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
“Objects are a personification of where people want to go and how they want to live,” said Peter Shire in an interview at his Echo Park studio. If that’s the case, Shire’s chairs and ceramics are the structural supports of a civilization that is self-aware
