So Bergamot was bopping – Edward Colver at Copro Nason, Becca at Patricia Correia and the Doug Harvey Biennial at Track 16. Becca’s show practically sold out, Ed’s was packed and the Some Paintings thing at Track 16 was mobbed. My first complaint about Doug Harvey’s Some Paintings show was that it was the kind …
An excellent show at Bert Green Fine Art downtown by sculptress Laurie Hassold. Just when you think her symmetry might be inching toward the predictable, this artist surprises and rewards you with new layers of visual and poetically conceptual delight. Bert Green’s windows have a lot of pink and colored bright ribbons in them by …
Final Sunset of the Year Sunset on Pacific Boulevard Looking East from 55th Street, Huntington Park, California, 12-31-07 In 2007 I moved in with my girlfriend into a house in Huntington Park, an urban city four miles south of Central Los Angeles. I inherited two dogs with the property. Leigh and I are closer than …
No Country for Old Men and Sweeney Todd I did not have any expectations of either going in (looking to kill time for NO COUNTRY and took my Johnny-Depp-Loving girlfriend to the other) but will now happily swear by either of these films. But then again, I liked Shoot ‘Em Up, so maybe I am …
My first curations as Exhibitions Director at Gallery C was a 2-solo show combo of Roland Reiss and Kenny Harris. In this Long Beach Press-Telegram Review of the shows, reviewer Shirle Gottlieb nails it all. The shows run thru January 5. Enjoy!
I have been sitting the gallery today, alone, although the foot-trafic has been steady. I gave one woman advice on buying art and so I will pass this last half hour of work writing down the same advice for you. Rules To Buy Art From A Gallery 1. Don’t Be Intimidated.A few galleries will imply …
So if you have an hour to spare and want to listen to me talking about what is going on in the Los Angeles art scene, the latest episode of THE MAT GLEASON SEVEN is up at the Art Scene Visual Radio website. I wish I had been recorded when I gave a talk at …
Okay, so a toddler makes splashy paintings and a mum in England posts them on the Saatchi site. Some schmoe there drops 40 buck on one to hang above his couch and a Berlin Gallery mass e-mails everyone on that site to rent their gallery, so the Daily Mail reports that the kid has the …
When I was a kid, there were fewer celebrities than there are today. And for a few years, Evel Knievel was at or near the top of the pyramid of living gods. Sure, I am older and it is funny to look at the pictures of him in his glory and roll my eyes at …
So there is nothing quite as un-P.C. in L.A. right now as a wood-burning stove. My house was built in like 1907 or 1917 (it has no charm, no historic value in its appearance, other than standing as an example of utilitarian blandness). This is an old house and this is a COLD house. So …
So I have been curating for over ten yeas and wanted to write a book about it, so I am organizing a series of lectures and projects called Curators College that you can attend and I will compile the notes into a book (…someday…), so if you have the time, the dough and want to …