Category Archives: art
Art Debutant is looking for artists
If you are young emerging artist and you have been sleuthing around on the internet looking for a place to showcase your artwork, check out Art Debutant. Right now, Art Debutant is currently hosting sites SF, LA and NYC, and … Continue reading
Filed under art, emerging artist, Los Angeles
Quebec’s thriving Art Scene
Organized by the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, the Québec Triennial, is situated in its spacious high-ceilinged modern building with bare white walls and no architectural frills – puts a spotlight on Quebec, showing artworks so delightful and of such … Continue reading
Filed under art, art exhibitions, conceptual art, contemporary art, culture, Montreal
Henry Ford’s Jungle City, Fordlandia
Scott Chandler’s photographic exhibition, Fordlandia at Galerie Les Territoires documents Henry Ford’s now-abandoned prefabricated industrial American town located in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon. In the late 1920′s Ford wanting his own supply of cheap rubber built a miniature … Continue reading
Filed under art, art exhibitions, Belgo Building, emerging artist, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal, photography
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
People Watching at the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk
Both times, I have gone to the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk I have met up with friends to some fun while checking the art. The first time, I saw some interesting street art, a few good paintings and some decent … Continue reading
Filed under art, Los Angeles, street art
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
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