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Dan Graham
Dan Graham
MOCA
Through May 25
Dan Graham's 1966 magazine-specific artwork, 'Homes for America', has long been assigned as art school required reading for "Conceptualism 101." But the artist's first US retrospective, 'Dan Graham: Beyond', proves that there's so much more to this inventive, provocative artist than just "concept." While his early works play with media and technology with a cheeky sense of humor typically foreign to conceptual art, his more recent architectural achievements are no less amusing, turning otherwise weighty monuments into delightful spaces of encounter.
Amy Sillman, Untitled (window), 2009
The Ballad That Becomes An Anthem
ACME
21 March - 18 April
This group show, curated by painter Stephen Westfall, brings together six artists (Westfall among them) whose work displays a bias towards flashy geometric abstraction. Be it the soft, Deibenkorn-like compositions of Amy Sillman or the hard lines of Mary Heilmann, these works don't shy away from color. The show also includes work by Chris Martin, Rebecca Morris and Mary Weatherford.
Sigrid Sandstrom
Sigrid Sandstrom
The Company
Through April 18
The twelve new works on view by Swedish painter Sigrid Sandstrom are part surrealism and part geometric abstraction. Through multiple surfaces, shadows and form, these canvases toy with two and three dimensionality constructing multiple fields in singular picture planes.
Dave Muller, installation view
Dave Muller
Blum and Poe
Through April 4
In his sixth solo show with Blum and Poe, Dave Muller forgoes his typical renderings of his obsessions with music--shelves of stacked up records or recreated album covers--for a different sort of illustrated autobiography. Here, Muller offers a sketchy taxonomy of personal fragments, natural settings, and pop cultural reference that mix in unexpected and oblique ways.
Hirsch Perlman, 'An Animus Cat Antagonist', 2008, in 'Nine Lives'
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
The Hammer Museum
Through May 31
Since 2001, the Hammer has been presenting exhibitions that feature emerging and established artists living and working in Los Angeles. In this fifth iteration, the museum revisits notable artists like Llyn Foulkes and Jeffrey Vallance, who may be unfamiliar to the notorious throngs of young artists in LA, as well as local "art stars" like Charlie White, Lisa Anne-Auerbach and Hirsch Perlman.
Robby Herbst
Robby Herbst
David Patton Los Angeles
Through April 18
Artist Robby Herbst is one of three collaborators behind the notable LA publication, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, a collection of meaningful diatribes on art and politics. Like his journal, his recent exhibition explores the sometimes blurry boundaries between political versus aesthetic action.
Sophie von Hellerman
Sophie von Hellerman
Marc Foxx
21 March - 25 April
It has been about five years since Sophie von Hellerman last solo show at Marc Foxx, but her new show of paintings this month should be well worth the wait. Von Hellerman's soft, childlike portraits and figurative scenes seem to yearn for a simpler era when painting and illustration was unburdened by theory, sublimity or even technique. So loose as to sometimes seem unfinished, von Hellerman's canvases embody a certain artistic freedom that is missing in much of today's over-thought art work.
Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether
Suzanne Vielmetter
Through April 4
Demonstrating the more theoretical possibilities of painting, Jutta Koether presents a new group of paintings that philosophically revolve around the artist herself. The new works are fully loaded with implicit references, languages, and symbolism. But installed on transparent glass walls, they simultaneously attempt to reveal the greater structures (literally and figuratively) that support such notions.
Eliott Hundley, installation view
Eliott Hundley
Regen Projects
Through April 4
Eliott Hundley's art work challenges straightforward expressions of scale by dramatically situating tiny collaged elements--cut out photos of bodies, sequins, plants, shells, decorated debris--within larger sculptural wholes. Freestanding or hung more traditionally on the wall, his showy structures present abstract scenes through boisterous color and flurries of form.
Stan Vanderbeek
Stan Vanderbeek
The Box
Through April 18
In his expanded cinema experiments, Stan Vanderbeek constantly sought to challenge our understanding and experience of moving images. For the first Los Angeles exhibition of the late artist's work, The Box restages one of Vanderbeek's early medial installations, the 1968 work 'Movie Mural'. This installation, which incorporates multiple projections to create a dizzying visual environment, will be accompanied by a series of collages by the artist.
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Catherine Taft is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. Her writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in magazines including Modern Painters, Art Review, Artforum.com, and Metropolis M and in various museum catalogs. Her recent projects include curating a series of video and film screenings throughout LA, and research and curatorial assistance for the Getty Museum's exhibition, 'California Video' (March 2008). |
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| Published on 17-03-2009 |
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Great overview, thanks
Pearl | |
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