Twitter Reviews – November 2009

Daniel Buren: Rainbow in the Sky (***) Subtle, floating w/ the breeze, constantly changing fluttering flashes of white stripes w/ multi-hues
1:47 PM Nov 13th from txt

Ingres’s Comtesse @NortonSimon (*****) The smooth softness of her face and skin counters her coy, knowing expression.
2:31 PM Nov 13th from txt

Comtesse: The milky cream of her skin contrasts yet harmonizes w/ the crisp, shiny lushness of the red hair ribbon & blue satin dress.
2:37 PM Nov 13th from txt

Scot Heywood @ Frank Lloyd (****) Warm with siennas, yellows and reds to foil the black and white. One shifted panel in each spices it up.
2:58 PM Nov 14th from txt

.@KielJohnson: Publish or Perish @MMooreGallery (****) I like the DYI spirit and deadpan humor. #artLA
3:32 PM Nov 14th from txt

Jeanne Silverthorne @ Shoshana Wayne (****) Things that are a bit off are what makes it work-the impossibly heavy water drop or moth circling light
4:02 PM Nov 14th from txt

Alejandro Gehry @ Robert Berman (**) Bad imitation of Sue Williams slapped over a bad imitation of Hans Hoffmann just equals bad painting.
4:08 PM Nov 14th from txt

Sarah Perry @ Lora Schlesinger (***) Drawings of lunar surface scratched onto chalkboards were lovely, but the dead animals were creepy.
4:18 PM Nov 14th from txt

Ned Evans: Inside the Prism @ William Turner (****) Best Evans paintings I’ve seen in awhile-bleeding acrylics slashed with crisp diagonals.
4:38 PM Nov 14th from txt

Jennifer Steinkamp @ ACME (****) The videos make me feel like I’m spinning and floating underwater along with leaves and petals.
5:07 PM Nov 14th from txt

Kellesimone Waits: Power Plays @ Frank Pictures (**) Rather than subverting gender roles, it just reinforces them. #artLA
6:22 PM Nov 14th from web

Brendan Monroe @ Richard Heller (***) Ambivalent about the paintings but liked the warped atomic-age style suspended sculpture. #artLA
6:25 PM Nov 14th from web

Pagel says Koons’ pntgs seem to suffocate under preposterously long list of sources. 2 bad he gets dazzled by the artisans http://tr.im/FkP2
6:13 PM Nov 19th from tr.im

Jeff Koons @Gagosian (**) Stick to sculpture, Jeff. I haven’t seen a decent painting since the Celebration series. #artLA
2:27 PM Nov 21st from txt

Don’t think that I hate Koons all together, just not this body of work.
2:43 PM Nov 21st from txt

Koons: I don’t mind the factory, artisans, excess, etc. The problem is that the craftsmanship alone is not enough.
2:46 PM Nov 21st from txt

The ideas and composition have to be good too and Koons has failed here.
2:47 PM Nov 21st from txt

Koons: Though the sexuality is more veiled it’s still tasteless. The Courbet cunt shot scribbles were kinda offensive.
2:51 PM Nov 21st from txt

Koons: The references to Twombly doodles and Lichtenstein fake brush strokes and benday dots were hollow winks to the cognoscenti.
2:56 PM Nov 21st from txt

Koons: The only thing I found interesting was an optical illusion of the surface undulating if you got very close to the dots.
2:59 PM Nov 21st from txt

Koons: David Pagel seemed to feel that the perfectly executed artisan work was enough to save the paintings from boredom, but I didn’t.
3:02 PM Nov 21st from txt

Lorser Feitelson: Late paintings @ Louis Stern (*****) So sexy. Hard 2 believe they were painted late 60s early 70s. Love the curves. #artLA
3:19 PM Nov 21st from txt

Groupings @ Manny Silverman (***) Standout–Maxwell Hendler’s Love’s Attire. I want 2 take it home & add it 2 my collex of pink paintings.
3:28 PM Nov 21st from txt

Marilyn Minter @RegenProjects (****) Interesting play between repulsiveness/goo & attractiveness/sparkles within the context of female objectification.
4:00 PM Nov 21st from txt

John M. Miller @ Margo Levin (****) Plays tricks on your eyes. Move & you feel dizzy. Think you see 1 color then it changes as you go by.
4:20 PM Nov 21st from txt

Roy Dowell @ Margo Levin (***) Nice but…besides using mostly hand painted scraps, how is this advancing early Modernist collage? #artLA
4:24 PM Nov 21st from txt

.@livingroomart I am interested in Koons’ take on excess and banality, but I feel he expresses it much better in his sculpture.
5:55 PM Nov 21st from TweetDeck

Koons just can’t seem to get sex right. First he stumbled with the blatant Cicciolina stuff.
5:58 PM Nov 21st from TweetDeck

Koons: Then he missed the mark mingling it with cartoons. Now he tries soft focus and dowsing it w/ art historical references.
6:02 PM Nov 21st from TweetDeck

Koons: No matter how he approaches sexuality, it just comes off as sleazy.
6:03 PM Nov 21st from TweetDeck

.@klightbox I DO like most of Koons’ work. Balloon Dog, Puppy, Basketballs & Hoovers, Rabbit, Jim Beam trains. Just not THESE paintings.
2:01 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

.@klightbox Tracey Emin uses similar imagery but it comes off as personal emotion/desire to be loved. Koons never gets beyond the male gaze.
2:52 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

I can’t believe Chris Miles thinks Koons’ new paintings are “surprisingly fresh.” Check out my comment @LAWeekly: http://tr.im/G9kL
7:06 PM Nov 29th from tr.im

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