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We went to Dangerous Curve on Saturday for the Bruce Licher retrospective. This is a fantastic show of a great designer. So it got me thinking, you see, because Licher established a reputation in design and yet – as this show displays – is so much an artist. I thought of him, there surrounded by…

Dealer Kim Light presenting a painting grid on paper by artist Kim Dingle at ArtLA 2008 at the Santa Monica Civic We went to the Art Fair at the Santa Monica Civic on Friday. Each year the vibe in ArtLA is different, but the aesthetic shared by the art fair participants remains forever firmly entrenched…

Daniel Foster and Peter Frank at the Gallery C booth at the Los Angeles Art Show, 1-23-08 Art Fairs are a culture of their own, almost an art world within an art world. The Los Angeles Art Show’s grand opening Wednesday night obviously suffered from a drenching downpour. Attendance for the opening shindig was considerably…

We went to artist Eric Zammit’s studio/house in Altadena and had a nice time. Eric has a show in NoCal later this month and it might have been our only chance to see his new work assuming it sells from the show. I took some of his pieces to Gallery C a few months ago…

Artist Cassandra Simon and her painting at DIYGallery, Echo Park, 01/19/08 We went to a lot of little art spaces tonight, out of the way places that are shots in the dark, experiments, treaties between like-minded ambiguarians – social spaces with the residue of effort on the walls. These are the galleries that produce the…

LEFT: Painting by Ian E. Pines. RIGHT: Painted structure by Omar Gallegos So this picture is your official preview of “8 Under 28” which opens Thursday night (7 – 10 PM). Here I was, placing work in my own curation, and I realize I had just given a negative review (blog entry below) for overhanging…