Friday, September 9, 2022

Paul Tzanetopoulos "Silk Series" @ as-is.la

































"The centerpiece of “Paul Tzanetopoulos: Silk Series” is four hand-painted, rear-lit, wall-mounted painting constructions occupying two walls of the ever-so-slightly darkened main gallery. The show continues upstairs where similar plaid pattern imagery is presented in a wider array of “packaging,” so to speak: a vintage microfiche reader, video loops, a manual typewriter and, even, paint on canvas.

A famous and beloved Los Angeles artist once characterized Paul Tzanetopoulos as our city’s “best kept secret,” this both despite and because of early exhibitions at historically important institutions such as LAICA and the fabled Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, not to mention his co-authorship of the glowing light towers marking the entry to LAX. Is the Paul Tzanetopoulos secret safe with us? Maybe yes. Maybe no. Either way, this exhibition at as-is.la offers the wider audience fresh reason to recognize an achievement others have long appreciated." 

Copy taken from the gallery website.


Susan York "Distilling Carbon" @ Parrasch Heijnen

Golden Mean Rectilinear Solid Vertical, 2022
solid graphite
6-3/4 x 2 x 3-1/2 inches





Vertical Wedge, No. 4, 2022
solid graphite
7 x 1-1/4 x 3 inches




Untitled (Asymmetrical Cube), 2018
solid graphite
5-1/4 x 5-2/5 x 5-4/5 inches




 






Rectilinear Solid: Joined, no. 1, 2022
solid graphite
9-1/2 x 12 x 3 inches






Double Golden Mean Rectilinear Solid, 2007 
solid graphite
16 x 26 x 10 inches








Vertical Bar, 2009
solid graphite
24-1/4 x 3-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches






Left:
25.9 cm, 2022
graphite pencil on paper 30-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches framed: 32 x 24 inches

Right:
41 cm, 2022
graphite pencil on paper 30-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches framed: 32 x 24 inches





Double Column no. 1, 2018
solid graphite
74 x 6 x 3 inches overall
Sculpture in 2 parts: 40 x 3 x 3 inches & 42-1/2 x 3 x 3 inches





Tilted Rectilinear Solid, 2008
solid graphite
15-1/2 x 22-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches











After Malevich, 2017 
solid graphite
16 x 16 x 2 inches





Carbon. Foot print. 8th element. 

Pencil lead? 

Monolithic—literally one stone OR a grouping of stones. 

Corners. Floors. Shadows. 

Levels. Elevations. 

Walter de Maria
Richard Serra
Agnes Martin
Sol LeWitt
Channa Horwitz