Awaiting new art in public gallery

The city-run Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District remains home to the well-respected Road Theatre Company, headquartered in the modest 43-seat space upstairs, which is also available for rental.

But the downstairs art gallery space, which has served as a place for theatergoers to mingle preshow and at intermission, has been devoid of art since Dover and Jill Abrams, curator and coordinator, respectively, of the former Lankershim Art Gallery, moved to a new downtown space with a new name, Infusion Gallery. The latter held its opening reception Jan. 13.

Without the “crazy dreadies” -- as district locals had dubbed the two dreadlocked gallery managers/artists -- NoHo will not become the No Art district, however. According to Lauren Clark, administrator for the arts facility, the center is in talks with a group that plans to open a new gallery in March. “Things are kind of up in the air, but the space will remain a gallery,” she says.