Jason Vass Gallery Mark Dutcher: Another World (April 22-June 3, 2017) When you walk into Another World, Mark Dutcher’s recent exhibit of paintings at Jason Vass Gallery, his poetic renderings grab you. Large-scale abstract works beckon you to come closer. The reworking, scribbling and loose brushwork of the
David Kordansky Gallery Lesley Vance: 12 Paintings (May 19-July 1, 2017) Oxblood, indigo, eggshell; sky blue, canary yellow, blood orange; the smooth knots of innards, the unfurling of silky banners, the gently impossible curves of Mobius strips, the drybrush gesturalism of calligraphy; saturated color blocks and flatly contoured
Coagula Curatorial LaVialle Campbell: In The Shadows (May 27-July 2, 2017) LaVialle Campbell’s supposed weaknesses are in fact her artistic strengths. An African-American woman living with chronic disabilities, Campbell’s life should be freighted with burdens. If it is, her work reflects an attitude not of self-pity but of
On Imbuing Art with Life and Meaning Julian Rosefeldt: “Manifesto” with Cate Blanchett In writer-director Julian Rosefeldt’s dark, cold, grim, absurd, witty, engaging vision of the world, a sense of idealism—embodied in a quest for the meaning of art and life—prevails undaunted. The film, curiously timely in
The Main Museum Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles Alice Könitz: Circle Chairs, Triangle Chairs (May 7-July 23, 2017) Surely one must consider institutionally-presented work on its merits. In the case of the Beta Main phase of the emergent Main Museum, however, context is the king of meaning.
