Tag Archives: contemporary art
Art Fair Opens with Fire and Ice
Disappearing Environments by Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications at ALAC 2012
Preview night of Art Los Angeles Contemporary was enlivened by an installation created with 25 tons of dry ice and glowing flares. Presented by Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications, the piece is a reinvention of Disappearing Environments, a 1968 work by Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr.
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the international contemporary art fair of the West Coast, brings together 70 blue chip and emerging galleries from around the world with a focus on Los Angeles galleries. Visit ALAC January 19-22, 2012 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California.
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KARL BENJAMIN, Untitled, 1962, oil on canvas
KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN (American, born 1925)
Untitled, 1962
Oil on Canvas
44 1/4 x 50 inches
Art Pick – Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement
Barbara T. Smith, Field Piece (detail) - Nude sit in, performance / installation, 1971, (courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, L.A.)
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VIK MUNIZ
VIK MUNIZ
Marlon Brando (Pictures of Chocolate), 1999
Cibachrome, edition of 3
60 x 48 inches
Panel Discussion Explores Dynamics of Today’s Art World
How does art find its way today from the artist’s studio to a collector? What interactions take place among art world players in the online age?
I enjoyed taking part as one of the four guest speakers to address these issues at the panel discussion “The Art of Collaboration: New Dynamics in the Worlds of Art and Design” which took place yesterday as part of the annual Avenues of Art and Design week in West Hollywood. David Keeps, reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a contributing editor at House Beautiful Magazine, was the moderator of this event, set in the resplendent Phyllis Morris Showroom.
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Top Picks from More NY Art Fairs
The scene at Pulse art fair in New York City 2011
I am pleased to share my top picks from my visits to the New York art fairs this past week. Get a taste here of exciting artworks by new rising stars as well as accomplished contemporary artists, from PULSE, SCOPE and INDEPENDENT art fairs. (See my last blog for my picks of The Armory Show.)
Check out my photos, and feel free to contact me for more details.
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New York’s Mega Art Fair – The Armory Show 2011
The Armory Show 2011 at Pier 92 and Pier 94 in New York
It’s that time of year again….New York is bursting at the seams with art and festivities during the annual Armory Arts Week.
I am pleased to share highlights with you as I attend fairs throughout the city.
Check out my photos of the Armory Show, the largest of the NY art fairs, and feel free to contact me for more details.
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All of This and Nothing – Hammer Museum Los Angeles
Evan Holloway at All of This and Nothing at the Hammer Museum
Explore the potential for art to reveal the mysterious and the magical in everyday moments. Visit the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to see ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING, a group show of more than 60 works by 14 artists, who take mundane materials and reinvent them into a new aesthetic life, thereby encouraging us to look at the world differently. Thursdays are a great day to visit the Hammer Museum, because admission is free and the museum is open late until 9pm.
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