by Bill | Oct 19, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows, Uncategorized
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...
by Bill | May 30, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows
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...
by Bill | May 4, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows
Jonas Wood really knows how to paint. In his most recent exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, the Boston-born, Los Angeles resident delivers an oddly sincere art historical cocktail generously spiked with sizeable shot of himself. He also provided me with the...
by Bill | Apr 24, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows
These days are crammed with pathological tension. Exhausted men and women wearily share revealing tales of near all-nighters, dedicated to Sisyphean work tasks or simply lost to reflux, nerves and unrelenting panicked stress. The new normal is hyper-competitive,...
by Bill | Mar 26, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows
Okay, I’m a little late sharing this – the show is over and done, but… I had an epiphany while visiting the Sugimoto Sadamitsu exhibition, Shigaraki and Iga, at Frank Lloyd Gallery, in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station – one of those infrequent,...
by Bill | Mar 8, 2012 | Los Angeles art gallery shows
Kelli Connell, Carnival, 2006, digital photograph, 40 x 30 inches Sometimes stories are so believable that you accept them as fact. Such is the case with photographer Kelli Connell’s work at Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City. The Oklahoma-born, Texas-educated,...
