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The group show Rock and Elegance celebrates LA Artists Larry Mullins, Tony Brown, John Andolsek, Carol Charney, Timothy Nero, Julie Speed, Michael Salvatore Tierney, and Irina Alimanestinau. Andolsek鈥檚 series of celestial bodies floating on a spray-painted Technicolor sky serve as the keystone for the show. The graphic works of Mullins reflect the graffiti culture in Los Angeles by skillfully combining stencils and paints, creating canvases that look more like they were generated by a computer than by hand. The show examines the visual culture of Los Angeles as well as the psychological nature of Angelinos. Nero鈥檚 鈥淥rder to Chaos I鈥� explores the chemical composition of a healthy and unquiet mind--half of the page is consumed by orderly strands of DNA, while the opposite side is occupied by rapid strokes of a black pen. 鈥淩ock and Elegance鈥� gets part of its name from Tierney, whose high gloss digital images are framed within a custom sheet of acrylic so as to overexpose objects and reduce them to their simplest form. An empty hallway in a library is characterized by the over saturation of light and color. The sleek handling of the digital image reveals a total absence of life. Los Angeles is a visual culture but one that is also based on illusion (George Billis Gallery, Culver City).