C H U M S
H C U S M
M S U H C
U C H M S


tonite...

I've been psyched ever since I heard Mary was curating a show here in Los Angeles. Her blog Unchanging Window is a personal favorite, and I'm curious to see who / what & how she will pull it all together. I'm headed there this afternoon, since I won't be at the opening. Expect newly designed posters from Andy Beach, & some new ceramic works by Carl Williamson, plus more chummy works.

September 10 – 26, 2010,
Gallery Space at Space 15 Twenty

Chums, a multimedia group exhibition curated by Mary Manning. Defying the dehumanization of today’s electronic era, Manning and the artists’ relationships are in fact sustained by it: the six contributors – one of whom Manning has never met in person – are able to share their deep appreciation of found objects through her blog, Unchanging Window.


Uniting real objects among online friends, Chums celebrates the convergence of internet and material culture. By Manning’s invitation, the selected artists created works for the show including paired posters by Andy Beach, ceramic vessels by Carl Williamson, a watercolor painting by Emmeline De Mooij, sculpture by Keegan McHargue, an installation by Rhiannon Silver, as well as an accompanying zine by Joe Gilmore.


Apart from her curatorial touch, Manning also contributes photographs as well as … plants. Says Manning, “They play so much importance in my real life, and I am happy to see them in these unexpected, or even unnoticed, spaces.”





C H U M S
H C U S M
M S U H C
U C H M S

tonite...

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todosomething
at
specific.

TD (S)
todosomething
(go here..)



Last nite at the opening of a fantastic group show at SPECIFIC MERCHANDISE on Beverly Boulevard, I saw some new pieces by todosomething, a local furniture designer and workshop. TD(s) is located in downtown Los Angeles, not too far away from where I live.

We were super impressed by the AV cabinets and turntable stations. The one in the show, (similar to the one above) makes me want to find a space in my small house to start playing records again. The pieces are heavy enough so your records don't drop the beat, or skip if your company decided an impromptu dance off....... Genevieve, are you listening:)?


Remember when records and cassettes were objects? When the first song on the second side had an actual meaning! When you would waste hours on your bed or sofa, drooling over the art work, while scouring the liner notes for hidden meanings.....
Well, these pieces take me back to that time, except better.


Go check out this new work! Also some really intriguing sculptures
by Sean Brian Macdonald, made out of found wood and latex. tiny monuments perhaps.




SPECIFIC..... here..
todosometing here.....


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S P E C I F I C

D'ARK GARDEN
July 10 - July 31, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday July 10th, 5-8 PM









Brooks Hudson Thomas is pleased to announce D'ARK GARDEN,
a group exhibition, and the first ever "love-garden" show at SPECIFIC.

D'Ette Nogle + Mark Roeder / D'ARK
Miguel Nelson + Woolly Pocket / Woolly School Garden
Benjamin Luddy + Makoto Mizutani / Scout Regalia
Jonah Takagi / Atelier Takagi
Kim Karlsrud + Daniel Phillips / Greenaid-Seedbombs
Chad Petersen + Dakota Witzenburg / todosomething
Tim Lewis Studio / Under the Fort
Erica Rosenfeld Designs / Glass Capsules
Marie Christophe / WireLighting
Grupo Bio / RecycledTire Planters

A portion of all sales will directly support Woolly School Garden & Greenaid-Seedbombs.







Brooks Hudson Thomas
SPECIFIC
7374 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036

decadence
and
decay,
and
abandoned
interiors!

Richard Hawkins,

closes this weekend
at Richard Telles, Los Angeles

"In his last exhibition at Richard Telles, Hawkins premiered his first “dollhouse” sculptures. In this project and several others that followed, Hawkins initiated and expanded his exploration of architectural folly that included inverted houses, concealed labyrinths, a Chinatown storefront, capriccio painting, and Proustian haunts.

The new sculptures serve to bookend this ongoing practice, further mining its origins in decadence and decay. The new works on paper are layered with impetuous paint splotches, embellished Asian models, and goth-boy rockers. Echoing the sculptures, they depict dilapidated and abandoned interiors, creating a backdrop for their fantasized inhabitants. The layering of images reveal the specters that permeate Hawkins' poetic representations of longing and the passage of time."









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ALICE NEEL : Los Angeles

I like it not only to look like the person, but to have their inner character as well,
and then I like to express the Zeitgiest.

-- Alice Neel

Alice Neel:
Paintings In association with Jeremy Lewison Limited
20 May - 26 June 2010
Opening reception, Thursday, 20 May, 6 - 8 pm

"Fiercely independent, free-spirited, and working at a time when figurative painting was unfashionable, Alice Neel pursued her art fearlessly. Painting in relative obscurity into her 60s, Neel received acclaim late in life, and is now valued as one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. Neel’s subjects were her sons, grandchildren, friends and acquaintances, art world figures, and sometimes people she encountered on the street. While some of her sitters were, or became, people of renown, most were simply those who caught her eye.

In her art, Neel sought to convey the individual, and to reveal their inner life. Neel described the experience of painting: “I become the person for a couple of hours, so when they leave and I am finished….I have no self.” As Lewison states, “Neel entered into them, exploring their folds, creases and idiosyncrasies with her brush, sculpting them as though they were extensions of herself.” Neel’s paintings are imbued with a powerful understanding of her subject within an incisive temporal and social context.

Alice Neel:
Paintings In association with Jeremy Lewison Limited
20 May - 26 June 2010
Opening reception, Thursday, 20 May, 6 - 8 pm

At LA Louver Gallery







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A House
for
Speculation

Mexico City-based artist José León Cerrillo took up residence for a course of two months at R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House, in collaboration with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A. On site, Cerrillo produced a series of posters riffing on the graphic programs of a variety of sources – from the familiar Art and Architecture portfolio of “lifestyle” modernism, to Schindler’s and other LA-based architects’ body of work, to the present-day print material offered by the MAK Center itself.



via Los Angeles Nomadic Division.





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california spring weekend.

to do list:
see lamps,
touch stone lace,
sleep on beach blankets,
stare at disco balls,
zone out on 60's abstraction.

some goodies for the
weekend for those in los angeles!

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Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale
here...hope to see you on sunday..



Specific on Beverly Boulevard.
Workstead and Jamison Carter
exciting machinery, uh yeah!
here...


Heath on Beverly Boulevard, just a few doors down
Kristen Wicklund, turning lace into stone.
here..


Louis Stern Fine Art on Melrose,
image above... painting from the 60's....
abstraction times three. here.



Zuma beach, beach season starts, here..
or here...(via s.willard)
good times with mr rj!










image from Specific...
picture taker unknown!
hope you dont mind:)



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image about:
June Harwood,
Colorform, (Bullseye) 1964
from Louise Stern Fine Art

california
spring...
weekend.

NEW WORK : Lisa Eisner

a sailor of
the mind/soul.

May 1, 2010 - June 5, 2010,
Opening on Sat.
(lots of openings this week!)

Lisa Eisner

Psychonaut is a kaleidoscopic adventure into a vibrant world of seeming randomness, a collection of one-of-a-kind assemblages without editions and without using Photoshop that is her most personal work to date. Psychonaut explores the journey of a spiritual seeker who uses altered states of consciousness to address spiritual questions in a modern way, without the use of psilocybin.

Eisner draws inspiration from the kindred spirit of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes, Native American culture, geometry, nature, birds, and a homegrown spirituality.



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Her method is to, “accidentally discover what isn’t an accident” by working hands-on with the images. She is informed by the colors and textures of the photos rather than the themes and composition, and allows the process to guide the series. What emerges is a handcrafted, three-dimensional psychedelic explosion that is alternately bright and soothing, meditative and disorienting. Psychonaut does not explain but self-propagates the creative source from where it came. Eisner collaborated with Matt Monroe on the dome structure for Psychonaut and with Haley Alexander van Oosten/L’Oeil du Vert on the scent sculptures.






previous post on Lisa Eisner's work
here......
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M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, California 90069


M + B is an amazing gallery in WEHO, Los Angeles
Incredible photography shows.






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To the west!

IKO IKO
at
Royal T

A favorite east side shop, IKO IKO,
is opening on the west side for three weeks.
Opens this friday nite from 6-9.

Thanks Kristin!

IKO IKO meets ROYAL/T

"Please join us to celebrate the start of our 3-week residency space at ROYAL/T .

April 23, 6-9 pm

We will be introducing a mini IKO IKO shop with a specially curated selection of custom furniture, useful life objects, clothing, accessories, vintage books, ceramics, plantlife, rocks and some of our favorite IKO IKO curiosities".




ROYAL/T
8910 washington blvd culver city, ca
90232 323.559.6300







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new work
(via Earl Glenn, here)

Adam Pendleton
SELECTED WORK
Los Angeles
April 10 – May 15, 2010

Roberts and Tilton,
here...

Code Poem (portugal) #4, 2010
Glazed ceramic
Three elements: 6 inch diameter circle,
6 inch square, 6 x 12 inch rectangle

Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition with New York based artist Adam Pendleton. The artist's work plays with conventional notions of history and language, proceeding from the notion that thought does not always
determine language, language can also determine thought.

Untitled (black cubes), 2007-present
Glazed Ceramic
10 x 10 x 10 inches each





SELECTED WORK Los Angeles is a selection of projects from 2007-present that deal directly with the abstraction and instrumentalization of language and image through sculpture and wall- based work. The code paintings and code sculptures use the dot (circle) and dash (rectangle) of Morse code, introducing a third, untranslatable element, the square. The titles of the works contradict the nature of the works themselves as they do not function as a code, save for the ways in which the viewer chooses to read them. The paintings are one-color silkscreens applied on a ground of bare canvas, and the ceramic sculptures occur in a variety of basic combinations, which shift from work to work.

The earliest works in the exhibition are the artist's untitled (small black cubes) 2007-present. Through their aesthetic presentation the cubes invoke and play sleight of hand with minimalist and performance art practices. Pendleton sculpted the original prototype himself, the resulting shape is cube-like, but the rounded sides and corners deliberately shirk off linearity and geometric definition, functioning instead as an abstract, phenomenological meaning-making device.








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YARD SALE.

giving
good
seconds!
thirds!
and fourths!

triple threat yard/garage sale.
via here, and here!
and here...
this sunday. (no early birds!)




HIGH QUALITY men’s and women’s vintage and designer clothing, including leather jackets, 50’s-60’s sports coats, vintage cameras, vintage hats and purses, dresses, shoes, belts, jewelry, scarves, military, work wear, 70’s outdoor gear, backpacks and parkas. Lots of hard to find small sizes included!! Great Records (indie, emo and other), vintage house wares, books, modern ceramics, George Nelson dining chairs, collectibles, lucius hudson aluminum stretchers & painting supplies, beach/surf/ swim gear, and lots more.













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E 1 0 2 7 + Le Cabanon

the
saga
of
E1027
Eileen Gray.




Eamon O’Kane
E-1027 + Le Cabanon
Curated by Janet Levy
February 18 –April 30, 2010
Reception: Thursday March 25, 5-8pm

See Line Gallery presents a solo exhibition E-1027 + Le Cabanon by Irish artist Eamon O’Kane
The title for this exhibition is taken from the name of a famous house designed by Eileen Gray.
Irish by birth, Eileen Gray spent the better part of her life in France, dying in 1976 at the age of 98 largely unrecognized for contribution she made to modern architecture.

But in recent years new enthusiasm and interest has grown around Gray’s work, which included only two realized architectural projects but many studies, as well as furniture and rug designs.

photos from See Line Gallery.
text taken from press release from gallery.

In 1924 Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici began work on their vacation house, E-1027 in
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, in southern France (near Monaco). L-shaped and flatroofed with floor-to-ceiling windows and a spiral stairway to the guest room, E-1027 was both open and compact. This is considered to be Gray's first major work, making indistinct the border between architecture and decoration, and highly personalized to be in accord with the lifestyle of its intended occupants. The name of the house, E-1027, is a code of Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, 'E' standing for Eileen, '10' Jean, '2' Badovici, '7' Gray. The encoded name was Eileen Gray's way of showing their relationship as lovers at the time when built.
A friend of Badovici's, Le Corbusier visited E-1027 on numerous occasions and admired it very
much, so much so that he was moved to add his own touch to the clean white villa, painting a
series of murals on its walls between 1937-39.


















This intrusion onto her design infuriated Gray, who considered the murals outright vandalism. Whether he painted these murals out of admiration for her work or jealousy of her accomplishment, Le Corbusier became intricately tied with the future of the house. Failing to purchase it himself, he eventually bought a piece of property just east of E.1027, where he built a small, rustic cabin, "Le Cabanon." Here he would go for work and quiet contemplation, taking daily swims on the beach outside the house. After he died in those very waters, the whole area was declared a "Site Moderne," or "Modern Site," and deemed an area of cultural and historical importance and international interest. Today E-1027 is recognized as the
founding element of this site.












read more about
Eileen Gray
and E1027
at Ouno BLOG,
awesome site!

go here to OUNO DESIGN

go to SEE LINE Gallery here..

giving
good
keramik.







Including some local favorite artists...
opening this thursday at the
Pacific Design Center, Blue Building...

David Korty
Ruby Neri
Adam Silverman
Anna Sew Hoy
Tam Van Tran
Roger Herman
Christopher Miles
Monique Van Genderen







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John Stephan, 1974

"I am intrigued by the primacy that
this austere image demonstrates within the space of the canvas"


-John Stephan.

John Stephan
Spheres of Light

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
here.
9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(a favorite gallery in Los Angeles.)

"DURING THESE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS, I have been involved in the painting of colored discs that singly occupy the major central area of almost squared, vertical, and other wise colored canvases and which, more often than not, have one or more colored rings separating the one from the other. I draw these discs and their rings with a compass as I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of apparent perfect circularity, whether as seen in nature or through metaphysical contemplation, and in this sense, I see the circle-disc as being the simplest yet most subtle, inherently perfect form (as compared to other forms that an artist or nature might create), and accept its inviolate constancy with the same faith with which artists have accepted the figure, subjects in nature, or any other imaginable image for its formal validity.

For my purposes, I have avoided the use of further devices, either geometric, asymmetric, or expressionistic, as being irrelevant to the basic contentions implied between these two spatial forms, rectangular and circular.

I am, moreover, intrigued by the primacy that this austere image demonstrates within the space of the canvas; it appears to float and hover naturally with sublime disregard for the necessary rationale supporting the straight sides and right angles of the rectangular form with its presumed base.

However, within this adopted duality of space forms, I seek to create, through the use of color, a kind of pictorial metastasis, more contemplative than symbolic and more related to nature than to the formalities of mysticism.

I choose subtle colors above those that are purely chromatic so as to convey the impression of fused color substances, somewhat like the translucency of jade, the colored rings to act as an apposition between these two shapes."

John Stephan, 1970

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young
art
los
angeles.











BUY AMERICAN
Victor Torres
March 27 - April 24, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday March 27, 2010
6-9 pm

Young Art presents Buy American, an exhibit new work by Victor Torres. The opening reception will be held Saturday, March 27 from 6 - 9pm and will remain on view through April 24, 2010.

Torres’ large-scale assemblages are built like machines. His approach is unexpected compared to the chaotic nature of his materials. Objects are overlapped and juxtaposed with precision and as a result, each element is integral to the final form. In Untiltled (Dead Cat), the old splintered wood, dead cat and copper wire, dripping mud and cardboard bananas, are transformed into a single work while still retaining their individual identity. What is important is what happens when all the right parts come together. The composite is itself their discourse.

However strange the arrangement, it is impossible to overlook his meticulous control and finesse. Torres’ formal concerns are demonstrated in the delicacy and detail. Reminiscent of Rauschenberg’s Combines, Torres embraces the rejected, the discarded and the worthless. He flaunts the realism intrinsic to assemblage, bringing the art closer to life.

go to young art here.

"There are so
many things
I should've felt
long ago
that I'm just
feeling now"
-crayon fields.

Crayon Fields - 'Mirror Ball' from Geoff O'Connor on Vimeo.

the crayon fields,
(beautiful video...)
at the echo, and silverlake lounge
sunday and monday. ill be here!

go to the crayon fields
website here.

have
you
b e e n
to
khastoo?
(here.)

dan shaw-town,

2009. medium : graphite and spray paint on paper

SMITHSHOP + STOR @ KHASTOO

In conjunction with

Give the People What They Want

March 1 - March 22

"The temporary pop-up store at Khastoo will occupy the storefront of the gallery and will feature a compilation of select pieces from Stor’s vintage designer clothing and accessory archive and Smithshop’s Spring 2010 line of special edition handmade furniture and interior objects. Offerings will include: Rare ceramics and jewelry by Sascha Brastoff, a mid-century LA designer whose works are in the permanent collections at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, original work by Eero Saarinen, mid-century glassware, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Jil Sander, Judith Leiber, Lanvin, unique pieces from past eras, and more. In the main gallery space, work by Aurelién Froment, James Hyde, Greg Parma Smith, Rob Reynolds, Terri and Donna, Vahid Sharifian, Dan Shaw-town, and others hang in the style of a typical art fair booth, offering visitors and seasoned collectors work in a familiar or expected pictorial setting. “Give the People What They Want,” is a two-part exploration of art market trends and commercial behavior, and the first in a series of upcoming retail experiments by Khastoo Gallery. "







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this
week's
agenda.












new work, by
LEONOR ANTUNES & AMALIA PICA

February 27 - March 27, 2010

at Marc Foxx
go here..



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Collection:
MOCA’s First Thirty Years
More than 500 art works
by more than 200 artists, 1940-NOW.











Kenneth Price
Red
1962

"Known primarily for ceramic sculpture, Kenneth Price used wood, an unusual material for the artist, to make Red. He has long incorporated orifices into his work to summon associations that are haptic, carnal, biological, and perceptual, employing them to make distinctions between outside and inside, substance and absence, as well as to remind viewers of the traditional and even functional uses of ceramics as vessels. Holes like that found in Red serve as contrasting figures to his sculptural grounds and introduce perceptual conundrums into the viewing experience. By inscribing a tightly ruled yet curvaceous shape on the face of a pristine red box, Price introduced a mysterious element into the straightforward geometric form."







(run to see this show!)

Ed Ruscha

a
book
signing
this weekend.
los angeles.







BOOK SOUP and D.A.P.
will be hosting a book launch for Ed Ruscha’s new retrospective monograph titled

Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting,
with the artist present for signing.
Saturday, March 6th 7:00pm

BOOK SOUP 8818 Sunset Blvd. W. Hollywood CA 90069















"Text by James Ellroy, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, Bruce Wagner, Ulrich Wilmes. Interview by Kristine McKenna. Transforming words into icons and images into wide-screen epics, Ed Ruscha has wholly reconceived the terms of painting for our era. Tagged variously as a Conceptualist, Pop artist or latter-day Surrealist, Ruscha flouts category, or rather incorporates all categories, always surprising and experimenting with both subject and method. His paintings are steeped in our times: cinema, advertising, logos, late capitalism and the twists and turns of postwar art have all informed his iconography since the early 1960s, arriving on the cool surfaces of his canvases with magnetic detachment. Ruscha eschews process and focuses exclusively on the final product: “the means to the end has always been secondary in my art,” he has said. Ruscha has also reinvented the use of words in art, finding disquieting ways to invest language with a weird, throbbing, ambient static, never aspiring to what he calls “word gestures,” since “each word is an excursion unto itself.”

Sand In The Vaseline, 1974
equalized egg yolk on moire
(talking heads cover...)

Fifty Years of Painting focuses on Ruscha's majestic oeuvre of paintings. A magnificent publication, it comes housed in a slipcase that sports the artist's classic painting “Standard Station” (1966), and, alongside fantastic reproductions, it contains a preface by novelist James Ellroy, essays by Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz and Ulrich Wilmes, a text by novelist Bruce Wagner, an interview with the artist by Kristine McKenna, an illustrated chronology and an exhibition history. Ed Ruscha (born 1937) has made pioneering work in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, bookmaking, photography and film since 1958."





go here for more info..