Just posted on ArtScene Visual Radio is the February edition of The Mat Gleason Seven. This month’s show features reviews of SOME PAINTINGS at Track 16 Gallery, solo shows by Oliver Arms at Western Projects and Mark DiSuvero at L.A. Louver, an examination of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and the scandals around the non-donation …
I am still in shock and deep sadness over news of the death of Coagula New York Editor BAIRD JONES. This man gave our publication enthusiastic support and validation for most of the past 9 years. He would have enjoyed his NY TIMES obituary. Baird Jones with artist Victoria Gotti at her debut solo show …
Pictures of the bash at COAGULA DOT COM There was a happy celebrity-peppered elbowing crowd at Gagosian on Thursday night for the opening of Julian Schnabel’s show of oversized lush earth-colored paintings of bones (which had been used in the credit shots of his latest academy award nominated film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). …
Pictures of the new BCAM at the Coagula Dot Com site. ELI’S COMIN’ The Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM)is the big play by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to stay in the major leagues. As a blue-chip warehouse of ArtForum’s finest from the past 5 decades, it succeeds. But even more than …
Mike McGee (R) with Mat Gleason at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, June 2006. From: “Andrea Harris” aharris @ exchange. Fullerton . edu Dear Mat, I just wanted share the following update with you. I am not sure if you knew this but Mike has kidney failure from a genetic disease called polycystic …
The beautiful, stylish LEORA LUTZ at her Gallery Revisted Fourth Anniversary exhibition Wow-oh-wow… I thought I was an art world-navigator, but the premise of this show takes the cake. “Artist/Gallerist” Friday, Feb. 1st, 7pm – 10pm at Another Year In L.A. Gallery It should be an awesome networking orgy of a show and this gallery …
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 …