Los Angeles Art Shows- Maren Hassinger at Reginald Ingraham Gallery

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May 242014
 

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Maren Hassinger’s current show Almost Weightless at Reginald Ingraham Gallery uses everyday materials like newspapers and plastic bags to create larger sculptures which are concerned with the human condition.

The pink bags of Love (seen above) were inflated with “human breath” and contain “love notes”, tiny papers printed with the word love, within. In Wrenching News, (also pictured above), the harsh stories from newspapers are twisted into a knotted sculpture. Hassinger’s use of these materials with their alternating heaviness and light, grayness and color, enable the viewer to feel the weight of the emotions the sculptures are conveying.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Rebecca Morris and Patricia Fernández at LAXART

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Apr 262014
 

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If you are in Culver City make sure to look up on La Cienega (near Washington) to see the billboard of Rebecca Morris’s cats, an addition to her show at LA><ART, Fantastic LA, which consists of abstract paintings named after popular songs. Morris is also currently included in the Whitney Biennial.

Also at LA><Art is Patricia Fernández’s multimedia installation Paseo de los Melancólicos, which explores the history of Spain during the time of the Spanish Civil War.

These shows both close 4/26.

The outside of the gallery has a mural by Fritz Chesnut (seen above in silver) which will be on view until 4/30.

Los Angeles Art Shows- “Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with Jeremy Blake” at Honor Fraser

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Apr 052014
 

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Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with Jeremy Blake

(image via Honor Fraser)

Inspired by Jeremy Blake’s Liquid Villa, the curators Rhizome Editor, Michael Connor and Nate Hitchcock, present colorful artworks including paintings, video and sculpture created by more recent artists that share a similar sensibility.  Rafaël Rozendaal’s lenticular paintings and installation (pictured above) are particularly captivating.

Jeremy Blake’s work may look familiar to those who have seen the opening credits to the film Punch Drunk Love or the cover of Beck’s album, Sea Change. He sadly gained notoriety in 2007 when he committed suicide not long after his girlfriend, artist Theresa Duncan.

This show closes 4/5/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Yukata Sone and Benjamin Weissman at Santa Monica Museum of Art

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Apr 052014
 

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Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman: What Every Snowflake Knows in Its Heart

A celebration of snow, skiing and nature, Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman’s collaboration is part sculpture, part painting, and part story- complete with working mini chairlift.

Today (4/5) is the last day to see this show at Santa Monica Museum of Art.

If you like the writing part of the exhibition, Benjamin Weissman also created a blog for it.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Scott Reeder at 356 Mission

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Mar 152014
 

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Currently at 356 Mission, Scott Reeder’s show consists of large abstract paintings, paintings consisting of humorous lists, and bizarre Star Trek like sets from Moon Dust, a movie described on IMDB as being about “a failing resort on the moon”.

This show is open until 3/16/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Joel Kyack at Francois Ghebaly Gallery

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Mar 082014
 

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Joel Kyack– Old Sailors Never Die

For the sculptures at Joel Kyack’s show at François Ghebaly Gallery, the press release consists of multiple choice questions on the theme of being stranded at sea like, “If you had to die at sea, on which sea would it be?” Interspersed among these are other questions, perhaps getting to more of the reasoning behind the work, like:

3. Film sets are, to varying degrees, “built to camera” – a process where only the elements of the set that will appear in the frame of the camera will be built. For what could this be a metaphor?

(a) some of life

(b) most of life

(c) all of life

and:

8. When you see a sculpture you like you respond by:

(a) wanting to remember it

(b) wanting to buy it

(c) wanting to dismiss it

The theme of being stranded or lost at sea is common in movies and television. It remains unclear whether these sculptures are aiming just to entertain or are attempting to grapple with larger issues.

Perhaps the quote at the bottom of the press release is the most telling:

“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”

― Mark Twain, Letter to William Dean Howells, 15 February 1887

If you go to see this show make sure to check out the inaugural group exhibition at Fahrenheit Gallery located in the same building.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Samara Golden and Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery

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Feb 222014
 
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Samara Golden- Mass Murder

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Jesse Mockrin- Midnight Sun

When you walk into Night Gallery it will take your eyes awhile to adjust. When they do you will see a car parked in the center of the gallery. The next room holds Jesse Mockrin’s paintings, styled after traditional master painters, lit with one light each. The next rooms are filled with odd aluminum covered furniture, a sunset projection on one wall, stuffed animals, pianos, keyboards and more. These objects (and the car) are all part of Samara Golden’s Mass Murder. What does it all mean?

Here’s a bit of the press release:

It’s Mass murder. It’s the world and then the reversal of the world. It’s trying to find the beautiful inside of a horrible world of hypocrisy and contradiction. It’s personal. It’s optimism and pessimism in a dead lock. It’s two stories. It’s bad blood. It’s a caged thought. It’s a purple light giving a performance. It’s our living room 1975-1988. It’s an airport convention room, it’s a bank, a hospital, a hotel. The wall, a dance club, a parking lot. It’s a flight simulator that makes you believe you’re in the sky when you’re actually crashing into nothing-miles away from real life. It’s the disillusionment of the Vietnam generation, it’s my parents. It’s keyboard lessons, gymnastics, those flowers my mom loves, Vivaldi the four seasons, Pink Floyd, The Ramones. It’s a room that was both my sister’s place and my grandma’s. It’s the records, the boom box, Detroit “wheelz” radio, the two cockatiel birds, Rudy, and heavy metal. It’s the black and white TV, the alcohol, the reading, the neon knitted Afghans, the curly grey hair, the heart problems, the smoke, and the cigarettes. It’s also the matchboxes, the taste, the piano, the white carpet, the abalone box in the ladies room, the jewelry. It’s a highway underpass. It’s sleeping in the street. It’s train hopping. It’s April, it’s her amputated leg. It’s a big mess, seriously. It’s a place to think about it. It’s the fog and the mist. It’s asking why-it’s hoping for a peaceful place. It’s a broken heart for the world.

Worth checking out to draw your own conclusions. It closes 2/22.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Elias Hansen at Anat Ebgi and other shows in Culver City

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Feb 222014
 

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Elias Hansen: I’m a long way from home and I don’t really know these roads.

Anat Ebgi gallery is showing Elias Hansen’s new sculptures until 2/22. There are numerous beakers and other glassware combined with natural materials in setups that look, especially when lit with colored lights, like bizarre science experiments, or possibly something more suspicious.

Also in Culver City and closing 2/22:

Patrick Wilson’s geometric paintings in “Steak Night” seem to move the longer you stare at them- at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

Tony de los Reyes’s show “Border Theory” at Angles Gallery paintings and lithographs are both abstract and political as the lines within them follow the natural border between the United States and Mexico created by the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo).

Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis have a show called “Unexplored Territory” at Kopeikin Gallery that consists of video and photography that explores human’s desire to control natural elements like fire, and balances this concept with machines acting in ways that make them seem human. There is a video in the center room in which two fans on one power cord seem to be in a sort of dance/fight.

At LAXART, Brendan Fowler recreates photos with a commercial industrial embroidery machine creating a blend of photography and sculpture.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Yassi Mazandi at Maloney Fine Art

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Feb 222014
 

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Yassi Mazandi– The Sacred Wheel

Currently at Maloney Fine Art, Yassi Mazandi has created intricate ceramic flower-like sculptures (seen above) as well as a larger impeller made of geo-polymer stone. Also on view are a series of 72 colorful watercolor paintings, (one is pictured above- Albaloo Pollo) all named after foods.

This show closes 2/22/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Betye Saar at Roberts & Tilton

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Dec 132013
 

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From Betye Saar’s :The Alpha & Omega-The Beginning & The End 

Betye Saar’s installation at Roberts & Tilton contains many objects all coming together to contemplate time, identity, nature and the world around us.  Unlike her previous show at the gallery, Red Time, which challenged the viewer with both its imagery and the power of the color itself; The Alpha and Omega, creates a feeling of calm, both in its color palette of blues and grays but also in the objects chosen like clocks and ships.  In both shows, history is an important theme. This can be seen most clearly in The Challenges of Fate, a sculpture within the work, made up of a black bird perched on a cage housing a ship, which is above a globe resting on a glass box of bones, all set upon a stack of books.

Also at the gallery is Projections Part II: Film As Painting, curated by Aaron Rose. Multiple films by various artists are presented through different projections and monitor displays. The films are very different in content but work together to present the concept of film as not just film, but moving painting. There are thirteen films within the show and their creation dates range from the earliest, Len Lye’s A Colour Box (1935) to Rose’s own The Dress (2013). One standout is Marie Menken’s Go! Go! Go! (1962-4) a frantic speeding up of footage of life in the 1960’s in New York.

Both shows close tomorrow, 12/14.

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