Category Archives: art history
Skullphone @ Subliminal Projects
I didn’t expect to have to wait in a line to attend Skullphone‘s Digital Media art opening at Subliminal Projects, but I did. The Los Angeles based street artist, Skullphone became a sensation in 2008, when he supposedly ‘hacked’ into Los … Continue reading
Filed under art, Art Collector, art criticism, art exhibitions, art history, contemporary art, design, Gallerist, Los Angeles
Art is Life: Tim Hawkinson at Blum & Poe
I first saw a major Tim Hawkinson exhibition at the Whitney in 2005. The exhibition traced Hawkinson’s steady evolution in meticulously detailed drawings, minute constructions, inflated latex casts, and uncanny mechanical contraptions. Here, I discovered that Tim Hawkinson’s large-scale kinetic … Continue reading
A step in the right direction
I am transplant to Los Angeles from Vancouver. This is why the photography exhibition Transplants, from 10 non-indigenous Angelenos at THIS Los Angeles gallery caught my attention. The photographers exhibited in Transplants are all young, award-winning artists with varying degrees of technical … Continue reading
Filed under art, art criticism, art exhibitions, art history, contemporary art, emerging artist, Los Angeles, MOPLA, photography
A New Horizon: Seascapes by Catherine Opie
Best known for her mid 1990′s series of portraits of individuals and couples from the queer, S&M and other communities, including several notorious self-portraits, Catherine Opie gave new visibility to marginalized subcultures helping define a charged current of “identity politics” … Continue reading
Andreas Gursky’s Ocean series unveiled at the Gagosian
Last Thursday evening, I attended the Andreas Gursky’s exhibition (March 4th – May 1st 2010) at the newly expanded Beverly Hills Gagosian, designed by Richard Meier and Partners. It’s more than a coincidence that Andreas Gursky, whose 99 Cent ll, Diptych (2001) photograph holds the auction record for the most expensive photograph ever sold ($3.3 million at Sotheby’s in 2007), is the first artist to exhibit in the newly expanded Beverly Hills gallery. Gursky’s large-scale color photographs of trading floors, hotel lobbies, raves, and landscapes are excellent at portraying the busy obliviousness…. Continue reading
Filed under Architecture, art, Art Collector, art criticism, art exhibitions, art history, Los Angeles, photography
Book Signing: Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting at Book Soup, Los Angeles
<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/IllWorkForArt?i=” type=”text/javascript”> Ed Ruscha signing books at Book Soup Last Saturday evening, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to have the great and famous Ed Ruscha sign his latest book, “Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting” at Book Soup, Los Angeles. … Continue reading
Tara Donovan at San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art
While passing through San Diego last weekend, I had the opportunity to view Tara Donovan’s awe-inspiring exhibition (October 25, 2009 – February 28, 2010) at the MCASD. Untitled, styrofoam cups with hot glue In the artist’s hands, common, mass-produced items … Continue reading
Filed under art exhibitions, art history, Minimalist, San Diego, Tara Donovan
I he[art] Herb & Dorothy Vogel.
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel like the most unlikable art. They own a few inches of frayed rope with a nail through it. A curved lead pipe. A black cardboard square with definition of the word ”nothing” printed on it, in white. … Continue reading
Filed under art, Art Collector, art history, conceptual art, culture, Minimal Art
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