb 9 (5-7pm).Runs Sat Feb 9 – Sat Mar 8 (Tue-Sat: 11am-5pm)

Richard Heller Gallery (2525 Michigan Ave, Suite B-5A, 310.453.9191)

The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel’s drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet and threatening to break out of their frames. Still, Kadel preserves the intimate quality of her works through extensively worked surfaces — collaging, painting, and otherwise marring the foreground to create depth and solidity in her fragile works on paper. By contrast, Travis Millard’s drawings summon an otherworldly universe: one of storybook villages populated by lovable monsters, waiting to be freed by Millard’s sure, steady lines.

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