Two Art Openings, at Bandini Art and at S.B. London

S.B. London

At the S.B. London Gallery, 3740 Sunset Blvd., overlooking Hollywood, the cerebral and very innovative Culver City artist Stacie B. London leans increasingly further into the intellectual realm of nature on Saturday evening from 6 to 10 p.m. “We will be continuing our dialogue with ‘nature as data,’” she says, when her exhibit, “TRANSformation:Nature Decoded,” will be unveiled. At the center, 18 light boxes will illuminate a microscopic leaf pattern, piece by piece. (Call 323.668.0734 for viewing hours.)

Communing with Nature

Each of the light boxes, arranged as a mosaic, contains a portion of the microscopic leaf pattern. Taken collectively, they form a larger tapestry that is intended to stimulate additional deeper inspection and reflection.

Ms. London is becoming masterful at turning the abstract into the rapidly coherent.

Her exhibits link elements that appear to be disparate. In Ms. London’s words, “This project is the product of investigating microscopic and macroscopic natural patterns while experimenting with poetry materials and graphics.”

Which led her into a poem:

“Balancing opposites, a sense of calm takes hold. “Resonating with links to the solar system, nature and the body, the calmness deepens.

“Echoing quietly into the idea that we are “Essentially of the same thing, and a part of each other, “the calmness lingers.”

Ms. London is not so different from the physician who probes a patient until exactly locating the problem.

Inside her second-story Silverlake showroom of industrial art, she happily cavorts about the open space typographically, playing sunny games with graphics to further brighten her unusual displays.

Castillo’s Experimentation

Around the corner from Washington Boulevard, at ground-level Bandini Art, Jane Castillo is showing visitors how to be remarkably creative with pristine white paper, the shredded kind and larger pieces.

Ms. Castillo’s 10-foot tall installation, a curtain of paper tendrils, diagonally stretches across the heart of the display area.

A Throwout Threat

The twists and curls of the paper wall are compared to tumbling hair or even the shavings from the plane of a woodworker.

Old and new fans of Ms. Castillo, best known for her work with hair, may remember the stir she caused three years ago at LAX with an eye-catching display.

She is of mixed race heritage, and she attracted attention with a 150-foot long tapestry that was created by 115 Latino, Chicano and African American artists. Shaken city officials threatened to shut down Ms. Castillo.