"I started to laugh at my own joke,
then I started to writhe for some reason." 2015
Variable
:, 2015
Two holes of the same diameter
separated by an interval equal to
twice that diameter
Variable dimensions and materials variable
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Rebecca Morris "Rose Cut" @ 356 S Mission Road
I can't quite decide how these paintings hang together as whole in such a large vacuous space. They instantly reminded me of the first ones that were shown there, the first ones ever publicly displayed there to my knowledge. They were the Laura Owens paintings that inaugurated the space, her space. So, big paintings in a big place that function visually on any scale in terms of content, likely macro. Grids and relations, abstractions and decorations... Patterns. Or not.
Heather Brown "Bedfellows" @ Monte Vista Projects
Sortes, 2015
Oil on canvas
60 x 84 inches
Bedfellows VI, 2015
Ink on paper
24 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches
Snares, 2015
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
How abstraction and figuration can be sutured and conflated through activity such as group groping is worth considering as body and mind interact and reflect continuously. Titles reinforce the connections and flat-bed picture plane comes to mind also, one that is simultaneously flat and deep.
Steve Roden and Alexandra Grant "These Carnations Defy Language" @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Steve Roden
Spinning Straw Into Straw, 1-7 2015
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Alexandra Grant
I was born to love not to hate, (2), 2014
Mixed media on paper backed with fabric
Steve Roden
late march or early april, 2015
Pencil, sumi ink, crayon, frottage, gesso, acrylic
Steve Roden
leftovers / rightovers, 2015
Collage, crayon on magazine images
