A neo-colonialist must use production as a production element. Especially an Englishman. Working with an Indian, son of an Israeli collector of Indian artifacts (the Englishman, that is), and there is no particular identity beyond the intellectual brilliance, cultural acuity, superfine design + execution. Plastic mystic - no, really, he IS.
Alexander Gorlizki.
MFA in Sculpture. Slade School, London, by way of Bristol.
I was seduced by the magnificent woven forms, the pattern and decoration, the gold. The representation is deliciously stylized. The forms delightfully articulated. The compositions nearly spontaneous, but contrived. It would be easy to riff off the sequence, but that would not be genuine. Authenticity is here redefined in neo-colonial terms as an import/export business metric, a logistical concern. The argument in a way is whether an “artist” who is so engaged in critical discourse or education or otherwise gainful employment might just be permitted within the parameters of political correctness to parley his mind into an “artist’s tool” that, through a series of moves, involving email, maybe sat phones and other exciting devices, currency and so forth, manifest an object that satisfies any reasonable criteria for “art.”
More and more I understand what Pete the Poofter T was at when he so roundly snuffed Eddie Van H for his “artistic” choices.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery
6148 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
323.954.8425 phone
323.954.8523 fax
info@danielweinberggallery.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:30am-5:30pm
Let’s determine some contingency, shall we?
Artist weaving form in dimensional animated form: John Goetz. Website with sonorous blurb by Peter Frank. More studio shots at AFH Flickr. :
http://www.johngoetz.com/profile.html
NOW.
This is a group show, not a production structure.
http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/
GO see William Ransom art. He is a genius with wood — One of those dashing CGU artists & an alum of AFHGC. I dropped by the CGU studios I guess two weeks ago, & William was trying to install a similar work in the anterior courtyard. Verticality via wood-line leads to transcendence, probably with a subversive embed as personal message, WR’s apparent MO.
Also: Greg Giosioa at 3050 Airport (Images in the AFH Flickr Set);
& a conversation with >>>>
Jennifer Eckstein
Milo Gallery
6130 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
323-935-3662
milogallery.net
& work by Max Miceli
About BLUR
NYC/LA
Photogs
Life in motion, out of focus + a lovely afternoon chat around the corner from BCAM & 6150
The upstairs/downstairs of history & the ratified suspicions of offsite analysis with dimensional means of clues provided by the Nation’s newspaper photographers, especially recalling Katrina (see Delay-era image below), to illustrate the topsy-turvy nature of time, ask yourself if that’s real, read Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders and
finally
visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology
