I have found another great artist in Tomoo Gokita. Of anything I have seen recently his works seem to be an actual continuation of a linear art history. Gokita’s pieces in the show ‘Heaven’ at Honor Fraser in Culver City have obvious influences by the Surrealists (Hello, Salvador Dali and Man Ray – maybe some Rene Magritte?) as well as Cubists references in his past works (see ATM Gallery in New York City’s last showing of Gokita’s works). Gokita’s large-scale pieces have a... [more]
These small paintings by Samantha Fields represent an image that every Southern Californian has grown used to seeing. This is also an image that can be extremely jarring to a newly-migrated East Coast native. Fields gives us paintings that could/and are often mistaken as photographs of the Southland Fires. Each is a painting of an actual photograph the artist took of multiple fires from around the region. This subject seems especially poignant this fall after the La Canada-Flintridge ar... [more]
Just over a month ago, on October 9th, NASA successfully completed its Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission when a spacecraft crashed its payload into a permanently shadowed crater at the moon’s polar regions. Sent on a suicide mission, the unmanned LCROSS spacecraft investigated indications of water on the moon by colliding kamikaze-like into the lunar surface, sending up subsequent plumes of debris which have since been analyzed for signs of lunar water ice. Making... [more]
Picking up where we left off: It turns out, as of November 13th, that NASA’s LCROSS mission has definitively confirmed that, yes, there is indeed water (billion-year-old ice) on the moon. This is exciting news for extraterrestrial life everywhere. And for the prospect of actualizing science-fiction’s most basic dream of widespread space travel and extended human expeditions, extra-planetary colonies. The ramifications for the hopes of future lunar exploration and settlement are huge: no... [more]
Sucess by Fernando Messias Sixty Four Portuguese Artists at Myths of Art Book presentation in Lisbon, Portugal, Berard Museum
July 25th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Posted
11/13/09
The book was a huge success and already is a national reference. The first edition is almost exhausted.Congratulations to all the artists who brought this project forward
Fernando Messias [more]
Why Dogs? 1/22/10 - 2/21/10 by dan adams Dan Adams at San Diego Art Institute Balboa Park San Diego
January 22nd, 2010 - February 2nd, 2021
Posted
11/12/09
This exhibit includes 50 small paintings featuring man & woman's best friend. The handling of the paint is most important, then the subject matter. However, I have to admit that I like and admire dogs more than people (sorry) [more]
Guido van der Werve is a brooding Dutchman. Though the staged situations in his videos are often breathtakingly beautiful, dread is never far away. The dread is both cosmic and intensely personal -- van der Werve participates in his videos as the originator of poetic actions set against vast historical and natural enormity. Humans, in van der Werve’s work, are small creatures, tiny even at the height of their significance. His most famous work nummer acht, everything is going to be alri... [more]
For Barnett Newman, painting was a real space, a space that contains you, just like tundra or a wheat field, just like the experience of air or water and other real things. Real space envelops and the painter can manipulate the space, causing you to encounter fissures or continuities within the space, leading you even to know where you are standing and how where you are standing is different from other places. Painting is a place in the world and a place apart, and this had a spiritual imp... [more]
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“An exceptional workshop! Absolutely awesome! Tons of information and a lot of positivity, which is a rare combo in the art world. So inspiring! I will not hesitate to recommend it!” Valerie C. – Local Artist [more]
"An Opportunity" by Sandra Vista Jason Adkins, Oliver Arms, Ron Athey, Tanya Batura, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Daniel Brice, Thomas Burke, Carole Caroompas, Cole Case, Exene Cervenka, Kris Chatterson, Justin Dahlberg, Michael Dee, Tom of Finland, Eric Freeman, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Martin Gunsaullus, Ellina Kevorkian, Patrick Lee, Bob Mizer, Michael Reafsnyder, Nancy Riegelman, Chad Robertson, Joe Schmelzer, Aaron Sheppard, Arne Svenson, Vincent Valdez, Mark Dean Veca, Wayne White, Eve Wood, Yek at Western Project
November 7th - December 30th
Posted
11/8/09
Here's an opportunity for a survey of 32 gallery artists from Western Project's first six years. There is an eclectic array of works from abstract expressionist works of Michael Reafsnyder and Oliver Arms, allegorical/mm of Aaron Sheppard and Wayne White, pattern and narrative work of Carole Caroompas, Cole Case, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, photo-realistic work in graphite/conte crayon of Vincent Valdez, Patrick Lee, Tom of Finland, photography (digital +), of Arne Svenson and Ron Athey, and video of... [more]
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