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Parallel and Simultaneous: Paul Farance at Garage Projects
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Posted
9/21/09
Brushes are too clinical and unfeeling for Paul Farance. He doesn’t trust them with the measured truth of his mark anymore. Generically prefabricated and chronically detached, they are standardized and lifeless. Farance has always sought something more intimate, more urgent and more palpable in his art, which privileges the privacy of his own often-untranslatable sensory experiences and actions over their public expression.
For his season opener at Garage Projects, A Way You’ll... [more]
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Simply Great!
by Gary Sanders
Kimber Berry at Phantom Galleries LA -
August 22nd - September 12th
Posted
9/17/09
All I can say is … WOW!!! Finally, a painter doing something more cutting edge. They are big; they are beautiful; impossible to get bored while scanning these works. And what the heck is going on in the corner? … Looks like a painting blending right into the wall – never seen that before, so in my book - a must see. She is definitely a true artist and not a one trick pony. Like any master painter, they can really mix it up…and she does a great job in doing so. If you are in LA... [more]
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Beloufa in Chinatown
by Ed Schad
Neil Beloufa at Francois Ghebaly Gallery
September 9th - October 30th
Posted
9/14/09
The art we make today – frequently fractured and scattered – often assumes that older and more unified ways of thinking have been either lost entirely or are being replaced. Neïl Beloufa’s current show at Francois Ghebaly's new space takes a different, perhaps more honest approach. His film Kempinski, shot in Mali completely unscripted and simply allowing people in Mali a moment to speak, reveals animist, ancient ways of thinking coexisting in a modern world, and this truth about the... [more]
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Post-American L.A. in Santa Monica
by Michael Shaw
Group Show at 18th Street Arts Center
August 1st - September 25th
Posted
9/8/09
Though of course art has no rules, sometimes it finds itself falling into the terrain of soft sciences like sociology, with which its search for straightforward answers and clean conclusions sidelines certain aspects of art (aesthetics, ambiguity, open-ended inquiry) that, well, makes art art.
In the case of Post-American L.A., sociology is used to look at America’s projected shift and decline as seen through Los Angeles, ten years into the future. An intriguing and perhaps even noble venture... [more]
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Kamikaze in Downtown
by Michael Shaw
Fumiko Amano, Barbara Benish, Jenn Berger, Tami Demaree, Michael Gomez Burton, Fatima Hoang, Steven Hull, Daniel Ingroff, billy kheel, Linda King, Mark D. Lyons, Nathan McChristy, George Keskeny / John Rose, Danny Shain, Donnie Stroud, April Totten, Osvaldo Trujillo, Evan Walsh, Matt Wardell at PØST
September 1st - September 13th
Posted
9/8/09
PØST, the seminal downtown artist-run space, has returned after a four-year hiatus. During its original run from 1995-2005, artist/director Habib Kheradyar (aka HK Zamani) mounted up to 20+ exhibits each year, including in the elevator if his loft building on East Seventh Place.
Zamani made a bold return last April with Erased, in which he took six artists’ works linked to the gallery’s past and still in Zamani’s possession – among them Linda Besemer and Brad Spence – and ‘eras... [more]
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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF "URBAN GRAVITATION"
by EFREN LUNA
Ray Aliviado, Paulina Bouyer-Magaña, Peter Bukasa, Steven Amado CHATISMO, ENRIQUE CHIU, Jesus Martinez CHUYMOSCA, Annie Dubber, Maria Guadalupe, JavierYamakawa, Joshua Lewis, Lana Lingan, Rosalie Lopez, EFREN LUNA, Jusus Magaña, Efrain Martinez, Ben Morado, Johnny O, Jesse Perez, Zully Perez, Nadia Ramirez, Eddie Rodriguez, Rick Rodriguez, Izelle Rose, TITUS, Octavio Vargas at Green Turtle Bar & Restaurant
July 12th - July 12th
Posted
7/26/09
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF "URBAN GRAVITATION"
A couple of weeks have passed since we had "URBAN GRAVITATION" Art & Music Show on Sunday July 12th, 2009. Our show consisted of 3 events in 3 separate spaces within one venue (THE GREEN TURTLE Whittier, CA). A gallery space, a patio with live graffiti artists, and the main bar with live bands and rappers on stage. Our theme "URBAN GRAVITATION" was inspired to bring in artworks and music that expressed some aspects of urban life. Becau... [more]
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This show was a tremendous success.
by EFREN LUNA
Ray Aliviado, Steven Amado, Raymond Berrellez, Peter Bukasa, Daniela Campons, Miguel Cervantes, Jesus Christos, KatherineBianca Clark, Morgan Cook, Ashley Costello, Annie Dubber, Jose Espinoza, Mike Gomez, Adriana Gonzalez, Jennifer Gutierrez-Morgan, Desirae Hepp, Jose Hernandez, Taylor Kawata, Jesus Eduardo Magana, Jesus Martinez, Edson Mbaki, Marissa M Mercado, Shefali Mistry, Ben Morado, Emily Neptune, Jesse Perez, Jesus Perez, Zully Perez, Sheree Reed, Michael Reid, Eddie Rodriguez, Jonathan Sanchez, Nadia Santacruz, Jason Saunders, Kevin Tong, Maria Guadelupe Torres, Octavio Vargas, Daniel Velasquez, Cynthia Villasnor at Basswerks
December 6th, 2008 - December 6th, 2008
Posted
7/26/09
I am an artist also a curator. This was the first show I curated and was a tremendous success. I curated a group show with over 40 artists. The show was titled "Set-In-Motion" December 6th & 7th, 2008. It took place at Basswerks Gallery in Los Angeles, USA. www.basswerks.net
This was a 2-day show. I combined a variety of media like photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, architecture, sculpture, and Music. (and many more) I had 3 bands (Random Ninjas www.myspace.c... [more]
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Camilo Ontiveros in Miracle Mile
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Camilo Ontiveros at Steve Turner Contemporary
July 18th - August 15th
Posted
7/26/09
Old, beat up, and broken, many with deep scratches and nicks in their white or ochre enamel paint, thirteen washing machines and dryers in various states of disrepair cluster around the crisp, white walls of the gallery. Camilo Ontiveros amassed this collection of tired appliances in the weeks leading up to this, his first solo gallery exhibition, through brightly colored bi-lingual posters advertising fifteen dollar payments per used machine. Continuing his ongoing consideration of the underground econ... [more]
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Jeff Hassay in Death Valley
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Posted
7/26/09
Take a trip to Death Valley in late summer or early fall. It’s only about four or so hours driving from Los Angeles. You can see the salt flats, Zabriskie Point, the sand dunes, Artist’s Palette, and the mysterious Devil’s Racetrack. All striking and each benefiting from the blushing glow of morning or evening light. The dunes are best. You can see all the usual tour book attractions, but you can’t see Jeff Hassay’s See Through Mountain, 2009. Even though it’s there. Follow these directions and ma... [more]
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Between Purity and Material
by Ed Schad
Michael Rashkow at China Art Objects Galleries
June 27th - July 18th
Posted
7/20/09
Michael’s Rashkow’s solo show at China Art Objects features an assortment of sculptural moves that exist somewhere between the old fashioned modernist belief in pure encounters with abstract form and a dirtier 1970s conceptual vision that such pure encounters are impossible, that materials are simply materials to be moved around and rearranged. It is difficult to determine whether or not Rashkow aligns himself with one view or the other, and this uncertain stance towards sculpture reshapes t... [more]
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