Permanent Collection @ Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City provides a wonderful demonstration of the availability of good taste across the United States. The museum’s permanent collection gives us strong concepts of beauty, particularly of the geometrical variety, which transcend the more generic intuition of what is a beautiful image as we receive it from
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Paul Cezanne Retrospective @ Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne’s retrospective at The Art Institute of Chicago displays many of his later yearly works. These works demonstrate a noteworthy transition in the continuity of the Western Fine Arts Tradition, away from scenes of intense and vivid religiosity towards the mundane and bromidic. His artworks seldom strain to make efforts at capturing something forcefully
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‘Echoes’ by Sarah Gilfillan @ Sarah Brook Gallery
Ms. Sarah Gilfillan introduces us to an extension of surreal self-reliance with her abstract forms with her ‘Echoes’ opening at Sarah Brook Gallery. Her ideas are emblematic of her time in the desert meditation on the “rude”-as Thomas Carlyle would describe the desert – or crude simplicity in form. The simple and base tones, in
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‘Warmer Mornings Sharper Nights’ by Jonathan Edelhuber @ Over the Influence
Mr. Jonathan Edelhuber at Over the Influence Gallery in downtown Los Angeles poses an assertive stance of fun with the concept of skull form to help us bring a new idea of beauty with endless permutations. The real fun is in how the artist makes use of what is typically reminiscent of boneyards, despotic totalitarian
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‘Veils’ by Marc Breslin @ Anna Zorina Gallery
Marc Breslin introduces to the world a daring vote of simplicity with his ‘Veils’ exhibition at Anna Zorina Gallery in Los Angeles. In challenging the convention of beauty as needing to be colorful, the transcendental extension of his whites and blacks gives us a new idea, a better appreciation, of what oftentimes is negatively attributed
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‘Education and Manner’ by Jesse Wine @ Frieze LA
This is a monumental discovery in human refinement provided to the world by Jesse Wine via The Modern Institute. Towards causing greater understanding of the concept of smoothness: of a functionally active space which resonates an imperceptible notion of blue motion. That the animation of the sculpture is through such suave assuaging, such attention
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‘Continuous Touch’ by Ericka Lopez @ Tierra Del Sol Gallery
Ms. Ericka Lopez at Tierra Del Sol Gallery helps us imagine pottery which is beyond the idea of rigid, and instead imposes upon us plasticity to her forms with her Continuous Touch opening. The ability for the ceramic to be make so elastically configured, while still retaining use from its emptiness, gives the subject an
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FriendsWithYou @ Pit-LA
With an incredibly jovial flair, FriendsWithYou introduces us Japanese animation-style forms yet with an indelibly soft, taffy material with the mirthful exuberance with nevertheless ludicrously playful context at The Pit LA. It is in the plastine clay where the artworks are really resounding and are markedly different than pencil-lined and ink-drawn anime. Indeed, it would
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‘Leaving Eden’ by Samuelle Richardson
Samuelle Richardson brings to light a refined concept of artisanal fabrication with her collection of birds, dogs, and lion heads at her opening with Keystone Art Space. The need to extend beyond simple plush dolls, to move towards more artful ideas – that of permanence which is more significant than the permanence of childhood innocence
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’20 Atmospheres’ by Adam Tylicki @ Baert Gallery
In a mesmerizing installation at Baert Gallery, Adam Tylicki imbues us with a sense of goodness to the natural motion of ocean swells, of sea currents, of powers which move beyond the capabilities of man, with his ’20 atmospheres’ exhibition at Baert Gallery. The exhibition is first a portrayal of the cryptic achievements of submerging
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