Twitter Reviews – March-April 2011

Phyllis Green, Spark (Green Stockings), 1994, ceramic, concrete polymer, fabric, flocking. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45u9qu
3 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

Phyllis Green, Claudette in China, 2007, ceramic, mixed media. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45ubeb
3 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

Phyllis Green, Purple Ball (background), Lulu, Bonnet, Christine, 2000-3, ceramic, acrylic. @OtisCollege #artLA http://twitpic.com/45uct2
3 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

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
18 Mar via TweetDeck

Steven Hull installation @ Rosamund Felsen. #artLA http://twitpic.com/4b94pd
19 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, The Utopian Tense of Green #2, mixed media, acrylic on panel @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4ba49f
19 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, The Utopian Tense of Green Installation, vinyl @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4ba4v1
19 Mar via TweetPic for iPhone

Jennifer Steinkamp @ ACME (****) Windswept branches with blossoms paradoxically pacifying. Squirming intestines not so compelling. #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

3 Abstract Painters @ Frank Lloyd (****) Why’d they think McLaughlin would bridge the mocha/muddy Haywards & the impeccable Heywoods? #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

3 Abstract Painters @ Frank Lloyd: They would have been great together without it. Perhaps they’re just context for a secondary market sale.
20 Mar via TweetDeck

Yuken Teruya @Shoshana_Wayne (**) Admire fastidiousness of stencils, but only piece that really works is hanging banner/kite thing. #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

Patrick Nickell @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Gordian knot doodles in 3D that blend bodily sensuousness with cartoony wackiness. #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

April Street @ Rosamund Felsen (**) Klimtesque patterns on Frankenthalerish color field stains=dated ‘70s pastiche. Laughable titles. #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

Jimi Gleason @ Samuel Freeman (***) Oooh, Jimi’s gone textural. The simple ones work, while the gloppy, craggy ones just look gaudy. #artLA
20 Mar via TweetDeck

Ned Evans @ William Turner (***) Cropped diagonals over offset, oversized checkerboards. Not as strong as his last show. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Bruce Houston @ Lora Schlesinger (****) Stella & Mondrian playtime–fun with modernist geometric abstraction & toy trucks. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

If These Walls Could Talk @ Charlie James (*****) @powhida is the superstar w/ Ruscha/success grid. @stevelambert’s 50/50 a standout too.
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Analia Saban @ Thomas Solomon (***) Interesting experiments cunningly reveal process but the grimy grays take all the joy out of it. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Chris Doyle @ Sam Lee (****) Hand-drawn animation lends itself 2 the haunting melancholy of the nature/money/consumption/waste cycle. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Suzan Woodruff @ William Turner (***) I’m torn. I can’t decide if paintings are fascinating process art or safe corporate/couch art? #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Mariangeles Soto-Diaz @RuthBachofner (****) Sterling tension–frenetic diagonals tempered by cool, calm greens and whites. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Steven Hull @ Rosamund Felsen (****) Sculptures superior to the painting combines. Choo-choo track installations delightful. #artLA
25 Mar via TweetDeck

Jennifer Faist, Last Time Ever, resin, oil, alkyd, acrylic on wood @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4optey
23 Apr via TweetPic for iPhone

Jennifer Faist, Mingle, resin, oil, alkyd, acrylic on wood @RuthBachofner #artLA http://twitpic.com/4opu6w
23 Apr via TweetPic for iPhone

Twitter Reviews – November-December 2010

Vehicles of Imagination @CulverCenter (*****) Hot pedal cars-sparkling metallic paint, shiny chrome, pinstriping. Genius installation #artLA
13 Nov via TweetDeck

Rows of pedal cars hanging from the ceiling in “Vehicles of Imagination” @CulverCenter. #artLA http://twitpic.com/36nz0g
13 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Maisel: Library of Dust @UCRCMP (****) Perfect blend of aesthetics (crusty corrosion, copper) & pathos (ashes of abandoned mental patients).
13 Nov via TweetDeck

Maisel: History’s Shadow @UCRCMP (***) Slightly curious rephotographs of @GettyMuseum conservation x-rays. Vases from above resemble targets
13 Nov via TweetDeck

Re-Cycle @UCRSweeney (*****) Palpable pizzazz & spunky environmental engagement. Nifty spoke cards. Goofy costumes from @finishingschool.
13 Nov via TweetDeck

Re-Cycle @UCRSweeney highlight: Nathan Bockelman & Cameron Crone, Air Up There, flocked BMX, dirt, trophy tubes. http://twitpic.com/36p59o
13 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Rachel Lachowicz @Shoshana_Wayne (****) At her best when most minimal, e.g. lipstick pour paintings or Agnes Martin homage. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Rachel Lachowicz @Shoshana_Wayne: Cardboard box installation superfluous, distracting even. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Rachel Lachowicz left: Untitled Homage 2 Mary Cassatt, soap; right: Cell Interlocking Construction, pigment, plexi http://twitpic.com/3at4s1
27 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Rachel Lachowicz, Parallel Lines, pressed eyeshadow, aluminum, glass. #artLA http://twitpic.com/3at5gy
27 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Rachel Lachowicz, Untitled Lipstick Painting, lipstick wax on canvas. #artLA http://twitpic.com/3at65c
27 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Martin Mull @ Samuel Freeman (***) I keep looking for some clever reason for combining mismatched images, but there never is a point. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Andy Moses, Sinagua, acrylic on canvas. #artLA http://twitpic.com/3atmrt
27 Nov via TweetPic for iPhone

Andy Moses @ William Turner (****) Brighter, busier. Rainbow oil slicks, desert mirages, sky reflected in ocean, alien worlds. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Carmen Spera @ Lois Lambert (****) Witty, designer-labeled, bejeweled, faux-flower filled, recycled-glass machine guns & handguns. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Sherry Markovitz @ Lora Schlesinger (***) Liza Lou with less finish but more fable, fantasy & fiesta. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

Mark Garro @ Copro Gallery (**) Vintage oval frames w/ convex glass are way cool but the label poems just drag these paintings down. #artLA
27 Nov via TweetDeck

John Kneifl, Life Boat, aluminum, pigment, paper @ LA Art Core. #artLA http://twitpic.com/3dc5ho
5 Dec via TweetPic for iPhone

Ron Reihel, Camellia Series, resin @ Frank Pictures. #artLA http://twitpic.com/3ddtpr
5 Dec via TweetPic for iPhone

Twitter Reviews – May-June 2010

Made a quickie trip to Bergamot on the way to the @GettyMuseum last week. Just now getting around to reviews.
3:56 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Tim Bavington @MMooreGallery (****) Sweet. Love diagonals but kinda wish the canvases were actually parallelograms. #artLA
3:57 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Tim Bavington @MMooreGallery Fuzzy album covers have that Uta Barth-like velvety cozy feeling of familiarity. #artLA
3:58 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Ed Moses @ Greenfield Sacks/Frank Lloyd (**) Luv ya, Ed, but the screaming heads are sooo tacky. Didn’t we just see these? #artLA
4:01 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Audra Weaser @ Ruth Bachofner (***) Moss, willows & water ripples just appear from mere paint layering and sanding. Cool & breezy. #artLA
4:10 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Robert Zakanitch @ Samuel Freeman (***) Florals & arabesques w/ Mexican folk art vibe. Festive like crepe paper flowers & bark paintings.
6:12 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Andrew Sendor @ Richard Heller (****) Odd juxtaposition of disparate eras & the prevalent display pedestals make me feel like I’m leering.
8:10 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Mike Kelley & Michael Smith: Voyage of Growth & Discovery (***) Videos descend into the circus of YouTube world but sculptures rock. #artLA
9:07 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Mike Kelley & Michael Smith, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery http://twitpic.com/1rfj4s
9:14 PM May 26th via Twitpic

Mike Kelley’s VW minivan with a stuffed animal throne inside. #artLA http://twitpic.com/1rfktb
9:20 PM May 26th via Twitpic

Mike Kelley, detail of a rocket-shaped jungle gym with a string of plush characters. http://twitpic.com/1rfm02
9:25 PM May 26th via Twitpic

Kelley/Smith: The videos just don’t have the emotive impact that jungle gyms, stuffed animals and afghans do. #artLA
9:33 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Kelley/Smith: There’s a difference between rekindling childhood emotions and adults mimicking infantile behavior. #artLA
9:35 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

BTW trying to play down not having a real venue w/ PR doublespeak about making the private public just doesn’t fly–hey, it’s a studio party.
9:42 PM May 26th via TweetDeck

Set Theory: Roland Reiss @torranceArt (*****) Masterful miniatures + brand new florals + some friends. Tight show. Good job Max. #artLA
7:35 PM Jun 5th via TweetDeck

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

Give It a Whirl – September 12, 2009

When it comes to this event-filled, season-opening weekend, everyone’s been mentioning the heavy-hitters like Bruce Nauman and Doug Aiken which are certainly worthy of attention, but I’d like to spotlight some of the unmentioned shows that you really should see. Whether you’re planning on hanging out in Chinatown, Mid-town, or the West Side, hopefully you’ll be able to stop by one of these shows.

Libby Black: Timeless @ Charlie James Gallery

Libby, well-known in the Bay Area for her 2005 installation of a simulated Kate Spade store at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, will be showing paintings, drawings and sculpture in her LA solo debut.  She explores the allure of fashion and shopping and why we buy in works that are just as desirable as the luxury goods they depict.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 6-9pm

Charlie James Gallery
975 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

September 12 – October 17, 2009

Ruth Pastine: Limitless @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture

Ruth’s LA solo debut will feature very subtle and luminous color-field paintings.  She sticks to a well-defined system, and obsessively layers wet-on-wet strokes of oil paint, but rather than coming off cool and mechanical, they seem to be all nature and real light.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 5-8pm

Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036

September 12 – October 31, 2009

Jimi Gleason & Jesse Simon @ Samuel Freeman

I hear Jimi is doing something different in his new paintings.  While they still shimmer with metallic pigments, he’s splitting fields of varying colors on multiple surfaces.  Jesse is also on to something fresh, moving away from the representation of earlier large works, and making more intimate abstract sculptures from his recycled surfboards.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 5-7pm

Samuel Freeman Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, B-7
Santa Monica, CA 90404

September 12 – October 17, 2009

For more shows, check out the calendar in the sidebar.

Twitter Reviews – April 2009

Michel Tabori: No time to Pretend @William Turner (****) Liked color field abstracts. Text works don’t work. #artLA
3:52 PM Apr 18th from txt

Greg Miller: Signs of the Nearly Actual @William Turner (***) Wishing he would move on, grow, get beyond nostalgia, something. #artLA
3:56 PM Apr 18th from txt

Fructose Overdose @ Copro/Nason (***) Too packed salon-style to appreciate everything. Liked Kukula “Untitled” & Travis Louie “Ginseng Man”
4:13 PM Apr 18th from txt

Femke Hiemstra: The Herring’s Hairdo @ Copro/Nason (*****) Great mix of fairytale storybook & eerie, scary. #artLA
4:23 PM Apr 18th from txt

Sam Cherry @ Track 16 (****) Not sure I needed to see Bukowski on the can though. #artLA
4:39 PM Apr 18th from txt

Zadok Ben David: Backfield @ Shoshana Wayne (*****) Installation is totally amazing. Everyone gasps. I won’t spoil it. #art LA
4:49 PM Apr 18th from txt

Keith Weesner: Nightlight @ Copro/Nason (***) Relies solely on the desirability of hot rods and pin-up chicks. #artLA
10:46 PM Apr 20th from web

Jeremy Thomas @ Samuel Freeman (****) Great combo of opposites in inflated steel forms, light air/heavy metal & shiny powder coat/soft patina.
11:15 PM Apr 20th from web

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