We’ve all played gin rummy, or been beat at poker at some time in life, but Mark Licari, in his first exhibition at Koplin Del Rio, reconstitutes the everyday playing card as a luminous object of desire, violence, death and impermanence, wherein the drawing on each...
Intersections, epicenters and wild orbits – Making it new and making it work in the centrifugal city
I am preoccupied lately (see any number of my blog posts, especially recent ones), with the evolving/devolving culture(s) of Los Angeles, the way art is made and experienced in this city, the way we connect with and experience that art and culture, and the way we...
Kiel Johnson
Damn, Kiel Johnson knows how to draw -- not to mention he’s an amateur beekeeper; thus the inspiration for his newest exhibition at Mark Moore where strangely kinetic, hive-like utopias appear to be unraveling, creating a damnable system of ultimate unreliability....
Mark Bradford Named LA MoCA Trustee
Mark Bradford joins the ranks of the museum’s other big-name creative trustees, including Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Catherine Opie.
Mara McCarthy wins Frieze Award
Frieze London Art Fair has awarded Mara McCarthy of the Box, their annual Stand Prize. The award of 10,000 pounds was for her presentation of Barbara T. Smith’s Xerox works from 1965–68. Smith, who was rejected by the now-legendary print house Gemini G.E.L.,...
Paul McCarthy Inserts Butt Plug in Paris — Gets Slapped
BBC A huge, green, inflatable sculpture on a famous Paris square has raised a storm for its resemblance to a sex toy, with the artist attacked in the street.. . . READ MORE
Where the Focus Falls (1) – More from FotoFocus 2014 (4)
The parallel is obvious (and be assured there’s nothing personal to it). Although I did not have an opportunity to interview Kevin Moore while in Cincinnati, it was clear both from his remarks in various gallery talks and conversations and the exhibitions themselves,...
Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
Transformation is never easy, but almost always necessary, and in the case of Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, a cause for undaunting exploration. Their most recent collaboration, aptly titled “Post/Relationship/X” explores the intimate moments within a relationship...
More Stills and Stutters from Cincinnati (3)
We’re back-tracking here; the FotoFocus opening week-end is just past us. But the Biennial continues through November 1st; and I encourage anyone in the vicinity of Cincinnati (or really anywhere in the Ohio or northern Kentucky area) to take in whatever exhibitions...
Light and Shadow in Cincinnati (2)
Well that was a pretty great lecture. Speaking of running late, I ran so late to the David Benjamin Sherry – Elizabeth Siegel conversation moderated by Kevin Moore (I sort of wonder what that means – it almost sounds more like a debate—which of course I would have...
Moving towards the light in Cincinnati (1)
I have a lot more to say about art and the city—more specifically this city, Los Angeles; and the way we engage both and what it all means. But I also have a lot to say about art and fashion and the way they engage each other; and it hasn’t been easy getting the...
Stas Orlovski
In mythology a chimera is described as a strange hybrid monster composed of the parts of more than one animal -- usually depicted as a lioness with full breasts, with the head of a goat and a tail with a snake's head. Stas Orlovski astonishingly beautiful and poetic...
AVANT-GARDE BASH with Kenny Scharf
"OCMA Contemporaries celebrated their one-year anniversary last Friday, September 26, 2014 at the AVANT-GARDE BASH. Artist Kenny Scharf painted several cars live as part of his Karbombz! series (including a silver BMW donated by Shelly BMW, Buena Park). Performances...
6018 Wilshire
Group shows are always fun especially when they serve as a means of reminiscing as is the case at Edward Cella Art and Architecture Gallery which is soon to relocate to a new facility in 2015. Spanning 11 years, the show is a survey of the artists who have exhibited...