SUSAN VIELMETTER
Susan Vielmetter Projects organized a panel this past Thursday at Royal T Cafe in Culver City. It was my first visit to Royal T hence I'm not familiar with the location. I’m skeptical of places like Royal T. Not that I have anything against breaking the barriers of the gallery, or the museum space, but clouds of KITSCH invade the location… The owner has an eye for the arts, as I sat in back of her during the panel I understood that Yes, she loves art,this is my viewpoint: the owner enjoys art then good for all, but it seems like she enjoys anything, that's still good - no ?!
I was there for the panel after all…
Panel at Royal T
Yale's Sarah Lewis served as host to both Yale graduated artists, Mary Reid Kelly and Mickalene Thomas.
Mary Reid Kelly "a triple threat" as stated by Lewis. Kelly serves the areas of poetry, performance, drawing. Clearly Lewis statement is dualistic. Alike other artists Kelly swims in past history and re invents historical documentation, always served with humor. Rhyming lyricism, recreating puns. Using herself as the characters.
Mickalene Thomas who's paintings transpire the role of woman, through the depictions of old masters such as, Manet. Thomas is somewhat the Cindy Sherman of painting, with an approach to pop art. She first photographs her models, ending the creative process onto the canvas. Exploring the borders of photography and the actual appearance of the surrounding environment she places her models in.
DON'T MISS !!!
Opening reception for both Thomas and Kelly's new work will take place this Saturday May 8 at Susan Vielmetter, from 6- 8 !
FIVE THIRTY THREE
From My Inbox
IN THE EYES OF LIONS
PRESS RELEASE:
Skin houses the body and it is figured as the ultimate boundary, the material that divides and defines the inside from the outside. Visibility is the index of skin; it is a physical border but a symbolic membrane where the interior and exterior flow between present and submerged, objective and subjective. The skin of a person, the hide, forms the surface through which the interior is housed; identities emerge, desires and drives become evident, sickness and decay rise to the surface. Its legibility allows us a peek at the construction of otherness out of raw materials of desire, fear, resistance, fragility, aging, and so on while its construction of bone, muscle, blood and hair/fur reinforces our own completeness; skin makes us aware and connects us with the idea of others while alienating us in our own bodies. The artists chosen for this exhibition create works that deal with surface and have a relationship to skin. Thematic concepts range from skin as a disguise, as gender, as transformative, as a metaphor for transformed subject positions, to the appropriation of surface to create new identities, to camouflage and the individual’s relationship to environment, to death, decay, violence, and so on.
SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 8TH, 7PM - 11PM
CURATED BY:
ADAM MILLER
ARTISTS:
BRIAN BRESS
SARAH CONAWAY
ERIK FRYDENBORG
BRETT LUND
SAMANTHA MAGOWAN
ADAM MILLER
BOBBI WOODS
A FREE CATALOG WITH WRITINGS FROM:
SARAH CONAWAY
SPENCER DOUGLASS
ADAM MILLER
MOCA: THE COOL SCHOOL
05.09.10 3:00 PM
MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium
Through vintage footage, photographs, and interviews with artists John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, Dennis Hopper, Edward Ruscha, and others, The Cool School tells the story of L.A.’s Ferus Gallery, which launched the careers of several artists featured in Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, including Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, John Altoon, and Wallace Berman.
FREE: With Museum Admission
General Admission: $10
Students with I.D.: $5
Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free
Hang around after the screening. End your lazy Sunday museum visit by walking through MOCA's gallery rooms. In less than a month Arshile Gorky will call MOCA home. We have complained about MOCA's last curatorial moves.... but I'm already missing Rothko.
Turn A Lazy Sunday Into A Museum Day!!
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