Rauschenberg : a 4-Block Walk in LA
– October 28, 2018 to June 9, 2019 BCAM, Level 3 LA County Museum of Art – Robert Rauschenberg’s ¼ Mile Painting ‘Painting relates to art and life’ — according to several art sources, Robert Rauschenberg said this. To accomplish it, he included real things in his painting, so I have been told. Adding an object…
New Territory
Landscape Photography Today – Denver Art Museum – June 24 -Sept 16, 2018 – Some technically, difficult-to-make photographs hang on the tall museum walls along with some photos I know would be physically hard to take, along with some that are here by a whisper of good luck. Matthew Brandt – Lake Isabella CA TC2,…
Jay DeFeo – Aspen
Jun 29-Oct 28 – The Ripple Effect – Artists are often asked who inspired them. The premise of this show is that Jay DeFeo was an artist who did that inspiring for many. DeFeo created a ripple effect and it flows through the work of about a dozen contemporary artists included in this show with…
Biennial Alert – Review 2016
SITE Santa Fe — To prepare ourselves for a new biennial exhibition at SITE we send up a short conversation with Margarita Cabrera regarding her project called “Space in Between” that was featured in the 2016 exhibition. SITE opens a new biennial August 4, 2018. Since I interviewed Ms. Cabrera she’s shown this project in…
Gibson Like a Hammer
Denver Art Museum – Colorado – May 17 – August 12, 2018 Jeffrey Gibson is a New York artist having his first major museum show in Denver that includes 57 objects made since 2011. These objects include paintings, sculpture and what I’d call tapestries. The show is curated by the Native Arts curator at the…
Strolling through Meadows
Future Shock – Nostalgia
SITE Santa Fe – New Mexico – October 7, 2017 to June 10, 2018 – Future Shock is the first show in the newly expanded SITE Santa Fe, a contemporary art space in the capitol city of New Mexico. SITE is a sprawling space and has a proclivity for exhibitions that include many artists. The…
Black and White – Are We Making Art?
Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – March 3, 2018 — Three current shows at the MCA Denver seem to be about fitting into society or, as is obvious in the case of the videos on the lower level by Arthur Jafa, they are pointing out how we don’t fit in sometimes. Diego Rodriguez-Warner ‘s Honestly…
Memory, Mind, Matter
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX — Eduardo Chillida — February 4 – June 3, 2018 — Bruckner and Phillip Glass, Dallas Symphony Orchestra — February 3, 2017 How little sound can still be music? How little sound can remain in a concert hall and we, the silent audience, still hear music? How low and few the notes keep us…
Peter Fischli David Weiss Wade Guyton
Aspen Art Museum — JUNE 22, 2017 – NOVEMBER 26, 2017 — Walked into the gallery and then turned around to leave. On the way, I asked the gallery attendant when the show would open, and was told, It is. This is the show. I walked toward a pile of construction materials and the attendant…