I was a late-comer to Francesca Woodman‘s pictures but liked them right away. That was around 2003, and Woodman’s surrealism provided me with a lyrical counterpart to René Magritte’s poetically banal imagery. Wrong-headed, probably, but I seem to respond to the vaguely familiar at least as often as I do to the totally new. Reading a new book [...]
[This post originally appeared on Glasstire Texas.] The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life by my side and within all the beauties of my home. Please look below at all the magic [...]
Pick of the week for June 25th, 2012 Frank Stella has created distinct bodies of work every decade for the past 50 years. His working methodology has defined the template of the contemporary artist-variations on a theme. Whether by his artistic nature or by design, this approach has all but become de rigueur in MFA [...]
5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Rebekah Myers & Tim Berg (link) Installation in a Valise (Cause & Effect), 2010 earthenware, glaze, gold luster, walnut, Styrofoam, wool felt, black acrylic, spray enamel, brass, velvet 32″ [...]
For decades now, a sure way for an artist to be irrelevant would be to become an abstract painter, the form having long gone the way of Existentialism, black turtlenecks and angst. At its height in the 1950s and early ‘60s, avant-gardism and abstraction were practically synonymous, but since then very few artists have attempted [...]
Dialogues between Fine Art and Architecture abound this month in Culver City. No less than three galleries opened June 2nd featuring Architecture driven work. The media harnessed are diverse, and the results are equally varied. Amy Park At Paul Kopeiken Gallery Amy Park’s Watercolor renditions/homages to the late great Julius Schulman are intoxicating. Anyone familiar [...]
Pick of the Week for May 29th, 2012 Good things come in small packages. The best example of this bon mot is an intimate exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum titled Lessons of the Cherry Blossom. A scant 16 color woodblock prints are on the display in a room commensurately intimate. But no more space [...]
Los Angeles is the most misunderstood city in the United States. LA stereotypes abound, most of them quite negative, and everyone somehow thinks they know all about this place—even the ones who have never visited. This can be blamed at least in part on the Hollywood phenomenon—images of LA get beamed into theaters and living [...]
5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Robert Jessup (link) Landscape with Two Figures, 2012 oil on canvas 60″ x 66″
Pick of the Week for May 21st, 2012 Alexander Calder is essential. A wonderful exhibition at L & M Arts in Venice handsomely makes the case for Calder’s continuing relevance, both historically and contemporaneously. Here then, a couple of reasons for Calder’s imminence and the urgency to witness, first hand at L & M, the [...]
