July 2011
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Instant LA Summer 2: HEAVY HAPPY Curated by...
Still Waters by Sara Clendening
Liz Craft, Sara Clendening, Chris Coy, Gerald Davis, Marc Horowitz, Pentti Monkkonen, Maha Saab, Sarah Sieradzki, Esteban Schimpf Carmichael Gallery 5795 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232 July 16 - August 6, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 16, 6:30-10pm Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Instant LA Summer 2 : HEAVY HAPPY, a group exhibition...
May 2011
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Ten Questions for Adam Krueger by Tali Wertheimer →
T + interviewed one of our favorite artists, Adam Krueger, about his art, the LA art scene, and his latest installation in Breach of Privacy, curated by S+ at Carmichael Gallery.
Breach of Privacy, Curated by Simmy Swinder,...
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Breach of Privacy, a group exhibition curated by Simmy Swinder and featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos, five New York-based artists whose creative practices span a disparate range of media, yet coalesce to represent compelling explorations of voyeurism in its shifting states of ecstasy, release...
April 2011
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“Hueless” at Mallick Williams
Article originally written for Gallery Crawl
By: Simmy Swinder
Mallick Williams is currently hosting its fourth exhibition since its recent launch in November 2010. Spearheaded by Director Jeremy Kaplan, who used to work for Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, “Hueless” draws together nineteen street artists of varying degrees of fame and popularity, from Curtis Kulig and...
March 2011
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Our Friends at Gawker Artists
We are thrilled to present the newest offerings of our limited editions prints by two more of our favorite Gawker Artists. Produced by Society6, these Giclée prints are printed on archival, acid free paper with archival inks. Each edition of only 100 is supervised by the artist and comes paired with a signed certificate of authenticity. Buy yours now before they are sold out!
Kelsey...
T+ in ACA magazine →
February 2011
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December 2010
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September 2010
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The Southeast Asian Art World, in a New York...
“Singapore lacks a critical mass,” said a local friend of mine. Though this might be favorable for a financial industry, it stunts the art world. After visiting a handful of galleries and meeting with the Director of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, it came to my attention that most of the collectors do not permanently reside in Singapore, most of the artists shown at local galleries are not...
Hans Van Meeuwen interviewed in Bomb Magazine
Hans Van Meeuwen is included in Younger Than Moses: Idle Worship, on view now at Benrimon Contemporary through September 6th.
Procedural Musings
Hans van Meeuwen
By Lynn Maliszewski Sep 1, 2010
Sculptor Hans van Meeuwen’s odd fragments and modifications impinge upon the confines of any space they occupy. Summoning adolescent relations and solutions combined with innate tension, he...
August 2010
7 posts
Dennis Hopper at MOCA LA
What happens when you move to Los Angeles as an 18 year-old and someone named James Dean introduces you to the Los Angeles art scene? You have a good chance of becoming an artist, and that’s what happened to Dennis Hopper. Best known as Hollywood’s bad boy, the actor and director from Kansas was one of the most important representatives of the Los Angeles avant-garde from the 1950s until he...
TS+ Presents an Evening of Performance at Benrimon...
We suffocate ourselves
We alienate each other fighting for cultural capital
Sometimes we try to work together but that can get messy too
But we should all learn to get along and give peace a chance
An evening of performance in that order by:
Unravel
By Genevieve White
Genevieve White uses her body to test her limits and expose her vulnerability. She wraps and masks her head with yarn until she...
August 19th at Benrimon Contemporary
We should treat ourselves better.
We should stop arguing over intellectual property and cultural hierarchy.
We should work toward shared goals with respect towards one another.
We should see good conduct as a muscle and we must exercise that muscle to stay kind to one another.
An evening of performances at Benrimon Contemporary will explore deeds from various comedic performances and...
Younger than Moses: Idle Worship
Benrimon Contemporary is pleased to announce its first annual group exhibition entitled Younger than Moses, a collection of tactile explorations featuring pervasive artworks by 22 young artists. Curated by TS+ Projects, Younger than Moses: Idle Worship consists of contemporary painting, sculpture, performance, film, photography and collage.
Back in the day, Israelites ran amuck thinking that...
CMA Summer Benefit
July 2010
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CANTANKER CALL FOR ENTRIES
Cantanker Call for Entries, Issue 11 : The Ambiguous Object, Catalog & Exhibition
Jurors: Cook & Ruud
Selected work will be featured in Cantanker’s full-color annual art catalog, Issue 11 and in a group exhibition in October 2010.> SUBMIT ENTRIES HERE < Submission Deadline: August 31, 2010 Acceptance Notification: Mid-September, 2010 Exhibition/Catalog Release: Early...
Normal Dimensions at Half Gallery
By Jessica Hodin
Carol Bove, Woman, 2010, Image Courtesy of Half Gallery
Carol Bove, detail of Woman, 2010, Image Courtesy of Half Gallery
The show’s title is the first clue that its curator, Neville Wakefield, was considering the rather (echem) modest size of the Half Gallery when devising a theme for his show. It helps that he could include two of Susan Collis’s pieces without...
The Getty Celebrates what the 20th-Century...
By Guido Ghedin
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s works are impressive. This is the first thing that crossed my mind when I was facing masterpieces like Pollice Verso and The Death of Caesar, both bright and astonishing like they were frames from a movie picture. With a precise, sleek and powerful yet graceful touch, the French Orientalist painter and sculptor was able to convey the action in an...
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Around Town: Lush Life LES
Lush Life invigorated the Lower East Side art scene last night. During the steamy summer months there is a misconception that the art scene stages a mass exodus to the beach. And even though Lush Life overlapped with the opening of Art Hamptons, galleries were packed and audiences were spilling of into the streets and huddling into Lorely’s to grab a quick beer before heading to the after...
Scavenger Hunt
Mission: Edition
Guest curators: Genevieve and Liz Dimmitt With prints and original works by: Ryan Brennan, Amanda Burnham, Judith Hoffman, Joe Iurato, Pim Palsgraaf and Alex Waxman Mission: Edition is an invitational print exhibition and public-space treasure hunt. During the course of the show, five prints from each edition will be placed as gifts somewhere within New York City. Locations will...
Interview with Filippo Grespan
By: Riccardo Maddalosso
I met Filippo Grespan a few years ago in Rome while he was focusing on photography and I was moved by his work. I walked by a store in Largo Argentina and saw his pictures in the shop window, all accurately disposed in their elegant black-and-white style. A few months later, when I met him, I was not surprised to learn that they were all sold in less than 20 days. It’s...
Charles Saatchi opens a Museum
The Collector-driven Museum
By: Tali Wertheimer.
Charles Saatchi donated an estimated 25 million euros worth of art as well as a promise to maintain a public collection without government help or tax abatement.
Ossian Ward, reporting on the news for Art World Salon wrote:
“Should a collector be allowed to impose his taste on a nation in this way, leaving a marker of his personal choices for...
“Natural Renditions” at Marlborough Chelsea by...
Natural Renditions at Marlborough Gallery’s downtown Chelsea space is a refreshing alternative to the gallery’s more traditional blue-chip-exclusive exhibitions. Diana Campbell and Marlborough director Eric Gleason co-curated this summer group show comprising twenty-two contemporary artists. The two teamed up to juxtapose artworks that render natural elements through various media: landscape...
June 2010
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Write-Up in the Village Voice
‘The Group Show: Younger Than Moses’ August 10–September 6
We all remember “Younger Than Jesus,” the New Museum’s 2009 showcase of international artists under 33, right? That super-hip tribute to, er, age discrimination receives a late reply with “Younger Than Moses” at newish, dynamic Chelsea gallery Benrimon Contemporary. The show solemnly promises to “exclusively feature living artists...
Studio Visit with Bob Clyatt
I didn’t really think too many artists were doing purely figurative sculpture these days. Ever since Donatello and Michelangelo took the cake with their divine masterpieces, sculptors have tended to move towards more experimental and conceptual work, using the ideas and materials of their time to create their 3-dimensional stamps on the world. The likes of Larry Bell, James Turrell, Richard...
May 2010
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Highlighting the Whitney Biennial: Rashaad Newsome...
Slinging back happy hour margaritas at Pianos a few weeks ago, James Woodward and I reviewed our impressions of the 2010 Whitney Biennial. We discovered that piece we both remembered most vividly is Rashaad Newsome’s Untitled (New Way), 2009. As the first installment of NEW PROVINCIALISM - 1 ARTwork / 2 curators, James and I decided to write our impressions of one of our favorite works in this...
April 2010
4 posts
Joan Jonas: “Drawing/Performance/Video” at...
By: Simmy Swinder
I didn’t see a major difference between a poem, a sculpture, a film, or a dance. A gesture has for me the same weight as a drawing: draw, erase, erase-memory erased.
– Joan Jonas
In “Drawing/Performance/Video,” Joan Jonas, former senior artist in Location One’s artist residence program, was asked to select her performance pieces that related to drawing. Upon viewing these,...
