Twitter Reviews – April 2010

I made a quick little trip to Bergamot Station today to see some art. #artLA
9:41 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Material Matters @ William Turner (***) Process painting galore. A. Moses’ curvaceous atmospherics & Hayward’s gooey monochromes tops. #artLA
10:01 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Dustin Yellin @ Samuel Freeman (***) Botanicals, trees graceful like ikebana, but anatomy, skulls & heads cheesy, clumsy & creepy. #artLA
10:10 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Craig Kauffman @ Frank Lloyd (****) Plastic drape-formed sculptures perfect 4 spring–baby pink, daffodil yellow, seafoam green #artLA
10:21 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Ernesto Caivano @ Richard Heller (***) Whisper-thin lines in these maniacally detailed, time-intensive drawings. Precise yet quirky. #artLA
10:32 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Karen Carson @ Shoshana Wayne (**) Skies+dancers are monotonous & saccharine. Hand-painted frames too reminiscent of Lowe/MacConnel. #artLA
10:58 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Kim Dorland @MMooreGallery (*) Must have collector that likes day-glo spray paint & muddy globs of oil paint cuz seems that’s all I see here.
11:07 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Richard C. Miller @craigkrull (***) Wow–the Hollywood Freeway with NO graffiti–unimaginable. #artLA
11:11 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

Liz Craft @PatrickPainter (***) The gigantor cross stitch needlepoints and hooked rug wry. Clown face assemblages way too tacky. #artLA
11:24 PM Apr 9th via TweetDeck

I’m @artillerymag Art Debates. It’s getting crowded. I was thinking about Ustreaming it but the backlight from the windows’ll ruin the shot.
2:50 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

First debate is Project Deitch: Mat Gleason v. Margaret Lazzari. #ArtDebate
3:09 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Gleason (arguing in favor of Deitch): Deitch isn’t one of the fuckups who fucked up MOCA spending millions on Murakami. #ArtDebate
3:13 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Lazzari (against Deitch): 1st show is Dennis Hopper & will sell from personal collection to supplement director’s salary. #ArtDebate
3:17 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Gleason: History will prove me right. Jeffrey Deitch will be the best thing to happen to MOCA. #ArtDebate
3:20 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Lazzari: No closing statement yet she wins this round. #ArtDebate
3:21 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Next up Economy v. Creativity: Robert Berman v. Shana Nys Dambrot. #ArtDebate
3:23 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Berman (arguing for Economy): What IS the downside to money in art? #ArtDebate
3:27 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Dambrot (arguing for creativity): Collapsed economy will weed out the huge pool of artists. Better art in tough times. #ArtDebate
3:32 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Robert Berman wins the second round. #ArtDebate
3:37 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Next round Lowbrow v. Highbrow: Robert Williams v. Ezrha Jean Black. #ArtDebate
3:38 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Williams: Large section of artists cut out of the Art World–labeled as illustrators. Solution: Juxtapoz. #ArtDebate
3:44 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Black: All about judgment & standards which are painfully short in supply. Lowbrow nothing more than mass commercial marketing. #ArtDebate
3:48 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Williams: One fucking idiom always in dominance is the problem. #ArtDebate
3:54 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Black: Lowbrow is putting a gilt frame around kitsch. #ArtDebate
3:59 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Williams wins. #ArtDebate
4:00 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Last debate: Pornography in art: Zak Smith v. Betty Ann Brown. #ArtDebate
4:03 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Brown: When you are objectifying someone you are making pornography. #ArtDebate
4:09 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Smith: Thank you to the drunk in the third row. (You had to be there.) #ArtDebate
4:14 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Smith: I am touched that you think something explicit I stick up on a wall in some gallery has cultural effect on jack shit. #ArtDebate
4:22 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Smith is the winner. #ArtDebate
4:25 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck

Twitter Reviews – March 2009

Mineo Mizuno: Coexistence @ Samuel Freeman (***) Like moss covered ovoids in theory, but in reality fall short. Wish they were greener.
4:27 PM Mar 3rd from web

Mizuno @ Freeman: Misting contraptions distract. Matte-glazed works weak, but love the small, shiny river rock shaped ceramics.
4:32 PM Mar 3rd from web

David Hockney: Drawing in a Printing Machine @ LA Louver (**) Is this what phoning it in for an affordable price point looks like?
1:21 PM Mar 5th from web

Elias Sime: Eye of the Needle Eye of the Heart @ SMMoA (***) Wowed by obsessive craftsmanship of the stitching, but too much of the same.
1:37 PM Mar 5th from web

Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations @ Fahey/Klein (*****) Wonderfully humorous fictional photos of family life.
1:03 PM Mar 6th from txt

Jeremy Kidd: Fictional Realities @ Fahey/Klein (****) Dizzying (in a good way) urban photoscapes including LACMA under construction.
1:07 PM Mar 6th from txt

Carlos & Jason Sanchez @ dnj (***) Photos of some pretty depressing topics. Kind of a mood killer.
1:15 PM Mar 6th from txt

Angel Delgado: Continuous Limit @ Couturier (***) Liked the “objects in soap” series and sheep in metal cases. Didn’t care for drawings.
1:30 PM Mar 6th from txt

Angel Delgado @ Couturier: Objects are more metaphorical. Drawings are too literal.
1:31 PM Mar 6th from txt

Jutta Koether: Sovereign Women in Painting @ Susanne Vielmetter (*) Ridiculously awful.
2:09 PM Mar 6th from txt

Arsen Roje: Body Parts @ Peres Projects (***) Jenny Savillesque paintings of fingers, thumbs and hands.
2:22 PM Mar 6th from txt

Dave Muller: iamthewalrus @ Blum & Poe (****) “Beatles Within Beatles” is my favorite piece in the show.
2:32 PM Mar 6th from txt

Melissa Manfull: Tesseracts @ Taylor de Cordoba (****) Gridded towers and arches as organic stalactites and stalagmites.
2:51 PM Mar 6th from txt

Penelope Gottlieb @ Kim Light (*****) Suburban real estate dreams with shopping carts & fake fireplace thrown in to break the reverie.
3:03 PM Mar 6th from txt

Brad Eberhard: As Different as Twins @ Cottage Home (****) Washes, paint layering, colors, all great. “Snake Stack” my fav.
3:53 PM Mar 13th from txt

Katherine Gray @ Acuna-Hansen (***) Forest glass installations remind me of the coin toss at carnivals. Clear bubbles in back room best of show.
4:02 PM Mar 13th from txt

Vorcan: Painting Live Music @ L2kontemporary. (*) High school Day-Glo paintings made worse by 3-D gimmick.
4:11 PM Mar 13th from txt

Rebekah Bogard: Flesh & Bone @ Sam Lee (****) Pink and fecund. Cute but sexy, naughty.
4:21 PM Mar 13th from txt

David Kramer: Guilty Pleasure @ Jancar (***) Drawings with text. I laughed at “Burn This.”
4:46 PM Mar 13th from txt

“Burn This” says: Nice being an artist. Even if you are lucky enough to get famous your neighbor still doesn’t know who the f*ck you are.
4:51 PM Mar 13th from txt

Catya Plate @ Jancar/McCorkle (***) Does amusing things with clothes pins. Liked the colored pencil tarot card drawings best.
4:54 PM Mar 13th from txt

Illegiblusion @ Sabina Lee (***) Most delicate use of line. Grids for Mary Ijichi, and loops & dots for Kimiko Miyoshi.
5:04 PM Mar 13th from txt

Walter Robinson: Transport @ Charlie James (*****) Auto name plates, fun color, metallic sparkle meets Rothko and resin.
5:21 PM Mar 13th from txt

Kit Hinrichs: The Storyteller’s Art @ ACCD (***) Impressive body of graphic design. A bit stuck in the ’80s. Some stuff hung too high.
6:20 PM Mar 13th from txt

Jalopy @ Side Street Projects (***) Baron Margo’s race car and motorcycle look like something from the Rocketeer by way of the Great Race.
6:52 PM Mar 13th from txt

Eye in the Sky: JPL’s Mars Orbiter @ PMCA (***) Second time wearing 3-D glasses today. “Opportunity Rover at Victoria Crater” is amazing.
7:38 PM Mar 13th from txt

Data + Art @ PMCA (****) Best mix of data and art is David Bowen’s “Photographic Drawing Device,” solar-powered mini-robots drawing circles.
7:49 PM Mar 13th from txt

Roger Kuntz @ LAM (***) Though best know for his Freeway and Sign series, I prefer the Crystal Cove series, especially “Sea Porch,” 1960.
7:03 PM Mar 14th from txt

Kuntz created multiple paintings of same subject, starting with realistic rendering & achieving greater abstraction in each subsequent version.
7:10 PM Mar 14th from txt

The Bathroom series was Kuntz’s undoing. Especially when he added red to his favored blue and grey palette.
7:17 PM Mar 14th from txt

Kuntz gets brighter and funner in his subsequent Ocean Interior and Blimp series, bringing in luminous teals and greens.
7:28 PM Mar 14th from txt

I think Kuntz didn’t become as well known, not because the Bathroom series was out of step, but because it wasn’t as compelling.
7:47 PM Mar 14th from txt

Christine Nguyen: Dark Matter of Fact @ Angels Gate (**) Too much sketchbook experimenting. Only photo mural finds some resolutions.
3:10 PM Mar 20th from txt

Kurt Franz: Desublimated Landscapes @ Angels Gate (***) Diebenkorn but in 3-D. Nice to see construction materials used for more than scattertrash.
3:21 PM Mar 20th from txt

Amy Thornberry: Sheaths, Veils, Sediment @ Torrance Art Museum (**) Oh no–scattertrash!
4:26 PM Mar 20th from txt

Marie Thibeault: Broken Symmetries @ Torrance Art Museum (***) Paintings are dynamic, fragmented, chaotic and yes, scattered, but definitely not trashy.
4:30 PM Mar 20th from txt

Kim Abeles: Location Studies @ TAM (****) Who knew homeless sleep where the trees aren’t? Always liked her smog work.
4:34 PM Mar 20th from txt

Iva Gueorguieva @ Angles (***) So-so. Liked large B&W with collage best (The Pageantry of Power: The General).
12:50 PM Mar 27th from txt

Dimitri Kozyrev: Lost Edge @ Mark Moore (****) Love the way he uses masked areas of different paint texture & real/abstract as collage elements.
1:21 PM Mar 27th from txt

Steven Hull @ Rosamund Felsen (***) Felt like I was in a Psychedelic/Surrealist/Modernist haunted house in Disneyland with a bad hangover.
1:32 PM Mar 27th from txt

Nobuhito Nashigawara: Identities @ Mark Moore (***) Yoshimoto Nara meets Nathan Mabry.
1:36 PM Mar 27th from txt

John Miller: The Natural Order @ Patrick Painter (**) Gold-leaf pirate booty assemblages juxtaposed with ’80s decor. Kind of a snore.
1:51 PM Mar 27th from txt

Rock Paper Scissor @ Robert Berman (**) Why do rock musicians think they can get away with anything? Scissors should win. (Save 1 Pettibon)
2:07 PM Mar 27th from txt

Michael Beck: The Object as Still Life @ Lora Schlesinger (****) Each a single antique object against a wall. Multiple light sources make for cool shadows.
2:29 PM Mar 27th from txt

Alexandra Hedison: Ithaka @ Frank Pictures (***) Not about trees? Too bad–would have been better without the pseudo-theory text on the walls.
5:58 PM Mar 27th from txt

Donald Sultan: Recent Works on Paper @ Greenfield Sacks (**) Much better in reproduction than in person.
6:03 PM Mar 27th from txt

Amy Ross & Carole Silverstein: The aim of waking is to dream @ Overtones (***) Sugar pills and hallucinogens.
6:09 PM Mar 27th from txt