“One reason that techno-utopians don’t worry about the loss of human meaning is because they’re not particularly attached to humans.” “The point of art …is to reflect on the experience of being human--- which is precisely the
These days there seems to be no escape from the strident assault of words. Words in face-to-face, eye-to-eye, hand-to-hand combat fill the air everywhere. Battered language ripped asunder, muddied and bloodied. Or simply turning into smoke and ash inhaled, and exhaled on a mirror. If
Photo L.A. took a year off and transitioned from Stephen Cohen’s directorship to Claudia James-Bartlett, the new head of the fair. James-Bartlett worked hard to reinvigorate the Los Angeles classic photography exposition, which is the longest running art fair west of the Hudson River. First off,
Nicodim Gallery Robert Yarber: Return of the Repressed September 8—October 30, 2018 Robert Yarber has warned against trying to tie down the content of his paintings through a futile search for meaning. “These works are not distilled in any way,” the artist has written, “either in my own
Craig Kucia: unnatural disasters Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles November 17—December 15, 2018 Craig Kucia’s paintings on canvas and paper provide a crash course in 20th century art history – each one of them. They contain accumulated techniques and stylistic denominators referencing and recombining, in various ratios, Guston, Braque,