Posts tagged ‘Rosamund Felsen Gallery’
Twitter Reviews – July 2011
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Twitter Reviews – March-April 2011
Phyllis Green, Spark (Green Stockings), 1994, ceramic, concrete polymer, fabric, flocking. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45u9qu
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Phyllis Green, Claudette in China, 2007, ceramic, mixed media. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45ubeb
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Phyllis Green, Purple Ball (background), Lulu, Bonnet, Christine, 2000-3, ceramic, acrylic. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45uct2
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Phyllis Green @OtisCollege (****) At her best when she’s the most quirky yet poignant–flocking, fabric, finish, feminine & fun. #artLA
3 Mar via TweetDeck
Phyllis Green @OtisCollege: Turkish Bath, Spinning Heads & Chinese Peruvian works outshine the elementary videos & trolls with tutus. #artLA
3 Mar via TweetDeck
Rebecca Campbell @LALOUVER (***) Lovin’ potent, loose brushwork in mushroom clouds & beautiful women. Rainbows & fireworks-not so much. #artLA
18 Mar via TweetDeck
Terry Allen @LALOUVER (***) Better as radio play. Words inspire imagination. Dramatization of installations/video maudlin & overblown. #artLA
18 Mar via TweetDeck
David Musgrave @ Marc Foxx (**) Oh, Marc, will I ever walk into your gallery and not see something faded & drab? I long for the day. #artLA
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Steven Hull installation @ Rosamund Felsen. #artLA http://twitpic.com/4b94pd
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Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, The Utopian Tense of Green #2, mixed media, acrylic on panel @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4ba49f
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Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, The Utopian Tense of Green Installation, vinyl @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4ba4v1
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Jennifer Steinkamp @ ACME (****) Windswept branches with blossoms paradoxically pacifying. Squirming intestines not so compelling. #artLA
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3 Abstract Painters @ Frank Lloyd (****) Why’d they think McLaughlin would bridge the mocha/muddy Haywards & the impeccable Heywoods? #artLA
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3 Abstract Painters @ Frank Lloyd: They would have been great together without it. Perhaps they’re just context for a secondary market sale.
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Yuken Teruya @Shoshana_Wayne (**) Admire fastidiousness of stencils, but only piece that really works is hanging banner/kite thing. #artLA
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Patrick Nickell @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Gordian knot doodles in 3D that blend bodily sensuousness with cartoony wackiness. #artLA
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April Street @ Rosamund Felsen (**) Klimtesque patterns on Frankenthalerish color field stains=dated ‘70s pastiche. Laughable titles. #artLA
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Jimi Gleason @ Samuel Freeman (***) Oooh, Jimi’s gone textural. The simple ones work, while the gloppy, craggy ones just look gaudy. #artLA
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Ned Evans @ William Turner (***) Cropped diagonals over offset, oversized checkerboards. Not as strong as his last show. #artLA
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Bruce Houston @ Lora Schlesinger (****) Stella & Mondrian playtime–fun with modernist geometric abstraction & toy trucks. #artLA
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If These Walls Could Talk @ Charlie James (*****) @powhida is the superstar w/ Ruscha/success grid. @stevelambert’s 50/50 a standout too.
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Analia Saban @ Thomas Solomon (***) Interesting experiments cunningly reveal process but the grimy grays take all the joy out of it. #artLA
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Chris Doyle @ Sam Lee (****) Hand-drawn animation lends itself 2 the haunting melancholy of the nature/money/consumption/waste cycle. #artLA
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Suzan Woodruff @ William Turner (***) I’m torn. I can’t decide if paintings are fascinating process art or safe corporate/couch art? #artLA
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Mariangeles Soto-Diaz @RuthBachofner (****) Sterling tension–frenetic diagonals tempered by cool, calm greens and whites. #artLA
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Steven Hull @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Sculptures superior to the painting combines. Choo-choo track installations delightful. #artLA
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Jennifer Faist, Last Time Ever, resin, oil, alkyd, acrylic on wood @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4optey
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Jennifer Faist, Mingle, resin, oil, alkyd, acrylic on wood @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4opu6w
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Twitter Reviews – July 2010
Greg Miller @ Turner (**) Never gets beyond pages of pulp fiction collaged on panels. Just wallows in shallow, cliched, mid-C. cheesecake.
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@Chad_Person @MMooreGallery (***) Gosh. Such an awful lot of hard work for just a few one-liners. #artLA
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Jacci Den Hartog @ Felsen (***) Lithe shapes of wall sculptures intriguing but garish colors which work so well in paintings are just too much.
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Hopper @MOCAlosangeles (**) Only the b&w photos from the 60s are museum-worthy. The wall/graffiti-inspired paintings are bush-league. #artLA
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Greg Miller @ William Turner: BTW Dennis Hopper portrait reeks of opportunism. #artLA
13 Jul via TweetDeck
Bell Day by @machineproject @hammer_museum has been pretty cool. The jingles are relaxing. Didn’t feel like a cow at all. #artLA
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Twitter Reviews – February 2010
Michael Dumontier/Neil Farber @ Richard Heller (****) Fun, usually funny, like large work best like Animals w/ Sharpies & Symbolatry. #artLA
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Tim Ebner @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Playful like children’s painting; love feathers & beads. High, floating in space as if swimming. #artLA
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Allison Schulnik @MMooreGallery (**) Sorry but I’ve got to disagree w/ everyone. Overly wrought, muddy & just bad “Bad Painting.” #artLA
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Schulnik video: Grizzly Bear music haunting, but visually doesn’t get very far past the inherent wow factor of stop- motion animation. #artLA
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Thought on “Bad Painting”: Not every velvet painting is great just because it is a velvet painting.
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Mark Swope @ Craig Krull (****) Gritty, urban, industrial. Graf-covered cement, bridges, lines of rails/power lines crisscrossing the view. #artLA
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Udo Noger @ Ruth Bachofer (***) Scrim-covered surfaces makes for muffled forms. Cut-out areas become shadows. Calm & quiet like fog. #artLA
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Diana Thater @SMMoA (**) Film refilming film, Rashomon viewpoints, camera exposed. All old hat, nothing up the sleeve, no magic. #artLA
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Loved the Kelly Reemtsen painting in the Poprealism show @ Skidmore Contemporary. Does for dresses what Thiebaud did for food. #artLA
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I’m @MOCAlosangeles for the Laura Owens artist talk. #artLA
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Owens on painting in show: I was looking at the Pepsi logo & Japanese prints. #MOCA
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Owens: How did I paint that? I can’t remember. #MOCA
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Owens: Painting has a mate with moon pictured. It’s in Europe somewhere. #MOCA
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Owens: Talk already over. Now asking for questions. #MOCA
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Owens: Likes to start over fresh in each painting. Likes to make things that are uncomfortable. #MOCA
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Owens: Works large scale frequently because of its literalness. #MOCA
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Owens: Monkey painting derived from Chinese painting, anxiety of originality & pressure to get work done for a show. #MOCA
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Owens: Tends to ignore the reviews of her shows. Prefers the feedback during studio visits. #MOCA
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Owens: In 1999 I got dumped and made a lot of paintings that year. Now I’m happy and make less work. #MOCA
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Owens: I’ve gotten totally into fonts lately. #MOCA
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I said “I heart art” and got in to see the #TaraDonovan exhibition @mcasd for half-price.
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“Haze” is one of the most amazing installations I’ve seen. Millions of stacked straws look like clouds, tulle, feathers. #TaraDonovan
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I’ve seen toothpick cubes before, but the pin and glass cubes are even more spectacular. #TaraDonovan
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“Bluffs,” made from stacks of clear buttons, reminds me of the drip sandcastles we used to make as kids. #TaraDonovan
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The silver “Untitled (Mylar)” hemispheres oddly read as black velvet puffs sprinkled with dew. #TaraDonovan #afd 3
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In “Untitled (Mylar Tape)” it looks like each circle contains a lens, but it’s just the reflection off of the inside of the tape. #TaraDonovan
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Tara Donovan @mcasd (*****) Simple yet complex. Calming & Zen-like but wonder & awe-inspiring too. #TaraDonovan
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Best Los Angeles Art Shows of 2009
David Bowen, Photographic Drawing Device, solar-powered mini-robots, charcoal, paper
Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information @ Pasadena Museum of California Art An apt show for the Over-Information Age. Curated by Dan Goods and David Delgado, both from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the show included both aesthetically pleasing data visualizations that broadened awareness and understanding such as Jim Bumgardner’s “A Year of Sunsets,” and geeky gadgetry employed for artistic expression. The best mix of data and art was David Bowen’s “Photographic Drawing Device,” which used light-seeking, solar-powered mini-robots to draw charcoal circles on paper.
Gary Lang at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills
Gary Lang: Circles Lines Grids Paintings @ Ace Gallery Beverly Hills Standing up close to the surface of Lang’s paintings you could see the slight wiggle in each hand-painted line, and the color juxtapositions seemed a little odd, but when you stepped back these paintings hummed and glowed as if they were actually breathing with life. They were stunning and magical.
Femke Hiemstra, In Thought, graphite on paper, 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of Copro/Nason
Femke Hiemstra: The Herring’s Hairdo @ Copro/Nason Her paintings and drawings had this authentic old-fashioned feeling that you don’t find in most Magic Realism/Pop Surrealism, and they had just the right mix of childhood fairytale/storybook style and eerie/scary subtext. I particularly liked the paintings on book covers and graphite drawings on paper.
Penelope Gottlieb, No $ Down, installation view. Courtesy Kim Light/Lightbox
Penelope Gottlieb: No $ Down @ Kim Light/Lightbox Monochrome color-pencil drawings of idyllic suburban homes were matched with coordinating, brightly-painted vintage frames and arranged salon-style on the walls along with a fake fireplace and gray wainscoting to boot. The cheerful display of real estate dreams juxtaposed with the phony architectural elements seemed particularly poignant as the mortgage industry was ominously imploding and foreclosures escalated.
Rebecca Campbell, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, detail, avocado tree, velvet, glass, bronze, Windex
Rebecca Campbell: Poltergeist @ LA Louver Campbell expertly took on the subject of memory and nostalgia from a particular, personal perspective without sliding into over-sentimentalization. The highlight of the show was an amazing velvet covered avocado tree populated with Windex-filled glass birds. Its haunting aura was counterbalanced by more quirky aspects in the show like the clock running backwards on the olive-colored wall oven stuffed full with childhood books.
Julie Blackmon, Family Portrait, 2007, archival pigment print, 22 x 22 inches, Edition of 25. Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery.
Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations @ Fahey/Klein Gallery These wonderfully humorous fictional photos of family life paradoxically balanced relaxation with chaos and escape with everyday stresses. I had fun deciphering what just went on in each image from the visual cues and ended up chuckling at every one.
Kaz Oshiro, False Gestures, installation view. Courtesy of Rosamund Felsen Gallery.
Kaz Oshiro: False Gestures @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery Oshiro’s painting/sculpture facsimiles were illusion to perfection. The suitcases and shelves alluded to the disparity between simulation and reality, while the metallic blue panels with faithfully replicated duct tape made evident the tenuous line between realism and abstraction.
Lorser Feitelson, Untitled, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts.
Lorser Feitelson: Late paintings @ Louis Stern Fine Arts In these paintings, Feitelson’s took his hard-edge, straight-line geometry to another level. The sensuous curves, curls and undulating ribbons were so sexy. It’s hard to believe they were painted in the late-60s, early-70s given their immaculate surfaces and contemporary feel.
William Powhida, How to Destroy LA, 2009, graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, 18 x 15 inches
William Powhida: No One Here Gets Out Alive @ Charlie James Gallery This dead-on skewering of art world insiderness and the bad-boy-artist mayhem of Powhida’s alter ego was effectively tongue-in-cheek but also achingly honest, openly admitting artists’ gripes and egoism as well as worries and self-doubt. I absolutely loved the way he used the crossed-out word to convey humor.
Zadok Ben-David, Blackfield, 2009, painted stainless steel and sand. Photo: Elizabeth Gilson and Andrew G. Glennon, courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery.
Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery This installation was totally amazing. As you walked into the gallery you saw a sea of tiny, delicately-cut sheet steel botanical shapes coming up from a perfect rectangle of white sand. They were black, as if charred or dead. But then, as you walked around to the far side of the gallery you began to see that the back of each minute plant was painted with vibrant, bold colors. Once you reached the back of the gallery you were faced with a glorious field of flowers, full of joy and life. Visitors were audibly gasping as they circled around the installation.
Richard Wilson, Town to Town, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 60 inches. Courtesy of Carl Berg Gallery.
Richard Wilson: Rises @ Carl Berg Gallery The perfectly balanced, asymmetrically stacked, rectangular and square canvases had the most absolutely pristine surfaces. Wilson took Donald Judd’s dictum “one surface, one color,” and had some fun with it. The spot-on color combinations in each grouping covered not only the front of each monochrome canvas, but also rectangular areas along the edges, allowing him to toy with the tropes of geometric Hard-edge painting as well.
Irving Penn, Deep Sea Diver (B), New York, 1951, gelatin silver print, copyright 1951 (renewed 1979) by Conde Nast Publications Ltd., Partial Gift of Irving Penn, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Irving Penn: Small Trades @ Getty Museum Amazingly, Penn’s subjects were both individual and typical. The attire, trappings and tools of each tradesperson at first seemed obvious and conventional against the plain studio backdrops. But before you could pigeonhole the sitter, their stark surroundings allowed you to notice clothing details like the wrinkled suit of a harmonica player or the crisp apron and toque of a London chef. Facial expressions and postures were also telling. Some seemed like nothing but affectation like the upturned head of a proud undertaker or the contrapposto of a deep-sea diver in full gear. Others revealed humility and honesty like the tired face of a New York groom clad in worn shoes or the slouching shoulders of a milkman with a heavy milk bottle carrier in hand. The simple style and elegance of this series of photographs could easily have seemed antithetical to his chosen topic, but Penn’s talent made this tension work.
Twitter Reviews – May 2009
Jean Lowe: Love 4 Sale @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Paintings juxtapose excesses of decoration in Baroque ceilings & consumption in box stores.
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Jean Lowe @ Rosamund Felsen: Nice to see source collages plus her classic papier mâché books.
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Astrid Preston: Birdwatching @ Craig Krull (***) Her trees are much better than the birds.
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David Bungay: Seascapes @ Craig Krull (**) Too gimmicky. There is no way to simulate the sublimeness of the wave.
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Twitter Reviews – March 2009
Mineo Mizuno: Coexistence @ Samuel Freeman (***) Like moss covered ovoids in theory, but in reality fall short. Wish they were greener.
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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.
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Jeremy Kidd: Fictional Realities @ Fahey/Klein (****) Dizzying (in a good way) urban photoscapes including LACMA under construction.
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Carlos & Jason Sanchez @ dnj (***) Photos of some pretty depressing topics. Kind of a mood killer.
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Angel Delgado: Continuous Limit @ Couturier (***) Liked the “objects in soap” series and sheep in metal cases. Didn’t care for drawings.
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Angel Delgado @ Couturier: Objects are more metaphorical. Drawings are too literal.
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Jutta Koether: Sovereign Women in Painting @ Susanne Vielmetter (*) Ridiculously awful.
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Arsen Roje: Body Parts @ Peres Projects (***) Jenny Savillesque paintings of fingers, thumbs and hands.
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Dave Muller: iamthewalrus @ Blum & Poe (****) “Beatles Within Beatles” is my favorite piece in the show.
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Melissa Manfull: Tesseracts @ Taylor de Cordoba (****) Gridded towers and arches as organic stalactites and stalagmites.
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Penelope Gottlieb @ Kim Light (*****) Suburban real estate dreams with shopping carts & fake fireplace thrown in to break the reverie.
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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.
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Rebekah Bogard: Flesh & Bone @ Sam Lee (****) Pink and fecund. Cute but sexy, naughty.
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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.
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Catya Plate @ Jancar/McCorkle (***) Does amusing things with clothes pins. Liked the colored pencil tarot card drawings best.
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Illegiblusion @ Sabina Lee (***) Most delicate use of line. Grids for Mary Ijichi, and loops & dots for Kimiko Miyoshi.
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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.
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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.
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The Bathroom series was Kuntz’s undoing. Especially when he added red to his favored blue and grey palette.
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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.
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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.
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Amy Thornberry: Sheaths, Veils, Sediment @ Torrance Art Museum (**) Oh no–scattertrash!
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Marie Thibeault: Broken Symmetries @ Torrance Art Museum (***) Paintings are dynamic, fragmented, chaotic and yes, scattered, but definitely not trashy.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Twitter Reviews – February 2009
Dan Graham @ MOCA (***) The real experiences far outweigh the documentary relic.
4:36 PM Feb 14th from txt
Graham @ MOCA: Give me more pavilions and installations and less videos of performances and scale models.
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Graham @ MOCA: Favs: Opposing Mirrors & Video Monitors on Time Delay & Triangular Solid w/ Circular Inserts (Variation E).
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Graham @ MOCA: In the spirt of Valentine’s Day I wanted to twitpic “Heart Pavilion”, 1991, but the guard wouldn’t let me photograph it.
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Graham @ MOCA: Also interesting: slide show of “Artists’ and Architects’ Works That Influenced Me.”
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Beili Liu @ Tarryn Teresa (***) “Lure #1” best piece by far. Red disks hover just above the floor hanging from thread floating with the air.
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Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef @ Track 16 (***) Fuzzy, colorful, fun, yet refs global warming & pollutants threatening Great Barrier Reef.
4:43 PM Feb 19th from web
Michael Brunswick @ Lora Schlesinger (***) Earthy, organic wet-on-wet drops of light paint on darker metallic rust, blue or black grounds.
4:55 PM Feb 19th from web
Rebecca Campbell: Poltergeist @ LA Louver (*****) Love it. Amazing velvet covered avocado tree with Windex-filled glass birds.
6:51 PM Feb 26th from txt
Rebecca Campbell @ LA Louver: Also liked the clock running backwards on the book-filled oven.
6:52 PM Feb 26th from txt
Irit Batsry: Beach @ Nightfall/ Caution @ Shoshana Wayne (***) Video boring. Photos very nice.
4:24 PM Feb 28th from txt
Renee Petropoulous: Homage @ Rosamund Felsen (***) Mashup of flags that read as computer circuits, plaids, and Modernist architecture.
4:38 PM Feb 28th from txt
Stephen Aldrich: Tincture of Time @ Craig Krull (****) Precise and complex collages of Victorian Era etchings.
10:55 PM Feb 28th from web
White @ Ruth Bachofner (***) Minimal and monochrome work the best. A bit over hung.
11:44 PM Feb 28th from web
Top of the Whirled – January 2009
Here’s a list of the top ten shows I saw in January:
10. Beili Liu: Three Thousand Troubled Threads @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery “Lure #1” was the best piece by far. Numerous red disks of coiled threads hover just above the floor, each hanging from a thin needle and thread. Each coil is paired with a soul-mate by a “red thread of fate.” The disks slowly float with the air currents as you walk by.
9. What’s the Matter with Mommy? – The Hang-Over @ Phantom Galleries LA at P.E. Lofts Unconventional feminine role models explored through photography, painting, installation, sculpture, video, performance, and spoken word. Stand-outs were Marion Lane, James Gilbert and Richard Kessler.
8. Julia Meltzler + David Thorne: In Possession of a Picture @ Steve Turner Contemporary Compelling series of photographic diptychs of sites where people have been detained or arrested for photographing them. This is the way to do social/political commentary.
7. Lisa Adams: The Future of Paradise Past @ Lawrence Asher Gallery Her paintings have gotten so lush. Repeated motifs of birds, flowers, clinging vines explore countering themes of freedom and needy desperation. My favorite was “A Cause For Wandering.”
6. Alex Couwenberg: A Little Bit Left of All Right @ William Turner Gallery Delicious, retro geometric abstraction. “Buzz Bomb” & “Evergleam” were the highlights.
5. Russell Crotty: Surf Works @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery Large grid drawings, sketchbooks, fiberglass wall pieces. I didn’t think I was going to like these, but I did. The show could have more balance with one more drawing in the big room.
4. Jessica Curtaz @ Bert Green Fine Art Finely-detailed graphite drawings of crumpled plastic bags, clothes, and chain-link fencing on gessoed panels. I love the patterns.
3. Rolling & Ruling @ Sabina Lee Gallery Sweet. Featured work from Eric Zammitt, Omar Chacon and Ilhyung Cho. Zammitt’s sculptures were luminous and my favorites in the show.
2. Richard Wilson: Rises @ Carl Berg Absolutely pristine surfaces and edges with spot-on color combos on stacked canvases. My favorite piece was “Town to Town.”
1. Kaz Oshiro: False Gestures @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery Illusion done to perfection. I especially liked the metallic blue panels with “tape.”
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