Art MoCo: May 2007 Archives

"Rig"
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Painting | May 31, 2007

Water is the theme of recent paintings by Matthias Meyer, but do not expect to drown in shades of blue. Meyer presents the various watery eco-systems that offer the colours of the grasses, roots and wrecks that live above and below the surface. Equally watery is Meyer’s technique, where he dilutes the oil paint so that it can run across the canvas. A watercolour effect is achieved through the use of a wet-on-wet approach.

Artist: Matthias Meyer
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"Miter"
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Installation | May 30, 2007

Best known for his sculpture, Subodh Gupta is one of the first Indian artists to get over 1 million euros for his work. Gupta takes simple cultural objects and renders them iconic through his work, which is symbolic of the growth and change that his country is undergoing on the global front. The objects that he uses may appear mundane, but are the workaday tools that are essential in his culture, put together to appeal to both countrymen and the world at large.

Artist: Subodh Gupta
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"Retreat"
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Painting | May 29, 2007

Seonna Hong’s latest series of paintings, Our Endless Numbered Days, are suggestive of impending doom, what with black birds, bears and horses, but perhaps one that represents change or a move forward. Trees fall and branches are cut, but just as often as not the protagonist is the one that effects the change. Hong adds embroidery to her work, along with cut pieces of canvas, to hone in on the details.

Artist: Seonna Hong
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"No End"
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Painting | May 28, 2007

Emi Avora’s oil paintings are rich offerings of monochromatic layers that result in portrayals of opulence and luxury. Avora has painted fantasy versions of ballrooms, theatres, opera houses and other such public spaces that are allowed to be completely over the top, and while slightly surreal, these paintings evoke the richness of heavy silks and velvets. Through the looking glass the viewer gets a glimpse of seemingly harmless decadence and excess, but only because the interiors are unpeopled.

Artist: Emi Avora
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The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
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Books | May 27, 2007

The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation is the definitive book about Judy Chicago’s famous feminist art installation comprised of a triangular table set for 39 important women that history has seen. Ceramic plates that represent each of the women are accompanied by richly embroidered table runners and the names of 999 other women of significance are set in the porcelain tiles of the Heritage Floor. This new book presents lush colour photographs of each of the 39 settings, as well as a brief history of all 1038 women covered by Chicago’s masterpiece which now has a permanent home in the Brooklyn Museum's new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Hardcover, 308 pages. Merrell 2007. $32.97 at Amazon.

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Art MoCo Meta
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Meta | May 26, 2007

Transparent White, “things that can be said but not seen or imagined” is the theme of the latest issue of Shifter. Also available is a call for submissions for the next issue, Intimate.

Group exhibition Second Nature takes place at Culver City’s Fette Gallery, featuring the work of Eelco Brand, Jasper de Beijer, Nicola Pecoraro, Margaux Williamson, and Julie Zemel, and includes a couple of nights of film projection this week.

"Juju 1"
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Photography | May 25, 2007

Janaina Tschäpe’s works include both paintings and photographs, but it is her continued use of latex, balloons and condoms that lends a sense of otherworldliness to her art. Sometimes Tschäpe will fill these up with helium, other times water will be employed, and models will be dressed in outfits composed of these elements. The women become bulbous and grotesque, but surrounded by a mysterious calm. Tubes bulge while bodies float or lay quietly.

Artist: Janaina Tschäpe
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Anton Henning
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Photography | May 24, 2007

Anton Henning is an artist who covers a lot of ground, and so much of it self-referential. A painter, sculptor, photographer, videographer and musician, Henning is a study in contrasts. His paintings encompass portraits, pin-up girls, interiors and floral still lifes, his sculptures range from the colourful and abstract to more representational installations. But we found these photographs particularly compelling.

Artist: Anton Henning
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"Bubble Dream"
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Painting | May 23, 2007

Lines and squiggles, wheels and circles make up the exuberant paintings of Cary Smith. His recent paintings often involve a continuous line that turns and curves, voluptuous maze-like designs that contain other pleasing shapes, like citrus slices or stylized oak leaves. A palette of red, blue, black and white make for striking results, and Smith uses titles that draw the viewer in further, although these paintings certainly are not in need of any distractions.

Artist: Cary Smith
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"Harvest"
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Photography | May 22, 2007

South African street artist Robin Rhode is known for combining performance work with lo-tech chalk or charcoal drawings on walls or pavement. Rhode’s interaction renders the flat drawings into 3D pieces, which are captured on film or video. He creates action by trying to get on a chalked bicycle, sit on a bench he has just drawn or break into the line drawing of a car. His latest exhibit includes a site-specific chalk/charcoal installation on the gallery wall and a bicycle made of soap with a bucket of water beside it, as well as other sculpture and photographic work.

Artist: Robin Rhode
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"Structured Living"
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Mixed Media | May 21, 2007

Scribbles, doodles and geometry make up an important part of the work of Jonathan Lasker who has compared his work to a ‘cat’s cradle of black lines, a little like knitting that’s come unstitched’. Lasker weaves his lines and doodles into shape and form in small studies for larger works, working with oils, coloured pencils, India ink, graphite, crayon and marker. Looking at Lasker’s work long enough, it becomes a joyful and fascinating mix of roughed-in newspaper or magazine layouts overlaid with graffiti.

Artist: Jonathan Lasker
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