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Mar 222014
Mar 152014
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Mar 072014
Daniel Joseph Martinez– The report of my death is an exaggeration; Memoirs of Becoming Narrenschiff
At Roberts & Tilton until 3/8, Martinez’s show is comprised of two parts- the first is a group of text paintings and small framed polaroids of mysterious objects surrounding a group of unearthed bonsai trees in the center of the gallery. In the second gallery is a group of photos of buildings around Los Angeles with Martinez’s text added.
Martinez’s work for this exhibition is based on Das Narrenschiff, or Ship of Fools, a satirical work created by Sebastian Brant in 1494, which focused on human folly in society. For three years Martinez traveled around Los Angeles on the bus with this in mind, observing the other passengers and his surroundings. The result is a grim but affecting look into the perspective he gained from his travels.
(last image via Roberts & Tilton)
Feb 222014
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.
Feb 222014
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.
Feb 152014
Joshu Lucas– Nina with Constants (Image via Hinge Modern)
At Hinge Modern until Feb. 15th, Joshu Lucas combines science with art in his intricate paintings for Sub-Atomic Material Girls.
Jan 182014
Raul De La Torre
Raul De La Torre (close up)
John Randall Nelson
Raúl De La Torre and John Randall Nelson-“Poems & Affirmations”
Currently at Fresh Paint Gallery until 1/18, the works by both of these artists are vibrant and colorful with interesting details.
If you miss this show, Fresh Paint will also be at the LA Art Show, booth 936.
Dec 212013
From the press release-
Blum & Poe is very pleased to present our first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Jim Shaw. Spanning two decades and covering the entire gallery, Shaw’s fantastical, humorous, and psychologically laden explorations into esoteric, as well as popular, cultural phenomena coalesce to render a tale of Biblical proportion. Combing historic texts, artworks, comic books, and his dreams, Shaw’s flood of imagery is an essential tool in conveying his imagined histories and fables. Rivers, houses, and hair are but a few motifs repeated throughout the exhibition. Seemingly disparate, they mnemonically serve each other in depicting over-arching themes of fallen heroes, collapsed economies, concepts of sin, and general doomsday destruction.
This show closes 12/21.
Dec 212013
Frank Ryan– “Figure in a Tunnel” from Liminal View at Walter Maciel Gallery
From the press release:
In Liminal View, Ryan draws inspiration from a broader scope of the greater Los Angeles landscape accumulating an eclectic grouping of diaristic observations through the use of drawing, digital still and video images that serve as source material for his paintings. Ryan minimizes the expression of banality by laying the groundwork for an experience of the uncanny. In these moments, familiar subjects are perceived as foreign in the same way that a word will suddenly sound strange. Ryan explores how this inversion allows access to an existence beyond the visible order.
Really interesting paintings by this Los Angeles based artist, including two of the Second Street tunnel. The show is up until 12/21.
Dec 132013
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.