tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127643612011-12-06T21:22:29.777-08:00An art site of critical review. Limk1 is a protein that arguably enables spatial cognition, by the way.Andy Clinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978054834801735746noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12764361.post-34426753617279517882008-01-03T12:59:00.000-08:002008-01-07T20:27:22.525-08:00

On a recent trip to San Francisco, I was delighted to find several fresh exhibitions on the upper floors of SFMOMA. Among them was a retrospective of Jeff Wall's photography, displayed in very large format on light boxes. Complementary to these works, there was a thorough survey of historical and contemporary photography which, curiously, housed a 90's era (still fresh) Rirkrit Tiravanija video

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The infamous UCLA performance/body artist, Joe Deutch who brought a shotgun into Chris Burden's classroom, performed at Telic Arts Exchange this Halloween. Joe is also a participant in a group show at Marianne Boesky gallery in New York. Jerry Saltz recently reviewed the Boesky show, describing it cumulatively as prescient and expressive of both being in loads of trouble on the macro level and

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The current exhibition at MOCA is popular, attracting busloads full of high school students, most regular gallery goers and some new explorers it seems. It's popular and safe enough for the public schools, but, among the three artists represented,Cosima von Bonin, Matthew Monahan and Gordon Matta Clark there's some interesting rule breaking and boundary testing going on. The most elegant and

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Blum and Poe gallery host an exhibition by Tatzu Nishi, a Japanese artist based in Cologne, Germany. Tatzu's exhibition catalogue is extensive. He is an international artist, orchestrating works all over the world. His works, the works he envisions and conceptualizes usually involve the collaboration of engineers, fabricators and builders. In this particualar show at Blum and Poe, Tatzu has

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Two shows opening in LA Chinatown rekindle concerns for those of us removed and on the far edges of the culture of war. At High Energy Constructs, Karl Erickson and Andrew Falkowski render images from movies and television series about war to underline the way the media has used humor and cult of personality to obscure and reduce the bloody awful meaning of war. Lovely rendered acrylic

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Karen Lovegrove gallery presents Benjamin Butler's "New Trees". Benjamin has explored tree forms for approximately five years. He told me that prior to the tree motif, he painted mountains. The painting's impact hits me when I engage with the subtle, spatial brush work. Lots of sensitive dry brushing of equally thick, equally spaced lines. The sharp edge of Benjamin's sables distinguish the

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Several posts back, I wrote about the Iraq Painting, a painting that involves tallying up the death toll in Iraq according to a September 2006 study produced by Lancet. The number was 650,000 people and I had a difficult time understanding what that meant in lives. What is the impact of this number, 650000? So I started counting my brush strokes and found that I could average about 12000 marks

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Here's a look at the Redoubts, paintings I've gone back into since returning to LA. I'll just throw them up here for now.

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The current exhibition on display at Marc Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles is a show of fifteen recently completed works by Belgian artist, Cris Brodahl. Walk into the gallery and you are immediately impacted by the odor of Black Forest wood, a strange sensation for a white cube gallery. The odoriferous effect is due to hinged doors with large wooden, Bauhaus-like hinges that do the job of either

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In these images, the idea is to apply an arithmatic progression to a word in a Google search that determines the outcome of the image, and ultimately determines the treatment of the image in the photoshopping process. In Permeability for instance I took the numerical value of the word, which is 135 if A is 1 and Z is 26. Then I added 1, 3 and 5 to get 9. Finally I divided 135 by nine to get

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A recent exhibition at one of my favorite galleries in Chelsea, Caren Golden, featured 2006 and 2007 works of the conceptual duo, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. I was formerly unfamiliar with their works, but was attracted through the window by the images I saw on the wall. Really the content of the wall pieces, which were painted reproductions of civil rights era documentary

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Chelsea becomes such a blur anymore. I was up recently, scouring the art districts for fresh perspectives, talent without fanfare, vision, quiet strength. Didn't find much of that but I did find those familiar faces that we've come to rely on. Big names! Headlining Uber Artists!! The brave new world cannot be stopped and it's ambassadors have chronicled the spectacle. So what popped out at

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More artists today are revolutionizing the ready made than ever before. David Mach, showing at Forum Gallery in Los Angeles uses common household objects such as match sticks, coat hangers and collage to create rendered, almost manufactured looking sculptures. Throw your brushes away! Gather units of detritus and do what you do with the rubble. I like the ethos, even if they are all new

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Erwin Redl, electronic tinkerer, reveler of '11.000.' code is now exhibiting at ACE gallery Beverly Hills. Redl works with LED light constructions to create large geometric 3 dimensional installations. He programs the LED's which are suspended in sequence by positive and ground wires or by metal rods or some other electrical conductor to change light intensity or color so that the pieces have a

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This link will take you to the review. file://localhost/Users/andycline/Desktop/Sanditz%20review.html

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Andrea Fraser, Friedrich Petzel gallery, has taught as a UCLA visiting lecturer, but has recently taken a tenured position in the New Genres department.

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An incredibly long and relatively painful project I've started since being in LA is the Iraq painting shown here. These images show the painting at about 1/3 completion. The idea here was to make as many marks as there are dead Iraqis as a result of the US occupation. The study I used was the Lancet study that was produced in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University, a controversial report

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I've taken a lot of photos since I've been in LA. The camera relates to my work because for one, it gives me hard physical evidence of a non-solipsistic world, a world where objects and subjects exist on their own accord and on their own terms, they don't melt and morph to coincide with the fancies of my mind. I started using the camera a lot because it was helpful to have reference photos when

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foggy GRIZZLY: Interview with Katrin Plavcak

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If ever there was an artist' artist, it was the solipsistic one, fulfilled by reveling in their own painting history, the be all and end all and the singular compulsion for painting. Often when I see painting shows these days, people who fit this description are the ones that are still doing something interesting with the medium itself. Those who carry, intentionally or not, the flag of Cezanne

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These posts combine visual information from my work in films, music videos, commercials, tv, photo shoots and other entertainment related art and design jobs with my concerns and interests as a fine artist. I want to explain in "The Day Job" posts why production designing, art directing, set dressing, prop mastering and other related jobs have been invaluable to me in forming more developed

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Voom Portraitsby Andy ClineRobert Wilson, internationally acclaimed playwright, choreographer, stage designer, and on and on, whose accomplishments in the theatrical and collaborative realms rival any of the most prolific artists in their fields has adorned the walls of ACE gallery with a new collection of Voom portraits, looped video portraits of mostly famous actors and other celebrities such

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The Work of Dan ATTOE and Pasha RafatBy Andy ClineFirst, there is the material and to anyone with simple perception these two exhibits, Dan ATTOE at Peres Projects and Pasha Rafat at Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, fall under the same general category. They both are interested in light works, both employ neon, the manipulation of gasses and electricity, work with transformers to power the work and

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In my art over the last couple of years, I've tried to find my way in abstraction, towards parallel imagery to convey the basic building blocks of a living seething mass, the basic materials that structure the body of any living thing and that animate it. In the end, my best fruit were tendrils which were colorful strands of "metamaterial" that emerge from orbs, spherical orbs and are the visual

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Sojourners: 65 1/4"x 84"oil on panelI recently was turned on to a German artist, Franz Ackerman, who works in loud colors and chaotic but deftly crafted compositions. This is my style as well and it's perpetually amazing to me how the imagery of the times comes from us, the artists, isolated from one another and without any dialogue or correspondence about our type of work. But there are so

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The Frontier96"x 84"oil on panelSoylent Pink96"x 84"oil on panelThe Chasm and the Chinese Snake Lady96"x 84"oil on panel

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Painters and artists take the meat of the phenomenal world, especially those people, places and things that speak to them in poetry, viscerally, and sing that poetry through the work they make. So in this way I'm thankful that Kelledy and Sarah have revealed that personal story of who their influences have been. Not only is the acknowledgement telling of who we are as people and artists, in

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I recently read Richard Whittaker's interview with Squeak Carnwath, a California based painter who shows at John Berggruen Gallery in Squeak CarnwathSan Francisco. My personal connection was the first interest for me in looking at her because I installed her 2003 show at Berggruen and spent time with her work. Some of her surfaces are pasty and fissured, like unpainted neglected walls from

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This is the first in a series of 84 X 96" paintings that I'm beginning now. This piece is changing appearances on an hourly basis as I search my own decisions, question them, listen, and pace myself around what shines. This abstraction could hold or it could move into a figurative narrative. I never know which paintings will be effective as pure invention and which will need to be grounded in

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rauch1p Originally uploaded by lost luddite.

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This kind of topic is an invevitability. If only it could be full of praise, hope and beauty, but my experience here is facilitating my progression away from what seems to be 'successful work'. Now I have visiting artists coming and showering me with their ideas, thought processes, values and the rest and it seems to cause both confusion in terms of the goals of my work and a doubting of my

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IMG_0347 Originally uploaded by lost luddite. This piece is from a series of 10 monoprints, completed, maybe on Thursday night. They are simple to make and they are pretty. This kind of ab ex approach is important in my work as a way to release the mind from logical and linear concerns. I like these small pieces as a preliminary effect.

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IMG_0342 Originally uploaded by lost luddite. Here is an example of figurative and narrative work.

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It's early and I've been reading a book review of Who's Muse: Art Museums and the Public Trust. There are lots of noble motives attributed, fairly I think, to the institution of the art museum, namely that their purpose is to show the art, first and foremost and to foster a peaceful and consolatory environment, both in the work that is shown and in the design and arrangement of the museum

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When I think about which artist's work upon seeing it has changed my preconceptions about it, I have to answer that, other than the old masters, new work has impacted me usually in passing and great works of artists now unknown to me have touched me. Ultimately there are handfuls of those whose work grew in stature and importance after actually seeing it for real. Maybe Jenny Seville would be

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There are a multitude of examples out there of original artworks that have been appropiated by people, other artists/thieves who couldn't come up with an original concept on their own. I'm not talking about perfectly normal cross pollination between artworks, artists, and ideas that goes on everywhere and lends a sense of collective gestalt to different groups of image makers. The people I'm

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As a painter, my primary function, in an ideal world at least, is to paint. I'm building my images from the phenomonalogical world around me and from the world within. So to some extent, the output of my work is informed and infected so to speak with my surroundings. So when I think of artists in NYC and what they have that I don't, the only truthful answer is that they have NYC itself, the

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Some of us who feel that our plastic medium of choice may have fallen into obsolescence, juxtaposed against new media artists of all shades and the new pop world brought to us by dupont and krylon in the form of an aerosol, have reached an impasse in how we regard the contemporary art world. I've one colleague who would retreat to the old stony fortifications of the middle ages in hopes that

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Spaceship has landed. Sifting through remains of test subjects, analyzing civilian population, learning to use mallets and hammers and finding preferences. Conflicts. From this the labors of our days and the conversations of our nights emerge. From so many thousands of invisible frequencies and communications invading our bodies, we seek to know ourselves? May this be the christening of a

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