The Loft at Liz's is an art gallery above Liz's Antique Hardware on La Brea Avenue and Sixth Street in Los Angeles. Liz Gordon used to live here during the first years of the hardware store, and when she moved out, she decided to turn the space into an art galley. She was excited to host Kurt's show, since it was so obviously architectural. This shot looks across the gallery toward where the food was being served, cooked up by Kurt's wife Joanne, her daughter Mallory, and a pal from Salt Lake City, Kim.
	This is the entrance up some stairs from the hardware store below. Kurt wanted to follow a chronology of his work, and decided to hit everybody with his first big black-and-white drawing "My House in Utah" from 2006.
	Here, some people are looking at a grouping of early drawings. The color one is "(part of a) House in West Los Angeles from 2006, with "ms. Zuiderdam" from 2006 on the right.
	Kurt's wife Joanne, is having a fun moment with a longtime friend, illustrator David Galchutt.
	As long as we are name-dropping, Kurt shares a confidence with designer and creator of French Fry Guy, Steve Rachwal.
	Art lover Eugene Pae arrived bearing gifts, one of whom was Joanne's daughter, Mallory Murphree. They have been going out for a couple of months are are pretty nuts for each other.
	The Loft at Liz's is a fairly large space. It got much more crowed than this a bit later in the evening - around 9:00 pm.
	This is what Kurt always wanted: People taking a good close look at the drawings. These folks are looking at "Milwood Mansion" from 2009. A "Small" print of "Milwood" is on the left.
	Joanne's daughter Mallory volunteered to help with the food in the kitchen, but that did not stop her from giving a few guided tours in the gallery, here in front of "Meyer May House." She watched as several of these pieces came into existence.
	And what food there was! The place came with a couple who washed dishes and bartended. Everybody kept saying that when you asked for a red, he would pour you a white.
	Joanne got to enjoy the kitchen help of a good friend from Utah Days, Kim Eshnaur, who was in town to visit her mom.
	Kurt answered questions for almost four hours. But he listened too. He knows that he is on the right track. All these people are before his latest drawing, "A Duplex in Malibu" finished just in January.
	A couple examine the details of "A Duplex in Malibu." Kurt is careful not to hang these drawings too high, but rather someplace where tall people don't have to stoop too much, and shorter people don't have to stand on tip-toe. . .
	Kurt really enjoys hearing people's reactions to his drawings. We are pretty sure this smile is reserved for the man in the foreground, who is David Coons, the genius who scans Kurt's drawings and makes flawless prints of them at his company, ArtScans, in Culver City.
	Kurt explains some of the laws of perspective to a couple from Belgium. The question was, "Why are the lines so curved?" Kurt must have explained this 4 or 5 times during the evening.
	Here is the crew toward the end of the evening. Eugene, Mallory, Joanne, and Kurt.
	When all was said and done, Kurt was very pleased with how it all went.
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