Around 1957, French artist François Dufrêne, long associated with Lettrist and Ultra-Lettrist poetry, started removing posters off the streets of Paris and began to present them framed and hung as paintings. He called his repurposing “almost geological infrastructures,” constructed, on the street, by the different layers of paper. They were time-capsules of a living organism …
Minutes into my conversation with Sabrina Bockler, she avidly referenced the “Tulip Mania” of the Dutch Golden Age and I knew I was in for something quite special. Bockler is that rare artist who can reflect on some of the most heralded eras of still-life and then perceptively discover a new avenue for research and …
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As we were asking Shawn Huckins questions in regards to his new solo show Zippers Short and Skinny, on view at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica this month, I was thinking of him in the studio in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, the beautiful and changing landscape all around. It seems like …
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Take Me Away From This Lonesome Town is Euan Roberts’s first exhibition with Antler Gallery in Portland, and for such a forlorn inducing title, the show is far from friendless. Roberts gaggle of characters comprises a convivial group of creatures–a hat topped black bear, a sharp toothed shark, a technological savvy pup, so on and …
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Ernest Hemingway first arrived in Valencia in the summer of 1925, following bullfighting legend Cayetano Ordóñez from Pamplona, with the intent to keep “the party going,” so to speak. He found himself in the center of the city at the Hotel Reina Victoria, with a balcony that gave him a panorama of the bustling town …
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“Love is so sacred in a culture of domination, because it simply begins to erode your dualisms: dualisms of black and white, male and female, right and wrong. I’m a seeker on a path… a path about love.” So fully in sync with that premise, Mickalene Thomas embraced the title of bell hooks’ dynamic words …
An artist’s first solo exhibition of paintings in the United States doesn’t happen every day. That’s why Alison Friend’s solo exhibition While You Were Out… at Harman Projects in Los Angeles is a remarkable debut. Blending humor and levity with the subdued palette and technique of the Old European Masters, Friend’s new series of oil …
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