Ken Gonzales-Day, RUN UP, 2007, LIGHTJET MOUNTED ON ALUMINUM, EDITION OF 5
Does knowing some background information about artwork really matter? Or, should everything you need to know about an image just be sitting there, exposed and open for scrutiny?
Ken Gonzales-Day’s series, Hang Trees, part of his exhibition at Luis de Jesus Gallery in Culver City, elegantly decides this question with a visceral sucker punch heightened by the very invisibility of its source information.
Ken Gonzales-Day, NIGHT FALLS II, 2007, LIGHTJET MOUNTED ON ALUMINUM, EDITION OF 5
Walk into the gallery and you are confronted with beautiful photos of oak trees and probing, high-focus portraits of young Latino men. Lovely, but so what?
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Filed Under: Culver City, Ken Gonzales-Day, LA Art Tours, Latino men, Luis de Jesus, lynching, photography by Bill
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Christopher Pate, Eyes on Farrah 2012, acrylic, graphite, colored pencil, found poster, and collage on paper, 29-3/4 x 22 in.
I couldn’t help but share this image with you. I received it as part of an invitation to a three person exhibition entitled Drown Me in Pictures at a gallery in the Crenshaw District called Latned Atsär (yes, that’s Rasta Dental spelled backwards.) The show opens Saturday October 20th, 2012, 7-10pm. The three artists are Amir H. Fallah, Alexander Kroll and Christopher Pate – all painters whose work is wonderfully easygoing, yet intelligent and well-executed.
The collage, by Los Angeles art world fixture, artist, noted curator and (full disclosure) also my good friend, Christopher Pate, is especially compelling because it is so very familiar and so obviously politically fraught – and yet, above all – blithely joyous, painterly and just plain strange. (more…)
Filed Under: Alexander Kroll, Amir H. Fallah, Christopher Pate, Farrah Fawcett, Inglewood, LA Art, LA Art Tours, latned atsär by Bill
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Jon Rafman, Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011, Archival C Print, 57.5 x 92 inches, 1/1 AP
If you boiled the artist/viewer relationship down, the simple act of sharing might turn out to be its purest essence. That isolated gesture is more than enough to generate a meaningfully communicative experience.
Two Canadian-born artists currently on exhibit in Culver City, Marc Hundley and Jon Rafman, deliver elegant and heartfelt tokens of sharing that transcend the simplicity of their respective approaches. (more…)
Filed Under: Canada, Cherry and Martin, Culver City, International Art Objects, Jon Rafman, LA Art Tours, M+B, Marc Hundley, sharing by Bill
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