Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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You know the dilittante artists ... people whose paintings sell only because they established themselves as celebrities in some other field first. (Churchill, Hitler, etc.) If anything, Martin Mull is a painter who is a dilettante actor. He says after earning two art degrees, he only turned to the stage and screen to pay for oil paint.
Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Martin Mull at the Samuel Freeman Gallery in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station art complex, where he's just opened a new show called Split Infinitives." (It closes December 18.) The pieces - semi-photorealistic monochromatic montages - ooze Cold War unease.
WARNING: If you CLICK THROUGH for the full version of the thumbnail, you'll see monochromatic nudity (butts and boobs).