Black and White

Drawings & Constructions

"more is
less and less"
























































black and white: drawings and constructions

1. Ginny Bishton, "More is Less and Less", Richard Telles Fine Art, 2010, Los Angeles
2. Florian Morlat
3. Rachel Whiteread, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, January 31 - April 25, 2010

"In this exhibition, Whiteread's drawings will be accompanied by key examples of her sculptural work. Among the special features of the installation is a vitrine of objects selected by Whiteread. Works by the artist are juxtaposed with items gathered from various sources, such as attics and thrift stores, or found on walks and travels. Fossils, a dental mold, a tin votive, buttons and shoe lasts are just some of the objects that belong to Whiteread's collection of captured memories, and thus to her extended notion of drawing."

go to hammer museum here.

Jim Shrosbree
more images of his work here...

(watch an interview with him, c/o david lynch foundation. here....)

.
the
writings
(drawings)
on
the
wall.
(in the corners.)

Sol Lewitt

"The best part of LeWitt's art, however, isn't how it's made, it's what it does. The finest wall drawings -- and these, by and large, were designed before 1993 -- render one of art's most invisible qualities, content, visible. They make you understand architecture as material; why the wall is a subject; how image, abstraction and text connect; what logic, authorship and even capitalism look like when they're thrown into question. This is no mean feat; it's almost miraculous..."

taken from Jerry Saltz's article here...

(images from top to bottom)

1. sol lewitt: Wall Drawing #146. All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides and blue straight, not straight and broken lines., September 1972

2. richard wright, wall drawing
3. neil campbell : c/o marianne boesky, here 2008
4. unknown wall drawing

Portrait of a Man
Pt 5: Don Bachardy

















































Portrait of a Man,
Pt 5...

Don Bachardy

"Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was eighteen and Isherwood was forty-eight, until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback editions of Isherwood's novels feature Bachardy's pencil portraits of the author."

more images via Cheim and Reid


"Bachardy is well-known for portraits of artists, musicians. writers and Hollywood notables including Tennessee Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Didion, Anais Nin, Dorothy Parker, Lynda Benglis, David Hockney and Aldous Huxley among many others. His portraits are intentionally completed in one sitting, so as not to lose the moment's intensity. The focus and sensitivity with which Bachardy works, both in drawing and painting, captures the essence of his sitter with little extraneous information—this reductive approach echoed the work of David Hockney, and anticipated the finely lined, jewel-like portraits of Elizabeth Peyton."

via press releaase, from Cheim and Reid....

drawings and photographs.
blurred visions. strong points.
a loss of memory. graphite truths.
copper, decay.


(images, from top to bottom)
nigel hall, 1982 drawing
taney roniger... drawings here..
hilary berseth, 2008.... here.. copper..
idris kahn, here...

a sculpture, a drawing, and a tapestry.


in order....frank haines, william j.o'brien, edward fields, 1967

Grizzly Bear
new album coming out in May.

"The New York four piece hit an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision with the new material: Vocals (a duty shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous and lyrics more affecting."

Cover design by william j. o'brien
read more about his work here.
c/o marianne boesky gallery

louise bourgeois

"I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands."

"My early work is the fear of falling. Later on it became the art of falling. How to fall without hurting yourself. Later on it is the art of hanging in there."

Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father:
Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997"Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern."

"Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation – and I like that. "

alex fleming
lisa cooley fine art

A Cross Section of Scenes
2006
mirrored stickers on paper
23 x 18 inches

The interplay between private exploration and public exposure articulated throughout the exhibition is akin to Fleming’s process of filtering his analytic inspirations – Fluxus approaches to artmaking, structural film and experimental poetry – through a personal exploration of identity, beauty, sexuality and coded communication.
The Mira lamp was designed by Mario Arnaboldi in 1984 and manufactured by Programmaluce in Milan Italy. The lamp is considered rare as it was only manufactured for one year. Unusual design consisting of a heavily weighted base and three rods, the top two rods can be posed at an angle (as shown), straight up or down.

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marianne mueller
kim light gallery
culver city
walking around culver city with vince, a good friend.

project space of kim light gallery
penelope gottlieb

melissa manful
taylor de cordoba and here.

went on an all day gallery crawl with a good friend, vincent.

this is an amazing gallery with an exquisite architectural fantastic show!

matt chambers
angstrom gallery

amazing drawings. so glad i saw them.

danny jauregui

i saw these at acuna hansen over a year ago, and i've never forgotten them. there is a sense of constant erosion, destruction, and growth and change all at the same time that i get caught up in.

claudia wieser

drawings by Stephan van den Burg

and he has a great drawing blog, that is a great source of inspiration for drawing to me.

drawingsandnotes.blogspot.com

look forward to seeing more of his work.