Artist Cristi Lyon exhibited her work in March 2020.
Gallery 839 is a nonprofit gallery featuring art by members of the Animation Guild, IATSE, Local 839. Artists on exhibit are tried-and-true in their fields of animation and visual art, offering a unique merging of the Union and fine art worlds.
At this small gem in Burbank, the artwork is diverse and eclectic. The Animation Guild’s first gallery opened in 1962, and its current Gallery 839 launched in 2010. Over the years exhibitions have included media such as pottery, ceramics, bronze, poly resin, paint, pencil, glasswork ,and more.
The gallery is home to individual and group shows, and artists receive 90% of the commission from their sales. Better yet, the work is affordable. At monthly openings, the public can enjoy art and refreshments while mingling with the artists behind today’s popular movies and TV shows, as well as animation industry legends.
Current Exhibit
April
The Superhero Project: The Sequel
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 3, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Superhero Project and The Animation Guild are proud to collaborate once again on a brand new collection of heroes! Working with this amazing nonprofit, TAG artists have come together for the second year in a row to use arts as a tool for healing to empower youth impacted by illnesses and disabilities of all kinds. You can read more about TAG artists who have participated in The Superhero Project in the past at Keyframe magazine online. Learn more about The Superhero Project here.
Participating artists include:
Aishwarya Chandramohan
Alex De La Fuente Sibert
Alex Lay
Alexis Lambert
Ann Mendenhall
Brianne Drouhard
Chad Welson
Chrystin Garland
Danny Ducker
Delaney Januzzi
Emily Gerich
Gina Garavalia
Jenny Cho
Jessica Doll
Jim Mortensen
Joe Mandia
Kelsey Wooley
Lindsay Smith
Michelle Hiraishi
Oliver Holguin
Pamela Hoogeboom
Paul Layzell
Paul Schoeni
Randal Jackson
Sarah Chalek
Sheylee Garcia Hsu
Spencer Greenberg
Steven E Gordon
Tara Han-Tran Johnson
William Patrick
Upcoming Exhibit
May
Reem Ali Adeeb: Remedies for Nostalgia
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Reem Ali Adeeb’s work is deeply influenced by her experience as a Syrian immigrant living in Los Angeles for over 12 years. Outside of her work in the animation industry, her art seems to be chasing remedies for the nostalgia and longing that have settled in her heart—by recreating the elements visually or revisiting old concepts and meditating upon their new meanings that emerged from her perspective as an outsider living in the West.
In her creative process, she reaches for anything that engages her senses and memories, anything that brings her closer to the places and times she can’t physically return to. Whether it’s shopping at international grocery stores or surrounding herself with Muslim iconography—small prayers and du‘a that echo through her childhood—through her work she is always searching for a place, an object, or a visual element that draws her nearer to the unquenchable feeling of home.
For Remedies for Nostalgia, Ali Adeeb mostly works with Risograph digital printing and block printmaking. A few gouache paintings and digital prints make their way in as well. She chose to use these mediums in her work on nostalgia because of the slow, meditative processes in using these old technologies. It feels like an act of resisting the move toward the future and a way to capture the feeling of being in that perceived memory.
Ali Adeeb was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. She got a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from the School of Fine Arts, Damascus University, and an MFA in animation and visual effects from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked as a Character and Prop Designer and Visual Development Artist for TV and film animation in studios like Netflix, Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros. Animation, Titmouse, and A24. As a freelance illustrator, her clients have included the Love and Radio Podcast, Kitchen Table Magazine, Zocálo, and the Repod App. She is also a self-published author and illustrator of the book Sham Jadeed (2023) and How to Eat An Artichoke (2024), sold in the 826LA Time Travel Mart and various other local bookshops in Los Angeles