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.
Pasadena Museum of California Art Interstitial (March 5-August 6, 2017) Craft & Folk Art Museum Material as Metaphor (May 28-August 20, 2017) Bricolage can be regarded as the ultimate modern/post-modern impulse, the collage aesthetic physically applied to everyday life. In the context of artmaking, bricolage is a form of assemblage, but
