The Carmichael-Reardon gallery opened in August 1999 by graduates of the U.C.L.A. Arts History program, Tess Reardon and Edie Carmichael. The intent is to provide an exclusive venue for exhibiting weird and macabre art. The Gallery building had previously been used by a large Californian museum as an annex for storing paintings unsuited for the general public, either due to subject matter or condition. These were then moved to a larger facility outside L.A. leaving the location vacant. As well as art exhibitions, the building has also been used to host puppet theatre shows and South American magic realism artists. The coming year is especially exciting for us with the ground-breaking exhibition in October of cult weird artist Aubrey Scott who will be putting his work on show for just the second time ever.
Tess Reardon is a southerner - she grew up in New Orleans and moved to San Diego when she was ten. She has always loved the bizarre since she was a little girl and is delighted to be the co-owner of the gallery with Edie, who she says shares her same twisted taste in art.
Edie Carmichael met Tess in at UCLA and the two worked together for a year before leasing the vacant gallery on La Brea. Edieis from Anaheim and got into U.C.L.A. on a musical scholarship. Though she rarely plays the viol any more, she claims that the time spent studying art history let her realize her own love of the weird.
You can contact the Carmichael-Reardon gallery through Aaron Vanek at
Or e-mail Tess Reardon at
Note (8/19/2000): we have been encountering difficulty with our e-mail server, and so have temporarily closed down the gallery's usual gallery@carmichael-reardon.com address. Any e-mail sent to this address before 8/15 will need to be re-submitted. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Image (c)2000 Aaron Vanek.